Journal of Prisoners on Prisons

Mumia Abu-Jamal: A noted journalist and recognized political prisoner in the U.S.A., Mumia spent almost twenty years on death row in Pennsylvania before his sentence was commuted in 2003 to life without parole. He is author of a number of books, including Live from Death Row (1995) and Death Blossoms: Reflections From A Prisoner of Conscience (1997), and numerous other articles. He has been a regular contributor to the JPP.

Chris Affor: Chris wrote two articles in Vol. 14:1, while serving time in Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison in Lagos State, Nigeria. He was a member of the PRAWA program that works to build solidarity among prisoners. Chris continues to serve time on "awaiting trial" holding charges.

Steven King Ainsworth: Steven began serving time in California in 1968. In 1979 he was sentenced to death and spent more than twenty years on death row. His sentence was commuted to natural life in 2001. Steven's writing (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) and art has been published and exhibited in the U.S.A, Canada, and Europe. He is one of two who has contributed both articles and cover art for the JPP.

Clever Akporherhe: Clever wrote his article in 14:1 after being released from Kirikiri Medium Security Prison in Nigeria. Since being released, he has been arrested by the Nigerian Police Force, and is currently serving time in Kirikiri Medium Security Prison on "awaiting trial" holding charges. He has verbally communicated that prison living conditions experienced by awaiting trial prisoners are far worse than those he experienced as a convicted prisoner.

James V. Allridge III: James is a noted artist and writer, and had been imprisoned on death row in Texas for 17 years, before he was executed August 26th 2004. He was a regular contributor to the JPP, and his incredible art work has been featured on the covers of three issues. His art has also been exhibited throughout the U.S.A. James was and still is a part of the JPP.

Sylvester Monday Anagaba: Anagaba wrote two articles for Volume 14:1 from Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison, in Lagos State Nigeria, while on "awaiting trial" charges.

Zolo Agona Azania: Azania is incarcerated as a prisoner in Indiana State Prison; his spirit is strong and resolute for human rights and dignity.

Donna Barton: Donna is on parole after serving a total of seventeen years behind bars. She resides in Whitefield, New Hampshire.

J.R Bass: Bass is a prisoner confined at New Hampshire State prison.

James Bauhaus: At the time his article was written in 2003, Bauhaus was a prisoner in Oklahoma.

H.D Blake: At the time of writing his article "America the Beautiful?" in Vol. 11 Blake was incarcerated and had served fifteen years of a fifteen to life sentence at Folsom State Prison, California.

James Blau: Blau is a prisoner incarcerated in Michigan

Cheryl Bonfanti: At the time of writing her article "A Chance to Learn" in Vol. 4:1, Cheryl was a prisoner at the Virginia Correctional Center for Women, Goochland, Virginia.

Yves Bourque: Yves tells us a little about himself in his article Prison Abolition. "I am from a lower middle-class, French Canadian family of Montreal. Early, I was caught up in the music/ drug subculture of the "hippie" movement of the late 1960’s. At age thirteen I smoked my first marijuana cigarette and at sixteen I was already considered a daredevil when it came to drug experimentation, taking L.S.D., mescaline and injecting methamphetamine. Eventually, I dropped out of school and, as was the custom, went hitchhiking across Canada, ending up in Vancouver’s hippie haven, Gastown. On July 12, 1975, at age nineteen, I robbed forty dollars from a parking lot attendant and a few minutes later was arrested by the Vancouver City Police. When I arrived at the police station I was taken upstairs into a small room by two policemen, told to undress, and for fifteen minutes underwent a forced questioning while I stood there without a stitch of clothes on, outrageously humiliated, afraid and shivering. I was found guilty of robbery and sentenced to nine month’s imprisonment. My girlfriend was one month pregnant."

Peter Brock: Brock is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He served a six month sentence in Wandsworth and Wormwood Scrubs Prisons in Britain in 1941-1942 as a conscientious objector during World War II. He has been a historian and documentarian, and has published work about prison writing and prison literature.

Robert Brydon: From the age of seventeen, Robert spent more than twenty years in federal penitentiaries in Canada. A poet and a writer, he was a long-term contributor to the JPP and member of the editorial board from 1993 until his death in 1999.

Johnny Byrd: At the time his article was written in 1994, "ByrdDog" was on death row in Ohio. He has since been executed, maintaining his innocence until the end.

Dan Cahill: Dan spent more than thirty years in juvenile and adult prisons in Ohio. A prisoner's rights activist and regular contributor to the JPP, he was released from prison in 2001.

Wayne Carlson: At the time of writing his article in 9:2, Carlson was a long-term offender in Canada, working in the community with the Samaritans of Southern Alberta, specifically in suicide prevention in conjunction with Drumheller Institution.

Ms. Cree: Ms. Cree was an Aboriginal prisoner in Kingston Prison for Women, Canada.

Claire Culhane: Claire was a Canadian social justice activist for whom "prisons were the best fight in town". Her combative spirit is represented in JPP Vol. 8 No. 1 & 2, which was dedicated to her, the discourse on the intended degradation of the incarcerated and the ultimate expression of that degradation - capital punishment. She stressed the importance of self-awarness and general and political education for surviving the prison; she relentlessly exposed the careless disregard for the suicide and self-destruction of Canadian federal women pnsoners a P4W, many with extensive histories of physical, sexual, and social abuse; and she fought against the stigmatization and abuse experienced by prisoners' families and friends in their interactions with prison authorities. She is known as one of the greatest champions of prisoners rights in Canada.

Jacqueline Dana: Jacqueline is an American academic and political activist whose work focuses upon Republican prisoners' issues.

Ronald Del Raine: Ronald was sentenced to 199 years in the late 1960s and has spent the subsequent years in supermaximum facilities such as Marion, Illinois and Leavenworth, Kansas. Over the decades his writing has been recognized by PEN (U.S.A.) awards and through publication in numerous magazines.

Ivan Denisovich: Ivan is a long-term prisoner in the U.S.A.

David Deutsch: Born in Los Angeles, he graduated from California State University in Humboldt in 1976 with a degree in sociology. He has been married for over ninteen years. His wife and two sons live in California; he was paroled in late 2003, planning a career in substance abuse counseling and volunteer literacy work.

P. Dunford: Ms. Dunford was a prisoner at Kingston Prison for Women, Canada.

Osadolor Eribo: Osa wrote his article in 14:1 after being released from Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison in Lagos State, Nigeria. He has verbally communicated the difficulties he is facing as a person carrying the "ex-prisoner" status. In addition, he is experiencing hardships through "unpleasant" interactions with Nigerian Military personnel who have taken offence to his criticisms, actions, and triumphs.

Dawnya Ferdinandsen: For the past decade, Dawnya has been imprisoned in Ohio. Her article was written two weeks after the death of Carol Ann Bell. In her own words, "I wrote it from the heart".

Seth M. Ferranti: Seth is a federal prisoner of the U.S.A.'s "war on drugs". In 1993, after two years as a fugitive, he was arrested and at the age of twenty-four (under mandatory sentencing guidelines) was sentenced to twenty-five years and four months for running a "continuing criminal enterprise". He has no chance of parole.

Ned Flynn: Ned is a Republican prisoner in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Richard Fox: A prisoner incarcerated in the US.

Amy Friedman: A writer and playwright, Amy currently lives in Los Angeles.

James Gates: Gates was a prisoner incarcerated at Arizona State Prison

Daniel Graves: Graves has been incarcerated since 1991, currently in Dallas, Texas. He has been a prison educator and tutor while in prison, being elected chairman for Bread of the World and treasurer for Laubach Literacy.

Eddie Griffin: A long-term prisoner, Eddie was shipped from the federal prison at Terre Haute, Indiana, to Marion, Illinois, in the 1980s. He is currently serving his sentence in a federal prison in Pennsylvania, where he continues to research and litigate against penal inequities.

Yraida Guanipa: Guanipa is a prisoner at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahasee Florida, who has been struggling to clear her name so she can be reunited with her sons.

Daniel H. Harris: Harris was a prisoner in Texas.

Victor Hassine: Shortly after completing a law degree, Victor was sentenced to life without parole in Pennsylvania in 1981. He won his first PEN writing award in 1993, and is the author of Life Without Parole: Living in Prison Today (1996; 1999). His litigation activities have resulted in major changes in Pennsylvania's prisons. He has been a regular contributor to the JPP.

Eddie Hatcher: As an aboriginal activist, Eddie Hatcher has long struggled for political accountability and an end to corruption in Robeson County, North Carolina, where the drug trade has flourished and violence has become commonplace. His pursuits have brought him to the attention of the authorities, not as an ally but as an enemy. In 1988 Hatcher & Timothy Jacobs staged a takeover at a local newspaper to draw attention to the local corruption. He was sentenced to five years for kidnapping for that incident, and currently faces murder charges. He has brought important legal reforms to a North Carolina, cystem for prisoners wishing to defend themselves in court.

C.J Hinkie: At the time of his article, Carl was serving time at the Marpole Correctional Center. He is a well-known enviornmental activist, and has written numerous numerous books. A political prisoner he resisted against exploiters of Aboriginal land, fighting loggers and corporations.

Danny Homer: Danny is of Cayuga/Mohawk descent. Currently forty-three years old, he has been serving a life sentence since the age of seventeen. He enjoys reading, writing, and playing sports. Danny is the father of two young children and his immediate goal is to join them as soon as possible. He credits the Creator for his talents as an Aboriginal drummer and as a writer. While incarcerated, Danny completed a university undergraduate degree.

Gayle K. Horii: Gayle Horii filed a complaint sixteen years ago (2003) while incarcerated, with the Canadian Human Rights Commission about the discriminatory treatment of women prisoners in Kingston Prison for Women (P4W). In the interm several regional prisons for women were opened across the country in the 1990's and the first federal Prison for Women was closed in 2000. Her case was finally heard in British Colombia in April, 2002.

She has been a contributor to the JPP and helped co-edit Volume 5:2 on Womens' Imprisonment and has lobbied and been active in the prisoners' rights movement in Canada throughout her incarceration and subsequent parole. While incarcerated she was pivotal in combating social justice through The The Strength of Sisterhood (SIS), a prisoner led group that supports women and fights for women's rights in prisons.

Phillip Horner: Phillip is a prisoner confined at New Hampshire State Prison.

James Ray Howard: James is a prisoner in Colorado.

Charles Huckelbury, Jr.: Sentenced to life imprisonment (thirty-five year minimum) at the age of twenty-seven, Charles has spent the last twenty-eight years in prison. Awarded second place in Prison Life's fiction contest in 1995, he won the PEN first prize for fiction in 2001. A regular contributor to the JPP since 1997, Charles joined the editorial board in 2001, and is now an Associate Editor. He was one of four featured writers in Shawn Thompson's Letters From Prison (2001).

The Infinity Lifers Group, Collins Bay: In Can You Hear Us? they say, "We respond to nine questions that the Daubney Committee has raised as they apply to life sentences. The views expressed in this brief are put forth by a lifers group and may not be held by other groups within the system. We are not experts in the field of criminology although collectively we have hundreds of years experience in the prison system. We have insight into what works and does not work, what is realistic and what is not. We are hopeful that the reader will consider seriously our views."

A Jones: In Vol. 4:1 Jones wrote an article for us. He had been incarcerated for more than a decade, and had recently received his doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) where he was teaching.

Mark Landry: Mark is 43 years old, and has served 23 consecutive years of a life sentence, currently at New Hampshire State Prison. He entertained the parole commission for the first time in 2002 and was denied.

Ron Lauzon: In his article "Stonewalled" he states "The author is currently serving the thirteenth year of a life sentence and has been incarcerated for the past seven years at Collins Bay Penitentiary. I have never been convicted of an offence in the Inmate Disciplinary Court; however, I have been a legal reference researcher in the prison library (assisting for four and one half years in the preparations for over one hundred internal charges), a witness before the Inmate Disciplinary Court for accused contemporaries, and a defendant with two charges laid against me. I cannot say that anything in this paragraph is reminiscent of pleasantry; nevertheless it certainly has been educational."

R. "Baz" Lewis: At the time of writing his article, Lewis had served 10 years of a life sentence in the United Kingdom.

Michael Mac Giolla Ghunna: A Republican prisoner in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Micheal edited the JPP issue on Republican prisoners of war (1997, 7:1).

John Mackenzie: John is serving a life sentence at Mission Institution, British Colombia (Canada).

Paul Mancini: Mancini is a prisoner confined at New Hampshire State prison.

Thomas Mann: Thomas was a Canadian prisoner held at Millhaven Penitentiary and other institutions, a casuality of a futile War on Drugs. Since being released, he has frequently spoken about prison, crime, and drug use at social groups, schools and universities. Initially he worked at a homeless shelter, but left because he thought he could impact the mass media, organizations, and government by taking on a more active role, at the macro level. He is a professional writer, broadcaster, and video producer. He is also on the JPP board.

Jo-Ann Mayhew: Jo-Ann served a life sentence at Kingston P4W, which was commuted to time served after she had been paroled. As editor of TightWire Magazine in the 1980s, Jo-Ann was successful in exposing the plight of (federal) women prisoners in Canada. A major contributor to the JPP from its inception, after her death in 1998, she was recognized and eulogized by women's groups across Canada.

Mary McArdle Mary: is a Republican prisoner at Maghaberry Women's prison in Northern Ireland.

Colin McGregor: Colin is incarcerated at Cowansville Institution in Quebec.

Gregory J. McMaster: Gregory has served more than twenty years of a life sentence, fifteen years in maximum security in U.S. prisons, before being transferred to Canada, where he is serving a life sentence at collins Bay Institution. He has won numerous writing awards, including first prize in the Prison Life Magazine (1995) and in Prison Arts Foundation (1997) contests. Since returning to Canada he has been a regular contributor to the JPP.

Sean McMonagle: Sean was a Republican prisoner who spent four years in Long Kesh in the 1990s.

Joe Miceli: Joe is a long-term prisoner in New York State.

Ian B. Miller: Ian Miller was arrested in Tokyo in March, 1993 and was paroled and deported back to Canada 28 months later. His article in 9:1 addresses his experiences while incarcerated in Japan.

Craig J. Minogue: Minogue has survived the Australian Prison system for the past sixteen years. He is an off-campus undergraduate student who has attained high distinctions in his tertiary studies and is planning a post-graduate career. As a writer, and prison activist, Craig uses legal processes to address prison issues and provide advocacy services to his fellow prisoners. He maintains he is innocent of the crime for which he is convicted, and is serving a life sentence at the privately operated Port Phillip Prison, in Victoria, Australia.

John H. Morris III: At the time he wrote for us in Vol. 3, John was a prisoner in California. In his article he demonstrates a great deal of knowledge about the different prisons in the state.

James Morse: James was a prisoner in New York State. His contribution is an essay from his book, The Expendable. His writing has appeared in numerous publications in the U.S.A.

Gerald Niles: Gerald was given a life sentence (twenty-five years minimum) in Florida in 1991. Because of his litigation and political agitation he has been constantly transferred (ghost trained) to Special Handling Units in maximum security prisons across the U.S.A. He has been a regular contributor to the JPP throughout his travels.

Igho Odibo: Igho is 42 years old, and is being held at Kirikiri Maximum State Prison in Lagos, Nigeria. He was a student in Germany, studying computer assembly, before contracting HIV/AIDS, deported back to Nigeria in 1998. He was handed over to the Nigerian federal government for medical treatment but did not get any. He is in prison with no treatment, allegedly being held for a robbery offence, but has yet to face a trial.

Patrice O'Donnell: At the time of writing her poems (re-published from Tightwire), Patrice was a prisoner at Kingston's Prison For Women (P4W), who was suffering from AIDS. She died December 8th 1990, at Kingston General Hospital after being transported from the prison.

Paddy O'Dowd: Paddy is a Republican prisoner in Northern Ireland.

Lise Olsen: Writing a "Prisoners Struggle" article for 6:2, Lise was a enviornmental activist who discussed the nature of 'activism' vs. 'terrorism' in the eyes of the government and her experiences.

Karamoko Akpan-Patches: Writing under a pseudonym, Karamoko has been incarcerated in California.

John Perotti: An anarchist and recognized political prisoner, John was sentenced to twenty-two to sixty-six years in 1982. Since that time he has been imprisoned in supermaximum facilities, and for the last fifteen years has been caged in Special Handling Unit isolation. John continues to litigate against prison conditions suffered by Ohio's prisoners.

Ed Poindexter: Ed is a prisoner peer tutor incarcerated at Minnesota Correctional Facility at Lino Lakes.

Prisoner's Wife: Prisoner's Wife is the spouse of a Northern Ireland Republican prisoner.

James Pryor: James is a prisoner in Ohio.

Patrick Rafferty: At the time of writing his article in Vol. 13, Rafferty was serving a life sentence for second degree murder with a full parole eligibility date of eighteen years, although on day parole. He was a part of producing Out of Bounds a prisoner written magazine out of William Head Penitentiary in Canada.

Little Rock Reed: During the more than ten years he served in prison in Ohio, Little Rock fought for Aboriginal prisoners' rights to access to elders and spiritual ceremonies. After release he edited and wrote The American Indian in the Whiteman s Prisons: A Story of Genocide (1993). Shortly thereafter he became a "fugitive from injustice" because of his political activities. He died in a traffic accident in January 2000 in Taos, New Mexico.

Stephen Reid: Since Stephen's memoir, Jack Rabbit Parole, was published in 1986 while he was imprisoned, he has established himself as a writer; he has taught creating writing courses inside and outside prisons, and he has been an active member of PEN (Canada). In the 1990s, he was instrumental in defeating federal legislation aimed at stifling prison writing in Canada. In 1997 he joined the editorial board of the JPP. He is currently "writer in residence" at Williams Head penitentiary in British Columbia.

Stephen C. Richards is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. In 1983, he was convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Marijuana. Richards was sentenced to 9 years and served time in 9 federal prisons, including United States Penitentiaries ((USP Atlanta, USP Terre Haute, USP Marion, USP Leavenworth), medium-security Federal Correctional Institutions (FCI Talladega, FCI Oxford) and minimum-security Federal Prison Camps (FPC Terre Haute, FPC Leavenworth, FPC Oxford). Richards completed his B.S. in Sociology while at FPC Oxford (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986). Released from federal prison in 1987, he completed his M.A. in Sociology (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1989) and Ph.D. in Sociology (Iowa State University, 1992). His work has appeared in numerous academic journals. He is the author of the "Sociological Significance of Tattoos" and "The Structure of Prison Release." His most recent books include "Behind Bars: Surviving Prison" and "Convict Criminology" (with Jeffrey Ian Ross). Richards is a Soros Senior Justice Fellow and member of the American Society of Criminology National Policy Committee.

Juan Rivera: Juan was a prisoner and educator in New York State prisons, where he was involved in the creation of the "Conciencia and Resurrection" study groups, and was also a member of the Community Justice Institute in Albany, New York.

Susan Rosenberg: A noted political activist and political prisoner in the U.S.A. Susan was a defendant in the Resistance Conspiracy case.

Jeffrey Ian Ross: Ross is an Associate Professor in the Division of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Social Policy at the University of Baltimore. He has conducted research written and lectured on national security, political violence, political crime, violent crime, corrections, and policing. His work has appeared in many academic journals and books. He co-authored "Behind Bars: Surviving Prison" (2002) & co-edited "Convict Criminology", both with Stephen C. Richards.

Michael Ross: Ross gained a lot of media attention for his case. He eventually asked for the death penalty. He was executed by the state of Connecticut, the first in 45 years there, on Friday May 13th 2005. While spending over 20 years on death row, Ross wrote numerous articles about his experiences in prison and the actions that brought him there.

Rob Rucier: Rucier was a vice president of an insurance company, taught Sunday school, and coached Little League prior to his incarceration. At the time of writing his article (2004) he was in the sixth year of an 18-36 year sentence, in Dallas, Texas.

Tiyo Attalah Salah-El: As described by the author, "Before being sent to prison, I had graduated from high school, then enlisted in the Army, served in Korea, was wounded and honourably discharged in 1953 with the rank of Sergeant. In 1954 I married, and began a thirty-year experience as a jazz musician and also engaged in many negative activities (eg. drug sales, abusing women, lying stealing, assault, and battery, and shootings). In 1975 I was sentenced to 'life.'" (Salah-El 1992; JPP 4:1)

Sandy Sayer: Sandy contribuited an article for Volume 5:2, re-printed from Tightwire, while serving time at Kingston's Prison for Women (P4W). She hanged herself from her cell bars on "B" range October 12, 1989. Among her family and friends who mourn her, are her two young young sons.

Arthur Solomon: Arthur was a native Nishnawbe Spiritual Teacher, who was incarcerated in Canada. He was one of the first prisoners to get involved with the JPP.

Karonji Spears: At the time of writing her article "Report on the Central California Women's Facility," Karojni was serving a sentence at Chowchilla Institution, as "staff barber".

Norma Stafford: Norma served four and a half years at California's Institute for Women (C.I.W) for writing bad cheques.

Melissa Stewart: Melissa served six years at Kingston P4W, during which time she helped to create "Project Another Chance" - a support group and crisis line for women prisoners. Along with Julie MacKay, she was a co-editor of Tightwire. She has since been paroled, and her work support's federally incarcerated women.

Richard Stratton: Stratton was incarcerated in the US as a commodity of the War on Drugs. Since being released over a decade ago, he has consulted HBO on some of their projects, and has also been involved in producing other films. He has written numerous books, such as Smack Goddess and has written for popular magazines. He contributed an article in Vol. 10, describing Prison Life a publication which he co-edited with his wife.

Felix X. Stringfellow: In Volume 3, Stringfellow wrote to the JPP from death row.

Robert A. Sullivan: In Volume 3 the JPP published a set of letters between Nancy Picthall & Bob Sullivan. "Bob was the adopted only child of an affluent family which resided in Belmont Massachusetts, a small Boston suberb where the faculties of Harvard University and MIT raise their families. Nancy Pichthall & Bob Sullivan attended Belmont schools in grades one through twelve. Once Bob was on death row they began to corespond." (Laurence & Nancy Picthall-French 1991; JPP Vol. 3)

Janos Szabo: In Volume 3 Szabo describes a little about himself: "I have been sitting on death row, as I said earlier, since 1979. I could just sit here and waste my time doing nothing, but I chose not to do so. While in society going to school I couldn't care less about learning any of what they wanted to teach. Since being on death row I must say that my mind has changed quite a bit in many ways. In society I didn't read books because nothing interested me. I have over the years in prison, more likely read over two hundred books on European history. I have become a self-taught man in many ways." (Szabo 1991; JPP Vol. 3)

Robert E. Taliaferro, Jr: Taliaferro is an alumnus of the University of Minnesota and Metropolitan State University (Minnesota). He is an established artist and currently is a columnist for the Chicago- based newspaper News and Letters. He was the editor of Prison Mirror from 1985-1989, during which time the publication won various community and national journalism honours including the 1985, 1986, 1988 Best Newspaper awards, and the 1987 Charles C. Clayton Award from the School of Journalism at Southern Illinois University. His work has also been published in several anthologies and collections. He has and continues to serve over ninteen years of a life sentence.

Jon Marc Taylor: Jon Marc has served more than twenty years in prison, during which time he has completed undergraduate and graduate university degrees, authored more than one-hundred articles and been the recipient of numerous writing awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. A major contributor to the JPP, Jon Marc joined the editorial board in 1998. The second edition of his book, Prisoners' Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs in the United States and Canada, was published in 2002.

Charles Terry: Terry is an ex-convict and former heroin addict who now works as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at St. Louis University. His reserach incorporates a critical, ethnographic approach to illustrate issues of social injustice and healing. He pays particular attention to the perspectives of those who get caught up in the criminal justice system, how they make sense of their worlds, and what they do to maintain their dignity and self-respect.

William Van Poyck: Poyck was transferred to Virginia's death row in 1999, following the death row murder of his co-defendant, Frank Valdes, allegedly by a group of prison guards. The guards were found not guilty.

Joann Walker: At the time of writing her article, Joann was a prisoner at Chowchilla Women's Facility.

Robert Woodman: At the time of writing his article, Robert was a prisoner in Ohio.

Paul Wright: Paul was sentenced to 304 months in Washington State in 1987. In 1990 he helped to found and currently edits & produces Prison Legal News, a publication that keeps track of litigation and legal matters pertinant to prisoners. A regular contributor and supporter to the JPP, he co-edited The Ceiling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry and also co-edited, "Prison Nation, The Wearhousing of America's Poor," in 2003. Visit PLN at http://www.prisonlegalnews.org