Liberation Lit Focus: Prison
“I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life”
-Malcolm X
Works
Work by Prisoners:
Loneliness - by Ryan Kirkpatrick
Jailhouse New - by Donald McDonald
The Ballad of a Dead Beat Dad - by Jonathan Bartlett
The World We Make - by Angel Torres
A Poem - by a state of Illinois prisoner
Concrete and Iron City - by David A. Smith
“Safe?!” - by a prisoner at Tamms
T.A.M.M.S. – by a prisoner at Tamms
America’s Supermaximums - by a prisoner at Tamms
If Only [story] – by Joe Dole
Also see: Lockdown Prison Heart / LPH Introduction and Comments
Work by Others:
Prestamped – by Cari Carpenter
Frame Up – by Ron Jacobs
Interrogation – by Mahmud Rahman