Writing As Resistance : The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons Anthology (1988-2002) Book

	Editor's Acknowledgements
Pt. I	Introduction
	The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons: An Ethnography of the Prison Industrial Complex in the 1990s	5
Pt. II	Writing as Resistance
	Inside Looking Out: Writers in Prison	33
	Writing on the Walls: It Isn't Just Graffiti	50
	Letter to Joanna	58
	Maximum Ink	64
	Cultural Struggle and a Drama Project	71
	Festival Drama in the Blocks	75
	The History of Prison Legal News: The Samizdat of the American Gulag	80
	Revolutionary Literature - Contraband	90
Pt. III	Control of the Dangerous Classes
	The Resurrection of the 'Dangerous Classes'	99
	Three Strikes Racks 'em Up	110
	Slaves of the State	115
	A Non-Traditional Approach to a Curriculum for Prisoners in New York State	120
	In the Shadow of the Thirteenth Amendment	127
	Corrections Is a Male Enterprise	151
	Entrenched Social Catastrophe	160
	Prison for Women's Invisible Minority	164
	The Prize of the Poor	177
	Bureaubabble and the Beep	185
	A Fighting Battle	200
Pt. IV	In the Hands of the State
	The American Dream: Free Enterprise	211
	Runaway Prison or Mr. Smith Goes to Harrisburg	216
	On Being a Nigger	223
	Rehabilitation: Contrasting Cultural Perspectives and the Imposition of Church and State	231
	A Clockwork Grey	262
	A Decade of Diesel Therapy in the Floriduh Gulag	266
	Monochromes from over a Prison's Edge	272
	Suicide: The Challenge Faced by Female Federal Prisoners	287
	The Bear and Me	299
	One Prison, One Death, One Mass Coverup	303
	Breaking Men's Minds: Behaviour Control and Human Experimentation at the Federal Prison in Marion, Illinois	307
	Female Political Prisoners and Anti-Imperialist Struggles	321
	USP Marion's Version of Orwell's 1984 and Beyond	326
	It's a Form of Warfare: A Description of Pelican Bay State Prison	347
	Mephistophelean Volition	352
	That Last Mile	357
	Commemorative Celebration in Honour of Ronald Keith Allridge III	362
Pt. V	Resistance Strategies for Survival
	Sunday, Bloody Sunday	371
	The Unity Walk	378
	Organizing Inside: Prison Justice Day (August 10[superscript th]), A Non-Violent Response to Penal Repression	388
	Remembering Prison Justice Day	404
	Remembering Women in the Struggle	407
	Birth of the Blanket Protest	410
	Deconstructing 'Criminalisation': The Politics of Collective Education in the H-Blocks	415
	Sweet Grass in the Iron House	423
Pt. VI	Talking Back: Counter-Inscribing the Prison Industrial Complex
	'Victims' Rights' As a Stalkinghorse for State Repression	429
	'Victims' Rights: The Fallacy of the Zero-Sum Solution	435
	Victimization	443
	The American Correctional Association: A Conspiracy of Silence	447
	The ACA Accreditation Fraud	471
	Pell Grants for Prisoners Part Deux: It's Deja Vu All Over Again	476
	Where Have All the Superpredators Gone?	496
	Life and Death in America: The Killing of Amadou Diallo	502
	Prison Violence: How Society Can Profit from Videotaping Attacks Behind the Walls	512
Pt. VII	Appendices
App. I	An Overview of The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, 1998-2002: Volumes 1-12	523
	About the Contributors to this Anthology	527
App. II	The Cover Artists and the Cover Art	533
	About the Cover Artists	534
	Listing of the Cover Art and Artists from 1988-2002	537