"Morris piece[s] together the rich and turbulent history of penal journalism...reaches beyond the publications to the fascinating lives of inmate journalists...belongs in the permanent collection of anyone interested in prisons or journalism" -- The Angolite
"provides a comprehensive overview of newspapers and magazines managed and published by prisoners in the United States during the last 150 years" -- Los Angeles Times
"thorough in providing a history of the prison press...should be considered for supplemental reading in criminal justice classes and journalism history, law, and other courses. ...useful" -- Journalism & Mass Commmunication Quarterly
"worth reading...the only modern book on the topic" -- Prison Legal News --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Description
In the 1980s alone, some 100 periodicals were published by and for inmates of America's prisons. Unlike their peers who passed their sentences stamping out licence plates, these convicts spent their days like reporters in any community - looking for the story. Yet their own story, the lengthy history of their unique brand of journalism, remained largely unknown. In this volume James McGrath Morris seeks to address the history of this medium, the lives of the men and women who brought it to life, and the controversies that often surround it.
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