The Ugly Truth About the PLRA
The Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) is an anti-prisoner statute signed into law April 26, 1996 by President William Jefferson...
Making Your Bones In Creative Arts: A Quicker, Easier Way To Publishing Success
ZINE noun \ˈzēn\ : a small magazine that is written by people who are not professional writers and that usually has stories about a...
Escape from a Maximum Security Jail
D. Babb was awarded Third Place in memoir in the 2008 Prison Writing Contest. Los Angeles County has the largest jail system in the...
BOOK REVIEW Icicle Bill
Reviewed by Christopher Zoukis Of the many popularly identifiable genres of literature - sci-fi, romance, chick-lit, lad-lit, thriller -...
Prisoners' Family Members Also 'Serve Time' When Relatives Go To Jail, Experts Say
Anyone familiar with the U.S. criminal justice system has likely heard the expression, “When a person gets sentenced to prison, the whole...
Prisoners Sending E-Cards Actually Makes A Lot of Sense
An article by Michael McLaughlin, first seen on Huffingtonpost.com It'll be a long time before Bretton Link can be with friends and...
Restore Pell Grants for Prisoners
An Article by Spearlt, First seen on HuffingtonPost.com Last month the Department of Education clarified the eligibility rules for...
Noise and the Incarcerated Student
By Christopher Zoukis Sitting in my cell I can feel the floor shaking. I can hear the banging. I can see a man dancing on top of a table...
The Best 500 Nonprofit Organizations for Prisoners and Their Families (2nd Ed.), edited by George Ka
Loaded on DEC. 3, 2014 by Gary Hunter published in Prison Legal News December, 2014, page 14 Filed under: Reviews, Resources. Location:...
The Eve Before Christmas at MCC
By D. St.Onge Was the eve before my MCC's Christmas Not an inmate was stirring, well maybe a mouse The cells were all locked on the...
