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Donald Lowrie (March 26, 1875 – June 5, 1925) was an American newspaper writer and author. [1] He became a well-known advocate of prison reform work after the release of his book My Life in Prison, in which he reflects on his ten-year incarceration in San Quentin State Prison north of San Francisco, California.
Prison Book Program is an American non-profit organization that sends free books to people in prison. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] While the organization is based in Massachusetts , it mails packages of books to people in prisons in 45 U.S. states , as well as Puerto Rico and Guam . [ 3 ]
In 1977, the "Son of Sam" law made it illegal for convict authors to collect money from their writings. Some claim that "[a]lthough ostensibly designed to 'protect the victim' and to keep criminals from profiting from their crimes, the real purpose of these laws was identical to the purpose of the repression of prison literature in the 1930s ...
Books about Black and Indigenous people, Latinos and the LGBTQ community are often banned in prisons, but prohibited titles vary widely from state to state, Book bans in prison cut inmates ...
Women's Prison Book Project This page was last edited on 28 December 2024, at 15:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...
This category is for autobiographies or memoirs in book form dealing with significant episodes of imprisonment, or by a prison guard or officer. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
The 15-year-old sophomore's mom wrote all of the notes by herself, hoping they could be a sign of encouragement. Parent posts 1,200 handwritten notes of encouragement to students' lockers at son's ...
Reginald Dwayne Betts is an American poet, legal scholar, educator and prison reform advocate. At age 16 he committed an armed carjacking, was prosecuted as an adult, and was sentenced to nine years in prison. He started reading and writing poetry during his incarceration.