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by: Eric Cummins See Larger Image Our Price: $29.95 Prices subject to change. Used Price: $15.00 Third Party New Price: $29.92 Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 4 weeks This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 365.9794 EAN: 9780804722322 ISBN: 0804722323 Label: Stanford University Press Manufacturer: Stanford University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: February 01, 1994 Publisher: Stanford University Press Sales Rank: 766146 Studio: Stanford University Press Related Items: Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice Race to Incarcerate, Revised and Updated Edition Thinking About Crime The Challenge of Crime: Rethinking Our Response Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America see more Editorial Review: Product Description: This is a history of the California prison movement from 1950 to 1980, highlighting the role that prison reading and writing played in the creation of radical inmate ideology in those years. This was an extraordinary era in the California prisons, one that saw the emergence of a highly developed, radical convict resistance movement inside prison walls, fuelled at times by remarkable prisoners like Caryl Chessman, Eldridge Cleaver or George Jackson, and by groups of inmates like the Black Muslims or the Black Panther Party. The book traces the rise and fall of the prisoners' movement, ending with the inevitable bloody confrontation between prisoners and the state and the subsequent prison administration crackdown. He also discusses how such writings as Chessman's Cell 2455, Cleaver's Soul on Ice, and Jackson's Soledad Brother reached far beyond prison walls to influence opinion, events, and policy. Browse for similar items by category: Qualifying Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS State & Local - United States - Americas - History - Subjects - Books - California History - Subjects - Books - General AAS Crime & Criminals - Nonfiction - Subjects - Books - Criminology Crime & Criminals - Nonfiction - Subjects - Books - Penology