“I’m just gonna let you know how it is:” Situating Writing and Literacy Education in Prison, Tobi Jacobi
Where Lifelines Converge: Voices from the Forest Correctional Creative Writing Group, Laura Rogers
Disturbing Where We Are Comfortable: Notes From Behind the Walls, Lori Pompa
Prison 101, Shane R. Hillman
Telephone Conversation with a Five-Year Old, Jesus Vega
Who I’m Is, DaVetta Penn
Moon, Carolyn Benson
First Year Composition and Women in Prison: Service-based Writing and Community Action, Lisa Mastrangelo
Learning Disabilites Among the Incarcarated, Terra White
Mail Call, Jerrald Morris
Between Ivy and Razor Wire: A Case of Correctional Correspondence, Tom Kerr
Ivan Hermosillo Ballines, on drawing
Who Will Watch the Watchmen? A Response to the Patriot Act, Robert Brown
What Lies Between US, Lauren Ehrlichman
Each One, Teach One: Starting a Poetry Class Behind the Walls, Leonard Gonzalez
From a Boy to a Man, William Roy Barfield
They Said…, Thomas Schilk
Do You Hear What I Hear? Voices From Prison Composition Classes, Phyllis G. Hastings with Jim Morrison
Looking Down To See Up: A Prison Epiphany, Adam Ortiz
Excerpts from “Graffiti as a Sense of Place,” Jonathan Hayden and Arvilla Payne-Jackson
“Where I’m From” and Other Poems, Poets of The Nancy Jefferson Alternative School
Prison: A Way of Life, Derek E. Gray
Not a Rite of Passage, Lenzell Franklin
Rhythm of the Machine: Theater, Prison Community, and Social Change, Martin Mitchell
Black Winged Stranger, Hector Gallegos
Hands, William T. Lawson
Christmas, Carl McCoun
Revolving Doors, Sabrina Smith
Lewisburg Blues (excerpt from “The Big House”), A. LaMont Gainey
A High Crime Area, Fred Berthoff
500 Angry Men: Drama and Meta-drama at the “Big House,” Lorraine Moller
The Return: On Writing a Play in Prison, Edwin James
Banging the Bars Together, Richard (Dirk) Pitt
Book Reviews
Afterword: Rewriting the Story of Prison Literacies, Patricia E. O’Connor