“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
“Learning Disabilities Among the Incarcerated” | Terra White
“Between Ivy and Razor Wire: A Case of Correctional Correspondence” | Tom Kerr
Drawing | Ivan Hermosillo Ballines
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
“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
“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
“Review of Making Time: Letters from Jean Harris to Shana Alexander” | Dennis Sobczak
“Review of The Soul Knows No Bars: Inmates Reflect on Life, Death, and Hope” | Phyllis Hastings
“Review of Inner Lives: Voices of African American Voices in Prison” | Candice S. Rai
“Review of Sing Soft, Sing Loud” | Linda Caldwell
“Afterword: Rewriting the Story of Prison Literacies” | Patricia E. O’Connor