Bro. Ismail Abdul Hakim Akbar, #728085, B2219 U- Mayo Correctional Institution, 8784 U.S. Hwy 27 West, Mayo, FL 32066
• Black-on-Black Crime, 3/18/10
• Have Time Really Changed?
• Everybody Your Color Isn't Your Kind

James M. Anderson, #1205943, 2605 State Street, Salem, OR 97310
• A Prisoner's Stance
• Fear and Chains

Mis-Mission Statement, author unknown.

Joseph Aragon, G08220, P.O. Box 3481, Corcoran, CA 93212
• California S.H.U.s (5/2010)
• My Existence (11/09)
• Two poems:: "Forest of Stone" and "Can you feel my pain?"
• Long Quiet Mornings (PDF)
• My Space in This Place, May 2009
• Two poems:, "Gnashing of Teeth" and "Society is Dying," April 2009
• Five poems: "Big Money Deals," "Solitary Confinement," "I Am Validated," "Concrete and Steal," and "Twisted Minds"
• Five more poems
• Three poems, January 2009

Jacob Barrett, #557456, P.O. Box 97, McAlester, OK 74502
• Inmates Families (PDF), April 2009
• Letter to the Editor of The (Bend, OR) Bulletin concerning the nature of pardons
• A Murderer Gave You Your Rights
• Christ and Death
• The War on Drugs
• A Need for Higher Learning

Mr. Clair L. Beazer, C.S.P. #49801, P.O. box 777, Canon City, CO 81215-0777
• Lockdowns and Monsters
• It Is Another Sad Day in the C.D.O.C.
• Running Joke
• Video Visitation

"Prisoner Suicides: The Danger of Manufacturing Hopelessness" by Ed Bowser

"Justice Works! When its principles are not compromised", A Letter to the Governor by Michael Braae, 270679 W.C.C. AT 105 IMU P.O. Box 900 Shelton, WA 98584

Keith Burley, #EC-0000, Box 9999, LaBelle, PA 15450-0990, writes, "Please publish this writing of mine on your website and include my name and address beneath, encouraging fellow writers, poets and anyone interested in prison reform to contact me."
• The Beast!
• A Prelude to Madness: An Analysis of Incarceration and the Mentally Ill
• The Hole (poem)

Kimberly Carter, 815679, Washington Correction Center for Women, 9601 Bujacich Road NW, Gig Harbor, WA 98332
• The Theory from England
Kimberly Carter has requested we add the following paragraph to her essay:

Surrounded by controversy is a horrifying law that is with us in virtually every U.S.jurisdiction. The law has been criticized, maligned, and denigrated by lawyers, law students and even judges because it is not consistent with the rest of criminal law or the U.S. Constitution, yet it continues. This law is called the felony murder law.

Edwin Castro, #95A6664, Green Haven Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 4000, Stormville, NY 12582-0010
• In the Shadow of the Thirteenth Amendment
• Get Free, Stay Free

Jerome Coffey, AS-1558, 175 Progress Drive, Waynesburg, PA 15370
Various letters and documents, 7/09
• 7-2-09 Letter concerning the drain of taxes from Philadelphia to supporting prisons in rural PA.
• Article on $13.5 M from stimulus package for policing in Philadelphia
• 7-13-09 letter: legislation driven by ALEC and the cost of prisons to communities in PA
• Memo to SCI Greene on mental and emotional tortore to Jerome Coffey in RHU for 8 years.
Chart of Distribution of Juvenile LIfers in SCIs in PA, 7/09

The Prison Industrial Complex: Specter of Colonialism by Michael Contreraz, C-45857 D4-104L, P.O. Box 5242, Corcoran, CA 93232

Al Cunningham, San Quentin Prison, P.O. Box E-22600, San Quentin, CA 94964
• Life and Death, 6/2008
• Freedom for a Day, 2/2005
• The Economy of Prisons
• Underneath My Bed---A Monster Waits
Al Cunningham is on death row.

Changing Reform by Leonard Donald, W80257, MCI Cedar Junction, DDU, P.O. Box 100, South Walpole, MA 02071

The Catastrophic Failure of Corrections by John Feroli, Old Colony Prison, Bridgewater, MA

CSI Discovers Where the Money Went by Richard Geffken, V01102 C2103L, Mayo CI, 8784 West U.S. 27, Mayo, FL 32066.

Ana Lucia Gelabert; see also her Comix from Inside
• U.S. Federal Judges Appointments (2008) [table]
• The Military Industrial Complex and the Prison Industrial Complex Go Hand in Hand
• At Last Revealed: Governor Palin's Program
• Prisons and the State
• Some Facts You Should Know About Texas Prisons (PDF), February 2008
• Position Statement by the 4th of July Anti-Fascist Movement (2008)
• Cost Benefits of Releasing Excess Prisoners in U.S.A and Texas (PDF) 2008
• Voting Records on Criminal Justice Issues based on CUREs Review of the 109th Congress (PDF), compiled by Ana Lucia Gelabert, March 2008.

Luis Gonzalez, CDCR #T-67569, Corcoran State Prison 3C-2-219, P.O. Box 3471, Corcoran CA 93212-3471
• Appeal to the Public, 8/09
• Letter to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, 8/09
• Forward by Luis Gonzalez and Jose Felix, both whom are incarcerated in Corcoran, CA. Luis was asked for a comment to be included in the book edition of the Real Cost of Prisons Comix. This is what they wrote.

Kristopher J. Govea, F17942, P.O. Bos 3471, Corcoran, CA 93212-3471
• California's Crisis
• Enemy of the State

David Hinman, #0025374, Anamosa State Penitentiary, Post Office Box 10, Anamosa, Iowa 52205-0010
• The Right to Vote (PDF), 6/22/09
• Anamosa State Penitentiary (PDF), 5/18/09
• The Right to Vote for Convicted Felons
• Looking at Interchange Fellowship Program (IFI) From a Different View, 12/03
See also: December 03, 2007: Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Public Funding Of Evangelical Prison Program In Iowa
Also see Whittling Away the Time, an article about a wood carving of Anamosa State Penitentiary.

Andrew Housworth, 787 Frank Street, Leavenworth, KS 66048
• My Brothers My Keeper
• One Nation Behind Bars
• Only in America

Letter from F. DeAndre Howard, February, 2007. Contact the author at Reg. #07757-089, Federal Correctional Institution, P.O. Box 5000, Pekin, IL 61555-5000

Kurtis R. Jeter, 959775, Lawtey Correctional Institution, 7819 N.W. 228th Street, Raiford, FL 32026
• The Injustice of the Plea Bargain

Kenneth Keel
• Prison Diet Poses Health Dangers
• Challenging "Three Strikes" Under Human Rights Treaty

"Anatomy of a Prison Riot" by R.M., November 2006

"Waiting to Die - The American Prison Experience" by R. M., November 2006

"Comprehensive Incarcerated Person Reform, Rehabilitation and Reentry Act" and Letter. Please feel free to contact the author with your thoughts and comments: Sheldon N. Messer 00A3204, Sing Sing Correctional Facility, 354 Hunter Street, Ossining, New York 10562

Bro. Khalfani Malik Khaldun (Leonard McQuay), #874304, P.O. Box 1111 A-706 SCU, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 1111, Carlisle, IN 47838
• Amerikkkan Imprisonment 2010: From forced control management to cruel and unusual punishment
• Revolutionary by Action: advocating constitutional consciousness inside an Indiana control unit"

Timothy J. Muise
• Compassionate Release Legislation Long Over-Due In Massachusetts, December 2009

Terry Olney, 60345, P.O. Box 11099, Omaha, NE 68111-0099
• Throw Them in Prison and Make Everything Right
• Where Do They Come From?

Michael Owens, J25599, High Desert State Prison C8-108, P.O. Box 3030, Susanville, CA 96127
Michael has a web page at Voices for Inmates, and can be contacted via the e-mail form there.
• The Problem Worse Than Crime: Notes On Juvenile Justice and Pyrrhic Victory (PDF, 2009)
Quote by Angela Davis sent by Michael Owens:
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens at a zoo-obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

Mark C. Palmer, 21986-4F1, 2521 Circle Drive, Jamestown, ND 58501
• North Dakota Is Supposedly The Safest State in the Nation: Why is the Prison Population Growing?
• We Have Rights!

Consider This By Brian J. Polley, P.O. Box 43, Norfolk, MA 02056-0043

Karter Kane Reed, 1 Administration Road, Bridgewater, MA 02324
Karter Kane Reed was sentenced to prison at age 16. He has been incarcerated for 18 years as of June 2010.
• The Vision: A Conceptualization of an Effective Correctional System (And its Implementation)
• The Cornerstone of Change (an essay about the role of Lifers in the prison system)

Milton L. Rice, MCIN, P.O. Box 43, Norfolk, MA 020056-0043
• Unacceptable Collateral Damages

Abuse of Authority by Changa Asa Ramu, aka Paul J. Rogers, #BS-6500, P.O. Box 999, 1120 Pike Street, Huntingdon, PA 16652

Juan A. Roldan, MPS, 86-A-8348, Box 1245, Fishkill Correctional Facility, Beacon, NY 12508
• Vicarious Living
• A Letter of Apology
• The Parole Enigma: New York State's Parole System in the 21st Century

Tiyo Attallah Salah El
• A New Approach Towards Abolishing Prisons This paper was read by Mechthild Nagel on behalf of Tiyo Attallah Salah-El at the International Conference on Penal Aboliton in London, July 2008.
• The Expanding Prison Planet
• A Call for the Abolition of Prisons
• A New Approach Towards Abolishing Prisons (2008)

A Privilege for the Privileged by Mr. Kemoria Bright Cloud Smith, #696218, Connally Unit, 899 F.M. 632, Kenedy, TX 78119-4516.

Private Prisons: a View from Inside by Davis Stephenson, #118218, NFCF, 1605 East Main St., Sayre, OK 73662

"Indemnification of Prison Guards"
By DJ Taylor, #179983 Northern Supermax, P.O. Box 665, Somers, CT 06071.

Jon Marc Taylor (503273), Crossroads Correctional Center, 1115 East Pence Road, Cameron, MO 64429
• Pell Grants for Prisoners: Why Should We Care?, published in Straight Low magazine, V.9, N.2, 2008. "Louisiana's Official Prison Magazine." Jon Marc Taylor, PhD is the author of Prisoners' Guerrilla Handbook To Correspondence Programs in the United States and Canada-3rd Edition, 2009. Published by Prison Legal News. It can be ordered from them at http://www.prisonlegalnews.org. $49.95. 224 pages.

Troy T. Thomas, H-01001, A4-127-UP, Pelican Bay State Prison, P.O. Box 7500, Crescent City, CA 95532
• What Prison Psychologists Have Helped Me to Realize (PDF)
• Is Racism a Mental Illness? (PDF)
• American Prisons - A Convincing Case of Failure (PDF)

Kebby Warner, 259737, Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility, 3201 Bemis Road, Ypsilanti, MI 48197-0911
• Review of The Real Cost of Prisons Comix
• One Woman's Struggle

Safir Chuma Asafo, aka Robert William, BH8660, SCI Forest, 2 Woodland Drive, P.O. Box 307, Marienville, PA 16239-0037
• PA D.O.C. In Disarray: A Failing System, 11/09

Mr. Kelly Lee Watts, 35401/5A-17, Potosi Correctional Center, 11593 State Highway O, Mineral Point, MO 63660
• Trapped in the Belly of the Beast
• Enter One Blackman, Too: Passing the Torch of Transition and Struggle

Sadot X. Williams, DQ3608, S.C.I. Greene, 175 Progress Drive, Waynesburg, PA 15370-8090
• Camp Hill Asbestos Removal [PA DOC document]
• Mental Health Neglect at S.C.I Greene
• Pennsylvania Governor Stops All Parole
• The Pennsylvania Department of Corruption
• Control Units and Oppression, March 2008
• The Madness Continues, May 2008

Letter from Michael Smokey Wilson, Lifers, Inc/End Violence Projects. Contact information: Michael Smokey Wilson, AF #2695, Box 246, Graterford, PA 19426-0246

If Not Now, Then When? by Derek Wright, W80355, P.O. Box 100, South Walpole, MA 02071

Robert "Boston" Woodard, B-88207, CCC, SF-74-10-L, P.O. Box 2400, Susanville, CA 96127-2400
For more nearly 15 years, Boston has been writing articles about a view from the inside and documenting the abuse by prison officials and guards. In 1996, he was thrown in the hole for four months because the warden did not like what he was writing. A pro-bono attorney who took his First Amendment case and fought it for three years before a judge ruled that case must come to trial and the state dropped the charge and paid him compensation.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/05/18614132.php

Founded in 1971, the PEN Prison Writing Program believes in the restorative and rehabilitative power of writing, by providing hundreds of people who are incarcerated across the country with skilled writing teachers and audiences for their work. The program seeks to provide a place for prisoners to express themselves freely with paper and pen and to encourage the use of the written word as a legitimate form of power. The program sponsors an annual writing contest, publishes a free handbook for prisoners, provides one-on-one mentoring to inmates whose writing shows merit or promise, conducts workshops for former inmates, and seeks to get prisoners' work to the public through literary publications and readings. Prison Writing Program, PEN American Center 588 Broadway, Suite 303, New York, NY 10012 E-mail: pen@pen.org Telephone: (212) 334-1660.

Dortell Williams is a prolific self-taught writer who has an interesting insight to share. Dortell will complete 18 years of continuous imprisonment (of a life sentence) this year. He has spent his time wisely, earning a correspondence paralegal certificate, as well as teaching himself Spanish, stock trading and many other useful subject. He is seeking a website to host his writings and an editor to help him compile hundreds of essays into a compelling book. He can be reached at H-45771/A2-103, P.O..Box 4430, Lancaster, CA 93539.