
Doing Time
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For the last quarter century the prestigious writers' organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these challenges. Bell Chevigny, a former prison teacher, has selected the best of these submissions from over the last 25 years to create Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing-a vital work, demonstrating that prison writing is a vibrant part of American literature. This new edition will contain updated biographies of all contributors.
The 51 original prisoners contributing to this volume deliver surprising tales, lyrics, and dispatches from an alien world covering the life span of imprisonment, from terrifying initiations to poignant friendships, from confrontations with family to death row, and sometimes share extraordinary breakthroughs. With 1.8 million men and women-roughly the population of Houston-In American jails and prisons, we must listen to "this small country of throwaway people,? in Prejean's words. Doing Time frees them from their sentence of silence. We owe it to ourselves to listen to their voices.
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Sister Helen Prejean is a prison minister and the author of the New York Times bestseller Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United State. and lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Content
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword by Sister Helen Prejean
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction by Bell Gale Chevigny
- INITIATIONS
- TIME AND ITS TERMS
- ROUTINES AND RUPTURES
- WORK
- READING AND WRITING
- PLAYERS, GAMES
- RACE, CHANCE, CHANGE
- FAMILY
- THE WORLD
- GETTING OUT
- DEATH ROW
- Notes
- Text Credits
- About the Authors
- Afterword: More About the Authors
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