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AI Quarterly E-Newsletter: Summer 2016
Hot off the presses, theĀ AI Newsletter Summer 2016. This publication was created for you - family members, friends, and advocates of prisoners. In each issue you will find useful resources for and from inmates; artwork, stories, and recommendations from both adopters...
Review of The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
I'll admit, when I first heard the title of this best-selling book, I, as a black man, was taken aback. I scoffed at the notion that anyone could attempt to make a sound case for comparing the atrocious Jim Crow segregation laws of the 50s and 60s with today's ā...
Review of The Great Bridge by David McCullough
David McCullough's The Great Bridge is an extraordinary book. It tells the tale of how the Brooklyn Bridge was conceived and built. As is the case with other McCullough works, it is superbly crafted and reads as well as any great work of fiction. The main focus of the...
“The System” Is Not Broken
It's true: the American criminal justice system is not broken āĀ it's doing exactly what it is designed to do. Far gone are the days when the only things that distinguished prisons from college campuses were the barbed-wired fences, gun towers, and . . . oh yeah, the...
Inmate Art: Muse of the Builder
This piece is from our friend J.E. Forbes in Pennsylvania.
Calling All Angels: Stamps, please!
We are working night and day on a few projects - one of which is catching up with a significantĀ backlog of mail. We owe several hundred replies which must go out through regular USPS mail, and thatĀ means .... we need stamps. Lots of stamps. This is an easy and...