Authors: Eric Cummins
ISBN-13: 9780804722322, ISBN-10: 0804722323
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: February 1994
Edition: 1
This is a history of the California prison movement from 1950 to 1980, focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area's San Quentin State Prison and highlighting the role that prison reading and writing played in the creation of radical inmate ideology in those years. The book begins with the Caryl Chessman years (1948-60) and closes with the trial of the San Quentin Six (1975-76) and the passage of California's Determinate Sentencing Law (1977).