>"The summer issue of Monthly Review examines the US prison system: its
>history and its current state. It contains interesting and provocative
>articles by both scholars and activists. Several of the writers are
>either currently in prison or recently released. Authors include
>Staughton and Alice Lynd, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Gregory Frederick (imprisoned
>in Sing Sing), Jose Jordan (Puerto Rican political prisoner) Laura
>Whitehorn and Marylyn Buck (former and current political prisoners,
>interviewed by Suzie Day), Marta Russell and Jean Stewart (disability
>rights activists and writers), Michael Tigar, Christian Parenti, Sylvia
>Federici, George Caffentzis, Michael Yates, and Monica Frolander-Ulf."