Prison Voices

Edited by Richard Jaccoma, Lee Weinstein

Prison Voices is an inmate-written book, made to encourage reading and writing in prisons. Within these pages twelve convict-authors reveal the dramatic details of their lives and their struggles. Some of the pieces are uplifting and hopeful; others breathtaking, steeped in remorse. At times the words we read are most shocking in the precision of the author’s self-reflection; at other times exasperating in what they reveal of the author’s self-destructiveness. Fill free to see a review of the book at www.rabble.ca/reviews/review.shtml?

Contents

• Introduction: Justice and Judgement (Roxanne Stevenson) 
• Prison’s Ain’t Much of a Place (Martin Bolton) 
• Me, Myself and the Other (Guy James Wrigley) 
• Women of the Healing Lodge: Dear Cocaine (Lorrie-Anne Cope)
• Healing Journey (Michelle Belcourt)
• the Horse Program (Maxine Friesen) 
• A Child for Seven Years (Mario Auger) 
• Welcome to the Writer’s Block: Grape Jelly (Jon Brown)
• Five Bucks’ll Getcha Burned (Mike Oulton)
• What Went Wrong (Orville Young) 
• Broken Wings (Rebecca Reid)
• The Mind of a Criminal (Thanh Phuong Nguyen)