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Jailhouse Lawyers book launch - Prisoners Defending Prisoners
03 Jun 2011; posted by the editor - United Kingdom


"This is the story of law learned, not in the ivory towers of multi-billion-dollar endowed universities in the bowels of the slave-ship, in the hidden, dank dungeons of America Š It is law learned in a stew of bitterness, under the constant threat of violence, in places where millions of people live, but millions of others wish to ignore or forget. It is law written with stubs of pencils, or with four-inch-long rubberized flex-pens, with grit, glimmerings of brilliance, and with clear knowledge that retaliation is right outside the cell door. It is a different perspective on the law, written from the bottom, with a faint hope that a right may be wronged, an injustice redressed. It is Hard Law."— Mumia Abu-Jamal

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