Cummins, Eric - The Rise and Fall of California’s Radical Prison Movement

Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1994. orig. wrappers. 24x15cm, xi, 319 pp. PAPERBACK.. Textual photo ills.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-311) and index."This is the history of the California prison movement from 1950 to 1980, focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area's 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 the passage of California's Determinate Sentencing Law (1977). This was an extraordinary era in the California prisons, one that saw the emergence of a highly developed radical convict resistance movement inside prison walls. " Publisher's description.

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