This volume collects Jackson's letters from prison — written during the decade he spent incarcerated, much of it in solitary confinement, before he was killed at San Quentin in 1971 — addressed to his family, his lawyers, and fellow activists including Angela Davis. The letters chart his political education behind bars and his uncompromising analysis of racism, capitalism, and the American prison system. Published a year before his death, the book made Jackson an international symbol of prison resistance and remains a core text of the prison-abolition tradition.
Author: George Jackson (introduction by Jean Genet) · Original publisher: Coward-McCann, New York, 1970
