James M. Anderson, #1205943, 2605 State Street, Salem, OR 97310
• A Prisoner's Stance
• Fear and Chains

Mis-Mission Statement, author unknown.

Five poems by Joseph Aragon, G08220, P.O. Box 600 L229, Tracy, CA 95378-0600: "Big Money Deals," "Solitary Confinement," "I Am Validated," "Concrete and Steal," and "Twisted Minds"

Jacob Barrett, #557456, P.O. Box 97, McAlester, OK 74502
• A Murderer Gave You Your Rights
• Christ and Death
• The War on Drugs
• A Need for Higher Learning

Mr. Clair L. Beazer, #49801, Sterling Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 6000, Sterling, CO 80751-0600
• It Is Another Sad Day in the C.D.O.C.
• Running Joke
• Video Visitation

"Prisoner Suicides: The Danger of Manufacturing Hopelessness" by Ed Bowser

"Justice Works! When its principles are not compromised", A Letter to the Governor by Michael Braae, 270679 W.C.C. AT 105 IMU P.O. Box 900 Shelton, WA 98584

Keith Burley, #EC-0000, Box 9999, LaBelle, PA 15450-0990, writes, "Please publish this writing of mine on your website and include my name and address beneath, encouraging fellow writers, poets and anyone interested in prison reform to contact me."
• The Beast!
• A Prelude to Madness: An Analysis of Incarceration and the Mentally Ill
• The Hole (poem)

Edwin Castro, #95A6664, Green Haven Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 4000, Stormville, NY 12582-0010
• In the Shadow of the Thirteenth Amendment
• Get Free, Stay Free

The Prison Industrial Complex: Specter of Colonialism by Michael Contreraz, C-45857 D4-104L, P.O. Box 5242, Corcoran, CA 93232

Changing Reform by Leonard Donald, W80257, MCI Cedar Junction, DDU, P.O. Box 100, South Walpole, MA 02071

The Catastrophic Failure of Corrections by John Feroli, Old Colony Prison, Bridgewater, MA

CSI Discovers Where the Money Went by Richard Geffken, V01102 C2103L, Mayo CI, 8784 West U.S. 27, Mayo, FL 32066.

Ana Lucia Gelabert; see also her Comix from Inside
• The Military Industrial Complex and the Prison Industrial Complex Go Hand in Hand
• At Last Revealed: Governor Palin's Program
• Prisons and the State
• Some Facts You Should Know About Texas Prisons (PDF), February 2008
• Position Statement by the 4th of July Anti-Fascist Movement (2008)
• Cost Benefits of Releasing Excess Prisoners in U.S.A and Texas (PDF) 2008
• Voting Records on Criminal Justice Issues based on CUREs Review of the 109th Congress (PDF), compiled by Ana Lucia Gelabert, March 2008.

Forward by Luis Gonzalez, CDCR #T-67569, Corcoran State Prison 3C-2-219, P.O. Box 3471, Corcoran CA 93212-3471. This Forward was written by Luis Gonzalez and Jose Felix both whom are incarcerated in Corcoran, CA. Luis was asked for a comment to be included in the forthcoming book of the Real Cost of Prisons comic books to be published by PM Press. This is what they wrote. Luis can be contacted at the above address.

David Hinman, #0025374, Anamosa State Penitentiary, Post Office Box 10, Anamosa, Iowa 52205-0010
The Right to Vote for Convicted Felons
Looking at Interchange Fellowship Program (IFI) From a Different View, December 2003.
See also: December 03, 2007: Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Public Funding Of Evangelical Prison Program In Iowa
Also see Whittling Away the Time, an article about a wood carving of Anamosa State Penitentiary.

Letter from F. DeAndre Howard, February, 2007. Contact the author at Reg. #07757-089, Federal Correctional Institution, P.O. Box 5000, Pekin, IL 61555-5000

Kenneth Keel
• Prison Diet Poses Health Dangers
• Challenging "Three Strikes" Under Human Rights Treaty

"Anatomy of a Prison Riot" by R.M., November 2006

"Waiting to Die - The American Prison Experience" by R. M., November 2006

"Comprehensive Incarcerated Person Reform, Rehabilitation and Reentry Act" and Letter. Please feel free to contact the author with your thoughts and comments: Sheldon N. Messer 00A3204, Sing Sing Correctional Facility, 354 Hunter Street, Ossining, New York 10562

Terry Olney, 60345, P.O. Box 11099, Omaha, NE 68111-0099
• Throw Them in Prison and Make Everything Right
• Where Do They Come From?

Mark C. Palmer, 21986-4F1, 2521 Circle Drive, Jamestown, ND 58501
• North Dakota Is Supposedly The Safest State in the Nation: Why is the Prison Population Growing?
• We Have Rights!

Consider This By Brian J. Polley, P.O. Box 43, Norfolk, MA 02056-0043

Illegal Limbo by Changa Asa Ramu, aka Paul J. Rogers, #BS-6500, P.O. Box 999, 1120 Pike Street, Huntingdon, PA 16652

Juan A. Roldan, MPS, 86-A-8348, Box 1245, Fishkill Correctional Facility, Beacon, NY 12508
• Vicarious Living
• A Letter of Apology
• The Parole Enigma: New York State's Parole System in the 21st Century

Tiyo Attallah Salah El
• A New Approach Towards Abolishing Prisons This paper was read by Mechthild Nagel on behalf of Tiyo Attallah Salah-El at the International Conference on Penal Aboliton in London, July 2008.
• The Expanding Prison Planet
• A Call for the Abolition of Prisons
• A New Approach Towards Abolishing Prisons (2008)

A Privilege for the Privileged by Mr. Kemoria Bright Cloud Smith, #696218, Connally Unit, 899 F.M. 632, Kenedy, TX 78119-4516.

Private Prisons: a View from Inside by Davis Stephenson, #118218, NFCF, 1605 East Main St., Sayre, OK 73662

"Indemnification of Prison Guards"
By DJ Taylor, #179983 Northern Supermax, P.O. Box 665, Somers, CT 06071.

Sadot X. Williams, DQ3608, S.C.I. Greene, 175 Progress Drive, Waynesburg, PA 15370-8090
• Pennsylvania Governor Stops All Parole
• The Pennsylvania Department of Corruption
• Control Units and Oppression, March 2008
• The Madness Continues, May 2008

Letter from Michael Smokey Wilson, Lifers, Inc/End Violence Projects. Contact information: Michael Smokey Wilson, AF #2695, Box 246, Graterford, PA 19426-0246

If Not Now, Then When? by Derek Wright, W80355, P.O. Box 100, South Walpole, MA 02071

Founded in 1971, the PEN Prison Writing Program believes in the restorative and rehabilitative power of writing, by providing hundreds of people who are incarcerated across the country with skilled writing teachers and audiences for their work. The program seeks to provide a place for prisoners to express themselves freely with paper and pen and to encourage the use of the written word as a legitimate form of power. The program sponsors an annual writing contest, publishes a free handbook for prisoners, provides one-on-one mentoring to inmates whose writing shows merit or promise, conducts workshops for former inmates, and seeks to get prisoners' work to the public through literary publications and readings. Prison Writing Program, PEN American Center 588 Broadway, Suite 303, New York, NY 10012 E-mail: pen@pen.org Telephone: (212) 334-1660.

Dortell Williams is a prolific self-taught writer who has an interesting insight to share. Dortell will complete 18 years of continuous imprisonment (of a life sentence) this year. He has spent his time wisely, earning a correspondence paralegal certificate, as well as teaching himself Spanish, stock trading and many other useful subject. He is seeking a website to host his writings and an editor to help him compile hundreds of essays into a compelling book. He can be reached at H-45771/A2-103, P.O..Box 4430, Lancaster, CA 93539.

Mission Statement: "Scope is a forum that aims at chronicling different aspects of our lives as they unfold in this prison environment; to cultivate and proclaim our growth and development; and to express issues of remorse, redemption and rehabilitation through the art of writing. Our joint task reflects an earnest desire to project ourselves positively beyond these walls. It is our hope that the experiences of prisoners might, in some small way, serve as a stage of atonement for bad choices.

"We hope that this medium is a stage through which prison writers can exemplify a positive image of prisoners as ordinary and extraordinary people who have made poor choices in their lives. That New York prisons are filled with men and women that are talented, virtuous, and redeemable. That we have hopes and aspirations for a better future. Literary excellence is a standard that we aspire to; positive transformation and productive living are the goals."