Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing
Prejean, Helen / Chevigny, Bell Gale
Doing time.” For prison writers, it means more than serving a sentence, it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself, and somehow retaining one's humanity.For the last quarter century the prestigious writers' organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these challenges. Bell Chevigny, a former prison teacher, has selected the best of these submissions from over the last 25...