Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA

Mumia Abu-Jamal

4.4/5 ( ratings)

“Expert and well-reasoned commentary on the justice system. . . . His writings are dangerous.”—The Village Voice

In Jailhouse Lawyers, award-winning journalist and death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal presents the stories and reflections of fellow prisoners-turned-advocates who have learned to use the court system to represent other prisoners—many uneducated or illiterate—and, in some cases, to win their freedom. In Abu-Jamal’s words, “This is the story of law learned, not in the ivory towers of multi-billion-dollar endowed universities [but] in the bowels of the slave-ship, in the dank dungeons of America.”

Includes an introduction by Angela Y. Davis.

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s books include Live From Death Row and Death Blossoms.

Language: English

Pages: 280

Format: Paperback

Publisher: City Lights Publishers

Release: March 01, 2009

ISBN: 0872864693

ISBN 13: 9780872864696

Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA

Mumia Abu-Jamal

4.4/5 ( ratings)

“Expert and well-reasoned commentary on the justice system. . . . His writings are dangerous.”—The Village Voice

In Jailhouse Lawyers, award-winning journalist and death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal presents the stories and reflections of fellow prisoners-turned-advocates who have learned to use the court system to represent other prisoners—many uneducated or illiterate—and, in some cases, to win their freedom. In Abu-Jamal’s words, “This is the story of law learned, not in the ivory towers of multi-billion-dollar endowed universities [but] in the bowels of the slave-ship, in the dank dungeons of America.”

Includes an introduction by Angela Y. Davis.

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s books include Live From Death Row and Death Blossoms.

Language: English

Pages: 280

Format: Paperback

Publisher: City Lights Publishers

Release: March 01, 2009

ISBN: 0872864693

ISBN 13: 9780872864696

More books from Mumia Abu-Jamal

Live from Death Row

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?