A catalogue of letters written to family, friends and lawyers over many years of imprisonment in which Jackson details with exceptional clarity and passion, the intricacies of his political and moral philosophies.

As well as being a polemic against the capitalist and racist American political system, Jackson's letters also shed light on many aspects of daily life within prison and solitary confinement.

A marvellous book which is in turns inspiring and upsetting, but full of conviction throughout. ( )

Jackson was what the establishment most feared -- an urban black man who educated himself behind bars and wrote about the system that kept him down. explains why prison education programs are virtually nonexistent today, doesn't it? ( )