Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA

“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.

• Author
• Mumia Abu-Jamal, Angela Y. Davis

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 280

• Publisher
• City Lights Publishers

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780872864696

• Genres
• law

• Release date
• 2009