- Price: $12.99 US
- Paperback: 202 pages
- Publisher: Arissa Media Group, LLC (September 1, 2021)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1936900823
- ISBN-13: 978-1936900824
Wisdom Behind the Walls book series (WBW) is one of the only ongoing book series dedicated to writing and art by adults incarcerated. WBW is dedicated to supporting adults in and getting out of prison and jail. WBW provides support through reintegration and by publishing their voices. WBW is dedicated to providing a space and place for the voices of adults who are incarcerated to critically express their experiences related to the criminal justice system, school system, and their community. WBW supports incarcerated adults to express themselves non-violently. Therefore, when you read this book series, writing may often not reflect colonial engli$h.
Review
“A heart-wrenching poetry book from people who are decrying their experience “decaying in PrisneyLand,” as one of its writers, Rusty Clark, puts so powerfully. The poems give a glimpse into the life on the inside, on broken family bonds, of children doing time on the outside and agitating against the school-to-prison pipeline. For the novice, this is a book of raw stories of adults, who are hurt as children and share the violence of social death. Yet the system fails to break them.”
— —Dr. Mechthild Nagel, Professor, Philosophy, SUNY, Cortland
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