Description
| Product ID: | 9780765808912 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Jailhouse Journalism |
| Subtitle: | The Fourth Estate Behind Bars |
| Authors: | Author: James McGrath Morris |
| Page Count: | 270 |
| Subjects: | Media studies, Media studies, Penology and punishment, News media and journalism, Prisons, Press & journalism, USA |
| Description: | In the 1980s alone, some 100 periodicals were published by and for inmates of America's prisons. In this volume James McGrath Morris seeks to address the history of this medium, the lives of the men and women who brought it to life, and the controversies that often surround it. In the 1980s alone, some 100 periodicals were published by and for inmates of America''s prisons. Unlike their peers who passed their sentences stamping out licence plates, these convicts spent their days like reporters in any community - looking for the story. Yet their own story, the lengthy history of their unique brand of journalism, remained largely unknown. In this volume James McGrath Morris seeks to address the history of this medium, the lives of the men and women who brought it to life, and the controversies that often surround it. |
| Imprint Name: | Transaction Publishers |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-09-30 |
