Maximum Security

by Eve Pell

This book was written in the isolation cells, the strip cells, the quiet cells of California's 'prisons within prisnos,' the adjustment centers at San Quentin, Soledad, Tracy, Folsom, and Chino. It is made up of uncensored letters by inmates to their lawyers which takes the reader into a world of almost limitless terror, intimidation, and brutality. It is a world where frightened, resentful, sometimes only partially literate guards have almost total power over their lives. For some who are serving life sentences under California's indeterminate sentincenig policy, it is a world literally without end.

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Published January 1, 1973