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Jailhouse Lawyers
by Mumia Abu-Jamal (2009)
$10 (our purchase cost) plus $1 shipping
In Mumia'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 hidden, dank dungeons of America
… It is law learned in a stew of bitterness, under the constant threat
of violence, in places where millions of people live, but millions of
others wish to ignore or forget. It is law written with stubs of
pencils, or with four-inch-long rubberized flex-pens, with grit,
glimmerings of brilliance, and with clear knowledge that retaliation
is right outside the cell door. It is a different perspective on the law,
written from the bottom, with a faint hope that a right may be
wronged, an injustice redressed. It is Hard Law."
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