Research Catalog

Title

Stop the presses! I want to get off! : a brief history of the Prisoners' digest international / Joseph W. Grant ; edited by Ken Wachsberger.

Author

Grant, Joseph W.

Publication

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wachsberger, Ken.

Description

xxiv, 233 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

"The final book in the Voices from the Underground series, Stop the Presses! I Want to Get Off!, is the story of Joe Grant, founder and publisher of Prisoners? Digest International, a prisoners? rights underground newspaper of the Vietnam era. From Grant?s military days in pre-Revolutionary Cuba during the Korean War, to his time as publisher of a pro-union newspaper in Cedar Rapids and his eventual imprisonment in Leavenworth, Kansas, Grant?s personal history is a testament to the power of courage under duress. One of the more notorious federal penitentiaries in the nation, Leavenworth inspired Grant to found PDI in an effort to bring hope to prisoners and their families nationwide." -- From publisher's description.

Series Statement

Voices from the underground series

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books.
• Voices from the underground series.

Subject

• Grant, Joseph W
• Prisoners' digest international
• Journalism, Prison > United States > History > 20th century
• Prisoners > United States > Biography
• Prison periodicals > United States > History > 20th century
• Prisoners > United States > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Stop the Presses! I Want to Get Off!: A Brief History of the Prisoners' Digest International -- Prisons and Prisons, My Daughters and Sons -- Godless Country Not the Worst Country -- Witnessing and Experiencing Violence -- Cuba: Political Beginnings While Korea Cooks -- Robert "Bobby" Vaughn: Poet of the Revolution -- No Room in the Revolution for Druggies -- Cuba Owned by the U.S. -- Any Prostitutes in Your Family? -- Why Do Poets Have to Carry Guns? -- Case of the Missing Springfield Rifles -- Kicked out of SERTOMA -- Bombed Out, Burned Down, and Charged with the Crime -- How to Pay for a Daily Newspaper -- Behind the Walls -- Unitarian Universalists Turn to Crime for CLF Books -- Unitarian Universalist News Underground and Behind the Walls -- Prison: A Mirror of the Free World -- Prisoners Can Vote ... But! -- Proliferation of Child Abusers -- Rule by Tradition -- "Laying Out My Winter Clothes" -- My Dilemma: Hobby Craft or Jesus -- Buck Naked at the Liquor Store, Minneapolis, Minnesota -- Prison Art Attracts Collector -- Chapel Builder Busy Building Wardens -- Getting Organized on the Cheap -- Hot, Dusty Roads between Prisons -- Community Support Grows for PDI -- First Issue -- Oatmeal and Love: Bringing Kids to the Table -- Law Section Attracts Jailhouse Lawyers; First PDI Generates First Subscribers -- PDI Stops Extradition of Arkansas Escapee -- Success Was Killing Us -- Kids and the Cons -- National Lawyers Guild: "Give the Prisoners Their PDIs" -- Halfway House Like a Home -- "Go Catch a Rabbit" -- Arkansas Escapee Told to "Cool It" -- George Jackson Murdered in San Quentin -- Playboy Kicks in Cash, Boosts Subscriptions -- Attica, NY -- Attica: Racist Inside and Out -- Join Me and Avoid a Massacre -- Forty-Year Aftermath to Attica -- Muslims Accused of Precipitating Attica Riots -- Tom Murton Leads Rally for Escapee -- Subscription Drives inside the Walls -- Women Prisoners Protest -- PDI Ends Innocent Indian Boy's Six Years in Prison -- Thankfully, He Didn't Order 1,000 Subscriptions -- Judge Leo Oxberger Rules for Prisoners -- Birthing at 505 -- Church of the New Song -- On the Road with the PDI -- I Find a Religion and Challenge Contemporary-Prison-Normal -- Creation: The Arts in Prison: The Total Participation Publication -- PDI Buys a College -- Jailhouse Lawyers: That Special Group of Prisoners -- Attica Massacre Remembered -- Dr. Schein's Behavior-Modification Tactics -- Behavior Modification and Eddie Sanchez -- Shiloh Harry Theriault -- Clinton, Iowa, Neighbors Play Hardball with the PDI -- College Is Stormed -- Ghosts on Our Side in Haunted Bulger's Hollow -- They're Coming to Take Us Away, Ha Ha -- Following the Activists into Georgeville -- First Issue of Prisoners' Digest International -- Difficult Existence -- Iowa City "Lynching" of Mike Roe -- Georgeville Project Finds Outside Funding -- Goodbye, 505; Goodbye, PDI -- Chas DuRain, Editorial Artist -- Our Charity Begins in Georgeville -- Prisoner's Death Sparks Protests at Leavenworth -- FBI Visits Georgeville -- Enter Jerry Teterud and Bud Willard for Iowa and the Feds -- Last PDI -- Never a Greater Need -- Into the Future: Rambling Thoughts as I Bring This Story Up to Date -- 9 to 5 -- Georgeville Comrade Has Me Back on the Farm -- Charity -- Off to Arizona -- Meridel -- Cuba -- PDI and CNS Archives -- Afterword / Paul Wright -- Sidebars -- Sidebar 1 Very Zen Garret / Warren Dearden -- Sidebar 2 Sea / Merilea -- Sidebar 3 Drafted into Service at the PDI / Bob Copeland -- Sidebar 4 Iowa Boycott of South African Wines / Joseph W. Grant -- Sidebar 5 Locked into the Locked Up / Rebecca Hensley -- Sidebar 6 Dr. Edgar Schein's List of Behavior-Modifying Tactics -- Sidebar 7 Reflections on Penal Digest International / Steve Levicoff -- Sidebar 8 Out of the University and into the PDI's School of Hard Knocks / Wm. Christopher Corrado.

ISBN

• 9781611860610 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 161186061X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011050531

OCLC

• 770694209
• SCSB-12463812

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library