"Where I'm Writing From"

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" This collection of 28 powerful essays were recorded in a small, cramped cell on Pennsylvania.s death row, at SCI-Greene, one of the toughest, super-maximum security prisons in the state, which employed Corporal Charles Graner, the central figure in the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. I recount my own painful childhood memories, and a tapestry of stories is cut from the daily lives of over two million men and women trapped inside the dark gulags all across America. There are hard-hitting investigative pieces about unjust convictions, police corruption, dehumanizing shakedowns, black-on-black crime, and this writer.s correspondence with a group of schoolchildren that precipitated the three-day, 30-mile Children's Crusade to Death Row, a memorable civil rights march that garnered local, national, and international media attention. Where I'm Writing From is a fascinating collection of essays about the cold reality of life behind bars."

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Inside the book sneak previews:

• Reflections of an Ex-Gang Member
• Sabo's Gone
• The Pen Behind Bars
• A Date With Death

"Where I'm Writing From gives those in the free world a glimpse of the often spiteful shakedowns, seizure of property, and abuse perpetrated by corrections officials working on death row. But it also gives us the chance to meet some of the inmates ? like Willie, who likes to feed the birds, and Freddie, the Hell's Angel with his tall tales about beautiful women. This community includes the now-famous Mumia Abu-Jamal and the recently exonerated Harold Wilson, who spoke to us from the FUMCOG pulpit on Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday this year. Lewis also discusses the cases of a number of fellow inmates whose prior unsatisfactory legal representation begs new consideration for their cases, and he reserves a special compassion for his writings about the women on death row."

"It just happens that on of the principals in the Abu Ghraib scandal (Corporal Charles Graner) was employed at the prison holding Reginald Lewis. This book is not focused on brutality, but it leaves no doubt that the U.S. prison system is in need of reform."

--Gretel DeRuiter
FUMCOG Against the Death Penalty

"This collection of 28 powerful essays by death row inmate and Freedom Socialist contributor Reginald Sinclair Lewis presents stories culled from the daily lives of over two million men and women trapped inside the dark gulags of the U.S. From hard-hitting investigative exposes to correspondence with school children, Lewis teaches about the cold reality of life behind bars."

--Freedom Socialist, October-November 2005

"It would be naive of me to claim that, while reading this book, I could understand what it is like to live on death row, to know what it is like to count the days until my eventual scheduled execution. However, I truly beleive that this book does scratch the surface, and it paints a realistic picture of the nightmarish reality that many Americans are forced to live through, yet so few of us on the outside truly understand. It is this ability that makes Reggie stand out as an accomplished author."

--David Gardner, The Catholic Agitator November 2005