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Jailhouse Journalism : The Fourth Estate Behind Bars by James McGrath Morris is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Jailhouse Journalism : The Fourth Estate Behind Bars about?
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,
Who reads Jailhouse Journalism : The Fourth Estate Behind Bars?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- James McGrath Morris
- Publisher
- Routledge, imprint of Taylor & Francis Group
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781351511230
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, Sociology, Computer Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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