{"product_id":"pen-pal-prison-letters-from-a-free-spirit-on-slow-death-row-paperback","title":"Pen Pal: Prison Letters from a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTiyo Attallah Salah-El\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMike Jr. Africa\u003c\/b\u003e (Preface by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTiyo Attallah Salah-El died in 2018 on \"Slow Death Row\" while serving a life sentence in a Pennsylvania prison. Tiyo was initially in correspondence with the renowned historian Howard Zinn (author of A People's History of the United States) who introduced Tiyo to his agent Paul Allan Smith. Tiyo's letters to Paul have been compiled in this book. Despite the tribulations of incarceration, Tiyo's dispatches are humorous, philosophical and poetic. At a time when the appalling racial bias of America's police and criminal justice system is under the spotlight as never before, Pen Pal is both a vital intervention and moving portrait of someone whose physical confinement could never extinguish an extraordinary free spirit. Tiyo was an author, scholar, teacher, musician, and activist. He was the founder of the Coalition for the Abolition of Prisons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTiyo Attallah Salah-El served a life sentence, primarily in the State Correctional Institute at Dallas in Pennsylvania. He was the founder of the Coalition for the Abolition of Prisons, the author of an autobiography, and a teacher of law and GED classes in prison. He died in prison in 2018. His papers are archived at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51786719592736,"sku":"9781682193044","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4671bed6a0b18aa30057c800116dd01a.webp?v=1780638430","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/pen-pal-prison-letters-from-a-free-spirit-on-slow-death-row-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}