Black History Month event at the Owl Bookshop, London

Crossroads Books in association with
Women of Colour in Global Women's Strike invites you to a

Black History Month event

From death row in Pennsylvania, launch of a new book in the UK

JAILHOUSE LAWYERS
PRISONERS DEFENDING PRISONERS v THE USA

By Mumia Abu-Jamal

with Selma James  who edited and introduced the UK edition

Thursday 27 October 6-8pm
Owl Bookshop
_{207-209 Kentish Town Road, NW5 2JU ( Kentish Town Tube)
Level access, wheelchair accessible toilet nearby}

Foreword by Angela Y. Davis, Introduction by Selma James

Published by Crossroads Books Price: £11.99 (order here)
Free to Prisoners. Donations welcome to help cover costs

From death row, award-winning journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal introduces us to fellow prisoners who litigate against their jailers, risking punishment or even death, to win justice for themselves and other prisoners. “This is the story,” he writes, “of law learned not in the ivory towers of multi-billion-dollar endowed universities [but] in the hidden, dank dungeons of America – the Prisonhouse of Nations."

Selma James’s Introduction presents the parallel universe of UK jailhouse lawyers who, like their US counterparts, are leading a justice movement inside prisons.

UK prisoners, denied the vote, are campaigning for this fundamental right. A legal challenge brought by a jailhouse lawyer supported by a dedicated legal team won a

European Court ruling in 2004 that a blanket ban on votes for prisoners violates their human rights. Yet the government, in opposing votes for prisoners, acts as if those of us who are prisoners are less human, and deny that prisons and what goes on in them also frame the kind of society we all inhabit.

UK publication of Jailhouse Lawyers is an opportunity for prisoners’ campaigns for the vote and other urgent reforms to be better known and supported.

International support for Mumia, who speaks for many on death row, is strong among those demanding an end to the death penalty which killed Troy Davis .

WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT JAILHOUSE LAWYERS

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