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TDCJ denial form for "A Perfect Evil (P)"
(d) A specific determination has been made that the publication is detrimental to the offender’s rehabilitation, because it would encourage deviant criminal sexual behavior
Mail-room remarks- "reason D.…

TDCJ denial form for "Exclusive" by Yasmin Shiraz.
(d) A specific determination has been made that the publication is detrimental to the offender’s rehabilitation, because it would encourage deviant criminal sexual behavior
Mail-room remarks-…

card from Edee Allynna Davis

typed poem and letter.

"My fiction, non-fiction, and poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Big Muddy, and Comstock Review among others. My poem 'Grace Notes' won the 2018 Pen Prison Writers Poetry Contest. I only say that to say this, to be…

typed poem and letter.

"My fiction, non-fiction, and poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Big Muddy, and Comstock Review among others. My poem 'Grace Notes' won the 2018 Pen Prison Writers Poetry Contest. I only say that to say this, to be…

"My fiction, non-fiction, and poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Big Muddy, and Comstock Review among others. My poem 'Grace Notes' won the 2018 Pen Prison Writers Poetry Contest. I only say that to say this, to be included in projects like TAVP…

"My fiction, non-fiction, and poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Big Muddy, and Comstock Review among others. My poem 'Grace Notes' won the 2018 Pen Prison Writers Poetry Contest. I only say that to say this, to be included in projects like TAVP…

These documents detail a series of communications between an incarcerated trans woman, Juanita,, the Transgender Pride Initiative (TPI) President Nell Gaither, and the PREA Ombudsman Lynne Sharp. TPI assisted Juanita in gaining access to the full…

Essay and letter from Brian Fuller on PTSD, Autism, Mental Illness, and Prison Corruption

Letter, poem, and photograph from Larry Scott aka "Young Raw Bizness." Describes experience of his mother's visit and request for a pen-pal.


Creator requested his address is shared for any potential pen-pals. If you are interested, please review…

A brief testimony on the poor condition of unit libraries and thank you to Inside Books Project for providing books to improve this situation. Light pencil on a scrap piece of note-book paper.

Small index-card sized water-color.

Small pencil sketch on scrap of paper

Letter on conditions at Ferguson Unit and essay, "Healing Session by Medicine Grizzlybear Lake and Tea Donohue Lake to men in Fairbanks, Alaska, Correctional Facility"

Letter thanking IBP for the package of free books, discussion of the archive. Came with poem submission.

Roger requested his address is shared for any potential pen-pals or users interested in contacting him. If you are interested, please review…

Poem from Roger Farrar that was included with a letter thanking IBP for the books.

Roger requested his address is shared for any potential pen-pals or users interested in contacting him. If you are interested, please review these expectations and…

Short testimony on mental health, disability, r*pe, and incarceration; book request; note to the newsletter.

Billy requested his address is shared for anyone interested in contacting him, particular for legal aid and support.
If you are…

Essay commemorating the Attica prison uprising of September 9 - 13, 1971.

Alvaro invites contact from supporters. To find his current address, please visit https://offender.tdcj.texas.gov/OffenderSearch/start and enter in his name and TDCJ number.…

TDCJ censorship form on the grounds that "(c) It contains material that a reasonable person would constitute as written solely for the purpose of communicating information designed to achieve the breakdown of prisons through offender disruption such…

Photographs of an exhibit featuring IBP Archive materials