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paperback. Zustand: Collectible-Very Good. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, cover price $20, very good with small fold mark on front lower corner and small soiled spot at bottom edge of title page, otherwise attractive copy with only slight wear. INSCRIBED on title page to a recipient with first name only: sister in the struggle, and SIGNED Jamie Bissonette. BISSONETTE, JAMIE. When the prisoners ran Walpole: a true story in the movement for prison abolition. With Ralph Hamm, Robert Dellelo, and Edward Rodman. Cambridge, Mass: South End Press, 2008, x, 258pp., . "In 1971, Attica's prisonyard massacre shocked the public, prisoners, and political leaders across the United States. Massachusetts residents pledged to prevent such slaughter from ever happening there, and the governor agreed. Thus started a move for reform that led eventually to the prisoners at Walpole's Massachusetts Correctional Institute winning control of its day-to-day operations." - CONTENTS: Introduction -- Preamble: constructing punishment in Massachusetts -- Confronting the moral dilemma of Massachusetts prisons: Francis Sargent and his administration -- The new commissioner: from corrections to abolition -- The beginning: constructing corrections in Massachusetts -- Resistance, rebellion, and declaration: creating a culture of resistance -- Dynamic and determined: the National Prisoners Reform Association--Walpole chapter -- The struggle for voice and sovereignty: the NPRA negotiates power -- Stealing time: the NPRA takes over -- Soul contraband: observers witness terror and change -- Readjustment and resistance: the state police takeback -- The struggle for existence: death knell for reform? -- Those who dared: the promise of abolition. ISBN 9780896087705. …