title: Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing (A PEN American Center Prize Anthology)
author: Bell Gale Chevigny
description: "A book unlike any other, its authors the American entombed, the growing nation inside us." -- <i>-E. L. Doctorow</i><br /><br />"As remarkable, as poignant, as mind-shattering as any other literature produced in the world. . . .These are the voices of the people of the cage; the voices of some condemned to death, and those condemned to an eternity of years in hell. . . .You will be amazed by these pieces of work." -- <i>-Mumia Abu-Jamal, author of Live from Death Row and Death Blossoms</i><br /><br />"At a time when the nation wants less than ever to hear these voices, this book says to all readers, we are one. . . .There is a groping authenticity of language [in Doing Time] that encourages us to think again about prison life." -- <i>-Joseph McElroy, New York Times Book Review</i>
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  ## Jonathan Kellerman
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  _To my daughter Rachel._
  
  
  
  
  
  _Brains, beauty, grace, wit, style._
  
  
  
  
  
  _And a heart of gold._
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Special thanks to Sheriff's Deputy Kurt Ebert._
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  It came in a plain brown wrapper.
  
  
  
  
  
  Padded envelope, book rate, book sized. I assumed it was an academic text I'd
  forgotten ordering.
  
  
  
  
  
  It went on to the mail table, along with Monday's bills and announcements of
  scholarly seminars in Hawaii and St. Croix. I returned to the library and
  tried to figure out what I was going to do in ten minutes when Tiffani and
  Chondra Wallace showed up for their second session.
  
  
  
  
  
  A year ago their mother had been murdered by their father up on a ridge in the
  Angeles Crest Forest.
  
  
  
  
  
  He told it as a crime of passion and maybe he was right