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Please act in support of the Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletter which is about to stop publication after 34 years due to $25,000 debt!

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Friends, Many of you know of the Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletter. I found out about it when I started hearing from prisoners and many wrote how important it was for them to receive it. When the Real Cost of Prisons comic books were first published, I naively asked Mara Taub to place a notice about them in the Newsletter, about a month later, I finally stopped filling the first round of requests. Every month, the free Newsletter is read and re-read by tens of thousands of prisoners. Now the Newsletter will stop publication due to a $25,000 debt accumulated over years. Their monthly mailing has grown to 9,142 prisoners! The Newsletter is a crucial lifeline. To think of it not being published for what is actually a small amount of money is extremely distressing...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 10, 2009 (boomark / email).