raúlrsalinas and the Jail Machine: My Weapon Is My Pen

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University of Texas Press Austin ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ My Weapon Is My Pen SelectedwritingsbyRaúlSalinas EditedandwithanintroductionbyLouisG.Mendoza Frontispiece: Photo of Salinas’s tattooed chest by Al Rendon, copyright © Al Rendon. Copyright © 2006 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2006 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713-7819 www.utexas.edu/utpress/about/bpermission.html The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39.48-1992 (r1997) (Permanence of Paper). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data raúlrsalinas, 1934– raúlrsalinas and the jail machine : my weapon is my pen : selected writings / by Raúl Salinas ; edited and with an introduction by Louis G. Mendoza. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (History, culture, and society series) Includes bibliographical references. isbn-13: 978-0-292-71284-3 ((cl.) : alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-292-71284-7 isbn-13: 978-0-292-71328-4 ((pbk.) : alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-292-71328-2 1. Prisoners’ writings, American. 2. raúlrsalinas, 1934—Imprisonment. 3. Prisoners as authors—United Sates. 4. Prisoners—Literary collections. 5. Prisons—Literary collections. I. Mendoza, Louis Gerard, 1960– II. Title. III. Series. ps3568.a82r38 2006 818'.5408—dc22 2006002204 Thisbookisdedicated to those who continue to struggle against the injustices of the jail machine from the inside and the so-called free world. May we triumph against those cages of iron and those cages of the mind that prohibit the full realization of our humanity. THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...