Reforming Prisons from the Inside
Like most speakers, Wilbert Rideau began by telling the audience at the Skirball Cultural Center that he was glad to be there. But, Rideau, who spent 44 years in Louisiana State Pententiary, added, “No one has ever meant it more than I do.” Rideau, author of In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance, talked about his time running the country’s only uncensored prisoner-run publication, and explained why lifting censorship is the single most important prison reform. Prison is hell “Prison is hell, if by hell we …
