LINKS CONTACT

There's quite a collection of Spoon's material that has built up over the years and spread out on the web. Here are links to the main places. There is however an increasing number of Spoon's articles and essays published so it's getting more difficult to keep up collecting links. We trust the interested will find them anyway.

The website spoonjackson.com where he has published Monthly letters since 2003. Besides that it's not updated much anymore and can be regarded a bit like an archive. There is an article on prison reforms that Spoon wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle 2006. Recent Monthly letters are published on this blog as well.

Spoon Jacksons Myspace with poems posted between 2007 - 2011.

Follow the group Spoon Jackson Realness Network and Spoon's public profile on Facebook.

Follow Spoon on Twitter. 

Spoon writes articles for  
The Good Men Project
Teaching Artist Journal
The SJRA Advocate (Sentencing and Justice Reform Advocacy).

 A trailer for the book "By Heart" made by Michel Wenzer with images from his documentary "At Night I Fly, Images from New Folsom". In another audio clip Spoon reads from the book.

Here is an interview with Spoon aired on The 7th Avenue Project after the book realease in spring 2010 where he talks about his background, listening, writing and prison.

An article about Spoon by Boston Woodard, an old friend of his.

An interview in six parts with Spoon on Swedish National Radio in the program Verkligheten (forward to the last five minutes of the program).
Parts:  
aired 2009-07-19  
aired 2009-07-21
aired 2009-07-26
aired 2009-08-02
aired 2009-08-09   
aired 2009-08-16
  

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Contact

Spoon has no access to computers or the internet. His presence here is channelled through friends. Please comment on his blog posts anyway!  We  forward them to him and he really appreciates it!

Write
Spoon Jackson B92377

CSP - SAC C3 - 119

P.O. Box 290066

Represa, CA 95671 - 0066

Spoon will recite poems and play flute over the phone if you want. Include your phone number when you write to him. Expect high phone call rates, the prison system rates are more expensive than regular tariffs. He can only make collect calls.

Visit
Visits are very appreciated. Visiting hours are during weekends. Permission is needed and takes time to arrange. Write to Spoon to get the details.

Support
People in the US can use www.inmatedeposits.com, if you want to support Spoon with things like stamps, writing paper, his quarterly packages with food and other necessities.

Support from Sweden
Bor du i Sverige finns ett postgirokonto man kan sätta in en summa på om man vill hjälpa till att stödja Spoon med sådant som frimärken, brevpapper och de paket han får fyra gånger om året med vissa matvaror och andra förnödenheter. Kontot tillhör: Kista kyrkokör Järva Röster och heter Network of Realness, postgiro 432393-7 Skriv "Spoon" som meddelande.
 

Blog administrator
Anja Rydén 

spoonjacksonblog(a)gmail.com

 

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Links to articles about prison politics 

Life Without Parole: Four Inmates’ Stories by John Tierney
Bryan Stevenson on the injustices in America
Life Without Parole Is Forever by Robert Wilbur
Just when you thought it was SAFE by Tim Young
Are eligible parolees dying in prison?
Aging prisoners
Documentary about an aging prison population
Trends in US Corrections (fact sheet)
Life Without Parole is a Terrible Idea by David R Dow

California's Prisons Face Allegations Of Race Discrimination
Inside the Broken California Prison System, book by Boston Woodard
Don't throw away the key - why Life Without Parole is cruel and unusual by Luis J Rodriguez
About LWOP at Prison Law's blog
The Death Penalty and The Other Death Penalty by Judith Tannenbaum
The caging of America by Adam Gopnik

California's hidden hunger strike

'Political paralysis' in California over prison reform by Marisa Lagos
California's strange view of prisons by Dan Walters

Throwing Away the Key by Bernice Yeung 

No Way Out by Ashley Harrell
More Black Men Now in Prison System than Were Enslaved
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The truth about life without parole
10 books about prison
On prison reform by Spoon Jackson


Art programs in prison

Prison Arts Coalition
Judith Tannenbaums website 
William James Association