A Voice from the Inside
The following letters are from Paul Bradford, just one of the over 2 million men in prison in this country. He has spent basically his entire adulthood in prison. He is someone who knows about U.S. prisons and who thanks you for being interested in his story.
"I am encouraged to believe that there are a great number of people out there in the larger community who do care about what goes on in the prison systems across our country. The problem, in my way of thinking, is how to get the most accurate picture possible to these people, rather than lose focus with reactive assessments and assertions about the systems. This is what I strive for in what I write..."
--Paul Bradford
If you have comments or questions for Paul, please feel free to write to him directly, or email us and we will forward it: Paul Bradford, #268348, PO Box 511, Ohio Correctional Institute (O.C.I.), Columbus OH 43216.
For now, the letters are simply available in the order they were written, beginning in August 1996. Please forgive any typos, as they are the least of the problems from where these letters originate. Click on a date below to see what Paul sent us that day, or just read from beginning to end, for one man's inside view of a typical state prison.
July 1996
August 1996
September 1996
October 1996
2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 26, 28, 30
November 1996
December 1996
January 1997
2, 5, 11, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20
June 1997
August 1997
A design note: Courier New is used for the site as a nod to the manual typewriter used to type these letters in the first place.