What McVeigh Was Spared: Prison Barbarism Laid Bare

The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on Prison , by Robert Ellis Gordon and inmates of the Washington Corrections System. Washington State University Press, 110 pages, $14.95.

The Harvard-educated novelist Robert Ellis Gordon spent the 1990′s teaching fiction-writing in Washington state’s toughest jails. He seems to have learned more from his students than they learned from him. Read More