Prisoners' Inventions

Title: Prisoners' Inventions Author: Temporary Services ISBN: 0945323026 Publisher: WhiteWalls, Inc. Published: 2005 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Good F 1639696 Publisher Description: Imagine that your house spans six by nine feet, your mattress is just two inches thick, you are known to your neighbors by an identification number, and items most consider crucial to everyday existence are outlawed. How do inmates in prisons like this throughout the United States make such lives bearable? In 2001, the artists' collective Temporary Services asked an incarcerated artist named Angelo to share with them the ways in which inmates adapt to their confinement. Angelo responded with over one hundred pages of meticulously detailed ink drawings and text. The resulting compilation, Prisoners' Inventions, is a unique guide to prison life, covering subjects ranging from how t