We have no library where you can send books here. Our prison is located in rural southern Illinois and has the flavor of the South during the '50s and '60s if you get my drift. We are locked down about 22 hours/day, with no programs or jobs, just a lot of downtime.
I am a civil rights litigator who is often in the segregation unit or SHU and without access to the already-outdated books in the prison law library. So any help you can give me with that would be greatly appreciated.
-- an Illinois prisoner, 27 December 2005
MIM responds: Our supply of legal books is so limited that we have no books on hand that will serve this comrade's needs. We rely on donations and make this offer to all readers: you send us a law book, we'll send it to a prisoner who can use it. Copies of the Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual are especially welcome.