The Rise and Fall of California’s Radical Prison MovementThis is a history of the California prison movement from 1950 to 1980, focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area's San Quentin State Prison and highlighting the role that prison reading and writing played in the creation of radical inmate ideology in those years. The book begins with the Caryl Chessman years (1948 60) and closes with the trial of the San Quentin Six (1975 76) and the passage of California's Determinate Sentencing Law (1977). This was an