Soledad Brothers

Soledad Brother is a collection of Jackson’s prison letters
that is an outspoken denunciation of white America’s
racism and a scathing evaluation of the prison system
that failed to crush his spirit but ultimately stole his life.
The tremendous sentiments of rage and revolt that flooded
America’s jails in the 1960s are tangible in Jackson’s writings.
Even in the absence of the social and political upheavals of
the 1960s, Jackson’s narrative remains compelling as a
depiction of a man who took a position even while imprisoned.