Tiyo Attallah Salah-El

Tiyo Attallah Salah-El served a life sentence, primarily in the State Correctional Institute at Dallas in Pennsylvania. He was the founder of the Coalition for the Abolition of Prisons, the author of an autobiography, and a teacher of law and GED classes in prison. He died in prison in 2018. His papers are archived at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Prison Letters From a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row

Prison Letters From a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row

With his letters from maximum security on death row, Tiyo Attallah Salah-El reveals what the prison experience is...

15 OCTOBER 2021 • By Tiyo Attallah Salah-El
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