Caged Eight Prisoners and Their Keepers

"'Caged' is the true, previously untold drama of the longest and most peaceful strike by prisoners in the history of the federal prison system. In Pennsylvania's Lewisburg penitentiary in 1972, eight prisoner, elected by other inmates - at the warden's suggestion - to represent them in the strike, were betrayed by the prison staff and condemned to indefinite solitary confinement...Because [the author] had written on prisoners for the Washington Post, the eight prisoners at Lewisburg sought his aid...Convinced that the federal prisons had a lot to hide, he spent the next two years corresponding with and interviewing the prisoners and their families, parole officers, judges, and even the victims of their crimes. One prisoner was placed in solitary confinement because he talked to him. Some of their letters from prison were destroyed. Other material was secreted out of prison. The shocking and compelling story of 'Caged' is the result."--Jacket.