Pelican Bay State Prison

November 8, 2010

     My warmest greetings to you all.  I am a Salvadoran national that’s serving a life sentence in a state prison. 

     I have been an avid reader of your newspaper and other literature that you provide to us prisoners.  Even though the English language isn’t my first language, I read and study everything that can educate me and make me a better man. 

     Even though I am incarcerated I try to follow the news.  By following the news, I don’t mean watching the corporate control news.  Rather, by reading your paper and other literature that is provided to us by kind people like you. 

     I read Away With All Gods a few months ago and it only reinforced my previous thoughts.  I saw a book that Bob Avakian cites that I’d like to read.  The title of the book is: Democracy, Can’t We Do Better Than That?   If you can please send me this book I’d appreciate it.  I personally thank you for seeing us as human beings that can change with proper education.  Many of us came to these dungeons when we were kids.  Our way of thinking has changed, but society deemed us to be unchangeable. 

     I won’t take more of your time.  I’ll leave you with these words that seem so true.  They were written by the famous Russian writer Dostoevsky:  “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”

     Respectfully,