PRISON JOURNALISM.

The article focuses on prison journalism. Worthwhile examples of prison journalism are few and far between--not because the possibilities are non-existent but because under the seemingly inevitable unintelligent censorship imposed upon prison journalists, any noteworthy effort is nothing short of a miracle. Occasionally the present day "Bulletin," published at the State Prison at San Quentin, California, and editorials by George Richmond in the O.P. News of the Ohio State Penitentiary at Columbus, afford splendid examples of prison literary effort in magazine form. The Island Lantern, formerly published at the U.S. Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington, gave promise of being an exceptional prison magazine both in content and classic typography. Unfortunately for the Island Lantern, the publication of an original article by Clarence Darrow referring to the U.S. as the most cruel nation on earth from the standpoint of punishments, drew a threat of censorship. The prison-author tempest stirred up in California in 1930 resulted in a ban on convict authors in that state.