Joseph W. Grant
Joseph W. Grant was the founder and publisher of Prisoners’ Digest
International
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Ken Wachsberger
Ken Wachsberger is a long-time writer, editor, and author, as well
as an early member, a book contract adviser, and a former national
officer of the National Writers Union.
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Stop the Presses! I Want to Get Off!
A Brief History of the "Prisoners’ Digest International"
Joseph W. Grant
Ken Wachsberger
Foreword by Mumia Abu-Jamal
The final book in the groundbreaking Voices from the Underground
series, Stop the Presses! I Want to Get Off! is the
inspiring, frenetic, funny, sad, always-cash-starved story of Joe
Grant, founder and publisher of Prisoners’ Digest
International, the most important prisoners’ rights underground
newspaper of the Vietnam era. From Grant’s military days in pre-
Revolutionary Cuba during the Korean War, to his time as publisher
of a pro-union newspaper in Cedar Rapids and his eventual
imprisonment in Leavenworth, Kansas, Grant’s personal history is a
testament to the power of courage under duress. One of the more
notorious federal penitentiaries in the nation, Leavenworth inspired
Grant to found PDI in an effort to bring hope to prisoners
and their families nationwide.
Voices from the Underground
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