they used something called bibliotherapy. people go to prison because they are uneducated so once they are in prison we're going to educate them when they do something bad. books and have them read and write. this was the idea of california prison officials. we will keep them in prison until they are corrected. they also have indeterminate sentences. you could be sentenced to serve between five years and to life in prison. it's up to them to decide when you've been corrected. what you think happened as prisoners started to embrace bibliotherapy. y? more politically aware. george jackson said he met marx and lenin in prison. becoming acutely aware of the state they were into. learning how to respond. berger: great. they learned about the world and how to respond to the world. being very critical of the conditions. they start writing books about it. processing the violence experienced in prison. george jackson was not the first to do so. he was the most significant and most famous. california prison officials were saying, that