Writ Writer by New Day FilmsCall Number: HV8658 .C7 W75 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Summary: In 1960, Fred Arispe Cruz, a young man from San Antonio, Texas, was arrested for robbery, convicted and sent to a state prison farm to pick cotton. Inspired by the civil rights movement, Cruz, a Mexican American with only an 8th grade education, became jailhouse lawyer -- writ writer in prison parlance -- and the catalyst of prison reform in Texas.