NOTES from Web Master

New Publications

    We are pleased to announce that Biddle Publishing has released another book, Frontiers of Justice Vol 3: The Crime Zone, written by prisoners. The co-editors, Julie Zimmerman and Claudia Whitman, have compiled an anthology of articles written by many very fine incarcerated authors.  Please read the release notes included in this issue.  Our next issue we will have excerpts from various article.

Looking for Death Penalty Editor

    With all of the news coverage focusing on the problems surrounding the death penalty, we feel that it is imperative that an inmate concentrates his/her efforts in this area.  Although we would be more than happy to have someone apply who is just interested in this subject, I have to be honest that we are looking for someone who is up-to-speed on not only the issues but also particular pending cases - especially those where true innocence is involved.  It has become apparent to me that the only way to shock America into reexamining this form of "justice" is to be able to prove that an executed inmate was actually innocent.  Please tell your friends about our search and send us your application and/or your recommendations.

Site Blocked -> New Server

    During the first year of publication, the actual Cell Door Magazine material was located on OurWorld.Compuserve.com, which is a server owned by CompuServe/AOL.  I use CompuServe as my ISP (Internet Service Provider) which provides 5 megabits of space for websites.
      Just after Jan 1, 2000, CompuServe notified me that they had blocked my web site because it contained commercial content.  I told them that I would remove all the commercial content but wanted to keep the non-commercial (Cell Door Magazine) content on the site.  Despite the truthfulness of my statements, the Review Master maintained that everything on my site was commercial and the block would be maintained.  I wrote several other messages to the Review Master, but got no response.  
    Since our readers could not visit our site and there was no light at the end of the tunnel dealing with CompuServe, I leased space on a different server, loaded the Cell Door information, and redirected the url: www.celldoor.com to that new server address.  This process took about 1 week before we got back online.
    Two months later (3/1/00), I got the following E-mail from the Review Master at CompuServe:

Mr. Carlson,

Your homepage has been reopened. CompuServe/AOL has recently made changes in what can be placed on a personal homepage and your site meets the criteria now.

Regards,

Jenee Burns
Homepage ReviewMaster

    After 40 hours of work and $250 in expenses, this news was not very exciting or comforting.  The inattention of large corporations to the problems of their small customers plagues the public at every turn.  This is just one more example of this problem. 
   I'm sure that not all of our readers check the Cell Door Magazine Site out every day.  Many of you may not have encountered this problem.  But I felt that it was important for everyone who experienced the problem to understand the events that caused this inconvenience.
    Please check our URL address link on you list of favorites.  Make sure you are not trying to access the Cell Door with an address that contains OurWorld or CompuServe.  In the future no matter what server hosts our material, you will always be able to access the Cell Door using our permanent URL: www.celldoor.com.  To E-mail us you can use any name in front of the @ sign.  Example: johndoe@celldoor.com

Land of the Free (repeated for a purpose)

   The creator, Christian Snyder, may be  paroled this fall.  Hhe is spending a lot of time and effort pursuing work opportunities in the free world.  He would like to relocate in Maine.  If there are any Down Easterners in our readership who can provide an opportunity either for a cartoonist, animator, illustrator or HIV counselor, please  E-mail the Cell Door Magazine  and we will put you in contact with Chris.  If we don't help an inmate at this stage, s/he will either remain in prison without hope or get out and fail once again.   Let's get out there and make a big effort for Chris.

Web Master's Pick of the Month

Phillip Barcia has once again turned in a very fine fictional piece, The Man Who Loved the Sea.  If you want to get transported into another world, it's a very good read.  In Killing Us with Kindness Calbraith MacLeod shares a point of view I've never heard before.  His article is worth reading from start to finish as he helps the public at large see the world through convict lenses. Christie Camp's article Sleep with One Eye Open helps the reader to understand how "brutal, violent and sadistic" prisoner behavior can be.  

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