On December 27th, 2002, the new issue of the Cell Door Magazine (Volume 4 Issue 2) was posted on the Internet. Since then over 550 people have visited the Cell Door. This announcement should increase the traffic on the site quite a bit.
During the past 6 months 14,399 people visited the site to read Volume 4 Issue 1. The previous issue had 9,669 visitors and was on the Internet for a longer period of time. So we are gaining exposure and interest in the magazine. To support this increased interest we will increase our publication cycle to 4 times per year. So the next issue is due out at the end of March. This will be the first issue in our 5th year.
This means we need more material from inmates, ex-cons, and other people who have been affected by the criminal justice system. We encourage one and all to submit articles, short stories, opinions, poems or picture of art and crafts. The best transmittal medium for Submissions is e-mail. But snail-mail is always accepted:
Cell Door Magazine
12200 CR 41.9
Mancos, CO 81328
Naturally by doubling the publication cycle there will be an increase in the amount of time devoted to the compilation and distribution of the magazine and in the material costs associated with printing and sending hard copies of the magazine to the contributors of each issue. We need to find funding sources to cover these costs either through donations or grants. If you can help in either of these areas, please drop us a line at Funding.
We would like to know if any of our readers are using the download procedure to get a hard copy of each issue. We would like to know if you are using this hard copy at home and/or sending it to actual inmates. We hope that there are many people who are using the download procedure for both purposes. Please let us know Down Load.
Finally, there are many states clamping down on Internet access for inmates. Of course I know very few inmates have access to a computer let alone the Internet. I am referring to states that prevent access even to printouts from Internet or penalize inmates if their names or cases appear on an Internet Site. Arizona adopted this draconian prison rule to prevent death row inmates from publishing their ideas and/or their cases on the Internet. This rule was challenged in court and AZ DOC lost. If you have a problem in this area then you will want to read Judge Orders Halt to Arizona Law that Censored Anti-Death Penalty Web Sites.
We appreciate your interest in the Cell Door Magazine. Please enjoy the stories included in this issue of the Cell Door Magazine.
Laird Carlson
Publisher / Webmaster
Cell Door Magazine