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...Despite the prison prohibition forbidding for-profit sale of artwork, many of the pieces sold by Ed Mead on his prisonart.org web site come from Texas, many of them panos or "handkerchief" art, a medium favored by Latino prisoners in the Southwest who do intricate ink drawings on squares of ripped sheets and other material. Mead makes copies of the works, scans and posts them on his website, charging a small commission fee if they sell. He says he rejects any art that he considers racist, sexist or homophobic and does not sell pieces by notorious killers. Recently, he refused...
...Operating out of San Francisco, Mead, who served 18 years in Washington State for crimes committed in the '70s as a member of the revolutionary group George Jackson Brigade, is now a prison-reform activist. He says art gives prisoners a sense of themselves, raises their self-esteem and keeps them busy. Cornyn's bill, he adds, "is an attempt to pass another 'Son of Sam' law," referring to the 1971 New York state law aimed at blocking potential book profits for notorious criminals like "Son of Sam" killer David Berkowitz. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned...
...didn’t want to underestimate them—we wanted to stick to above 36 [strokes per minute],” two-seat Winter Mead said. “Within 20 strokes, we had about four seats on them, and we kept pushing and finished with a pretty solid...
...Brown’s our major opponent, so we wanted to use this as a stepping-stone,” Mead said of the JV’s Saturday race. “We went into the race with the mentality that we had Brown next to us and were racing them...
...Mead, whose mother is Chinese, lauded the restaurant for being far more authentic than the Square’s current options. “It actually tastes like Chinese food, rather than just oil like at the Kong,” Mead said...