Rushing, R. Kim. Parchman. Photographs of prison life by R. Kim Rushing.

University Press of Mississippi, 2016. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, small bumps on top corners, not noticeable when dust jacket is on book and otherwise fine, with fine protected dust jacket.  208 pages. Photographs by R. Kim Rushing in black and white of prisoners at the Mississippi State Prison at Parchman and reproductions of their writings, with a foreword by Mark Goodman.  Parchman, which covers 46 square miles, was constructed in 1904 in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. In 1994, Rushing was the first outside photographer allowed access in the penitentiary’s history. Eighteen inmates, ranging from custody level to Death Row, volunteered to be portrayed in portraits and candid shots and to have their statements, some hand written, reproduced.  Rushing spent four years on the project while living nearby in Ruleville while teaching photography at Delta State University.