Mark Curtis, a packinghouse worker and political activist, was framed up and sentenced in 1988 to twenty-five years in prison for rape and burglary. Every arbitrary act by Iowa prison officials to keep him behind bars makes clearer the pattern of political prejudice that has marked this case from the outset and raises the stakes in the fight to win his release. This pamphlet tells the truth about what happened to Curtis on the day of his arrest, the fight to defend immigrant rights he was a part of, and the other political circumstances in which the frame-up unfolded. It describes the ongoing international campaign to win justice for Curtis and free him from prison. --- from book"s back cover