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Reporting Live from the Archive: Cartoons, Slavery, and the Lessons of Crack Cocaine
I owe my byline to the OG cartoon character Space Ghost—he was Batman cool before Batman—and he…
The Insurgent Futurity of Carceral Literacy Activism: Assessing the California Model, Re-imagining the Audiosphere, and Innovating a Culture of Forensics
Less than a decade ago, Brant Choate, then the Superintendent of the Office of Correctional Education charged…
Revisiting Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Golden Gulag: Examining the Praxis of Carceral Historicization
I first got my hands on the book Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing…
Commentary: California’s Racial Justice Act Needs a Law Clinic Champion – Who Will Stand in the Gap?
It’s been nearly half a decade since the California legislature enacted the California Racial Justice Act (CRJA),…
California’s Forgotten Youth: The Dangerous Few Seek the Right of Return
When film producer Scott Budnick traveled to High Desert State Prison with actor and poet Richard Cabral…
Inner Views: Meet the Incarcerated Content Creators Reshaping Carceral Media
Be it the ever-increasing wave of journalists killed while reporting from Gaza, or the massive amount of…
CSU Fresno Journalism Professor Alice Daniel Goes the Extra Mile to Deliver Normalizing Outside-In Engagements for Incarcerated College Students
Do enough time in prison and you will develop a keen ability to detect the all-too-familiar stench…
Youth Offenders: Doing Time With The Kardashians
When Scott Budnick tells you he’s bringing somebody special, he really means it. Be it Richard Cabral,…
AOC Just Showed Democrats How to Learn from the Trump Thrashing
The squad’s youngest radical, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., recently did what few Democrats have been brave enough…
The Trump Effect: The Realignment of Politics Away from Race, Gender, and Identity to That of Class
When ABC’s Jonathan Carl recently told Charlamagne tha God that “Trump got one out of every three…
Elections Have Consequences: What Trump’s Victory Means for Residents of the Carceral State, Legacy Media, and Dismayed Leftists
For a decade, over the course of three national election cycles, it has been too easy for…
Steve Bannon Versus the Queen of Mass Incarceration: Are Democrats Stalling Implementation of the First Step Act?
Disclaimer: Opinions are those of the writer and do not reflect those of The Vanguard or its…
Prison Journalism: The Future of Carceral Media (Part 1)
This seven-part interview series features the Davis Vanguard’s executive director and Everyday Injustice podcast host David Greenwald…
Moira Marquis: Salute the Carceral Literacy Warrior Who Defeated California’s Censorship Regime to Support a Prison Poetry Community
For seventeen years Moira Marquis, the lead author of PEN, America’s report on carceral censorship, “Reading Between…
Life after Death Row: Meet the Youth Offender Who Spent Twenty-Two Years in Solitary Confinement
After spending more than thirty cumulative years moving through juvenile halls in multiple states, six youth authority…
Guest Commentary: Open Warfare – Why Are the Dems Taking Aim At Each Other?
Disclaimer: Opinions are those of the writer and do not reflect those of The Vanguard or its…
Inner Views: The Deconstruction of Reginald Dwayne Betts
Freedom Reads: The Books That Liberate Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet, lawyer and the Founder and…
Commentary: Governor Gavin Newsom Supports State-Sponsored Slavery – Why YES on PROP 6 Will Rebuke Him
Disclaimer: Opinions are those of the writer and do not reflect those of The Vanguard or its…
Carceral Career Opportunities: California’s Department of Health Care Services Is Now Training Incarcerated Mentors to Sit for the Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Certification Exam
By Ghostwrite Mike & The Mundo Press Peer Support Specialists (PSS) are commonly employed by healthcare, social…
