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…
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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…
From Life Prisoner to MFA Teaching Associate at California State University: The Emancipation of Benjamin Frandsen
Featured image: photo courtesy of Benjamin Frandsen Today he is in a taekwondo class, after which he…
Inside Knowledge: California’s Largest Community College Honor Society Chapter Is Populated by Incarcerated Student Achievers
Ten years ago, none of California’s community colleges were offering in-person classroom learning experiences for any of…
Pioneering Post-Secondary Educational Opportunities Behind the Wall
CSU Fresno Graduates First Incarcerated BA Degree Cohort at Valley State Prison Propelling Learners Into CSU Dominguez…
Dark Gardening: Deconstructing Independent Carceral Journalism Using Gwendolyn Brooks’ Poem “To Prisoners”
She’d already been gone over a month by the time the August edition of All Of Us…
Keeping Tally: Imprisoned Citizen Journalist Ruminations on the Impact of the Arts and Humanities within the Carceral State
Be it handball, cards, or dominoes, “keeping tally” is one of those everyday prison parlance references you’ll…
She’s Someone’s Daughter: How AOC Created a Domestic Violence Teachable Moment Exercise for Imprisoned Men Attending a Poetry Workshop
Though most indicators of violent crime in California have recently trended downward, intimate partner violence is on…
Culpability: Examining the Moral Hazard of Excusing Criminal Conduct on Slavery, Mass Incarceration and Structural White Supremacy
Understanding how the founding of the United States was built by the exploitation of the world’s migrating…
Prison Politics: Incarcerated Black College Students Hailing from Traditionally Democratic Households Remain Critical of Kamala Harris
Four years ago, after Donald Trump debated Joe Biden, we convened a group of ten Black imprisoned…
The Warden, His Slaver Business Partner, and the Kidnapped Inmates: Revisiting San Quentin Prison’s Racist Beginnings
California’s racist carceral roots run deep. In his State of the State message delivered in 1851, California’s…
