Harm and Punishment: APWA and Haymarket Books Center Testimonies of Captivity
The American Prison Writing Archive (APWA), the country’s largest digital collection of writings by incarcerated people, recently...... Read more.
Freedom Dreaming: PLOW Nonprofit Convenes Day of Dignity at Valley State Prison
Advertised upon our housing unit wall as a “Day of Dignity” event, we had no idea what...... Read more.
Political Roundtable: California Prisoners Discuss the 2026 Midterms
During the run-up to the 2024 presidential election contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, I convened...... Read more.
Trump administration ignores Ford Foundation study revealing the criminalization of elementary school students.
Though President Trump has used his second term in office to paint the teaching of critical race...... Read more.
Remembering Johanna Fernández: Historian, Justice Warrior and Interlocutor
She was love, intellect and solidarity. Selflessly, Johanna Fernández allowed me—a strange voice ruminating from a California...... Read more.
CSJG founder Discusses the Abolitionist Mission of Radical Carceral Journalism
Listen to Ghostwrite Mike, co-founder of the Carceral Studies Journalism Guild, discuss the abolitionist mission of radical...... Read more.
The Carceral State of Being: California Style
Do not be fooled. Models template futurities, in the same way origin stories indict contemporary propagandist framings...... Read more.
Inside Knowledge: Historians Lead Insurgent Digital Learning Effort Behind the Wall
Prisons do more than contain the bodies marked for social liquidation and premature death; they function as...... Read more.
The Deconstruction of Erica R. Meiners
Deconstruction is an inside-out, stakeholder-produced interview project that presents questions formulated by imprisoned scholars—members of the Merced...... Read more.
Abolition Feminism and the Politics of Reproduction: A Collective Lensing of the Carceral State of Being (Book Review)
Edited by Sarah Haley and Emily Thuma, the Fall/2025 issue of Scholar and Feminist Online, “Abolition Feminism...... Read more.