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.
Black Radical Feminisms
Note: A version of this article was published in the March 2026 issue of the All of...... Read more.
Black Arts Excellence: André Holland and Yale’s Justice For Everybody Stage The Brothers Size At Valley State Prison
The last time a free world theater production of any kind was performed before a confined audience...... Read more.
Alex Pretti: Unarmed and Shot in the Back
During his final moments, Alex Pretti was on his knees, near-prone, with more than six armed law...... Read more.
Migrant Worker Sexual Exploitation: California’s Carceral State of Being
In 1975, Michel Foucault’s resonate treatise Discipline and Punish conceptualized the “carceral archipelago,” positing a pioneering theorization...... Read more.
Prison Newspapers: Carceral Plantations of Epistemic Injustice
Carceral journalism is an uncensored stakeholder-driven critical analysis of the carceral state — a for us, by...... Read more.
Review: Liberation Live!: The Futurity of Radical Prison Print Culture
It arrived in my California cell like a thought arrow, quivered within an envelope bearing a postmark...... Read more.
Justice for Everybody, Carceral Studies Journalism Guild Host Journalism Symposium at Valley State Prison
For seven hours on July 9, 170 residents of the carceral state became immersed in a sound stage-like environment during the Inside Knowledge journalism symposium,... Read more.