Commentary: Governor Gavin Newsom Supports State-Sponsored Slavery – Why YES on PROP 6 Will Rebuke Him
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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…
The EBSCO Dairies, Part One: Imprisoned College Students In California Discuss…
How The Digital Search Tool Allows Them To Critically Evaluate Mass Incarceration, The 1619 Project, Youth Offender…
Mastering The Fine Art Of Self-Dissection: My 2023-24 California Freedom Library Journey
It took a minute to track them all down – some cats like to put a parole…
Graduating With Honors: Life Prisoner Reflections On Achieving An Academic Milestone At Coastline College Thirty Years In The Making
The summer of 1991 feels so long ago, and yet, reminders of the earliest chapters of my…
Examining Perception, Fear, And Bias: How Merced’s Police Department Is Connecting With Carceral State Residents To Foster Accountability, Cultural Empathy, And Restorative Justice
Police abuses caught on camera that result in the death of unarmed citizens of color should rightly…
Against The Literary Grain: Abolitionist Ruminations On The Impact Of PEN America’s Prison And Justice Writing Program Upon Carceral Journalism
Since 1922, PEN America has stood at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free…
Why Does California’s Incarcerated Black Population Have So Little Access To Culturally Relevant African American Literature Within The State’s More Than Thirty Prison Libraries?
What do Ibram X. Kendi, Mitchell S. Jackson, Jason Reynolds, Terrance Hayes, Randall Horton, and Reginald Dwayne…
ACLU Urges Senate to Join House, Prevent Government Spying on Americans without Warrant
By Connie Martinez WASHINGTON, DC – The ACLU said the U.S. House approved the “Fourth Amendment Is…
Welcome to the Walking Dead: How California’s Prison System Created More Than 20,000 Opioid Drug Addicts Overnight
By Benjamin Frandsen and Ghostwrite Mike CHOWCHILLA, CA – In 2016, after the California Department of Corrections…
California’s Youth Offender Program: How Valley State Prison is Pioneering Deployment of Imprisoned Peer Mentors to Foster Rehabilitation
By Ghostwrite Mike and The Mundo Press CHOWCHILLA, CA – The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation…
