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.
Black Sabbath, Scott Budnick, and the Rebirth of Sound: Part III
Ozzy Osbourne's song War Pigs is a powerful social justice rock anthem that has yet to receive the recognition it deserves, and a creative team is seeking permission... Read more.
Black Sabbath, Scott Budnick, and the Rebirth of Sound – Part II
Common visited the VSP Rebirth of Sound studio to encourage residents to stay positive and express themselves through various forms of art, while learning how to... Read more.
Black Sabbath, Scott Budnick, and the Rebirth of Sound: Prison poet reflects on long-awaited creative arts program launch
Common, Scott Budnick, Marcel Woodruff, and Supa Syrup launched the Rebirth of Sound music studio program at Valley State Prison, providing a healing-centered space... Read more.
Two-time UFC Heavyweight Champ Cain Velasquez Adjusts to Prison in California
UFC champion Cain Velasquez is teaching emotional regulation and self-control through holotropic breathing exercises to his fellow inmates at CTF-North, promoting... Read more.