Normalization within the Carceral State: Daring Yale University to Utilize Its Awesome Leverage, Make Radical Commitments, and Address the Glaring Inequities It Contributes To
From where I sit in California, countless ripples in the Yale lake of influences continue to wash...... Read more.
College Students Living In Confinement Describe How Yale’s Prison Education Initiative Outdoes The Highly Touted California Model
There are several hundred Valley State Prison (VSP) residents in California attending in-person college classes and pursuing...... Read more.
Dear Aljazeera: Thank You for the Periscope
Press, be it Africa, Syria, Ukraine, Iran, Lebanon, Israel, or Gaza, were it not for...... Read more.
Reporting Live from the Archive: Cartoons, Slavery, and the Lessons of Crack Cocaine
I owe my byline to the OG cartoon character Space Ghost—he was Batman cool before Batman—and he...... Read more.
The Insurgent Futurity of Carceral Literacy Activism: Assessing the California Model, Re-imagining the Audiosphere, and Innovating a Culture of Forensics
Less than a decade ago, Brant Choate, then the Superintendent of the Office of Correctional Education charged...... Read more.
Revisiting Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Golden Gulag: Examining the Praxis of Carceral Historicization
I first got my hands on the book Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing...... Read more.
Commentary: California’s Racial Justice Act Needs a Law Clinic Champion – Who Will Stand in the Gap?
It’s been nearly half a decade since the California legislature enacted the California Racial Justice Act (CRJA),...... Read more.
California’s Forgotten Youth: The Dangerous Few Seek the Right of Return
When film producer Scott Budnick traveled to High Desert State Prison with actor and poet Richard Cabral...... Read more.
Inner Views: Meet the Incarcerated Content Creators Reshaping Carceral Media
Be it the ever-increasing wave of journalists killed while reporting from Gaza, or the massive amount of...... Read more.
CSU Fresno Journalism Professor Alice Daniel Goes the Extra Mile to Deliver Normalizing Outside-In Engagements for Incarcerated College Students
Do enough time in prison and you will develop a keen ability to detect the all-too-familiar stench...... Read more.