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.
Denis Akbari Named Harvard-Yale IPIPS Journalism Fellow
Denis Akbari, a Berkeley Journalism student, volunteered with the San Quentin News and is now working with Harvard-Yale IPIPS to develop the Inside Knowledge platform,... Read more.
The Assault on Rehabilitation
Harvard-Yale Institute on Policing, Incarceration, and Public Safety has developed peer-facilitated self-help programs for prisoners in California, providing them... Read more.
Remembering Marcus ‘Wali’ Henderson: Friend, Humanitarian, and Carceral Journalism Mentor
Marcus "Wali" Henderson, the Editor-in-Chief of the San Quentin News, chose to spend his final days befriending and collaborating with media, despite being silenced... Read more.
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.