Vanguard Incarcerated Press

I received your June/July 2024 publication. Thank you. Vanguard is new to me, and I was excited…

It was about 9:30 PM, on the 4th of July, when I decided to look outside my…

November 11 is Veteran’s Day, a federal holiday recognizing the service and sacrifice of our military men…

The Arkansas Department of Corrections, like many other prisons, utilizes forced slave labor to accomplish most of…

In August 2022, in the visiting room of High Desert State Prison A-Yard, I proudly accepted my…

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In the 1700s, punishment in Europe was both brutal and public. Michel Foucault illustrates this history in…

Three months after my eighteenth birthday, I was arrested for a gang-related murder. After reviewing my extensive…

It is an unseasonably hot day in late January when I arrive at the Correctional Training Facility’s…

Doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result is insanity, and, in California,…

[Transitions is a two-part series compiled from a number of submissions sent to us by Glenn Cornwell….

On May 5 of 2008 a Yolo County judge doomed me without clemency to an astronomical amount…

  Advancing age causes a natural and gradual reassessment of values. What was once important becomes trivial…

An Introduction to CSP-Sac August 3, 2024 was my final day on ‘B’ Facility at California State…

The vanishing chance for prison and sentencing reform in Tennessee, and indeed the United States, is another…

For the last week I have been waking each day to find a purpose. My life’s purpose…