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…
University of New Haven’s Radical Reversal Podcast Invites Incarcerated Vanguard Journalists to Produce Inner Views, Interview Segments from Valley State Prison
Dr. Randall Horton, Ph.D., the nation’s only fully tenured professor of English teaching with seven felonies at…
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…
University of New Haven’s Radical Reversal Podcast Invites Incarcerated Vanguard Journalists to Produce Interview Series from Valley State Prison
By Benjamin Frandsen CHOWCHILLA, CA – Dr. Randall Horton, Ph.D., the nation’s only fully tenured professor of…
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…
Compassion Prison Project: An Inside Look at Trauma Talks Workshop at Valley State Prison
By Ghostwrite Mike and The Mundo Press CHOWCHILLA, CA – Afflicting young people under the age of…
Creating ‘Desistance’ – Reducing Crime When Reaching Adulthood – with Arts in Corrections; Fiscal Argument for Arts and Humanities Inside Prisons Made & Won in California More than 40 Years Ago
By Ghostwrite Mike and The Mundo Press CHOWCHILLA, CA – In 1980, State Sen. Henry Mello and…
Valley State Prison Residents Confront Vulnerability through Actor’s Gang Workshop Led by Oscar-Winning Actor Tim Robbins
By Ghostwrite Mike and The Mundo Press CHOWCHILLA, CA – Imagine being afraid. Really terrified, okay? Think…
Incarcerated California Poets at Valley State Prison Ask Why Officials Impounded 80 Copies of PEN America’s ‘The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer’s Life in Prison’
By Ghostwrite Mike and The Mundo Press CHOWCHILLA, CA – Several months ago, writer, podcaster and former…
Valley State Prison Residents Who Donated More Than 30 Works of Art to State’s Victim Services Safe House Program Now Asking Officials ‘Where Is the Art?’
By Ghostwrite Mike and The Mundo Press CHOWCHILLA, CA – Scott Behnke, an incarcerated artist who co-founded…
Show Us Musical Instruments: How Searching for Hip-hop Influences in Prison Revealed a Racial Justice Cause Hiding in Plain Sight
Portable MPCs are centerpiece beat-making production tools featured within Radical Reversal’s in-prison studio installations throughout the country….
The Problem with Adult Education Behind Bars: ESL Students Are Being Left Behind
By Ghostwrite Mike and The Mundo Press CHOWCHILLA, CA – At Valley State Prison (VSP), Associate’s and…
Laptops Behind Bars: Incarcerated Merced College Students Praise CDCR’s Technical Innovation and Support from Prison’s Vice Principal
By Ghostwrite Mike & The Mundo Press CHOWCHILLA, CA – Skrybe, a published poet and spoken word…
Poetry Behind Bars: CSU Fresno English Professor Brynn Saito Conducts MFA-Style Poetry Workshop with Valley State Prison College Students
By Ghostwrite Mike & The Mundo Press CHOWCHILLA, CA – Most people don’t realize that carceral state…
