Inside Knowledge: Historians Lead Insurgent Digital Learning Effort Behind the Wall
Prisons do more than contain the bodies marked for social liquidation and premature death; they function as…
The Deconstruction of Erica R. Meiners
Deconstruction is an inside-out, stakeholder-produced interview project that presents questions formulated by imprisoned scholars—members of the Merced…
Prison Newspapers: Carceral Plantations of Epistemic Injustice
Carceral journalism is an uncensored stakeholder-driven critical analysis of the carceral state — a for us, by…
Pigtails and Quicksand
As I crossed the makeshift stage in the Central California Women’s Facility (C.C.W.F.) Visiting Room, graduation cap…
Journey to a New Horizon
I wish to share my story with you, something that I have never done before, since I…
Incarcerated Before Incarceration
Trauma been a huge part of my family for generations. I think of her as my father…
Building Our Journalism Guild: The Power of Proximity
When word came to me in September that one of our nation’s leading carceral studies experts, and…
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…
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, an event co-facilitated by Justice for Everybody (JFE) at the Yale Institute for Incarceration and Public Safety (YIIPS) and the resident-founded Carceral Studies Journalism Guild (CSJG).
Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 267: Elizabeth Hinton Introduces Vanguard Carceral Journalism Guild
Elizabeth Hinton along with several other esteemed academics and scholars recently agreed to serve as advisors for…
Prison Journalism: The Future of Carceral Media (Part 1)
This seven-part interview series features the Davis Vanguard’s executive director and Everyday Injustice podcast host David Greenwald…
From Life Prisoner to MFA Teaching Associate at California State University: The Emancipation of Benjamin Frandsen
Featured image: photo courtesy of Benjamin Frandsen Today he is in a taekwondo class, after which he…
Dark Gardening: Deconstructing Independent Carceral Journalism Using Gwendolyn Brooks’ Poem “To Prisoners”
She’d already been gone over a month by the time the August edition of All Of Us…