The San Quentin Film Festival held its first-ever event outside San Quentin Rehabilitation Center at the Central California Women’s Facility, providing incarcerated women with the opportunity to reclaim narrative authority through film and media programs.
The July edition of the Vanguard Incarcerated Press features stories from incarcerated individuals that expose the cruelty of the prison system and highlight the resilience of those who endure it, while also advocating for free speech, human rights, and prison reform.
Common, Scott Budnick, Marcel Woodruff, and Supa Syrup launched the Rebirth of Sound music studio program at Valley State Prison, providing a healing-centered space for inmates to express themselves creatively and build community.
Prison journalists are fighting for their right to free speech and to hold truth to power, despite facing intimidation, threats, and censorship, in order to give voice to the most marginalized populations and to help dismantle and silence journalistic voices from within the walls of this nation’s penitentiaries.
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This week on Everyday Injustice we interview our incarcerated writer, Ghostwrite Mike, who is incarcerated at Valley…
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