Vanguard Incarcerated Press

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…

By William Proctor Pursuant to Proposition 66, an initiative approved by California voters in 2016, the condemned…

by Jeff Ayers My name is Jeff Ayers, and I am going to die in prison. I…

By D. Razor Babb The cruelest abuses witnessed during slavery, through post-Civil War Reconstruction and the Jim…

California’s prison system releases approximately 125,000 people annually. After twenty-three years of incarceration, I will soon join…

“My punishment for error is too great to carry…from your face I shall be concealed.” (Genesis 4:13,14)…

by Kenneth M. Key  Many may wonder what really happens to a man once he comes into…

by Jacob Lester Why do we ignore the sufferings of others? Why do we choose to be…

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“Gutter of Sin” by Horace Thomas    67 years Was the judge’s decision Would I live to…