Read testimonials on the impact of the Vanguard:
“Having served nearly 4 decades of incarceration, working for the Vanguard and the Vanguard Incarcerated Press means having the opportunity to contribute my voice in a larger conversation that matters to many in our nation’s carceral system. It means helping my incarcerated peers find and share their voices with the world in an effort to affect positive change. It means working for an organization that values my contribution and the contribution of all incarcerated people.”- Jamel Walker, Member of VIP Incarcerated Editorial Board, Currently incarcerated at Mule Creek State Prison
“Prisons are places of incapacitation, retribution, and pain. They house millions of lost souls who are entangled in a seemingly endless cycle of loneliness, bitterness, violence, trauma and abuse. A great portion of our incarcerated population came from a world of trauma and abuse and exist in a troubled mindset of anger and resentment. In this place, few care and fewer are listening. VIP gives voice to the silent suffering of the incarcerated masses, one voice at a time. Within the pages of Vanguard Incarcerated Press, these voices call out. Sometimes eloquent, sometimes crude, but always expressing and revealing truth.” – D. Razor Babb, Member of VIP Incarcerated Editorial Board, Currently incarcerated at Mule Creek State Prison
