Tag: Mass Incarceration
Day in the Life
Chanell Burnette reflects on her workday routine at Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women.
The Isolation Diary
Demetrius Buckley meditates on the experience of being on hunger strike in the hole.
Cradled in Love
Mithrellas Curtis writes about the experience of losing her father while incarcerated.
The Child Catcher
Incarcerated writer Elizabeth Hawes analyzes the child separation crisis plaguing the US prison-industrial complex.
Bathrooms
While incarcerated, Heather Jarvis reflects on bathrooms as formative scenes.
The Cape of Experience Tied around My Neck
With the prospect of freedom imminent, Ray Williams writes about memory and selfhood from a prison cell.
Don’t Be Cruel
Corey Devon Arthur writes from a medium-security correctional facility in upstate New York.
Inside Sisi’s Prisons: Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s Fight for Freedom
Shireen Akram-Boshar interviews Sharif Kouddous about Egyptian political prisoner and hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
Reifying Racism
John Clegg and Adaner Usmani respond to Norton and Stein’s critique of their analysis of the rise of mass incarceration.
