Tag: Mass Incarceration
H. Rap Brown, Jamil Al-Amin, and the Perils of Forgetting
susie day talks with Arun Kundnani about the unfortunately forgotten H. Rap Brown. Brown, now Imam Jamil Al-Amin, urgently needs medical care.
A Nation Divided on Both Sides of the Wall
PM Dunne describes the conversation between several inmates in Sing Sing Correctional Facility on the night of the 2024 US Presidential Election.
Social Lynching
Corey Devon Arthur discusses the racist media campaign in the run-up to his sentencing and what it felt like to be labeled a “superpredator.”
Canary in the Coal Mine
Cody Melcher reviews John Bardes’s The Carceral City and Lydia Pelot-Hobbs’s Prison Capital.
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.