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Digital Archive Review: The American Prison Writing Archive (APWA)

According to Larson, the APWA strives to create a “living, growing, and inclusive” witness literature by providing a platform for “those best ...

Witness to Mass Incarceration Inc. - LinkedIn

We achieve this by creating a hub of excellence in entrepreneurship and innovation for these communities, providing comprehensive vocational training, social ...

Prison Writer as Witness: Can DH Read for Social Justice?

Drawing from a largest and first fully-searchable digital archive of non-fiction essays by incarcerated people writing about their experience inside US prisons ...

In their own words: Organizing legislative testimony from ...

A guide to help incarcerated people use legislative testimony to speak out about prison conditions.

The Archive - American Prison Writing Archive | Page 1

The privacy of the writers in the APWA is a top priority, and so is displaying their writing as they wish it to be displayed. We will restore all pieces as soon ...

The American Prison Writing Archive - ArtsEverywhere

My first question for the archive concerned how testimony to the socio-political crisis of mass incarceration could emerge from a system that ...

Informing injustice: The disturbing use of jailhouse informants

Unregulated jailhouse informant testimony deeply harms our justice system. What could be worse than going to prison for a crime you didn't commit in part ...

Witness Security | U.S. Marshals Service

The Witness Security Program is a vital and effective tool in the U.S. government's battle against organized crime, drug trafficking, terrorism and other major ...

Incarceration's Witnesses: American Prison Writing | HamiltonX on edX

... and come to a sense of the moral weight that prison witness must carry in any truly democratic debate on the criminal justice system.

Prison Writing - Abolition - Research Guides - Northwestern University

It is a site where all who live or work inside can bear witness to what is working and what is not inside American prisons, thus grounding ...

Project Witness - Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth | CFSY

Through the VR film above, viewers can see the experience of prison through the eyes of a child, with narration from people who experienced childhood ...

708. Prisoner-Witnesses | United States Department of Justice

Ordinarily, prisoner-witnesses will not serve their sentences in a PCU. When the danger has lessened, BOP will seek general population housing for the witness, ...

Inside Knowledge - NYU Press

A powerful critique of mass incarceration by the people who have experienced itInside Knowledge is the first book to examine the American prison system ...

The Prison as Tourist Site - PLATFORM

... prison tourism. Prison tourists wander through buildings witnessing the preservation of architecture's capacity for punishment. Granted ...

Archival Silences - American Prison Writing Archive

Explicit policies allow monitoring and censoring of incarcerated people's communications, and unwritten practices of intimidation and retaliation create a ...

Housing as a Platform for Formerly Incarcerated Persons

Yet, the jail reentry population is more likely to have received limited or no services while incarcerated, compared with the prison population, despite having.

Jordan threatens contempt in probe of alleged prison bureau ...

Jordan threatens contempt in probe of alleged prison bureau retaliation against impeachment witness ... platform for a business with the ...

U.S. Parole Commission | Victim Witness Program

Federal prisoners released on parole or mandatory release must report to a designated United States Probation/Parole Officer for supervision.

Military Justice Overview - Victim and Witness Assistance Council

Investigations of serious offenses involving military personnel such as rape, indecent assault, drugs, or larceny are usually conducted by a criminal ...

Regional Victim and Witness Assistance Program

New Hanover County Jail can be utilized for pre-trial confinement of military females. Upon request, a victim or a witness, will be afforded the right to ...