We are so proud of PJP contributor Joe Gracia, whose essay on listening to Taylor Swift in Prison was published by the New Yorker.
Thank you to everyone who has been reading and sharing this piece.
If you haven't already, please give it a read:
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- Using floor wax and colored pencils, John W. Zenc makes his own acrylic paints. It's his art that has earned him the nickname Picasso. Here's how the 65-year-old --using Q-tips and toothpicks-- became a resourceful artist:
- Big News: @prisonjourn correspondent Joe Garcia has a byline in The @NewYorker today! H/t @ByDanielAGross Joe writes about becoming a Swiftie while serving 20 years in prison. This is a must read ⤵️ newyorker.com/culture/the-we…
- "I became a writer as soon as I was in prison. I was sitting in a cell thinking, what am I going to do with these nine years?" @dwaynebetts, lawyer, poet and the founder of @million_book, in a conversation with PJP shares how he became a prison poet.
- "In Louisiana, mostly Black prisoners pick cotton, at gunpoint, on former slave plantations. They have cleaned up the 2010 BP oil spill, have staffed “prison rodeos,” where vulnerable inmates are charged by a bull for public entertainment..."
- Aramak, which made $13 billion in revenue in 2022, offers nine kinds of meat patties. All nine patties taste the same.
- Texas prisons are as hot as ovens. I’m being cooked like a rotisserie chicken
- Incarcerated artist Fred Lowe dedicates his latest illustration to the children who are denied visitation privileges to see their parents.
- "I became a writer as soon as I was in prison. I was sitting in a cell thinking, what am I going to do with these nine years?" In a Q&A with @Prisonjourn, poet @dwaynebetts offers writing advice for aspiring prison writers. Story by @katejoymcqueen.
- "I can tell you what it feels like to be cooked." In a recent essay published in partnership with the @Guardian, Khaȧliq Shakur shares what it's like to endure a scorching summer in a Texas prison.
- "I was interviewed by NPR, & I was subsequently placed in long-term solitary confinement for several years as a result of the interview & my inside organizing."
- During the pandemic, in an unheard-of experiment, incarcerated women in Arizona were moved to a prison camp on a multimillion-dollar private farm, where hazardous, meagerly paid work changed their lives forever. Story via @Cosmopolitan. (H/t @JoybelleP)
- More than 70 Texas prisoners are 3 days into a hunger strike protesting harsh solitary confinement practices via @TexasTribune.
- "To understand life without the possibility of parole (LWOP), we must acknowledge what it is: a hopeless imprisonment preceding death," writes Brandon J. Baker.
