DEDICATION
In Memory of Paul O’Rourke
Journal of Prisoners on Prisons
INTRODUCTION FROM THE ISSUE EDITORS
Refusing to Hide:
Exploring the Connection Between Homelessness and Incarceration
Erin Dej and Dale Spencer
ARTICLES
A Snapshot of Homelessness in Brockville:
Reviewing Obstacles, Challenges and Social Supports
Leigh Bursey
Coming Together:
Collective Living and Homelessness Amongst Criminalized People
C.L. Michel
Criminalization and Homelessness:
“A disaster of human connectivity” – An Interview
Dreddz B.L. and Kim Jackson
Life After Death
Jim Henry
Mistakes and Consequences
Joe Rust
Australian Prisons Are Failing Prisoners
Renee McNab
The “soul-destroying” Release from Prison into the Void:
A “walking map” Highlighting Some of the Systemic Drivers of the Prison-Homelessness “Swinging Door” in the Republic of Ireland
Paul O’Rourke, Katharina Swirak and Ute Krenzer
RESPONSE
Responding to and Dismantling Carceral Systems:
Learning from Experiential Knowledge, Organizing and Community
Jayne Malenfant
DIALOGUE ON THE CANADIAN CARCERAL STATE CONTINUED
Indigenous Incarceration and Settler Colonial Genocides
Danielle Bird
Where is the Justice? Where is the Truth? Where is the Reconciliation?
Ryan Kelly Osecap (a.k.a. “Sittingbear”)
PRISONERS’ STRUGGLES
Prisoners’ Justice Day 2024
Lindsay Jennings
BOOK REVIEWS
Bone Orchard:
Refl ections on Life Under Sentence of Death
by George T. Wilkerson and Robert Johnson (2022)
Washington (DC): Bleakhouse Publishing, 120 pp.
Reviewed by Christopher Santiago
Mississippi Prison Writing
Edited by Louis Bourgeois (2021)
Oxford (MS): VOX Press, 256 pp.
Reviewed by Christopher Santiago
Available Titles and
Call for Book Reviews
Journal of Prisoners on Prisons
UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUES – CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Profi ling and the Canadian Carceral State /
Les profi lages et l’État carcéral canadien
Justin Piché and Sandra Lehalle / Observatoire des profi lages
P4W 25 Years Later:
Memory, Art and Action
Linda Mussell and Rachel Fayter
COVER ART
“The Homeless Occupy Movement” (front cover)
Ronnie Goodman
2011
“Woman at Work” (front cover)
Ronnie Goodman
2013
