INTRODUCTION FROM THE ISSUE EDITORS
Voices from the Inside, Voices from Beyond:
Reflections on the (Prison) Pandemic
Kevin Walby and Justin Piché ..................................................................1
ARTICLES
Night Time
Lukas Carey..............................................................................................7
Experience in the Essex County Youthhouse Detention Center
During the 1990’s
Omar Austin............................................................................................11
Fourteen to Forty:
Creating Something Out of Nothing
Jeremiah Bourgeois ................................................................................13
Doin’ Time in the Late Twenty Teens
Gordon Melvin........................................................................................19
Making ‘Friends’ at the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre
Adam Dufresne .......................................................................................24
Peer Support and Well-Being:
Exploring the Impact of Peer-Led Induction on Male Prisoners
Ed Schreeche-Powell..............................................................................30
First Amendment Under Attack in Illinois Prisons:
The Price of Dissent
George Peter...........................................................................................61
Riots Expose Bleak Future for Corrections
in Massachusetts and Nationwide
Charles N. Diorio ...................................................................................68
Restrictive Housing Unit:
New Name, Same Flower
Sean J. White ..........................................................................................72
Miscarriage of Justice in the Commonwealth
Jermaine Pickett .....................................................................................75
A Bleeding and Broken System
Mark Zammit ..........................................................................................77
Locked-up and in Limbo:
Living Stateless in my Hometown Jail
Deepan Budlakoti ...................................................................................79
On Counting
W.E. Roberts ...........................................................................................84
Fill in the Blanks
W.E. Roberts ...........................................................................................86
A Loss of Memory?
W.E. Roberts ...........................................................................................89
RESPONSE
Communities of Advocacy, Resources
and Supports in the Wake of COVID-19
Vicki Chartrand ......................................................................................92
PRISONERS’ STRUGGLES
COVID-19 Care Kits:
Mutual Aid for Prisoners in Saskatchewan and Alberta
Nancy Van Styvendale.............................................................................97
Prairie Province Prisoner Support Fund
Free Lands Free Peoples......................................................................104
Advocating for the Human Rights of Prisoners
Millhaven Lifers' Laison Group ..........................................................108
Out of Sight and Out of Mind:
The Incarcerated
Mothers Offering Mutual Support / MOMS .........................................110
Coronavirus, droits humains et détention des personnes migrantes
Collectif ensemble avec les personnes migrantes contre le racisme,
Rencontre Interculturelle des Familles de l'Estrie
et Solidarité sans frontières Sherbrooke...............................................115
How Our Advocacy Continues During a Pandemic
Jane Crosby - Books 2 Prisoners Ottawa ............................................117
Demands Made Regarding Federal Prisons
During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Termite Collective.................................................................................120
My Experience of COVID-19
in a (Fake) Minimum Security Institution
Hassan Al-Ghazzi .................................................................................122
Life at Joyceville Minimum During COVID-19
Kevin Belanger .....................................................................................124
COVID-19 Behind Bars
Steven Zehr ...........................................................................................126
Raw Vs. The Law: Our Fight for Vegetables
at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre
Erica Brazeau.......................................................................................127
COVID-19 and Prisoners
Anonymous from Saskatchewan Penitentiary.......................................130
Edmonton Max Reflections
Luqman Osman.....................................................................................131
Edmonton Max
Anonymous from Edmonton Institution ................................................134
BOOK REVIEWS
Prison Pedagogies
Edited by Joe Lockard and Sherry Rankins-Robertson
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press (2018) 272pp.
Reviewed by Lucas Ridgeway...............................................................137
Available Titles and
Call for Book Reviews:
Journal of Prisoners on Prisons...........................................................141
UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUES – CALLS FOR PAPERS
25 Years of Convict Criminology
Grant Tietjen, J. Renee Trombley and Alison Cox................................144
Anti-colonial Carceral Abolition
Thalia Anthony, Vicki Chartrand and
Tracey McIntosh Ngāi Tūhoe ...............................................................147
Walls to Bridges
Shoshana Pollack and Christine Mayor...............................................150
Homelessness and Incarceration
Erin Dej and Dale Spencer...................................................................153
Prison Labour
Jordan House and Kelly Struthers Montford........................................155
COVER ART
“Flower Skull” (front cover)
Jessica Kakeeway
2019 ......................................................................................................158
