This general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Justin Piché and Kevin Walby features articles by current and former prisoners documenting the latest trends in penal policy and practice in the United States. The issue also features an article to The Dialogue on the Canadian Carceral State that explores the punitiveness of Canadas immigration system, a Response paper on the struggle over the future of the decommissioned Prison for Women (P4W) as a site of memory, as well as Prisoners Struggles contributions, and a book review. The cover art, featuring the pieces Carceral Landscape and Close the Bastard Down!, was created by Peter Collins a former Canadian prisoner serving a life sentence who died behind bars of cancer.
Published in English.
INTRODUCTION
FROM THE MANAGING EDITORS
Shining Some Light in Dark Places
Justin Piché and Kevin Walby
ARTICLES
They Dont
Like to Talk About That Richard
W. Arterberry
Reimagining
Prison Research from the Inside-Out
Justin Thrasher, Erik Maloney, Shaun Mills, Johnny House, Timm Wroe and
Varrone
White
All Expenses Paid?
Maxwell Tyler Houghton
Escaping Shirley World Prisons Dirty Secret:
The Special Management Unit
Charles N. Diorio
Confessions
of a Penitentiary Death Dealer
Kyle Hedquist
CONTINUING
THE DIALOGUE ON THE CANADIAN CARCERAL STATE
The Double
Punishment of Criminal Inadmissibility for Immigrants
Souheil Benslimane and David Moffette
RESPONSE
After the
Prison Closes:
Seeking Healing, Memory and Awareness at P4W
Linda Mussell
PRISONERS
STRUGGLES
The Remarkable
Life of Tiyo Attallah Salah-El
Lois Ahrens
Supporting
Prisoners through Correspondence
Write-On!
BOOK
REVIEWS
Hell Is a
Very Small Place
by Sarah Shourd, James Ridgeway and Jean Casella (eds.)
New York: The New Press (2016), 242pp.
Reviewed by Lucas Ridgeway
Available
Titles and
Call for Book Reviews:
Journal of Prisoners on Prisons
COVER ART
Carceral
Landscape (front cover)
Peter Collins
2010
Close the
Bastard Down! (back cover)
Peter Collins
2002
Justin Piche est professeur agrege au Departement de criminologie de l'Universite d'Ottawa.