VOLUME 34, Number 1 (2025) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons on Emotions and the Affective Politics of Incarceration edited by Jennifer M. Kilty (University of Ottawa), Rachel Fayter (Carleton University) and Justin Piché (University of Ottawa). In addition to articles on the emotions, affect and imprisonment, this edition of the journal includes a call for contributions for the 50th edition of Prisoners Justice Day, book reviews, and artwork by Steel Door Studios (https://steeldoorstudios.com).
INTRODUCTION FROM THE ISSUE EDITORS
Feeling the Carceral: Emotions and the Aff ective Politics of Incarceration
Jennifer M. Kilty, Rachel Fayter and Justin Piché
ARTICLES
Emotional Perspectives from Carceral Spaces and Beyond
Ronnice Giscombe, Wes Guzylak, Ogo Esenwah, Varina Gurdyal and Nadia
Judunath
Education, Gossip and Social Carcerality: Contesting the Liminal Spaces
Between Incarcerated Body and Incarcerated Mind
Billie Cates and Gerty B.
Ą fl eur de peau: An In-depth Look at Two Strategies of Handling Emotion in
French Prisons
Y.E., Hannah Davis and H.W.
The Power of Meaning
Star Morrison
A PAWSitive Connection
Todd Ramsum
Emotions Are Ours as Humans: The No Apology, Apology
Cathee
Prison is a Trap
K WooDZ
RESPONSE
Carceral Power and Emotions: A Refl ection
Kevin Walby
PRISONERS STRUGGLES
Call for Contributions: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Prisoners
Justice Day
Abolition Coalition
BOOK REVIEWS
The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writers Life in Prison by Caits
Meissner (2022)
Chicago: Haymarket Books, 339 pp.
Reviewed by David Morales Zenquis
The Prisoner Society: Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison
by Ben Crewe (2009)
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 519 pp.
Reviewed by Mohammad Jahirul Islam
Out to Defend Ourselves: A History of Montreals First Haitian Street Gang by
Maxime Aurélien and Ted Rutland (2023)
Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 170 pp.
Reviewed by Sacha Alfonzo V
Divide and Conquer: Race, Gangs, Identity and Conflict by Robert D. Weide
(2022)
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 284 pp.
Reviewed by Gary J. Kowaluk
Available Titles and Call for Book Reviews
Journal of Prisoners on Prisons
UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUES CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Profiling and Carceral States / Les profilages et les états carcéral
Justin Piché and Sandra Lehalle / Observatoire des profi lages
P4W 25 Years Later: Memory, Art and Action
Linda Mussell, Rachel Fayter and Wendy Johanne Bariteau
COVER ART
Blue Boy (front cover)
Steel Door Studios
2024
Blue Boy 4 (back cover)
Steel Door Studios
2024
Grant Tietjen (Editor) Grant E. Tietjen, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Criminal Justice Program at the School of Social Work and Criminal Justice at the University of Washington Tacoma (UWT). Dr. Tietjen, formerly Associate Professor and Assistant Program Director for the Masters of Science in Criminal Justice at St. Ambrose University (SAU) in Davenport, Iowa, earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at the University of Nebraska Lincoln (UNL) in 2013.
He has written, researched, and lectured on convict criminology, mass incarceration, class inequality, criminological theory, and pathways to correctional/postcorrectional education. He has published in multiple peer reviewed journals, book chapters, and academic encyclopedias; with multiple works in progress. Tietjens most recent peer reviewed research has been published in Humanity and Society; Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order; and Criminal Justice Studies. He is the author of Justice Lessons: The Rise of the System Affect Academic Movement, with the University of California Press, slated for publication in 2024. Dr. Tietjen is also a Co-editor of a special issue of The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, titled Twenty-Five Years of Convict Criminology.
Alison Cox (Editor) Dr. Alison Cox pursues research in the areas of Corrections: Prison visitation, Prisoner-family relationship, Impacts of incarceration, Critical Criminology: Convict, Feminist, Rural, and Queer, Womens and Gender Studies, Victimization, and Qualitative Research Methods.
Her scholarship has been published in Criminal Justice Studies, Critical Criminology, and an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prison celebrating 25 years of convict criminology. She is also a contributing author to Convict Criminology for the Future, edited by Dr. Jeffrey Ian Ross (University of Baltimore) and Dr. Francesca Vianello (University of Padua).
Her teaching Interests include: Criminal Justice Administration and Management, Race, Gender, and Special Populations in the Criminal Justice System.
J. Renee Trombley (Editor) Dr. Trombleys research interests include restorative justice, peacemaking criminology, and violence among youth with particular interest focused on exposure to community violence variables. Dr. Trombley is involved in research exploring the potential for utilizing peacemaking practices in both university and college classrooms and the communities they serve as well as several other research projects including topics related to convict criminology, justice impacted students, juvenile justice and education, status and stigma, trauma and harm, and college students attitudes on drug policy.
