Editor’s Note: This story was co-reported by Anthony Cobb and Khawla Nakua. Cobb is a reporter incarcerated at Everglades Correctional Institution in Miami, Florida. Nakua is a Canadian freelance reporter who attended Scalawag’s Press in Prisons Training in December 2021. Nakua has also partnered with the Prison Journalism Project. Some of those...
‘Before the conspiracy on Friday, the [REDACTED] of [REDACTED], I had seven to 10 years left inside. Now, I don’t know if I’ll ever make it up out of here.’ by G.Z. June 21, 2023 ABOLITION WEEK I was going to start this letter with an old story. A story about the first book that I ever “did not” receive because of censorship rulez...
The Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling overturning Roe v. Wade has sparked a domino effect of states attempting to enact the most reproductively oppressive laws in a generation. Primarily, these states have created criminal penalties, ranging from large fines to life imprisonment—even a surge of drafted legislation demanding the death penalty for pregnant people who...
I remember speaking with a friend on the phone during the tumultuous early days of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. She was waiting in a block-long line of masked, panicked shoppers at a Wegmans near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, hoping to procure some toilet paper. I was five months into a 12-month sentence on Rikers Island. The entire nation of Italy had just...