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Morbid Curiosity: Reviewing Jarrod Shanahanโs Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help
Iโve been a fan of Jarrod Shanahanโs work, but only with his new essay collection Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade of Rebellion, Reaction, and Morbid Symptoms, published by PM Press, did ...
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City Time: A Discussion with David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahan
David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahanโs new book City Time: On Being Sentenced to Rikers Island (NYU Press, 2025) offers an insightful look into the daily life of one of the most notorious carceral complexes in the ...
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In Otero
Emilien Bernard and Pauline Laplace are two alternative free-lance journalists working for the Marseille critical monthly CQFD, which has a substantial French global distribution (about 10, 000 copies) and argues for an anarchist perspective. CQFD means Ce Quโil Faut Dรฉmontrer. The two ...
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โThe Monster is Actually the Policeโ: A Discussion with Travis Linnemann
We sat down with Travis Linnemann, a professor of sociology at Kansas State University and a distinguished cultural critic, to discuss his provocative research into the supposed meth epidemic and the ongoing humanitarian disaster of policing ...
And the Wrecking Ball Best of All!
My temp assignment as the inmate law librarian of a county jail promised to be an encounter with the unknown. Up until that point Iโd worked in many different kinds of libraries, but this was the ...
Plunder, Passage, Prison: Three Border Stories
Plunder โNo nos toca;โ basically, โitโs not our problem.โ Thatโs what the municipal police officer told community members of Cruztรณn after paramilitaries ambushed a group of land defenders and assassinated Rodrigo Guadalupe Huรฉt Gรณmez, a father, ...
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Remembering Bobby Sands on the 40th Anniversary of His Death
May 5th marked 40 years since Bobby Sands (Roibeรกrd ร Seachnasaigh) was murdered by the British State. Sands was a Volunteer within the Provisional IRA and once he was imprisoned became the officer commanding for the ...
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COVID in Prison
When COVID-19 hit everybody was watching the news. We all saw the spread, then the deaths that followed. The prison here seemed to be on standby for like two months before we, โthe inmates,โ were issued ...
Am I Allowed to Breathe?
Am I allowed to breathe? Is that a punishable offense? Am I allowed to feel Is that a shot? Are my thoughts read like my letters scanned and stored to be used against me later My ...
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CoreCivic Responds to Hard Crackers
Well, well, well, imagine our surprise when we received an email message from Ryan Gustin, the Public Affairs Manager of CoreCivic, the outfit that operates the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Tennessee, in response to an ...
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