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Contemporary Problems in Corrections

Newspapers

American Prison Newspapers, 1800s-present: Voices from the Inside
Digitized newspapers originally published by the incarcerated in U.S. prisons. Rutgers-restricted Access

Podcasts

Ear Hustle
Podcast featuring stories from inside California's San Quentin State Prision, and from the outside post-incarceration.
Queer and Trans Prison Voices: A Podcast Archive on Prison Abolition

Prisoners Writings

American Prison Writing Archive
Digital archive that currently housing 3,300 nonfiction essays offering first-hand testimony about the conditions experienced by people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails.
Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration: Discovering the Ethical Prison
Doran Larson. Cranbury, N.J., Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017.
"In close readings of first-person witness from prisons in the U.S., Ireland, and Africa, Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration discovers literary tropes that chart at once local, national, and transnational conditions of carceral experience—the extant conditions of legalized suffering." Rutgers-restricted Access
Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing
Bell Gale Chevigny. New York, Arcade Pub., 2011. Available?
Prisoners' Writings, American