The Experience of Incarceration:
This Lived Experiences collation highlights sources by individuals who have experienced incarceration, offering personal insight into both daily life and long-term impact of their imprisonment. The collection includes many kinds of writing: prison journalism, poetry, court declarations, memoirs. It also presents sources whose authors, while not themselves incarcerated, lean heavily on interviews or other access to lived experience. And there’s a small collection of evocative artwork, as well.
We’ve divided the collection into five sections, each corresponding to a casebook Part (plus one section for “additional topics”). Within the sections, the entries are grouped into topics.
The Impact of Incarceration:
First-Person Accounts
This Lived Experiences collection highlights narratives by individuals who have experienced incarceration, offering personal insight into both daily life and long-term impact of their imprisonment. The collection also includes prison journalism, poetry, and artwork by incarcerated artists, and more.
We’ve divided the collection into five sections, each corresponding to a casebook Part (plus one section for “additional topics”). Within the sections, the entries are grouped into topics.
The Impact of Incarceration:
First-Person Accounts
Our Lived Experiences collection highlights narratives by individuals who have experienced incarceration, offering personal insight into both daily life and long-term impact of imprisonment. This section also includes prison journalism, poetry, and artwork by incarcerated artists, and more.
The resources have been divded into five sections, each corresponding to a casebook Part (plus a section for “additional topics”). Within each section, resources are grouped by topic.
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Additional Resources
General
Art
Writing & Journalism
Additional Resources
Bonnie Tenneriello is Solitary Confinement Project Director and a Senior Attorney with Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts. Much of her litigation has focused on solitary confinement, including the pending case Evelyn v. DOC, which challenges the Massachusetts DOC’s evasion of solitary confinement reform. She has also written on this topic for the Boston Review. Recent litigation also includes Doe v. Mici, which challenges the use of prisons to house people civilly committed for substance use disorder. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. |
