Lived Experiences
Part IV: Litigation & Remedies
- Jailhouse Lawyers Are Often Punished With Solitary Confinement, Roxanne Barnes, Solitary Watch (Dec. 22, 2021)
- I Taught Myself How to Read in Prison. Then I Sued the System and Won, Andre Jacobs, The Marshall Project (May 24, 2019)
- A Modernized Dungeon, Jesse “Kingsta” Moody Jr., American Prison Writing Archive (Dec. 28, 2017)
- ‘For $12 of Commissary, He Got 10 Years Off His Sentence.’ [on jailhouse lawyers], Beth Schwartzapfel, The Marshall Project (Aug. 18, 2015)
- Dee Farmer Won a Landmark Supreme Court Case on Inmate Rights. But that’s Not the Half of It., Alison Flowers, The Village Voice (Jan. 29, 2014)
- Twelve Months of Solitude: The Story of Gabrial Lobato, Gabrial Lobato & Henry Knies, Remedy Project (Apr. 8, 2025)
- For a Prison Transfer 45 Minutes Away, I Spent 12 Days in Hell, LaMarr W. Knox, The Marshall Project (Dec. 13, 2024)
- “Sick and Tired”: The Case of the Continuous Silencing of Lawrence James Espree, Indy Goldberg, Remedy Project (Sept. 16, 2024)
- Albert Tillman’s False Detainer, Elise Penn, Remedy Project (Aug. 14, 2024)
- Episode 45: The Gray Goose (Vans & Buses for Transfers), Ear Hustle (Sept. 9, 2020)
- A model of Futility: The PLRA and Wisconsin’s Inmate Complaint System, Robert Taliaferro, American Prison Writing Archive
- How States Are Undoing Criminal Justice Reforms, The Marshall Project (Mar. 29, 2025)
- The Strike That Broke a Supermax Prison, Reveal News (Mar. 29, 2025)
- Motherhood Made Me Even More of a Prison and Police Abolitionist, Maya Schenwar, The Marshall Project (Jan. 10, 2025)
- How One Man Got the DOJ to Investigate His Arizona Prison, Larry Dunlap & Chastyn Hicks, Prison Journalism Project (Nov. 13, 2024)
- A Warden Tried to Fix an Abusive Federal Prison. He Faced Death Threats, Joseph Shapiro & Tirzah Christopher, NPR: All Things Considered (Nov. 15, 2023)
- A Battle Over First Amendment Rights in Prisons, Beth Schwartzapfel & Maurice Chammah, The Marshall Project (Jun. 10, 2023)
- Prison Gerrymandering, Daniel Chairez, San Quentin News (Feb. 28, 2022)
- How Some European Prisons Are Based on Dignity Instead of Dehumanization, Ram Subramanian, Brennan Center (Nov. 29, 2021)
- Nothing Has Made Me Feel More American Than Going to Jail, Ravi Shankar, The Marshall Project (Apr. 29, 2021)
- What Do We Really Know About the Politics of People Behind Bars?, Nicole Lewis, Aviva Shen & Anna Flagg, The Marshall Project (Mar. 11, 2020)
- Whistleblowers in a Soundproof Bastille, Ennis R. Patterson, American Prison Writing Archive (Oct. 6, 2019)
- I Spent 16 Months in Solitary Confinement and Now I’m Fighting to End It, Kiana Calloway, ACLU (Jul. 3, 2019)
- What Do Abolitionists Really Want?, Bill Keller, The Marshall Project (Jun. 13, 2019)
- Attica’s Ghosts, The Marshall Project (Feb. 28, 2019)
- How One Inmate Changed The Prison System From The Inside, Martin Sostre & Joseph Shapiro, NPR (Apr. 14, 2017)
- A Primer on the Nationwide Prisoners’ Strike, Beth Schwartzapfel, The Marshall Project (Sept. 27, 2016)
- Captive Nation: Dan Berger on Black Prison Organizing and Mass Incarceration, George Lavender, In These Times (Feb. 24, 2015)
- Support the Walla Walla Prison Strike, Washington State Prisoners Rights Committee (1977)
- Supermax prisons in the consciousness of prisoners, Kenneth E. Hartman, American Prison Writing Archive
- First Amendment Under Attack in Illinois’ Prisons: The Price of Dissent, George Peter Jr., American Prison Writing Archive
- Americans With Past Convictions Fight to Regain Right to Vote, Lawrence Bartley & Donald Washington, Jr., The Marshall Project (Oct. 14, 2024)
- In Just Two States, All Prisoners Can Vote. Here’s Why Few Do., Nicole Lewis, The Marshall Project (Jun. 11, 2019)
- Jim Crow’s Lasting Legacy At The Ballot Box, Jennifer Rae Taylor, The Marshall Project (Aug. 20, 2018)