Authors / Christopher Blackwell

Every Covid lockdown means losing the few privileges that make incarceration more bearable.

Climate change is intensifying the suffering of incarcerated people.

In a Washington State prison, masks are scarce, and guards don’t follow the rules.

A mask requirement expands prisoners’ opportunities for personal expression.

Across the country, prisons are using solitary confinement as a quarantine measure, at great cost to prisoners.

We cannot protest our treatment at the hands of the police state, but we are looking to the protesters with pride.