Authors / Christopher Blackwell

Under the guise of Covid protections, prisoners are denied family visits, yet forced to work through outbreaks.

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.