Harm and Punishment: Incarcerated Writers on Violence and the US Prison

Drawn from the American Prison Writing Archive, a pivotal anthology of essays by incarcerated writers about the prison’s role in perpetuating harm

Prison is neither the beginning of the inquiry nor the end. Thus, writers from across carceral institutions in the US unfold the multiple and intersecting ways that violence shapes and informs their lives, prior to, during, and after incarceration. They illuminate violence as a contextual phenomena shaped by historical trauma, cycles of deprivatio...