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J o u r n a l o f P r i s o n e r s o n P r i s o n s
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"...allowing our experiences and analysis to be added to the forum that
will constitute public opinion could help halt the disastrous trend toward building more fortresses of
fear which will become in the 21st century this generation's monuments to failure."
-Jo-Ann Mayhew, from JPP Vol. 1:1 (1988)
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General Information
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For 30 years, the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) has been a prisoner written,
academically oriented and peer reviewed, non-profit journal, based on the tradition
of the penal press. It brings the knowledge produced by prison
writers together with academic arguments to enlighten public
discourse about the current state of carceral institutions. This
is particularly important because with few exceptions, definitions
of deviance and constructions of those participating in these defined
acts are incompletely created by social scientists, media
representatives, politicians and those in the legal community.
These analyses most often promote self-serving interests, omit the
voices of those most affected, and facilitate repressive and
reactionary penal policies and practices. As a result, the JPP
attempts to acknowledge the accounts, experiences, and criticisms
of the criminalized by providing an educational forum that allows
women and men to participate in the development of research that
concerns them directly. In an age where `crime` has become lucrative
and exploitable, the JPP exists as an important alternate source
of information that competes with popularly held stereotypes and
misconceptions about those who are currently, or those who have in
the past, faced the deprivation of liberty.
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Current Issues
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VOLUME 27, NUMBER 1 (2018) is a general issue edited by Justin Piché and Kevin Walby featuring several articles examining aging, suffering and death behind the walls.
Click on the first link below to download the introduction to the issue and individual articles from a section dedicated to "Continuing the Dialogue on Canada's Federal Penitentiary System" edited by Jarrod Shook, along with Prisoners' Struggles pieces and a book review.
Click on the second link below to order a printed copy of the full issue through the University of Ottawa Press, which will be available online from cover-to-cover in January 2019.
View and Download Sample Articles (PDF)
Purchase Issue via University of Ottawa Press website.
VOLUME 27, NUMBER 2 (2018) is a special issue marking the 20th anniversary of Convict Criminology (CC) edited by Andreas Aresti and Sacha Darke.
Drawing on auto-ethnographic, action research and other approaches to qualitative inquiry, the collection features contributions on a variety of topics,
including the criminalization of women, the place of current and former prisoners in advocacy work concerning 'criminal justice', the role higher education
can play in carceral settings, theorizing the experience of freedom and the deprivation of liberty, pushing the boundaries of CC through abolitionism
and its internationalisation.
View and Download Sample Articles (PDF)
Purchase Issue via University of Ottawa Press website.
To subscribe to the journal, which allows us to sustain the publication and send issues to prisoners, please visit the
University of Ottawa Press website.
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Call for Papers and Forthcoming Issues
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The JPP is currently accepting submissions for VOLUME 28 (2019), which will include at least one general issue. For more details, please
download our submission guidelines.
Submission Deadline - First Round: 1 December 2018
Editorial Decision / Comments Returned to Authors - First Round: 15 January 2019
Submission Deadline - Second Round: 1 April 2019
Editorial Decision / Comments Returned to Authors - Second Round: 15 May 2019
Final Revisions Deadline: 1 July 2019
Issue Publication Date: Fall 2019
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