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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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The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) is 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 30, Number 1 (2022) is a general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons.
The collection features contributions on various issues, including life sentences, use of force, solitary confinement, as well as barriers to community re-entry and the development of Convict Criminology. The Prisoners' Struggles section also explores the impact of COVID-19 on imprisoned people. The cover art was made by an anonymous imprisoned artist who founded Steel Door Studios.
View and download the articles (PDF)
Order a printed copy of Volume 30(1) by subscribing to the JPP
Volume 30, Number 2 (2022) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons on an "Anti-Colonial Approach to Abolition".
The collection features contributions on various themes, including how genocidal settler colonial state institutions, laws, policies and practices serve as pipelines to prisons, the systemic racism experienced by Indigenous peoples behind and beyond bars, the so-called indigenization of incarceration, and the additional barriers to community re-entry faced by Indigenous peoples. The cover art was created by Tim Felfoldi and Cory Cardinal.
View and download the articles (PDF)
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Volume 31, Number 1 (2022) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons on "Desistance, Social Justice and Lived Experience".
The collection features contributions on the structures, laws, policies, practices, resources, and relationships that facilitate and/or act as barriers to desistance from criminalized acts. The cover art was created by Steel Door Studios.
View and download the articles (PDF)
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Volume 31, Number 2 (2022) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons featuring two dialogue sections. The first, featuring pieces on "Prison Labour", is edited by Jordan House and Kelly Struthers Montford. The second, featuring pieces on "Gender, Health and (In)justice in Canada", is edited by Martha Paynter, OmiSoore Dryden and El Jones. The collection also features a preface commemorating the 35th anniversary of the JPP, a Response on the importance of mutual aid following imprisonment, as well as reviews of a film and two books. The cover art was created by Joker (front) and Peter Collins (back). The collection will be mailed to contributors and subscribers in early 2023 owing to printing delays associated with supply chain interruptions.
View and download the articles (PDF)
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Forthcoming Issues
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Volume 32, Number 1 (2023) will be a general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons featuring articles of various topics associated with the experience and socio-politics of incarceration edited by Kevin Walby and Justin Piché.
This issue will be available online in the first half of 2023.
Volume 32, Number 2 (2023) will be a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons on "Walls to Bridges" edited by Shoshana Pollack and Christine Mayor.
Volume 33, Number 1 (2024) will be a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons marking "25 Years of Convict Criminology" edited by Grant Tietjen, Alison Cox and J. Renee Trombley.
This collection will be launched at the Annual Meetings of the American Society of Criminology taking place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 15-18, 2023.
Stay tuned for more announcements regarding other future issues of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons.
Click here to order printed copies of our forthcoming issues by subscribing to the JPP.
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Calls for Papers
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