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"Not just anyone can be a writer. Ink slingers are a special breed that adhere to an inner calling; that voice inside their heads that drive and torment them until they capture their thoughts on paper. What is written and how it is expressed usually depends on an individual writer's personal history, experiences and interests. As a prison writer with 20 years of incarceration under my belt I naturally write what I know the most about, prison. It is my sincere hope that what you are about to read captures the true essence of prison writers, the men and women of the steel cages who push the Maximum ink."
-Gregory J. McMaster, from JPP Vol. 10: 1 & 2 (1999)
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VOL. 1, NUMBER 1, 1988: Prison Abolition and Papers at ICOPA
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VOL. 1, NUMBER 1, 1988/1989: General Issue Focusing on Canadian Prisoners
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VOL. 2, NUMBER 1, 1989: The Penal Press and Selected Articles
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VOL. 2, NUMBER 2, 1990: Native Peoples
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VOL. 3, NUMBER 1 & 2, 1991: Capital Punishment and Prison Justice Day
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VOL. 4, NUMBER 1, 1992: Education in Prisons
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VOL. 4, NUMBER 2, 1993: Marionization: Control and Isolation Units
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VOL. 5, NUMBER 1, 1993: General Issue
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VOL. 5, NUMBER 2, 1994: Womens Prisoners
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VOL. 6, NUMBER 1, 1995: General Issue
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VOL. 6, NUMBER 2, 1995: Accountability, Duplicity and Industrial Conspiracy
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VOL. 7, NUMBER 1, 1996/97: Republican POW's - Ireland
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VOL. 7, NUMBER 2, 1996/97: Loyalist POW's - Ireland
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VOL. 8, NUMBER 1 & 2, 1997: Resistance and Intimidation
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VOL. 9, NUMBER 1, 1998: General Issue
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VOL. 9, NUMBER 2, 1998: General Issue
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VOL. 10, NUMBER 1 & 2, 1999: Prison Writing and Prison Writers, 10th Anniversary Edition
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VOL. 11, 2001: General Issue
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VOL. 12, 2003: General Issue
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VOL. 13, 2004: Education in Prisons
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VOL. 14, NUMBER 1 2005: The Criminal Justice System - Post-Colonial Nigeria
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VOL. 14, NUMBER 2 2006: Aging in Prisons
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VOL. 15, NUMBER 1 2006: Political Prisoners and Detainees
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VOL. 15, NUMBER 2 2006 & VOL. 16 NUMBER 1 2007:
Special Anniversary Issue Black Panther Party 1966-2006
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VOL. 16, NUMBER 2 2007: General Issue
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VOL. 17, NUMBER 1 2008: Education in Prisons
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VOL. 17, NUMBER 2 2008: Abolition and the Universal Carceral
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VOL. 18, NUMBER 1 & 2 2009: General Issue
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VOL. 19, NUMBER 1 2010: PEN American Center's Prison Writing Program
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VOL. 19, NUMBER 2 2010: Torture and Political Imprisonment
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VOL. 20, NUMBER 1 2011: Criminalizing Women - Past and Present
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VOL. 20, NUMBER 2 2011: General Issue
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VOL. 21, NUMBER 1 & 2 2012: Convict Criminology - 15th Anniversary Issue
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VOL. 22, NUMBER 1 2013: General Issue - 25th Anniversary
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VOL. 22, NUMBER 2 2013: General Issue - 25th Anniversary
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VOL. 23, NUMBER 1 2014: General Issue
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VOL. 23, NUMBER 2 2014: General Issue
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VOL. 24, NUMBER 1 2015: General Issue
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VOL. 24, NUMBER 2 2015: General Issue
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VOLUME 25, NUMBER 1 2016: General Issue
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VOLUME 25, NUMBER 2 2016: Transforming Carceral Agendas through Education
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VOLUME 26, NUMBER 1&2 2017:
Dialogue on Canada's Federal Penitentiary System and the Need for Change

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VOLUME 27, NUMBER 1 2018: General Issue
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VOLUME 27, NUMBER 2 2018:
20 Years of Convict Criminology - Developing Insider Perspectives in Research Activism

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VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 2019: General Issue
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VOLUME 28, NUMBER 2 2020: Prison (In)justice in Canada at the Crossroads
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VOLUME 29, NUMBER 1&2 2020: General Issue
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VOLUME 30, NUMBER 1 2022: General Issue
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VOLUME 30, NUMBER 2 2022: Anti-Colonial Approach to Abolition
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