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Justin Piché, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Director of the Carceral Studies Research Collective at the University of Ottawa. He is co-managing Editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) published by the University of Ottawa Press, which features peer-reviewed articles written by current and former prisoners. Professor Piché is also a founding member of the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project (CPEP), which operates the Jail Accountability & Information Line and the #NOPE / No Ottawa Prison Expansion campaign.
Kevin Walby (Editor)
Kevin Walby, PhD, is Full Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg and Co-editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons.
INTRODUCTION FROM THE ISSUE EDITORS
Resistance at the Carceral Precipice
Justin Piché and Kevin Walby
ARTICLES
Tough on Crime: What is the Reality of New Zealand’s ‘Crime Problem’ and Life Behind the Wire
Joseph Tupou
BOP Officers Higher ‘Degrees’
Randall Morris
Mandatory Transfer + Life Without Parole = Death by Incarceration
Eric Elliott
The Creation of a Collaborative, Mutually Informed Trauma and Mental Health Course for Incarcerated Populations
Lindamarie Olson, David Hubbard, J.D. Williams, Bailey Wester, Noah Fuller, D’Niya Fleming and Amy McLean
RESPONSE
Why Not?
Matthew Feeney
DIALOGUE ON ARGENTINIAN PRISONS
Introduction to Tumbergencia
Deepan Budlakoti
YEAR I – NO. 4 // DECEMBER 15, 2023
Life, Death and Eternity
An Argentinian
The Torturers
Nano
The Best Preaching
Gabriel, Siervo de Cristo
Balance
Fénix
The Greedy Labyrinth
MF
The Misunderstood
Nano
In the Key of Life
MF
Lifestyle
An Argentinian
The Gringo
Victor Malisani
Thanks to the Output
Jorge
YEAR II - NO. 7 // APRIL 25, 2024
Our Bet
An Argentinian
Vain Lies
Nano
To the Memory of Manuelita
Gabriel, Siervo de Cristo
Maintaining the Superb Mood
Fénix
Qué cosas no?
Jorge
Shadows of Decisions
MF
On the Outside
Oscar
Severino di Giovannie: The Violent Past of a Poor Man, Present
An Argentinian
YEAR II – NO. 8 // JULY 4, 2024
The Golden Key
An Argentinian
The Repressors Got Together
Nano
I Look at You
Fénix
Desire
Fénix
Times Change, Faith Moves Us
Gabriel, Siervo de Cristo
Sunny Sunday
Jorge
Fear
Hadez
Opening Your Eyes
MF
PRISONERS’ STRUGGLES
A Path Forward: How Miscarriage of Justice Canada Supports the Wrongly Convicted
Myles Frederick McClellan
BOOK REVIEWS
Abolitionist Intimacies
by El Jones (2022)
Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 218 pp.
Reviewed by David Dorson
Realizing a Good Life: Men’s Pathways Out of Drugs and Crime
by Elizabeth Comack (2023)
Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 223 pp.
Reviewed by Christopher Santiago
From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration After 1945
by Anne E. Parsons (2018)
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 220 pp.
Reviewed by Christopher Santiago
Invisible Prisons: Jack Whalen’s Tireless Fight for Justice
by Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen (2024)
Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 277 pp.
Reviewed by Lucas Ridgeway
Available Titles and
Call for Book Reviews
Journal of Prisoners on Prisons
CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
What Are the Disasters You Face in Prison?
Prison Art and Writing Working Group
– Disaster Prisons Partnership
Profiling and Carceral States / Les profilages et les États carcérals
Lucrezia Selva Curreri, Sandra Lehalle and Justin Piché / Observatoire des profilages
Food Behind and Beyond Bars: Food and Carceral Spaces
Kelsey Timler, A.E. Stearns and Amanda Wilson
COVER ART
“Cell Cyclone” (front cover)
Leo Cardez
2023
“Criminology Mixology” (back cover)
Leo Cardez
2023