Volume 30(2) of the JPP is now available online

Today, the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons launched Volume 30, Number 2 - a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) on an "Anti-Colonial Approach to Abolition" edited by Thalia Anthony, Vicki Chartrand and Tracey McIntosh. 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 (front) and Cory Cardinal (back).

The digitization of this open access issue of the JPP was made possible through a University of Ottawa Faculty of Social Sciences Collabzium Grant. Click here to order a printed copy of the full issue via subscription through the University of Ottawa Press. The printed copies of the issue are schedule to arrive at our office in late-May 2022. They will be mailed to issue contributors and journal subscribers from there. 

This issue of the JPP is the second of four to be published in 2022. Forthcoming journal publications this year include a special issue on "Desistance, Social Justice and Lived Experience" and a general issue. We thank our contributors for continuing to write as resistance, as well as the University of Ottawa Faculty of Social Sciences and our subscribers for supporting their work.