Volume 32(1) of the JPP is now available online

Today, the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) launched Volume 32, Number 1 - a special issue on “Walls to Bridges” (W2B) edited by Shoshana Pollack (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Christine Mayor (University of Manitoba). The collection features articles by alumni and professors marking the 10th anniversary of W2B, which offers for-credit courses through universities and colleges taught within correctional settings across Canada where an equal number of incarcerated (“inside”) students and university/college-based (“outside") students learn together as peers. The impact of the initiative behind and beyond prison walls, the role of collaborative learning and Indigenous ways of knowing, leadership by imprisoned people, and the experiences of anti-Black racism and colonization in and out of prison classrooms are just some of the themes addressed in this special issue. The collection also includes artwork by W2B alumni.

Click here to order a printed copy of the full issue via print-on-demand through the University of Ottawa Press. A bulk print run of the special issue is scheduled to arrive at our office in June 2023. Copies will be mailed to issue contributors and journal subscribers from there. 

This issue of the JPP was the first of two to be published in 2023. Click here to find out how you can subscribe to the journal. We thank our contributors for continuing to write as resistance, as well as our subscribers and readers for supporting their work.