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  Homelessness and Incarceration

  Vol. 33 No. 2 (2024)

  VOLUME 33, Number 2 (2024) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons on “Homelessness and Incarceration” edited by Erin Dej (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Dale Spencer (Carleton University). In addition to articles on the intersection between homelessness and imprisonment, this edition of the journal includes another installment of the dialogue on the Canadian carceral state featuring two articles written by Indigenous writers. The collection also includes a call for contributions for the 49th edition of Prisoners’ Justice Day and artwork by Ronnie Goodman. Printed copies of the full issue will be available for purchase through the University of Ottawa Press later this spring.

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  Marking the 25th Anniversary of Convict Criminology

  Vol. 33 No. 1 (2024)

  Volume 33, Number 1 is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) edited by Grant Tietjen (University of Washington – Tacoma), Alison Cox (East Carolina University) and J. Renee Trombley (Metropolitan State University of Denver) marking the 25^th anniversary of Convict Criminology. The collection features contributions reflecting on the past, present and future of Convict Criminology, including the role activism can play in scholarship by criminalized people. There are also articles that examine topics such as the challenges associated with securing release from prison and the stigmatizing impact labels have for people deemed to be criminal. The collection also includes cover art from Serge Tkachenko and Oliger Merko that were originally showcased at Prison Creative Arts Project exhibitions.

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  General Issue

  Vol. 32 No. 2 (2023)

  Volume 32, Number 2 (2023) is a general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) edited by Kevin Walby and Justin Piché. Dedicated to the memory of former JPP Dialogue Editor Sarah Speight, the collection features contributions on various issues, including life sentences and barriers to obtaining parole, the perils of prison reform, institutional culture, facility crowding, education initiatives, as well as homophobia and transphobia behind bars. The cover art was created by Peter Collins. Click here to order a printed copy of the full issue through the University of Ottawa Press.

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  Walls to Bridges

  Vol. 32 No. 1 (2023)

  VOLUME 32, Number 1 (2023) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons 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 through the University of Ottawa Press.

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  Prison Labour | Gender, Health and (In)justice in Canada

  Vol. 31 No. 2 (2022)

  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). Email jpp@uottawa.ca to arrange and pay for the shipment of a printed copy of the full issue.

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  Desistance, Social Justice and Lived Experience

  Vol. 31 No. 1 (2022)

  VOLUME 31, NUMBER 1 (2022) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons on "Desistance, Social Justice and Lived Experience" edited by Katharina Maier, Rosemary Ricciardelli, and Shadd Maruna. 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. Click here to order a printed copy of the full issue through the University of Ottawa Press.

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  Anti-Colonial Approach to Abolition

  Vol. 30 No. 2 (2022)

  VOLUME 30, NUMBER 2 (2022) in a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons 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). Click here to order a printed copy of the full issue through the University of Ottawa Press.

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  General Issue

  Vol. 30 No. 1 (2022)

  VOLUME 30, NUMBER 1 (2022) in a general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Kevin Walby, Melissa Munn and Justin Piché. 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. Click here to order a printed copy of the full issue through the University of Ottawa Press.
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  General Issue

  Vol. 29 No. 1-2 (2020)

  VOLUME 29, NUMBER 1&2 (2020) is a general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Kevin Walby and Justin Piché. The collection features contributions on various issues, including the (mis)management of COVID-19 inside sites of human caging and related prisoner solidarity initiatives that aim to diminish the suffering of people facing increasingly austere conditions of confinement enacted by prison authorities in the name of public health. Click here to order a printed copy of the full issue through the University of Ottawa Press.

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  Prison (In)justice in Canada at the Crossroads

  Vol. 28 No. 2 (2020)

  VOLUME 28, NUMBER 2 (2020) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons featuring articles written by current and former prisoner about the current state of incarceration in Canada and their recommendations for change. Click here to order a printed copy of the full issue through the University of Ottawa Press. 

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  General Issue

  Vol. 28 No. 1 (2019)

  VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 (2019) is a general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Justin Piché and Kevin Walby featuring articles documenting prison issues in the United States. It also features an article in a section dedicated to Continuing the Dialogue on the Canadian Carceral State, as well as a Response piece and Prisoners' Struggles contributions that discuss on-going initiatives dedicated to prison justice and abolition. Click here to order a printed copy of the full issue through the University of Ottawa Press. 

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  20 Years of Convict Criminology - Developing Insider Perspectives in Research Activism

  Vol. 27 No. 2 (2018)

  VOLUME 27, NUMBER 2 (2018) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons marking the 20th anniversary of Convict Criminology (CC) edited by Andreas Aresti and Sacha Darke. Drawing on auto-ethnographic, action research and other approaches to qualitative inquiry, the collection features contributions on a variety of topics, including the criminalization of women, the place of current and former prisoners in advocacy work concerning 'criminal justice', the role higher education can play in carceral settings, theorizing the experience of freedom and the deprivation of liberty, pushing the boundaries of CC through abolitionism and its internationalisation. Click here to order a printed copy of the full issue through the University of Ottawa Press. 

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  General Issue

  Vol. 27 No. 1 (2018)

  VOLUME 27, NUMBER 1 (2018) is a general issue edited by Justin Piché and Kevin Walby. Below, you can download the introduction to the issue and individual articles from a section dedicated to "Continuing the Dialogue on Canada's Federal Penitentiary System" edited by Jarrod Shook, along with Prisoners' Struggles pieces and a book review. Click here to order a printed copy of the full issue through the University of Ottawa Press. 

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  Dialogue on Canada's Federal Penitentiary System and the Need for Change

  Vol. 26 No. 1-2 (2017)

  VOLUME 26, NUMBER 1 & 2 (2017) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP). In this publication edited by Jarrod Shook, Bridget McInnis, Justin Piché and Kevin Walby - a "Dialogue on Canada's Federal Penitentiary System and the Need for Change" - JPP contributors discuss the impact of the Conservative punishment agenda (2006-2015). They also advance several recommendations for change to penal policy and practice under the new Liberal Government of Canada.  Click here to order a printed copy of the full issue through the University of Ottawa Press. 

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  Transforming Carceral Agendas through Education

  Vol. 25 No. 2 (2016)

  VOLUME 25, NUMBER 2 of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons is a special issue edited by Vicki Chartrand, Jennifer Kilty and Sandra Lehalle. The contributors in this issue explore the possibilities and constraints of pursuing education behind prison walls. Email jpp@uottawa.ca to arrange and pay for the shipment of a printed copy of the full issue.

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  General Issue

  Vol. 25 No. 1 (2016)

  VOLUME 25, NUMBER 1 (2016) is a general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Justin Piché and Kevin Walby. The collection features contributions on various issues, including the role consumption plays in prisons, programming for criminalized and incarcerated women, as well as health and mental health behind bars. Click here to order a printed copy of the full issue through the University of Ottawa Press. 

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  General Issue

  Vol. 24 No. 2 (2015)

  VOLUME 24, NUMBER 2 (2015) is a general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Kevin Walby and Melissa Munn. The collection features contributions that explore questions of power as they relate to criminalization and incarceration. Email jpp@uottawa.ca to arrange and pay for the shipment of a printed copy of the full issue.

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  General Issue

  Vol. 24 No. 1 (2015)

  VOLUME 24, NUMBER 1 (2015) is a general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Melissa Munn and Kevin Walby. The collection features contributions that explore the impacts of penal intensification on prisoners, along with means to adapt and exit sites of confinement. Email jpp@uottawa.ca to arrange and pay for the shipment of a printed copy of the full issue.

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  General Issue

  Vol. 23 No. 2 (2014)

  VOLUME 23, NUMBER 2 (2014) is a general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Sarah Fiander, Ashley Chen and Justin Piché. The collection features contributions written by current and former prisoners presented at the Fifteenth International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA 15) held on unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin Territory in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in June 2014 at the University of Ottawa. Email jpp@uottawa.ca to arrange and pay for the shipment of a printed copy of the full issue.

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  General Issue

  Vol. 23 No. 1 (2014)

  VOLUME 23, NUMBER 1 (2014) is a general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Justin Piché. The collection features contributions on various issues, including systemic and interpersonal violence in prison, along with the role of education, rehabilitative pursuits and risk assesment in sites of confinement. Click here to order a printed copy of the full issue through the University of Ottawa Press.

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  General Issue - 25th Anniversary

  Vol. 22 No. 2 (2013)

  VOLUME 22, NUMBER 2 (2013) is a general issue commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Susan Nagelsen and Charles Huckelbury. The collection features contributions on various issues, including the pains of imprisonment, prison complaints and oversight, barriers to prisoner re-entry, and resistance. Email jpp@uottawa.ca to arrange and pay for the shipment of a printed copy of the full issue.

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  General Issue - 25th Anniversary

  Vol. 22 No. 1 (2013)

  VOLUME 22, NUMBER 1 (2013) is a general issue commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Susan Nagelsen and Charles Huckelbury. The collection features contributions on various issues, including the miscarriages of justice, 'tough on crime' sentencing and administrative measures, and the impacts of incarceration. Click here to order a printed copy of the full issue through the University of Ottawa Press.

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  Special Issue - 15th Anniversary of Convict Criminology

  Vol. 21 No. 1-2 (2012)

  VOLUME 21, NUMBER 1&2 (2012) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons commemorating the 15th anniversary of Convict Criminology edited by Stephen C. Richards and Michael Lenza. The collection features contributions onthe emergence and development of Convict Criminology, the role the perspective plays in criminological education and the international scene, as well as the community re-entry barriers faced by criminalized people in academia and society more broadly. Click here to order a printed copy of the full issue through the University of Ottawa Press.

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  General Issue

  Vol. 20 No. 2 (2011)

  VOLUME 20, NUMBER 2 (2011) is a general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Mike Larsen and Justin Piché dedicated to Liz Elliott, who was a founding member of our Editorial Board, restorative justice scholar and practitioner, and important contribute to penal abolitionism in Canada. The collection features contributions on the impacts of penal intensification on prisoners in the United States and a piece written by a political prisoner caged for refusing to join Israel's armed forced. It also features papers written by current and former prisoners that were presented at the Thirteenth International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA 13) in Belfast, Northern Ireland and the mass detention that took place during the G-20 summit in Toronto, Ontario, Canada held in June 2010. Click here to order a printed copy of the full issue through the University of Ottawa Press.

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  Criminalizing Women - Past and Present

  Vol. 20 No. 1 (2011)

  VOLUME 20, NUMBER 1 (2011) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Jennifer M. Kilty. The collection features contributions examining the criminalization and incarceration of women in Canada, the United States, and Australia. There is also an article examining the political imprisonment of women in Iran. Click here to order a printed copy of the full issue through the University of Ottawa Press.