Bearing Witness.
The United States holds nearly two million people in its prisons and jails — a larger share of its population than in any other nation on earth. Yet there remains widespread ignorance of conditions inside. Amid the unprecedented American experiment in mass incarceration, the American Prison Writing Archive (APWA) hopes to disaggregate this mass into the individual minds, hearts and voices of incarcerated writers.
About the Archive
The APWA strives to replace misrepresentation of prisons and imprisoned people with first-person witness by those living in legalized confinement.
Image Credit: Smith, Andrew Jackson, “Adaptive core curriculum for prisoners”
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