Skip to content
  • Home
  • The Archive
    • Search the Archive
    • How to Submit
      • How to Submit
      • Permissions-Questionnaire
  • About
    • About the Archive
    • The Team
    • Archival Silences
    • Projects Inspired by the Archive
  • Curated Collections
  • FAQs & Terminology
  • Saved Selections

If you are working on an APWA-related project, please let us know how you plan to utilize the Archive. We hope to share information about your work with our readers and, whenever possible, with relevant APWA authors.

The APWA is an open access archive. We encourage use of the writings for research, course planning, and projects engaged in examination of the criminal legal system. Reproduction of essays in their entirety infringes on author copyright without their explicit consent from the writers. Please contact us if you plan to reproduce entire essays; we will do our best to put you in contact with the authors for consent, and their compensation for any project that is profit making.

*At this point in the Archive’s growth, it’s important to revisit actions taken to protect privacy when the APWA had fewer resources. For this reason, we are temporarily pulling all essays and poetry under pseudonyms and anonymity to quality check and ensure all identity protecting redactions have been thoroughly applied. The privacy of the writers in the APWA is a top priority, and so is displaying their writing as they wish it to be displayed. We will restore all pieces as soon as we can confirm the highest quality privacy protections.

Help using the APWA search.

Wildcard Operators

The * operator replaces zero or more characters, so searching for w*ess would match “wilderness”, “witness”, “WordPress” and also “wess”.

The ? operator matches exactly one character, so searching for gr?y would match “grey” or “gray”, but not “gravy” or “groovy”.

Boolean Searches

Relevanssi uses + and – for the operators: cats -dogs and cats +kittens.

If you prefer instead to use the verbal AND and NOT operators, those can be used too.

Phrase Searches

Put phrase in quotation marks, e.g., “just as complicit”.

Help using the APWA search.
  • Loading...
  • Loading...
  • Loading...
  • Loading...
  • Loading...
  • Loading...
  • Loading...
  • Loading...
Loading...
Loading...
Voices from solitary: Fighting the coronavirus in prison with transfers, isolation, threats, and game boys
August 25, 2020

Voices from solitary: Fighting the coronavirus in prison with transfers, isolation, threats, and game boys

 The following piece is written by Christopher Blackwell, a 39-year-old man incarcerated at Washington State Reformatory in the Monroe Correctional Complex (MCC), serving the last 23 years of a 45-year sentence. Blackwell was first incarcerated...
Blackwell, Christopher W.Washington
How prison turned my childhood friend into a neo-nazi
August 6, 2020

How prison turned my childhood friend into a neo-nazi

 08.06.2020 LIFE INSIDE How Prison Turned My Childhood Friend Into a Neo-Nazi We grew up listening to Tupac, smoking blunts and emulating Black people. Behind bars, our past was a dangerous secret. By CHRISTOPHER BLACKWELL...
Blackwell, Christopher W.Washington
Watching the protests from prison
June 16, 2020

Watching the protests from prison

 Jewish Currents A protest outside a detention center in Brooklyn, May 30th, 2020. Photo: Joshua Leifer Dispatch Watching the Protests from Prison June 16, 2020 Christopher Blackwell FOR THE LAST FEW WEEKS, the population in...
Blackwell, Christopher W.Washington
Companies are using pandemic to squeeze money from incarcerated people like me
June 6, 2020

Companies are using pandemic to squeeze money from incarcerated people like me

 BY Christopher Blackwell (https://truthout.org/authors/christopher-blackwell/), Truthout PUBLISHED June 6, 2020 SHARE The sun is shining bright as it sits high in the clear blue sky. Its warmth comforts the skin as a light breeze blows. The...
Blackwell, Christopher W.Washington
In prison, even social distancing rules get weaponized
May 28, 2020

In prison, even social distancing rules get weaponized

 06.28.2020 LIFE INSIDE In Prison, Even Social Distancing Rules Get Weaponized “After close to 22 years inside, I thought I had seen everything when it comes to the Department of Corrections using impossible-to-follow rules to...
Blackwell, Christopher W.Washington
You've got masks: Stop complaining'
April 21, 2020

You've got masks: Stop complaining'

 The Crime Report | (https://thecrimereport.org/2020/04/21/youve-got-masks-stop-complaining/) ‘You’ve Got Masks: Stop Complaining’ By Christopher Blackwell | April 21, 2020 [photograph of a store register with a sign reading “Please Keep Your Distance”] Photo by Tim Dennell While...
Blackwell, Christopher W.Washington
Covid-19 prison dilemma: Is security more important than health?
April 10, 2020

Covid-19 prison dilemma: Is security more important than health?

 The Crime Report | (https://thecrimereport.org/2020/04/10/901081/) COVID-19 Prison Dilemma: Is Security More Important Than Health? By Christopher Blackwell | April 10, 2020 [close-up photograph of barbed wire] Photo by J.Chan via Flickr One unexpected thing this...
Blackwell, Christopher W.Washington
Back to top
Open filters
Close
Loading...
Johns Hopkins logo
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact
  • Takedown and Changes Policy

© 2023 Johns Hopkins University. All Rights Reserved.

Page load link

If you are working on an APWA-related project, please let us know how you plan to utilize the Archive. We hope to share information about your work with our readers and, whenever possible, with relevant APWA authors.

APWA is an open access archive. We encourage use of the writings for research, course planning, and projects engaged in examination of the criminal legal system. Reproduction of essays in their entirety infringes on author copyright without their explicit consent from the writers. Please contact us if you plan to reproduce entire essays; we will do our best to put you in contact with the authors for consent, and their compensation for any project that is profit making.

Thank you for your message. It has been sent.
There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later.
Go to Top