Private prisons highlight the disposability of men.
Prison
Go On: Support The Other Death Penalty Project
You can help raise awareness among policymakers of the cruelty of life without parole.
To Watch TV or Not
Spoon Jackson remembers the days before free TV pacified prison culture.
Too Cruel, Not Unusual Enough
Kenneth E. Hartman’s anthology sheds light on the other death penalty: life without parole.
Prison Utopia
The United States leads the world in incarceration rates of its citizens. Is America really home of the free?
Unrelenting: Mental Illness in Prison
After 35 years of incarceration, Spoon Jackson says, “I have never adjusted to being caged.”
Spring Dew
Spoon Jackson welcomes Spring with the declaration that “There is still beauty in cell bars.”
About My Sentence
Spoon Jackson, who has served 34 years of a life sentence in prison, faces the reality of his fate.
Arts in Correction Documentary ‘At Night I Fly’ Premieres at MOMA
GMP Poet Spoon Jackson is one of the subjects of Michel Wenzler’s complex portrait of prison life, in its US premiere at MOMA on February 20.
Months of Lockdown
While in lockdown, poet and prisoner Spoon Jackson flies in his mind’s eye, witness to freedom and injustice.
At Night I Fly: The Good Life Introduces Spoon Jackson, a Poet Behind Bars
Spoon Jackson writes from prison of the freedom he enjoys as he flies: ‘My heart pounds behind no chest.’
The Disposability of Black Men
Black men are brutally murdered and systematically incarcerated. Is this genocide?
Spoon Jackson: Writing From the Inside Out
Spoon Jackson has been behind bars since 1977, and trying to tell his story in poetry for much of that time. He spoke to the Good Men Project about what he does and why.
The Last Meals Project
Jonathon Kambouris visually documents the face and last meal of convicted killers in order to question how society is really served by the death penalty.
Incarcerated Youth Write the Stories of Their Lives
A writing and mentoring program in Los Angeles for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated youth is changing their lives from the inside out.
Naomi Wolf: The State Can Strip You
Naomi Wolf has, lately, been rather facepalmy regarding the whole porn/sex/sex work issue, so it’s nice to see her actually talking about something that doesn’t make me want to look at my copy of The Beauty Myth and cry. Although it kind of makes me want to cry for my country. Our surveillance state shown considerable determination…