Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, V29

INTRODUCTION FROM THE ISSUE EDITORS Voices from the Inside, Voices from Beyond: Reflections on the (Prison) Pandemic Kevin Walby and Justin Piché ..................................................................1 ARTICLES Night Time Lukas Carey..............................................................................................7 Experience in the Essex County Youthhouse Detention Center During the 1990’s Omar Austin............................................................................................11 Fourteen to Forty: Creating Something Out of Nothing Jeremiah Bourgeois ................................................................................13 Doin’ Time in the Late Twenty Teens Gordon Melvin........................................................................................19 Making ‘Friends’ at the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre Adam Dufresne .......................................................................................24 Peer Support and Well-Being: Exploring the Impact of Peer-Led Induction on Male Prisoners Ed Schreeche-Powell..............................................................................30 First Amendment Under Attack in Illinois Prisons: The Price of Dissent George Peter...........................................................................................61 Riots Expose Bleak Future for Corrections in Massachusetts and Nationwide Charles N. Diorio ...................................................................................68 Restrictive Housing Unit: New Name, Same Flower Sean J. White ..........................................................................................72 Miscarriage of Justice in the Commonwealth Jermaine Pickett .....................................................................................75 A Bleeding and Broken System Mark Zammit ..........................................................................................77 Locked-up and in Limbo: Living Stateless in my Hometown Jail Deepan Budlakoti ...................................................................................79 On Counting W.E. Roberts ...........................................................................................84 Fill in the Blanks W.E. Roberts ...........................................................................................86 A Loss of Memory? W.E. Roberts ...........................................................................................89 RESPONSE Communities of Advocacy, Resources and Supports in the Wake of COVID-19 Vicki Chartrand ......................................................................................92 PRISONERS’ STRUGGLES COVID-19 Care Kits: Mutual Aid for Prisoners in Saskatchewan and Alberta Nancy Van Styvendale.............................................................................97 Prairie Province Prisoner Support Fund Free Lands Free Peoples......................................................................104 Advocating for the Human Rights of Prisoners Millhaven Lifers' Laison Group ..........................................................108 Out of Sight and Out of Mind: The Incarcerated Mothers Offering Mutual Support / MOMS .........................................110 Coronavirus, droits humains et détention des personnes migrantes Collectif ensemble avec les personnes migrantes contre le racisme, Rencontre Interculturelle des Familles de l'Estrie et Solidarité sans frontières Sherbrooke...............................................115 How Our Advocacy Continues During a Pandemic Jane Crosby - Books 2 Prisoners Ottawa ............................................117 Demands Made Regarding Federal Prisons During the COVID-19 Pandemic Termite Collective.................................................................................120 My Experience of COVID-19 in a (Fake) Minimum Security Institution Hassan Al-Ghazzi .................................................................................122 Life at Joyceville Minimum During COVID-19 Kevin Belanger .....................................................................................124 COVID-19 Behind Bars Steven Zehr ...........................................................................................126 Raw Vs. The Law: Our Fight for Vegetables at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre Erica Brazeau.......................................................................................127 COVID-19 and Prisoners Anonymous from Saskatchewan Penitentiary.......................................130 Edmonton Max Reflections Luqman Osman.....................................................................................131 Edmonton Max Anonymous from Edmonton Institution ................................................134 BOOK REVIEWS Prison Pedagogies Edited by Joe Lockard and Sherry Rankins-Robertson Syracuse: Syracuse University Press (2018) 272pp. Reviewed by Lucas Ridgeway...............................................................137 Available Titles and Call for Book Reviews: Journal of Prisoners on Prisons...........................................................141 UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUES – CALLS FOR PAPERS 25 Years of Convict Criminology Grant Tietjen, J. Renee Trombley and Alison Cox................................144 Anti-colonial Carceral Abolition Thalia Anthony, Vicki Chartrand and Tracey McIntosh Ngāi Tūhoe ...............................................................147 Walls to Bridges Shoshana Pollack and Christine Mayor...............................................150 Homelessness and Incarceration Erin Dej and Dale Spencer...................................................................153 Prison Labour Jordan House and Kelly Struthers Montford........................................155 COVER ART “Flower Skull” (front cover) Jessica Kakeeway 2019 ......................................................................................................158