Private prisons highlight the disposability of men.
Injustices, large and small, abound in prison. California prison inmate Spoon Jackson, a teacher and poet, is wrongly identified as a gang member and placed on lockdown.
Who Profits From a Growing Prison Population?
May 11, 2013 By 16 Comments
Go On: Support The Other Death Penalty Project
May 5, 2013 By 2 Comments
You can help raise awareness among policymakers of the cruelty of life without parole.
To Watch TV or Not
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Too Cruel, Not Unusual Enough
April 21, 2013 By 3 Comments
Kenneth E. Hartman’s anthology sheds light on the other death penalty: life without parole.
Prison Utopia
April 3, 2013 By 12 Comments
The United States leads the world in incarceration rates of its citizens. Is America really home of the free?
Unrelenting: Mental Illness in Prison
March 31, 2013 By 3 Comments
After 35 years of incarceration, Spoon Jackson says, “I have never adjusted to being caged.”
Spring Dew
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Spoon Jackson welcomes Spring with the declaration that “There is still beauty in cell bars.”
About My Sentence
February 24, 2013 By 1 Comment
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
February 17, 2013 By 3 Comments
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
February 10, 2013 By 1 Comment
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
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Spoon Jackson writes from prison of the freedom he enjoys as he flies: ‘My heart pounds behind no chest.’
The Disposability of Black Men
February 2, 2013 By 66 Comments
Black men are brutally murdered and systematically incarcerated. Is this genocide?
Spoon Jackson: Writing From the Inside Out
January 27, 2013 By 3 Comments
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
November 3, 2012 By 1 Comment
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
October 18, 2012 By 3 Comments
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
April 28, 2012 By 10 Comments
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 [...]
“It’s a woman’s job to make her man feel safe — a safe place that doesn’t expect him to do brave things just because he’s a man.”
This is a comment by Kat on the post “A Husband’s Job Is To Create Emotional Safety”.
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