Since May of 2020, Empowerment Avenue writers have published hundreds of stories in dozens of publications: literary journals, local newspapers, publications focused on criminal justice and social justice, and major publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times and Miami Herald.
Here are some standouts:
Why Are We Still Strip Searching Prisoners?
Chris Blackwell for Opinion, New York Times
In Texas Prison My Black Hair Brings a Sense of Identity–and Punishment
Kwaneta Harris for COSMOPOLITAN
I’m incarcerated in California. Here’s What Prop 6 Not Passing Means for People Like Me
Steve Brooks for Time Magazine
Reading While Incarcerated Saved Me. So Why Are Prisons Banning Books?
Christopher Blackwell for the New York Times
Life While Incarcerated is Dehumanizing. Crochet Has Made a Difference.
Kunlyna Tauch for Harper's Bazaar
Ask Kwaneta
Kwaneta Harris for This American Life
The Everglades Experiment: Florida’s First ‘Incentivized’ Prison Redefines Punishment
Ryan Moser for The Crime Report
I’m Trapped In a Women’s Prison During a Pandemic
Michele Scott for Elle
Left in the Dark | Covid Behind Bars
numerous Empowerment Avenue contributors for The Drift
As COVID-19 Raged, Journalists Fought Isolation and Illness to Expose Abusive Conditions
Empowerment Avenue contributors for Shadowproof
Incarcerated Nurse—Women’s Health Care in Prison is Hell and Will Only Get Worse Under Trump
Kwaneta Harris for Rolling Stone Magazine
The Complex Bargaining Process of Googling from Prison
Heather C. Jarvis for Slate
My Pen Uncovers the Real Me
Corey Devon Arthur
2021 Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize
Demetrius Buckley
What It’s Like to Experience Solitary Confinement as an Incarcerated Trans Woman
Jessica Sylvia for INTO
Op-Ed: In prison, the work of journalism is challenging but essential
Juan Haines for the Los Angeles Times
After Incarcerated Organizers’ Two-Year Fight for Food Justice, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department Finally Reopens Hot Kitchens in the OC Jails
Jose Armendariz for The Voice of OC
Let Everyone Vote, Even If They’re Incarcerated
Patrick Stephens for The Progressive
My Life Sewing T-Shirts for 26 cents an hour
Wesley Williams for The New Republic
How the Justice System Denies Trans Identities
Jessica Sylvia for Dame Magazine
Prisons Said It Was COVID Isolation. The Incarcerated Describe Torture
Christopher Blackwell and Jessica Shulberg for HuffPost
Department Finally Reopens Hot Kitchens in the OC Jails
Jose Armendariz for The Voice of OC
Post-Covid, Kent State’s Child Development Center is financially secure and enrollment rising
Michael Ray for The Portager
The War on Drugs Persists for Older Incarcerated People in Florida
Tony Cobb and Khawla Nakua for Prism
‘I don’t have the funds’: a diabetic prisoner pleaded for insulin supplies before his death
Felix Sitthivong for the Guardian
In Solitary Confinement, Banned Books are a Lifeline
Kwaneta Harris for the Boston Globe
How I Convinced My Incarcerated Peers to Make Language a Priority
Marshall Project
Incarcerated people are telling their own stories more than ever before. It’s about time
NBCU Academy
A prison reckoning with remorse
Boston Globe
The Struggle Prepares You For Your Purpose
The Inevitable
I Organized My First Art Show From Behind Bars. Here’s How Incarcerated Curators Can Help Us See the World Differently
ArtNet
First-ever International Prison Radio Conference shows potential of ‘story power’ to effect change
Current
San Quentin’s Rolling Lockdowns Are Not Keeping Anyone Safe
Type Investigations and The Appeal
I've served 19 years in San Quentin prison and I just got diagnosed with COVID-19. Where is the justice?
Insider
Santa Rosa council member Mark Stapp on his decade of basketball with San Quentin prison’s sports exchange program
Press Democrat
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