What If Disaster Strikes Here?

Jared Bozydaj is an incarcerated writer and activist. He is the co-founder of Products of Our Environment, a collaborative of scholars and artists working on issues of environmental justice and incarceration across the prison wall, which is supported by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. Adam Roberts, a founding member of the Attica Wri ...

Over the past decade, programs funded by Prop 47 have helped Californians thrive. But a new ballot measure would increase arrests and incarceration.

When Pam Thompson first got out of prison in 1993 after four years of incarceration, she felt trapped. Though no longer behind bars, she returned to Los Angeles seemingly without options. “I just hit wall after wall,” she said. “There was no transitional housing. There was no job training, and I couldn’t even get a job because of my criminal bac ...