Joseph Rodriguez
Joseph Rodriguez‘s work is essential. If I and others can promote his photography humanity then we’ve done some good. Last week PDN ran a post about the value of the “Digital Curator“. It was a well...
View ArticleAra Oshagan
Image source. Ara Oshagan sat down for an interview with Boy With Grenade to talk about his project Juvies from the California Youth Detention system. Oshagan talks about “access, his process and the...
View ArticlePPOTR Dispatch # 11: Interview with Ruth Morgan
There were two categories of interviewees I planned to connect with during PPOTR – photographers and prison reformers. I didn’t expect to meet many individuals who satisfied both definitions. Ruth...
View ArticleCalifornia Gov’s Budget Barely Reduces Prison Populations and Expands...
Photographer unknown. Group holding cages, C-Yard, Building 13, Administrative Segregation Unit, Mule Creek State Prison, August 1, 2008 The coalition activist groups Californians United for a...
View ArticleCalifornia! Stop Strip Searching My Grandma!
I was recently alerted about a disturbing change in policy within the California prison system. There are numerous reasons to be alarmed and thankfully Kenneth Hartman details them below and in the...
View ArticleLandmark Agreement Ends Indefinite Long-Term Solitary Confinement in California
Prisoners in California will no longer be kept in windowless boxes indefinitely. That improves the lives of 3,000 people. It also brings California into line with the practices of virtually all other...
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