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Archive Toggle Navigation Home The Archive Search the Archive How to Submit How to Submit Permissions-Questionnaire About About the Archive The Team Archival Silences Projects Inspired by the Archive Curated Collections FAQs & Terminology Saved Selections Explore the Archive About the Archive Bearing Witness. The United States holds nearly two million people in its prisons and jails — a larger share of its population than in any other nation on earth. Yet there remains widespread ignorance of conditions inside. Amid the unprecedented American experiment in mass incarceration, the American Prison Writing Archive (APWA) hopes to disaggregate this mass into the individual minds, hearts and voices of incarcerated writers. Explore the Archive Essays from the Archive First Sip of Coffee Zamarron, Kenneth L. Indiana Get Out of Our Own Way Freedom Sun Illinois How Long is Long Enough? Stermer, Linda Kay Michigan Browse More Essays About the Archive The APWA strives to replace misrepresentation of prisons and imprisoned people with first-person witness by those living in legalized confinement. Read More About Our Mission Image Credit: Smith, Andrew Jackson, Adaptive core curriculum for prisoners” Special Thanks Join our email list to receive our newsletter. Thank you for your message. It has been sent. × There was an error trying to send your message. . × Submit Get In Touch We’d love to hear from you about: Projects you’re working on inspired by the Archive. Courses or teaching using the Archive Opportunities for relationship building and collaboration. Opportunities to build connections with organizations engaged in similar work. Opportunities to disseminate our call for entries within active prison publications and networks. Opportunities to Volunteer American Prison Writing Archive Johns Hopkins University 3400 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218 Name * Email Address * Message * Submit Thank you for your message. It has been sent. × There was an error trying to send your message. . × Help us get the word out to new writers to contribute their first-hand experiences with APWA. Share our Call for Essays with family, friends, and incarceration focused support and advocacy groups and educational programming. Toggle Navigation Privacy Policy Contact Takedown and Changes Policy © 2023 Johns Hopkins University. All Rights Reserved. Page load link If you are working on an APWA-related project, please let us know how you plan to utilize the Archive. We hope to share information about your work with our readers and, whenever possible, with relevant APWA authors. APWA is an open access archive. We encourage use of the writings for research, course planning, and projects engaged in examination of the criminal legal system. Reproduction of essays in their entirety infringes on author copyright without their explicit consent from the writers. Please contact us if you plan to reproduce entire essays; we will do our best to put you in contact with the authors for consent, and their compensation for any project that is profit making. Name * Phone Project Type Date Email * Authors and Essays referenced (if known) Submit Thank you for your message. It has been sent. × There was an error trying to send your message....