This Is My Jail FICTION / Epistolary from the project's inception to

from the project's inception to its finished product

witnessed appalling abuses by prosecutors that prompted her to write Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice

The pieces are organized around considerations of citizenship

Unearths the queer aesthetic origins of NYC hip hop

This Is My Jail FICTION / Epistolary from the project's inception toWhile state and federal prisons like Attica and Alcatraz occupy a central place in the national consciousness, most incarceration in the United States occurs within the walls of local jails. In This Is My Jail, Melanie D. Newport situates the late twentieth century escalation of mass incarceration in a longer history of racialized, politically repressive jailing. Centering the political actions of people until now overlookedjailed people, wardens,