THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN DR. KING'S INCARCERATION & TODAY'S INCARCERATED WRITER  By Ivan Kilgore, January 2025 This year, I was invited to speak at the University of Santa Clara to commemorate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and its connection to...

December 2024 Message From Our Founde This month, we wanted to highlight the organization's biggest accomplishments for 2024. Personally, for me as someone who's been in a cage for over two decades, building infrastructure was at the top of the list. Hands down, any...

Rehabilitation Over Profit By Megan McDrew Growing up in the shadow of San Quentin and Alcatraz, I’ve always been drawn to prisons with a mix of curiosity, disdain, and a healthy dose of fear. San Quentin, once one of the most notoriously dangerous prisons in...

November 2024 Message From Our Founder November marked the 24th year I've been incarcerated. In May, I graduated with two degrees: one in Liberal Arts and another in Political Science. It was a bittersweet moment. On one hand, I looked to the sky and smiled, knowing...

Prisoner of War By Monsour Owolabi this poem is part of the “100 Stories” Archive with Stony Brook University to be published 6 November 2024   I’m in a tomb for the living, locked in a box. My clothes are all white except my gray socks. It’s 95° or so I hear;...

This article was originally published by Inquest Magazine on 10 October, 2024 The People v. the Prison By Ivan Kilgore California is discovering the hard way that you can’t leave decarceral reforms in the hands of prison officials At times it appears as though...

It's said that processionary caterpillars travel in long, undulating lines, one creature after another. Jean-Henri Fabre, the French naturalist who died in 1915, once led a group of these caterpillars onto the rim of a large flowerpot, so that the lead caterpillar...

Catherine Clark Perkins affectionately known as Ms. Cat (Catron Academy Learning Institute)  is a community activist/advocate working to end Mass Incarceration and gang/gun violence. She is the CEO and founder of Catron Academy Learning Institute. A member of the...

My name is Laurie Tang, and I volunteer as the Program and Policy Coordinator for the R.E.B.U.I.L.D. team at UBFSF. So far, I have been engaged in structuring the R.E.B.U.I.L.D. narrative, discussing ideas to reach wider audiences with Ivan, and helping to plan...

Testimonial for Mr. Banks When I first met Ivan, I was immediately struck by his confidence and determination. We walked to chow one morning, and as he talked to me about his business, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Here was a man who, despite the immense...

Words as Resistance: Dismantling Systems of Oppression through Writing By Keziah Poole As a teacher-scholar of resistance literature and Director of The Readers’ Circle, a peer-editing program that connects college students with incarcerated writers, I am often met...