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"...allowing our experiences and analysis to be added to the forum that
will constitute public opinion could help halt the disastrous trend toward building more fortresses of
fear which will become in the 21st century this generation's monuments to failure."
-Jo-Anne Mayhew, from JPP Vol. 1:1 (1988)
General Information
The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) is a prisoner written,
academically oriented & peer reviewed, non-profit journal, based on the tradition
of the penal press. It brings the knowledge produced by prison
writers together with academic arguments to enlighten public
discourse about the current state of carceral institutions. This
is particularly important because with few exceptions, definitions
of deviance and constructions of those participating in these defined
acts are incompletely created by social ‘scientists’, media
representatives, politicians, and legal and justice industrialists.
These analyses most often promote self-serving interests, omit the
voices of those most affected, and facilitate repressive and
reactionary penal policies and practices. As a result, the JPP
attempts to acknowledge the accounts, experiences, and criticisms
of the criminalized by providing an educational forum that allows
women and men to participate in the development of research that
concerns them directly. In an age where `crime` has become lucrative
and exploitable, the JPP exists as an important alternate source
of information that competes with popularly held stereotypes and
misconceptions about those who are currently, or those who have in
the past, faced the deprivation of liberty.
History
The JPP grew out of presentations at the International Conference on
Penal Abolition (ICOPA) III held in Montreal in 1987, where participants
were concerned with the lack of prisoner representation. It subsequently emerged in 1988,
and has since published over 20 issues featuring prison writers from many different
countries who discuss a broad range of topics pertaining to imprisonment. Articles are used
regularly in university courses, and are frequently reprinted in books and cited in
academic works. Readership includes prisoners, former prisoners, activists, academics,
and community and justice workers amongst many others. The editorial board that produces
and manages the journal is composed of university professors, and current and former
prisoners who voluntarily contribute time and effort. The JPP is
funded through subscriptions and sales, and is not dependent on any outside
sources. It is currently published through the University of Ottawa Press
in a biannual format. Many past contributors have received awards for their
writing (e.g. PEN) and also have gone on to publish books.
Writing as Resistance: The JPP Anthology 1988-2002 (Gaucher, Ed. 2002) won silver
prize, for book of the year in Foreword Magazine’s annual awards in 2002.
* * *
Franklin (1998) refers to the 1960s and 1970s as an age of literary renaissance in
American prison writing. A new wave of prison writers. and their literary forms
and styles transcended the traditional classifications, transforming them into a
new prison-focused narrative (See Gaucher;1999). Above all these new forms were
imbued with the political consciousness that came to inform convict culture and the
discourse of convict intellectuals in Western societies. It is this literary tradition
that the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons strives to represent.
The first International Conference on Prison Abolition (ICOPA) was held in Toronto,
Canada in the summer of 1983 (Finateri and Saleh-Hanna, 2000) and drew together
grassroots activists, radical academics, NGOs, and a solid representation of prisoners.
ICOPA II was held in Amsterdam in 1985 and was much more academic in its program and
participation. A group of Canadians - Claire Culhane, Art Solomon, Ruth Morris, Liz
Elliott, Howard Davidson, and myself - discussed the lack of representation of grassroots
activists and prisoners, and this discussion resulted in ICOPA III being jointly hosted
by the Universite de Montreal and Universite d'Ottawa at the Universite de Montreal,
Canada. In redressing the perceived imbalance of ICOPA II, we included strong
participation in the program of grassroots organizations such as Anarchist Black
Cross groups and the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, and we were pleased about the
involvement of Art Solomon and Canadian Aboriginal communities. It is difficult to
get prisoners out of prison to attend penal abolition conferences and though we had
some (former) prisoner participation, we extended their participation by presenting
papers written by current prisoners (Davidson, 1988). The positive reception they
received led directly to our broader discussion of the importance of prisoners'
input into official and academic discourse, and eventually the creation of the
Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP). As Howard Davidson noted in the first
volume, "for the prisoners and former prisoners who would welcome an opportunity
to engage in the production of knowledge about crime and punishment, the barriers
to participation remain formidable" (1988, 1:1, 3). The JPP was intended as a vehicle
for the accounts and analysis of prisoners "to bring the knowledge and experience
of the incarcerated to bear upon ... academic arguments and concerns, and to
inform public discourse about the current state of our carceral institutions"
(Gaucher, 1988, 1:1,54). Our intent and expectations for the journal were
informed by penal abolitionist arguments and strategies
(see Culhane, 1979, 1985; Hulsman, 1985; Kneen, 1994; Mathiesen, 1974; Posluns, 1990).
I addressed this intent in my Response to the first issue:
... if the prison abolitionist argument that the goal and necessity of the outside critic
should be to empower the disenfranchised, then providing the opportunity for prisoners
to state their case, to identify the major problems, and to provide us with up to date
information and analysis about what is actually occurring in our prisons is a necessity.
Amongst the diverse group of the people who serve as the carceral commodity there are many
with extraordinary talents and insights, whose contributions can revitalize this barren
area of study (i.e., corrections). ... as a teacher I am constantly in search of
ethnographic materials which will provide insight to my students and will help to
combat the "monster" stereotypes of the criminalized and incarcerated which dominate
public and academic discourse. So there is clearly a role to be played by prisoners
and a need for them to try and take back a small measure of control of their destinies
by actively engaging the concerned public and by defining the dominant problems of the
current situation (Gaucher 1988; JPP 1:1).
-Robert Gaucher, from Writing As Resistance (p.7-9)
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The first issue Gayle K. Horii & Liz Elliott; JPP 5:2)
The two general issues of Volume 6 (1995) focused upon the current prison conditions and the emerging prison-industrial complex in the
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