Free as FolkMay 4

Social Revolutions of my Life – Police and Prison Abolition

This post is Part 2 of a series on social revolutions of the past 30 years — where public consciousness has massively shifted in favor of liberation. My aim is to create space to pause and acknowledge how things have changed in ways that once felt impossible, remind us that things can always be otherwise. It is inspired in part by Rebecca Solnit’s 2016 edition of Hope in the Dark and David Graeber’s 2007 essay “The Shock of Victory.” Feel free to check out part 1. [...]

https://write.as/free-as-folk/social-revolutions-of-my-life-police-and-prison-abolition

Sam at BLAGDec 12, 2025

Prison Art anyone?

https://rawvision.com/blogs/articles/prison-art

#PrisonArt #OutsiderArt #Art #RawVision

PRISON ART

First published: December 2025 Making items from cigarette packets and paper scraps once provided an escape for inventive prisoners; today those items hold deep meaning for a Boston collector. A boxy shoulder bag glistening with ivory diamonds, each with a camel head image, made from Camel cigarette boxes. A red-and-wh

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Prison PODSep 2, 2025

This book is on my Wish list; if you are interested in creativity in prison, you should probably add this book to your library. I will be interviewing the author in October; he was highly recommended to be a guest.

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Kristof ZerbeApr 12, 2025
Mandela Lock

https://kiko.io/photos/24-12-Suedafrika-0476-D50

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Photo 24-12-Suedafrika-0476-D50 - kiko.io

Photo 24-12-Suedafrika-0476-D50 by Kristof Zerbe

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Willie RobbSep 12, 2023
Body of Light, 2017 at Salisbury Cathedral: http://www.willierobb.com/bodyofwriting.html
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Body of Writing Exhibition at Salisbury Cathedral

Identity and memory are the twin themes explored in an innovative public art installation at Salisbury Cathedral that combines photographs of tattoos, belonging to inmates at Erlestoke prison, and extracts of their writing.

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XanxaSep 7, 2023
Mynarth Penitentiary is one of the most notorious Varathusian prisons, located on the outskirts of the city of Mynarth. It's a maximum security installation. Grim brutalist architecture sets the mood. Draconian punishments are frequently meted out by guards and inmates alike.
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CNN RSSDec 10, 2022
A portrait of America's prison arts programs
#prisonart # PopeFrancis # artin corrections
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/peter-merts-prison-arts/index.html
A portrait of America's prison arts programs

Photographer Peter Merts' striking images of prison artists explore rehabilitation and redemption in America's correctional facilities.

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