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Andrea Jones

Letters from Incarcerated Writers

By Andrea Jones × In Conversation

Testimonies on public misconceptions of life in prison, what goes underreported in the media, and how the system runs counter to rehabilitation.

Prison Writing & Political Will

By Andrea Jones × In Conversation

In the midst of the California prison system’s crackdown on dissent, inmates across the country lack the crucial tool: freedom of expression.

Battling Censorship Behind Bars

By Andrea Jones × In Conversation

Books by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors like Jeffrey Eugenides, Sinclair Lewis, Norman Mailer, Annie Proulx, Philip Roth, Art Spiegelman, Wallace Stegner, John Updike, Robert Penn Warren, and Alice Walker were deemed unfit.