PEN America Works of Justice

PEN America Works of Justice

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Works of Justice is an online literary series and podcast from PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing that explores the relationship between writing and incarceration, and challenges current conversations about criminal justice in the United States.

Recent Episodes

  • Damascus James on Witnessing, Letter Writing, and Solitary Confinement

    11 months ago
  • Tommy Trantino on Perseverance and Protest

    12 months ago
  • Tracy D. Schlapp and Danny J. Wilson on Cultivating Writing Communities Inside Oregon Prisons

    1 year ago
  • Damien M. Sojoyner on Ethnography and Histories of Resistance in Los Angeles

    1 year ago
  • Hugh Ryan on Carceral Archives and Queer History

    1 year ago
  • Celes Tisdale on Remembering the Attica Prison Uprising Through Poetry

    1 year ago
  • Prince Shakur on Masculinity, Queerness, and Histories of Incarceration

    2 years ago
  • Andy West on Teaching Philosophy in Prisons

    2 years ago
  • Keeda J. Haynes on Second-Chance Culture and Standing in Her Truth

    2 years ago
  • Marlon Peterson on Harm, Healing, and Breaking Free

    2 years ago