A social justice publication based in Portland, OR, developed, written, and curated by currently and formerly imprisoned people. Our mission is to help transform how those with lived experience of imprisonment are perceived and treated by providing a platform for creative expression, political advocacy, and connection-building between imprisoned people and the broader community.

American Prison Newspapers will brings together hundreds of prison periodicals from across the country into one collection representing penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.

A fully searchable digital archive of non-fiction essays by writers among America’s 2.2 million imprisoned people. It is also open to prison staff and volunteers who bear witness to current prison conditions.

The Freedom Archives contains thousands of audio and video recordings as well as print materials which date from the late-1960s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements.

Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

In addition to incarcerated people's submissions, the archive also includes Inside Book Project's past newsletters, zines, event flyers, and photos of the collective from 1998 to present. Another collection in the archive is book denial documents from prison mail-rooms (forms sent to us when books or resources we sent are banned and destroyed) which preserves important historical evidence of censorship practices in the U.S.

This website is dedicated to providing an open-access archive of historical publications produced by incarcerated people in Canada

Barring Freedom highlights the roles of art, music, visual culture and the radical imaginary in engaging issues of prisons, policing, and abolition in the United States. Organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences, Barring Freedom features a contemporary art exhibition at San José Museum of Art and a participatory public art project, Solitary Garden.

This major exhibition explores the work of artists within US prisons and the centrality of incarceration to contemporary art and culture. Featuring art made by people in prisons and work by nonincarcerated artists concerned with state repression, erasure, and imprisonment.

The American Prison Writing Archive is a place where imprisoned people and prison staff can write about and document their experience. It is a site where all who live or work inside can bear witness to what is working and what is not inside American prisons, thus grounding public debate about the American prison crisis in lived experience.

A podcast on prison abolition that elevates the voices of people directly impacted by the system.

The daily realities of life inside prison shared by those living it, and stories from the outside, post-incarceration.

Prison Radio’s mission is to include the voices of incarcerated people in the public debate.

Captured Words/Free Thoughts offers testimony from America’s prisons and prison-impacted communities and represents a national coalition of educators, activists, and artists.

Started by the editors at phoebe as a way to open the publishing platform to writers in prisons across the United States. We believe the inclusion of their literary voices will enlarge and ultimately strengthen the artistic and scholarly community.

In the Belly is a journal by and for people who are held captive by the Prison-Industrial Complex. For people whose lives are impacted, determined, and overshadowed by punishment and incarceration daily: prisoners & their families, loved ones, friends, communities and comrades.

An online and print magazine devoted to writing and art from the prison world.

An online and print journal that celebrates the lives and creative work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people as well as individuals who have been impacted directly or indirectly by the criminal justice system.

We aim to give a relevant voice to a marginalized, incarcerated community so they can contribute to discussions about criminal justice reform.

This journal will publish poetry, stories, essays and visual art reflecting on incarceration with a different type of sentence.

A prison newsletter that is produced for and in part, by those incarcerated in Illinois.

A zine filled with articles, essays, poetry and art by formerly and currently incarcerated women across the United States.

A World Without Cages imagines the end of mass incarceration and migrant detention by bringing together the work of writers on the inside and on the outside.

This collection contains zines and other materials mostly created and/or distributed by Anthony Rayson through his South Chicago ABC Zine Distro.

Mariame Kaba works as a community-based organizer and educator with a focus on violence against women and girls, the prison system and youth leadership development.

This search of the McCormick Archives & Special Collections at Northwestern University Libraries brings up over 40 results for prison newspapers, pamphlets, and other ephemera. For now, access to this collection is in person only.