Category: Briarpatch

by Deborah McKenzie   Sep 2, 2021   8 min read   Share Art by Stacy Bluebird, courtesy of Cell Count magazine I have been on remand at Pine Grove Correctional … Read More

by Amanda Rae   Sep 2, 2021   8 min read   Share Amanda Rae Correction (noun): The act or process of correcting something; a change that rectifies an error … Read More

by Tamina D. Hamid   Sep 2, 2021   6 min read   Share My name is Tamina Hamid. I’ve done 15 years on a capital aggravated life sentence in … Read More

by Jessie Milo   Sep 2, 2021   8 min read   Share “Can you imagine a world without prisons?”  Yes, I can, but it was difficult at first because … Read More

by Ojore McKinnon   Sep 2, 2021   8 min read   Share For over a decade, prison reform has been one of the foremost demands of a generation calling … Read More

by Robert Black   Sep 2, 2021   4 min read   Share Art by Joey Toutsaint for Prisoners’ Justice Day 2020 On June 18, 2019, I was paged to … Read More

by James Ruston   Sep 2, 2021   2 min read   Share I am a prisoner, currently on life parole. I have served almost 32 years of a life sentence … Read More

by Saima Desai   Jul 5, 2021   3 min read   Share On the cover of this issue of Briarpatch you’ll notice two new badges. One is from the … Read More

A year of COVID-era hunger strikes in Canadian prisons by MJ Adams   Jul 5, 2021   13 min read   Share When the pandemic hit Canada in March 2020, … Read More

by Katie Doke Sawatzky   Jul 5, 2021   12 min read   Share On August 9, 2020, a small group of Indigenous people and settlers gathered at a farm … Read More

by Sparrow Preston   Jul 5, 2021   9 min read   Share On a sunny Friday afternoon in March, outside the ground-floor office window at the shelter where I … Read More

by Regan de Loggans   Jul 5, 2021   8 min read   Share Back in May 2020, Lenapehoking – where so-called New York City, where I live, is situated … Read More