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Kirsten Ricketts is an activist who runs an organization that helps individuals who have been recently released from prison. Kirsten herself is formerly incarcerated and understands the reentry process firsthand. Her husband is also currently…

Jennifer Toon is a journalist from East Texas. While incarcerated, Toon wrote for the state prison newspaper, The Echo, for over ten years, and as a freelance writer, she has published work with The Texas Observer, The Marshall Project, and the…

"This is me spending my youth in prison for a crime I did young. I came to prison 21 with 50 years for agg. robbery never in life has I had to deal with anything covid-19 it's a very hard struggle everything is scary and you don't no what you may…

A letter, photograph, and seven bars of soap and a cotton mask.

"A sound description of my experience with COVID-19 and K-2 while incarcerated"

"A condensed overview of how and why the Texas Prison System continues to fail."

"Covid-19: A prisoner's perspective"

"Re: The routine of inmates from one wing of a prison unit that's been under lockdown for over 3-months and how they're coping."

"Exposé about some of the conditions that allowed Covid 19 to spread so thoroughly/personal battle with Covid 19"

"My perspective and experience in prison during the pandemic"