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Interview with Tandera Louie
Tandera Louie is a community organizer and preschool teacher in East Austin. In this interview, Tandera speaks about the unequal treatment of houseless folks in Austin as well as the wealth and resource gap that continues to grow due to capital…
Interview with Kambri Crews, Pt. 2
Kambri Crews is an author, comedian, and incarcerated rights advocate from East Texas. In this follow-up to her 2020 interview, Kambri discusses her father’s death in incarceration in 2020 and her battle with TDCJ. Kambri’s father passed shortly…
Interview with Jorge Antonio Renaud
Jorge Antonio Renaud is a writer, poet, and activist. In this interview, he discusses the intersections of abolition, incarceral justice activism, COVID-19, police brutality, and immigration policies. Through this discussion, it is clear that all of…
Interview with Monique Joseph
Monique Joseph is the Holistic Services Director at Restoring Justice in Houston, TX. After her husband was wrongfully convicted, Monique began her journey working in reform and advocacy. The mistreatment her husband receives inside and the systemic…
Interview with Alvin Sanderson
*content warning for sexual violence*
Alvin Sanderson is an activist who advocates for the rights of unhoused individuals in Austin, Texas. In his interview he describes his fight against Proposition B, a ballot initiative passed in Austin on May…
Alvin Sanderson is an activist who advocates for the rights of unhoused individuals in Austin, Texas. In his interview he describes his fight against Proposition B, a ballot initiative passed in Austin on May…
Interview with Jennifer Toon, Pt. 2
Jennifer Toon is a journalist, incarcerated rights advocate, and currently works as the Community Advocacy Manager at AVP. In a follow-up to her 2020 interview, Jennifer offers a personal perspective on how COVID-19 and Winter Storm Uri have affected…
Interview with Casey Phillips, Part Two
Casey Phillips is the founder of the Texas Prisons Air Conditioning Advocacy group. In this follow-up to her 2020 interview, Casey discusses the conditions of her husband’s unit post-lockdown. Casey’s husband has late stage renal failure and…
Interview with Kirsten Ricketts, Pt. 2
Kirsten Ricketts is an incarcerated rights and re-entry advocate with a loved one on the inside. In this follow up to her 2020 interview, Kirsten speaks about the impacts of 2021 winter Storm Uri in Texas prisons. Specifically, she speaks about the…
Interview with Maurice Chammah
Maurice Chammah is a journalist and staff writer for The Marshall Project. In this late 2020 interview, Maurice discusses his work as a journalist exploring the overlap between the COVID pandemic and incarceration. He gives an overview of several of…
"Problems at Polunsky"
"This is a informative essay/Public Service Announcement/cry for help regard the issues of COVID era Polunsky Unit and how to fix the trapped cooped up in the cell prolem."