INTRODUCTION FROM THE ISSUE EDITORS
Penal Depth, Weight, Tightness and Breadth
Reflections on Aging, Suffering and Death Behind the Walls
Justin Piché and Kevin Walby ..................................................................1
ARTICLES
Growing Old in the Gulag
Gerald Niles ............................................................5
An Opiate Addiction Crisis Behind Bars
Charles N. Diorio ...............................................................................8
Hepatitis C and Me
Treatment and Cure
Charles N. Diorio.................................................................................13
Mass(achusetts) Incarceration of the Elderly
Morally Questionable, Costly and Unnecessary for Public Safety
Dirk Greineder ................................................................................17
Observations from Inside on Execution Day
T.A. Mahon-Haft ................................................................................55
Rehabilitation and Re-Entry
A New Vision
Shakkir Talib Mujahid................................................................................61
CONTINUING THE DIALOGUE ON CANADA'S FEDERAL PENITENTIARY SYSTEM
A Little Less Conversation, A Lot More Action
Jarrod Shook ................................................................................70
Inadequate Resources for and Access to Penitentiary Libraries Diminish Access to Justice and Transformation
Nellie Parr................................................................................86
On the Erosion of Rehabilitation
A Writer from Mission Institution................................................................................89
In Between Bouts of Depression and Apathy
Reflections from Riverbend Institution
1417 from Riverbend Institution................................................................................93
Effects of Long-term Incarceration on the Elderly
David W. Threinen................................................................................97
RESPONSE
Aging in Prisons
It Only Gets Worse
Susan Nagelsen, Charles Huckelbury................................................................................102
PRISONERS' STRUGGLES
Fighting for Improvements to the Experience and Outcomes of Incarceration
Prisoners United................................................................................105-107
Resisting Dehumanization
Books to Prisoners Seattle................................................................................108
Middle Street Publishing
Using Technology to Advocate from Inside a Federal Prison
Christopher Zoukis................................................................................113
InterNational Prisoners' Family Conference
Carolyn Esparza................................................................................117
Unusually Cruel: Prisons, Punishment, and the Real American Exceptionalism
by Marc Morjé Howard
Jason Warr................................................................................122
COVER ART
“Untitled” (front cover)
Muhammed Ansi.........................................................................................128
“Untitled” (back cover)
Muhammed Ansi ...............................................................................................128
