Dominic Coschino, a recent U-M undergraduate, has published We Live 24/7 in Hell: Detroit’s Wayne County Jail, 1968-76, a a multimedia report that chronicles the…
Month: May 2020
David Helps–How U-M’s Center of Innovation at Failed Jail Site Will Fail Detroiters (Jan. 8, 2020)
David Helps, co-coordinator of the DCC-Mellon research initiative Detroit as a Carceral Space, publishes critique in Detroit Metro Times of the city of Detroit and…
Tyrone Lee Reyes–All of Our Lives and Health Is on the Line (May 13, 2020)
To: The Carceral State Project From: Tyrone Lee Reyes How has the crisis affected how the prison runs and how staff and incarcerated folks treat…
Tyrone Lee Reyes–Freedom over Health or Health over Freedom? (May 9, 2020)
To: The Carceral State Project From: Tyrone Lee Reyes In recent days it has come to my attention that they are housing people that has…
Tyrone Lee Reyes–Are Any Measures To Protect Folks Inside the Prison Effective? (May 1, 2020)
To: The Carceral State Project From: Tyrone Lee Reyes Are any measures that have been put in place to protect folks inside the prison effective?…
Tyrone Lee Reyes–My Worst Fear (April 28, 2020)
To: The Carceral State Project From: Tyrone Lee Reyes On April 28th, 2020, my worst fear manifested itself into a reality. Less than twenty-four after…
Tyrone Lee Reyes–How Do I Feel About What Is Happening? (April 28, 2020)
To: The Carceral State Project From: Tyrone Lee Reyes How do I feel about what is happening? It’s tough because I can’t be with my…
Tyrone Lee Reyes–I Want To Be There for My Family (April 27, 2020)
To: The Carceral State Project From: Tyrone Lee Reyes I want to answer these questions as is, because they’re thoughtfully put together.What do things look…
Tyrone Lee Reyes–Inside Cotton Correctional (April 21, 2020)
Being in prison during this pandemic has been the scariest time in my life. More than coming to prison as a kid. It’s not because…
Efrén Paredes, Jr–Doing Right for the Incarcerated in the Era of COVID-19 (May 8, 2020)
Doing Right for the Incarcerated in the Era of COVID-19. Someone recently asked me the question, “Are you concerned about retaliation by prison staff or…