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We've seen outrage when law enforcement kills people directly, but less when they and the policies they enforce drive people to suicide, both inside and outside prisons. Jeremy wrote for @karenhunter.bsky.social's The Hub about how both scenarios deserve our attention.

Jeremy wrote for @karenhunter.bsky.social's TheHub about how the nasty food and contaminated water in prison isn't just due to neglect. It forces incarcerated people to make profiteers richer by spending money on overpriced commissary products.

Jeremy wrote for @inquest.bsky.social about how he's continued to report despite placed in solitary confinement for his journalism. But it hasn't been easy.

In an op-ed for @truthout.org, EA writer Jeremy Busby (@joinjeremy.org) explores the deplorable living conditions in Delaney Hall, an immigration jail in New Jersey, and how it reflects “the reality of daily life for nearly 2 million incarcerated people in this country.”

What will a Pentagon-controlled Stars & Stripes look like? Look no further than what happened to once-independent prison newspapers transformed into propaganda outlets. FPF contributor Jeremy Busby explains.

On July 25, EA artist Orlando Smith, better known as O. Smith, will become the first currently incarcerated visual artist to headline a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art! Celebrate Orlando by coming to SFMOMA and witnessing his stunning work from July 25 to June 20, 2027.

"The worst part of suicide watch is the isolation. You are given no books to read, nothing to curb boredom. I found myself reliving past mistakes and past memories, both good and bad."

Stay tuned through July and August for new and re-released episodes of Inmate Tea with A&P, now available on all major podcast streaming platforms, featuring incarcerated writers from Texas. Check out the first interview in the series with Jeremy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Iq...

Blocking reading materials and censoring writing are both ways that prisons erase expression before it can reach an audience. Story via @inquest.bsky.social.

"Brutality by law enforcement... has become so unchecked that officers increasingly commit acts of violence even when they know they are being recorded, because they do not fear consequences," writes Jeremy Busby with Deborah Zalesne for The Collective:

"Lifting the media ban is the only dignified thing Indiana can do, not only for the condemned but also for the people being asked to fund irreversible punishments," writes incarcerated journalist and FPF columnist @joinjeremy.org. Read more in @theintercept.com:

If you think criminalizing mere possession of disfavored information will stop with so-called Antifa, ask yourself why the admin sought warrants to learn who subscribed to Don Lemon on YouTube. Read more from FPF’s Seth Stern and @joinjeremy.org in @theintercept.com.

"We’ve reached the point in the erosion of the First Amendment where the government considers possession of anarchist zines and membership in a terrorist cell to be more or less the same," @seth-stern.bsky.social and @joinjeremy.org's Jeremy Busby write in @theintercept.com.

A court upheld Indiana's censorial ban on media attending executions. FPF columnist @joinjeremy.org explained in @theintercept.com that the ban has nothing to do with the "dignity" of the condemned and everything to do with obstructing accountability and oversight. theintercept.com/2026/06/13/i...

People reading report after report of ICE detainees getting violently ill from the food keep asking "how is it even possible to make food so rancid?" Jeremy explains how. prisonwriters.com/prison-food-...

ICE didn't know who it was messing with when it locked up gifted storytellers like Sami Hamdi and Rümeysa Öztürk. They're exposing abuses in ICE jails that are also prevalent throughout the rest of the carceral system. Jeremy has more in @truthout.org and @theappeal.org

"While this censorship might seem brazenly anti-constitutional to most Americans, it has been the reality faced by incarcerated individuals for decades. In the name of 'security,' prison officials have punished and even killed people for possessing literature they deemed suspect." @theintercept.com

Incarcerated people have long faced discipline for reading literature that guards don't like. Now Daniel Sanchez Estrada is facing federal trial tomorrow for possessing anarchist zines. Jeremy wrote for @theintercept.com about how the case could bring prison style censorship to the outside world.

The Alabama Solution got an Oscar nod this week for showcasing abuses exposed by incarcerated people recording guards with contraband cell phones. But as the Academy deliberates, the FCC is muzzling the next exposé. Read Jeremy’s article in partnership with @freedom.press and @theintercept.com

Jeremy joined the Kill Switch podcast to talk about how prisons block social media to stop incarcerated people from exposing abuses. Listen to the episode here.

To learn more about Vijandre's case and ICE's targeting of pro-Palestinian journalists, check out the webinar below:

Journalists’ arrests chill their rights and abruptly end their reporting, removing them from newsworthy events. The public is left less informed as a result.

Thanks to our friends @empowermentave.bsky.social for bringing attention to this article from @inquest.bsky.social about the retaliationJeremy and other incarcerated journalists face for speaking the truth.

Read Jeremy' article for the @chicagotribune.com

A lot of our work is about incarcerated journalists' rights and the retaliation they endure to get the truth out. That struggle is very real, but it's not the only story they have to tell. Read about how fatherhood in prison gave Jeremy renewed purpose despite devastating obstacles.

Jeremy wrote for @chicagotribune.com about why freeing Larry Hoover is not only the right thing for @govpritzker.illinois.gov to do, it's good politics. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/07/o...

Jeremy wrote for the Austin American-Statesman about how a punitive and cruel drug crackdown in Texas prisons are putting lives at risk while failing to address the root causes of substance abuse. www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

" ... Since my brother was deported, I have been terrified. I find myself waking up in the middle of the night, tapping the side of my bunk to check if I’m still in my prison bed."

It can take an incarcerated person weeks of strenuous work to afford even just a stick of deodorant. Story via @vera.org.

#DayoftheImprisonedWriter is nearly here! From 15 Nov–10 Dec, we’ll highlight four writers jailed for speaking out: Rory Branker, Yalqun Rozi, Mohamed Tadjadit and Mzia Amaglobeli. Join us to call for their release! #DayoftheImprisonedWriter #RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli

In his Life Inside essay, Bobby Bostic discusses his writing workshops in juvenile detention centers. “These kids are full of potential,” he writes. “Giving them guidance is my way of giving back.”

The Alabama Solution couldn’t have been made without incarcerated people having access to cell phones. Think that has to do with why the Trump administration now wants to jam cell phones in prisons? Read more from @joinjeremy.org in collaboration with @freedom.press and @theintercept.com

Thomas Koskovich writes that it's stressful when anyone dies in your prison, especially when no one ever tells you what happened.

John J. Lennon tells Bill Keller that he “wanted to tell a different story about the guilty” in his new book.

What to the incarcerated American is the freedom to vote? For most of the nearly 1.5 million people locked up in prisons across the U.S., there is, in fact, no freedom to vote at all. Only two states, Maine and Vermont, permit the franchise to its incarcerated citizens.

PJP is such an important publishing platform and resource for incarcerated journalists. Their work makes the work that we do (of connecting and amplifying those journalists) more possible!

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission voted to increase phone and video calling rate caps for incarcerated people. In July we published dispatches about the necessity of phone calls, and how high costs — relative to extremely low prison wages — affect their connections to loved ones.

“We are each other’s best hope”: In a Q&A with Adryan Corcione, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social discusses her new anthology “Read This When Things Fall Apart,” (out now by @akpress.org) alongside movement work, navigating collective crises, & dealing with burnout.

Thanks to those who joined our Monday webinar with journalists abducted from Gaza aid flotillas, and special thanks to our panelists: @recolston.bsky.social, Emily Wilder, Noa Avishag Schnall, and @chipgibbons.bsky.social. Did you miss it? Watch it here:

US police killed an average of nearly four people each day in 2024. “According to a report by Mapping Police Violence, police killed at least 1,365 people in 2024, making it the deadliest year since the group began recording such data in 2013,” Sharon Zhang wrote for Truthout.

"In Idaho prisons, more than two dozen women say guards prey on them with little fear of consequences — and those who speak up are often punished." The U.S. is a leader in women's incarceration, and behind bars, women are anything but safe. 🧵

Here's Wilder's account for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social of what she went through and witnessed as a U.S. journalist in Israeli custody. RSVP for the discussion tomorrow to hear more from her and others. jewishcurrents.org/forty-eight-...

🔴 This International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists is the perfect time to call your lawmakers and tell them to stop cherry picking which countries to hold accountable and to stop bankrolling Israel’s wars in Gaza and beyond that have killed hundreds of journalists.

The United States is the only nation in the world where a child can be legally sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. Michael Montgomery is one such survivor of what he calls this “modern-day murder by the system.” #SecondLookMovement #FreeThemAll joinjeremy.org/2025/10/30/m...

Maybe this explains why ICE taped bags over windows of journalist @peoplesfabric.com’s cell so he couldn’t see out when they baselessly arrested him in September.

With SNAP expiring, at least one Calif community is responding not by helping people get food, but by threatening hungry people with arrest This is what we mean when we say policing is a policy choice that creates crime Here’s the math that proves it 🧵

A reminder on Halloween: The carceral system is a real-life monster, and it's full of tricks – no treats. Here are 5 facts about mass incarceration that are actually frightening 🧵

Months before his death, Ralph Marcus explained how a COVID-era leg injury led to a rare bone cancer that didn’t have to be fatal.