Incarceration Archives

Polaroid Week: Andreas Rentsch: Entangled with Justice by Gordon StettiniusOctober 24th, 2022

©Andreas Rentsch, Entangled with Justice, 2009, unique sepia toned Polaroid Type 55 negative, 3.75 x 4.

Wrongful Convictions: Interview with Jason Kerzinski by Elizabeth WayneMarch 18th, 2022

George Toca letter, ©Jason Kerzinski, from Wrongful Convictions

When Jason Kerzinski started interviewing public defenders in New Orleans, he never imagined it would be a new beginning

The CENTER Awards: Social Award Winner: Peter Merts by Elizabeth WayneJune 22nd, 2021

©Peter Merts, A dance student practices in a visiting room at Central California, from Incarcerated Artists

Congratulations to Peter Merts for his First Place win in the CENTER Social Awa

Olivia Gay: Incarcerated women: interior views by Sara BennettApril 30th, 2021

©Olivia Gay

Most incarcerated people build lives for themselves inside prison, forming bonds and family units with their incarcerated peers, engaging in work, education, and play, and cre

Deborah Espinosa: Living with Conviction: Sentenced to Debt for Life in Washington State by Sara BennettApril 29th, 2021

©Deborah Espinosa, Keshena, of Tacoma, Washington, holds the photo of her son, which she kept with her in prison to remind her of what she could lose while in prison.

Julia Rendleman: Sisterhood of Recovery by Sara BennettApril 28th, 2021

©Julia Rendleman, Women of the Heroin Addiction Recovery Program at the Chesterfield County Jail outside of Richmond, Va. “pray out” a participant as she is released from jail.

Jessica Earnshaw: Aging in Prison by Sara BennettApril 27th, 2021

©Jessica Earnshaw, Mary Kathleen “Kathy” Tyler, an 82-year-old woman incarcerated at Iowa Correctional Institution for Women in Mitchellville, was sentenced to life in prison i

The CENTER Awards: Project Development Grant Winner: Justin Maxon by Aline SmithsonMay 11th, 2020

©Justin Maxon

Caption by Tim: [My aspiration is] being in business as an electrician. [My dream looks] powerful, sparkly, [with] stars and comets.

Sara Bennett: LOOKING INSIDE: Portraits of Women Serving Life Sentences by Aline SmithsonJanuary 14th, 2020

©Sara Bennett, ANDREA, 64, in a recreational room at Taconic Correctional Facility (2019). Sentence: 20 years to life. Incarcerated in 2001 at the age of 46.

Steve Davis: As Regular People by Aline SmithsonMarch 5th, 2018

©Steve Davis, Chandra, What do you hope to do upon release? “I would like to start to work for Amazon companies or start flagging again or to landscape yards again, or take care of p

Emily Kinni: Where Death Dies by Aline SmithsonNovember 3rd, 2014

Gas Chamber on the Spectator Side. Gas Chamber. Still sits in the now abandoned New Mexico State Penitentiary.

All posts tagged: "Incarceration"

Polaroid Week: Andreas Rentsch: Entangled with Justice by Gordon StettiniusOctober 24th, 2022

Wrongful Convictions: Interview with Jason Kerzinski by Elizabeth WayneMarch 18th, 2022

The CENTER Awards: Social Award Winner: Peter Merts by Elizabeth WayneJune 22nd, 2021

Olivia Gay: Incarcerated women: interior views by Sara BennettApril 30th, 2021

Deborah Espinosa: Living with Conviction: Sentenced to Debt for Life in Washington State by Sara BennettApril 29th, 2021

Julia Rendleman: Sisterhood of Recovery by Sara BennettApril 28th, 2021

Jessica Earnshaw: Aging in Prison by Sara BennettApril 27th, 2021

The CENTER Awards: Project Development Grant Winner: Justin Maxon by Aline SmithsonMay 11th, 2020

Sara Bennett: LOOKING INSIDE: Portraits of Women Serving Life Sentences by Aline SmithsonJanuary 14th, 2020

Steve Davis: As Regular People by Aline SmithsonMarch 5th, 2018

Emily Kinni: Where Death Dies by Aline SmithsonNovember 3rd, 2014

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