The prize honors the work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated authors who are writing toward a more just world.

As repression has escalated in so many realms of U.S. life over the past year and a half, we cannot allow ourselves to forget that nearly 2 million people in this country experience some of the most constant and brutal state repression, in the form of incarceration. Millions more are on probation, parole, electronic monitoring, or another form of non-institutional confinement that often leads…

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