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Christopher W Blackwell
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Incarcerated Writer & Artist. Content dictated over a prison payphone and into the Bluesky world. Links here: https://linktr.ee/christopherwblackwell
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Jules Lobel calls Ending Isolation “a critical book” exposing solitary confinement as daily torture, blending lived, legal & medical insights. Out Sept 20.
📚 www.amazon.com/dp/0745351271

#JulesLobel #EndingIsolation #SolitaryConfinement #PrisonAbolition #BookRelease
September 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Angela Davis calls Ending Isolation (out Sept 20) “a rekindling of our abolitionist impulses at a critical moment.”
📚 Preorder: www.amazon.com/dp/0745351271

#AngelaDavis #EndingIsolation #SolitaryConfinement #PrisonAbolition #BookRelease
September 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Johnny Perez calls Ending Isolation “piercing clarity” on the truth of solitary confinement: not rehab, but “state-sponsored psychological torture.”
📚 www.amazon.com/dp/0745351271

#JohnnyPerez #EndingIsolation #SolitaryConfinement #PrisonAbolition #BookRelease
September 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Seattle! 🚍✨ The Journey to Justice Tour is coming to Town Hall on Sept 13 (5–9PM) for the Seattle Storytelling Edition of Road Map to Ending Torture.

An evening of stories + visioning to end solitary confinement. RSVP here: journeytojusticeseattle.eventbrite.com

#JourneyToJustice #EndSolitary
September 6, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Tacoma 📣 Join us Sept 12 for a screening of The Strike at The Grand Cinema (6:30–9PM). Film + panel on resisting solitary confinement featuring folks from the film + more.

RSVP 🎟➡️ thestriketacoma.eventbrite.com

#TheStrikeFilm #EndSolitary #JourneyToJustice
September 6, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement (out Sept 20) is “a searing indictment and urgent call to action.” — Udi Offer, Princeton School of Public & International Affairs.

Preorder + read more reviews here: www.amazon.com/Ending-Isola...
August 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Solitary is torture. I survived it.

Now I’ve written Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement (with Deborah Zalesne, and with Kwaneta Harris & Terry Kupers) to expose the truth and demand change.

📖 Pre-order now: www.plutobooks.com/978074535128...
August 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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ZEKE Magazine has published their Solitary Confinement Issue, a collaboration between ZEKE Founder Glenn Ruga + myself.

It features powerful voices from inside exposing the devastating realities of isolation + calling for an end to this torture.

🔗 Read the issue, link in bio.
August 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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🔥 We’re taking the fight to end solitary confinement on the road. 🚍 This fall, 17 cities will feel the power of the #JourneyToJustice Tour.
📅 Sept 4–Oct 31, 2025 — see if we’re coming to your city: journeytojusticetour.com
#EndSolitary #AbolitionInAction
August 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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🔥 “To get a second chance at freedom, I had to walk back into Hell.”

My new piece in @thenation reflects on returning to the jail where I once endured solitary confinement—this time, to advocate for my freedom.
#EndSolitary #SolitaryIsTorture #PrisonJustice
July 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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📣 Incarceration isn’t entertainment. Exploitation isn’t justice.

Join @americaontrialinc Aug 1 to rally against Love After Lockup + all carceral reality TV.

🕛 12PM
📍11 Penn Plaza, NYC
#EndCarceralEntertainment #NotYourPlotTwist #AbolitionNow
July 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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🚨 July 23: The Moth’s Community Showcase at Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn) features Christopher Blackwell (@christopherwblackwell)—the first currently incarcerated person ever invited to speak at a Moth event. Don’t miss it. 🎟️ themoth.org/events/commu...
July 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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🕊 We want to honor the life of Robert (Boo) Lewis who recently committed suicide while detained in solitary confinement.

🔗 Visit the link in bio to learn more about the movement to end solitary confinement!

#endsolitaryconfinement #unlockthebox #chrisblackwell #solitary
July 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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⚠️ Sarah Sax and myself won the 2025 Stillwater Prison Journalism Award 🏅 for Best Collaboration. Decarceration is not just justice—it’s climate action! Check the link in bio to read the full piece!

#ChrisBlackwell #SarahSax #DecarcerationNow #PrisonJournalism #StillwaterAwards
June 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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🎙️ @KatherinHervey, a documentary filmmaker and lawyer, and I had an idea: Could a podcast, partly recorded behind prison walls, help uncover what truly connects us?

🔗 Listen to the podcast and learn more, link in bio!

#chrisblackwell #katherinhervey #brokenisbeautiful #podcast
June 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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📰 Chris alongside investigative journalist Sarah Sax explores how strip searches in U.S. prisons are rooted in racial oppression and continue to inflict trauma and humiliation, disproportionately affecting Black individuals and women.

#chrisblackwell #sarahsax #incarceration #stripsearch #theappeal
June 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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📰 Our Director of Inside Organizing Antoine Davis and ED Chris Blackwell penned this piece about the failures of programs created to scare children from causing harm.

🔗 Read the article and learn more, link in bio!

#chrisblackwell #antoinedavis #look2justice #theappeal
May 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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📢 Join our Chris Blackwell alongside Azadeh Afsahi, Marci Marie, and Dr. Terry Kupers for an IG on the impacts of solitary confinement!

📆 Tuesday May 6 1-2PM EST and 10-11AM PST

🔗 Follow Chris on IG to join the convo, link in bio!

#unlockthebox #endsolitary #chrisblackwell
May 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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📖 Book Launch “Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement” hosted by @jewishcurrents.bsky.social and co-sponsored by @cunylaw.bsky.social

🔗 Want to register and purchase the book? Check the links in bio!

#ChrisBlackwell #EndingIsolation #EndSolitary #StopSolitary
April 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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📰 Chris Blackwell alongside Emily Nonko announce The Narrative Change Lab launching in January of 2026 as a collective of currently-incarcerated, formerly-incarcerated and outside activist media-makers.

🔗 Wanna stay updated? Link in bio!

#emilynonko #chrisblackwell #incarceration
April 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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🌐 Meet Chris Blackwell, an award-winning journalist currently incarcerated at the Washington Corrections Center. His work has been featured across the country in The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost and many more.

🔗 Link in bio!

#chrisblackwell #massincarceration #journalist
April 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Incarcerated for the first time at 12. Dropped out of school at 14. Now I have a byline in the @nytimes.com #throwback #chrisblackwell #prison #journalism
March 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM