The Letters From Prison Project
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The Letters From Prison Project is a blog that offers candid and honest insider views of America's carceral institutions, provided by currently and formerly incarcerated individuals. You can find us at lettersfromprison.net
Our third entry "On Respect and Social Standing," explores the role that interpersonal respect plays in personal relationships and social hierarchies in prisons. You can read it at: bit.ly/4jNcJC6
Entry #3 – “On Respect and Social Standing”
Entry #3 – “On Respect and Social Standing” Respect is the only universal currency in prison, because it is the only thing that all inmates have equal access to. While some inmates will always be …
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June 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Our third entry "On Respect and Social Standing," explores the role that interpersonal respect plays in personal relationships and social hierarchies in prisons. You can read it at: bit.ly/4jNcJC6
Our second post, "On Emasculation," explores the ways in which prisons emasculate mail inmates, their resulting behaviors, and how this emasculation may affect their lives after prison. You can read it at: lettersfromprison.net/2025/04/13/e...
Entry #2 – “On Emasculation”
Entry #2 – “On Prison Economies” I believe that we tend to think of jails and prisons as very masculine places, as “every man for himself,” rough and tumble, violent, and dangerous nooks away from …
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June 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Our second post, "On Emasculation," explores the ways in which prisons emasculate mail inmates, their resulting behaviors, and how this emasculation may affect their lives after prison. You can read it at: lettersfromprison.net/2025/04/13/e...
Our first entry, "On Prison Economies," lays out the basics of how economies work inside prison and reflects on what the nature and existence of prison economies says about life in prison and incarcerated individuals. Read it at lettersfromprison.net/2025/03/31/h...
Entry #1 – “On Prison Economies”
Entry #1 – “On Prison Economies” Prisons and jails have highly active internal economies that function without official currency, instead relying on bartering, in-kind trade, and favors. The dolla…
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June 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Our first entry, "On Prison Economies," lays out the basics of how economies work inside prison and reflects on what the nature and existence of prison economies says about life in prison and incarcerated individuals. Read it at lettersfromprison.net/2025/03/31/h...
The Letters from Prison Project is a new blog that offers candid and honest insider views of America's carceral institutions. You can find us at lettersfromprison.net
Letters From Prison
Insider Views on America's Carceral System
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June 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The Letters from Prison Project is a new blog that offers candid and honest insider views of America's carceral institutions. You can find us at lettersfromprison.net