It was October 2020, and I was enrolled at Whitman College for my first semester. Of course, Whitman College, like many institutions, was operating virtually and I was living at home with my parents, attending...

At Whitman College, framed by exposed brick and wide open windows, students cut their teeth on abolitionist theory. A mile and a half from the center of Whitman’s campus, over 2,000 men are incarcerated...

After six years of volunteer work across 11 prisons, Dean of Students Kazi Joshua was appointed to Washington State Governor Jay Inslee's Clemency and Pardons Board in early October. The purpose of...

President Biden’s original campaign promised to decriminalize the use of marijuana for “Black America.” After issuing a proclamation on Oct. 6, the following day Biden pardoned thousands convicted...

It has been almost three years since inmates at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla have celebrated a traditional Indigenous powwow.  Powwows are native gatherings with singing, dancing...

Three strikes, you’re out! The terminology is laughable. A flippant expression that is used to discuss a game like baseball should not be used to determine someone's life. However, within penitentiaries...

Jeffrey Owen Dorman was released this March after spending roughly 30 years bouncing between Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) facilities. On Easter Sunday, his sister prepared a big ham....

This fall, the Rhetoric, Incarceration and Civic Engagement and Incarceration class completed its final visit to the Washington State Penitentiary, a minimum-security prison near Whitman’s campus. The...