Morgan Godvin
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Portland, OR, United States
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Voting Rights for People Convicted of Felonies
Formerly incarcerated people comprise the largest group of disenfranchised American voters. The American Prison Newspapers collection offers fresh insight into the issue. → Read More
Search Warrants and Case Law, a Prison Primer
The laws around search and seizure as they apply to average people, explained by Rafael Torres, an incarcerated Inmate Counsel Substitute in Louisiana. → Read More
On Drugs and Harm Reduction with Maia Szalavitz
Author of Undoing Drugs and NYT columnist Szalavitz talks history, science, media shifts, politics, and how the US might mitigate its overdose crisis. → Read More
On Drugs and Harm Reduction with Maia Szalavitz
Author of Undoing Drugs and NYT columnist Szalavitz talks history, science, media shifts, politics, and how the US might mitigate its overdose crisis. → Read More
Reconciling with Violence through Poetry
A poem in The Angolite reconciles with the lethal violence of prison through creative expression. → Read More
The Other Crime Victims
Can perpetrators of crime also be victims of crime? → Read More
Second Chance Month Brings New Awareness to Old Issues
Second Chance Month is new, but concerns about job prospects, losing the right to vote, and high recidivism rates for the formerly incarcerated are not. → Read More
Injustice at the Indiana Women's Prison
Medical neglect, food injustice, and mental health woes serve as the creative inspiration for poetry. Plus, how many days of work does it take to buy a bra? → Read More
My Name is Meth
Drugs, drug-themed poetry, and more drugs in the American Prison Newspapers collection. → Read More
Featured Poem from the APN Collection: Lonely Nights
A jarring dose of humanity comes with the 1979 poem by Reva Walker at the Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women. → Read More
Crime Waves and Moral Panics
From train robberies to organized retail theft to murder, are we really gripped by a crime wave? → Read More
50 Years Later: The Evolution of Prison Policy
Buried within Adelante is evidence of a fleeting attempt at prison reform and oversight in Connecticut. Is history repeating itself? → Read More
The words journalists use often reduce humans to the crimes they commit. But that’s changing.
Person-first language recognizes that dehumanizing descriptions can influence public perceptions and self-conception. → Read More
The price of America's quest for an external enemy
The US spent so much fighting phantom enemies and creating the myth of good versus evil that it ignored the real threat. → Read More