Prison Service Journal 272

This edition of Prison Service Journal combines articles by serving prisoners, academics, and those that straddle both worlds, on the theme of collaborative knowledge and research.

The edition was guest edited by Professor Shadd Maruna (University of Liverpool), Paula Harriott (Prison Reform Trust), and Dr Helen Nichols (University of Hull).

The intention is what the editors describe as “equitable epistemology”: an approach to knowledge creation that incorporates academic inquiry and personal lived experiences, without hierarchical structure, to create inclusive and emancipatory ways of knowing.

In this edition:

• Editorial: Knowledge Equity and Naming Names in Carceral Research
• Co-creating prisons knowledge inspired by collective autoethnography, by Gillian, Rebecca, Paula and Philippa
• Pen(ology) Pals: Connected Through Conversation, by Helen and Glenn
• Exploring Friendships behind Prison Walls through a Knowledge Equity Approach, by Donna and Marc
• Photovoice with care: A creative and accessible method for representing lived experiences, by Natasha, Kemi and Gillian
• The Importance of Social Visits to Prisoners, by Sacha and Carl
• Sorority inside and outside as a means of survival and resistance: Experiences of women imprisoned in Mexico, by Marthita, Ana, Daniela and Joey
• Silence and Punish: Forgetting as an Apparatus of Torture. Deconstruction, Solidarity, and Popular Education as Modes of Resistance, by Nicolás, Oliver, Joey and Lucy
• Neurodivergence, specifically ADHD, in prison a conversation, by Lucy, James and Chloe
• Collaborative research in a pandemic: Co-Producing solutions to a crisis, by Gillian, Mark, Shadd, Dan and Hazel