Inquest

ALT Quote card for Adam Roberts's Inquest article "The Guard Tower I Had to Redraw": "When an institution controls every lens, the hand-drawn record isn’t a lesser substitute for photography. It’s the only visual evidence the state doesn’t hold the negative of. A prisoner with a pencil is a documentary apparatus."

ALT Quote card for Emmett Tatter's Inquest article "Seeking Real Transformation": "No wonder recidivism rates are high. We come home with no real tools, no real support, and a society that would rather lock us back up than ask why we’re struggling in the first place."

ALT Quote card from Lyndsey Lane's Inquest essay "What a Prison Reform Tour Can't Show": "The most hopeful rooms in a prison are still rooms inside a prison."

ALT Quote card for Jeremy Busby's Inquest article "This Is How I Report from Solitary Confinement": "Reporting from prison is a lot like reporting from a war zone. You try to document what is happening around you while staying in survival mode yourself. You know that a single mistake can have irreversible consequences at the hands of those in power—including death."

ALT Quote card for Stevie Wilson's Inquest article "How I Came to Abolition": "One of the things that studying helped me see is that there were things I had already been doing before my incarceration that were abolitionist—we just didn’t call them that. Coming to abolition, then, was not a conversion so much as a recognition."

ALT Quote card from Marissa Potts's Inquest article "No Medicine, No Nothing": "One of the hardest things I have ever done was spend 48 hours with my newborn son trying to memorize every detail of his tiny face before handing him to a nurse to be placed in foster care."

ALT Quote card from Kristine Guillaume's Inquest article "Under the Warden's Eye": "Communication, communing, and community pose a threat to the carceral apparatuses that seek to fracture relations and exercise control within and beyond prison walls."