Prison Health News is an information network project. Our newsletter, published four times a year for people in prison, strives to lift up the voices, experience and expertise of currently and formerly incarcerated people. We are the only resource that responds to requests for health information from people in prisons and jails everywhere in the United States. With the radical power of information, we work to break down prison walls and build health and social justice for all.
Prison Health News is produced by a Philadelphia-based collective of editors and includes the work of imprisoned artists and writers. Our readers are living inside a system that denies them prevention tools and treatment information about HIV, hepatitis, and other health issues. They are dealing with medical neglect, daily humiliations driven by intense stigma, and the destruction of their communities by mass imprisonment.
#Parole Joe Vanderford after 33 years in prison. Trans-prisoner, writer, activist, mentor, college student. Ready and needed in our outside LGBTQ & justice family. It’s been 33 years. He’s learned, grown, grieved and given back – give him freedom. Joe Vanderford will be up for parole on October 13, 2020. Visit tinyurl.com/parolejoe to sign the petition for his release!
Michael Roberson: “All of my work comes from my soul. I don’t think of what to draw. But as I draw it comes out. I will think of the things I love. Like freedom. Hope. Love. And friendship. Sometimes it takes days before the drawing reveals its face. But all my work is thoughts of my wife and my twin boys that I love and miss dearly. I hope that this helps you see what I see in the drawings.
