EDITOR’S NOTE

We are proud to present our first anthology of previously published Scholarship from the Inside articles in Volume 48 of the N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change. For several years, we have published writing and art by currently or formerly incarcerated authors in our accompanying online publication, The Harbinger, highlighting authors’ individual and unique encounters with the U.S. criminal punishment system. The pieces in this anthology include personal essays, commentaries, poetry, lyrics, and reflections. We are deeply grateful to the authors who have given us permission to share their work in print, and we remain committed to platforming the writing of individuals who have experienced the injustices of incarceration. We have long championed the work of legal scholars and practitioners who bring careful, dedicated research and analysis to developing creative legal solutions to society’s most pressing sociolegal problems. At the same time, we acknowledge the importance of recognizing the depth of information and insight that can only be obtained through lived experience. This is the driving motivation behind our dedication to participatory legal scholarship and our publication of Scholarship from the Inside.

All of the pieces in this anthology have previously been published online in Volumes 47, 48, and 49 of The Harbinger. Any errors are our own.