Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison
VOX Press, December 2024

Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison is a collection of writings from Mississippi inmates housed in the infamously brutal Unit 29 at Mississippi State Penitentiary, known as Parchman Farm. The book is the culmination of three years of working with incarcerated students through VOX’s prison outreach program, Prison Writes Initiative. Comprised of writings from over thirty inmates, this collection delves into the after effects of the infamous December 2019 riots through April of 2020, and how the humans housed there deal with the conditions as they try to survive one of the country’s most notorious prison facilities. The collection is not a comfortable literary work but rather a cry for help from deep within a monstrous and insatiable beast known as Unit 29, Parchman.

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