Bearing Witness: Firsthand Accounts of Incarceration is intended to highlight first-person accounts of those who have experienced incarceration. It is curated by Dr. Baz Dreisinger, Founder and Executive Director of Incarceration Nations Network, a global prison reform and justice reimagining organization.
Opportunities for incarcerated persons to achieve education have increased, but often bettering ourselves makes us the enemy of correctional officers. The strange thing is that the resentment does not come from high-ranking officials, but from low-ranking ones instead. Here’s a first-hand account of life inside the walls of a correctional centre.
Release from prison is not the end of the story; it is the beginning of another struggle. A first-hand account of post-carceral life.
A personal account of being in solitary confinement in a Correctional Centre in South Africa – 42 days in an infamous section of the prison where several people in prison have died since 2023.