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According to Strauss, the new collection builds on a number of rich resources for those who study 20th<\/sup>– and 21st<\/sup>-century mass incarceration. The University\u2019s special collections are home to original copies<\/a> of the Greenfield Review Press, a 1970s and 1980s magazine that famously printed poetry by people who were incarcerated. In addition, the Pembroke Center archives include numerous letters<\/a> from incarcerated sex workers in Rhode Island and beyond, as well as an array of zines<\/a> that feature commentary on prison systems in the U.S. The Hay Library is committed to expanding the size and scope of its scholarly resources related to incarceration in the years to come.<\/p>\n And the collection of personal stories from incarcerated people and their families continues to grow, thanks in part to a Mass Incarceration Lab<\/a> directed by Associate Professor of Sociology Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve. Founded in 2021 and housed within CSREA, the lab is a classroom-based project that gathers accounts from people who are incarcerated and their families, as well as from members of communities that have felt the impact of mass incarceration. The lab has already collected more than 200 letters and oral histories from people across the country.<\/p>\n \u201cStudents in my undergraduate and graduate classes are taking great care to preserve the stories and powerful testimonies of so many people who have lived through and found life after incarceration,\u201d Van Cleve said. \u201cThat act of preservation is important: It adds dimension and nuance to the story of incarceration in America, and it exposes the flaws inherent in our criminal justice system.\u201d<\/p>\n