Christopher W Blackwell
@chriswblackwell.bsky.social
Incarcerated Writer & Artist. Content dictated over a prison payphone and into the Bluesky world. Links here: https://linktr.ee/christopherwblackwell
Jules Lobel calls Ending Isolation “a critical book” exposing solitary confinement as daily torture, blending lived, legal & medical insights. Out Sept 20. 📚 www.amazon.com/dp/0745351271 #JulesLobel #EndingIsolation #SolitaryConfinement #PrisonAbolition #BookRelease
Angela Davis calls Ending Isolation (out Sept 20) “a rekindling of our abolitionist impulses at a critical moment.” 📚 Preorder: www.amazon.com/dp/0745351271 #AngelaDavis #EndingIsolation #SolitaryConfinement #PrisonAbolition #BookRelease
Johnny Perez calls Ending Isolation “piercing clarity” on the truth of solitary confinement: not rehab, but “state-sponsored psychological torture.” 📚 www.amazon.com/dp/0745351271 #JohnnyPerez #EndingIsolation #SolitaryConfinement #PrisonAbolition #BookRelease
For Open Secrets Magazine, @chriswblackwell.bsky.social starts his essay with: "How did I end up a prison journalist? That is a question I’ve asked myself many times." substack.com/home/post/p-...
From Dropout to Journalist…In Prison
How I found my voice as a storyteller while incarcerated and now help others become prison journalists
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For the @thephilacitizen.bsky.social, @chriswblackwell.bsky.social and Deborah Zalesne share how their love of the Eagles bonded them across difference and prison walls: thephiladelphiacitizen.org/eagles-fando...
Eagles Fandom Builds Unlikely Friendships
Being an Eagles fan is about more than just rooting for a team. It's a bond that can build friendships between outwardly unalike people
thephiladelphiacitizen.org
In conjunction with @chriswblackwell.bsky.social + Deborah Zalesne's upcoming book release of ENDING ISOLATION, Zeke Magazine has a dedicated print issue about solitary confinement. View it here: www.yumpu.com/en/document/...
ZEKE Magazine: Special Summer 2025 Issue
The Solitary Confinement Issue. Window into Solitary Stories of solitary confinement by 17 formerly incarcerated
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Seattle! 🚍✨ The Journey to Justice Tour is coming to Town Hall on Sept 13 (5–9PM) for the Seattle Storytelling Edition of Road Map to Ending Torture. An evening of stories + visioning to end solitary confinement. RSVP here: journeytojusticeseattle.eventbrite.com #JourneyToJustice #EndSolitary
Within the span of a month two people in my prison system died by suicide while in solitary confinement. One of them was my friend, Boo. He had a life without sentence, cancer, and lost all hope in that torturous cell. I wonder if they'd be here today if solitary was banned.
Tacoma 📣 Join us Sept 12 for a screening of The Strike at The Grand Cinema (6:30–9PM). Film + panel on resisting solitary confinement featuring folks from the film + more. RSVP 🎟➡️ thestriketacoma.eventbrite.com #TheStrikeFilm #EndSolitary #JourneyToJustice
Thank you @empowermentave.bsky.social! Much love!
Empowerment Avenue@empowermentave.bsky.social · last yr.Huge congrats to @chriswblackwell.bsky.social, @kwanetaharris.bsky.social ,Deborah Zalesne and Terry Kupers, whose book ENDING ISOLATION: The Case Against Solitary Confinement, was reviewed in @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement (out Sept 20) is “a searing indictment and urgent call to action.” — Udi Offer, Princeton School of Public & International Affairs. Preorder + read more reviews here: www.amazon.com/Ending-Isola...
Solitary is torture. I survived it. Now I’ve written Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement (with Deborah Zalesne, and with Kwaneta Harris & Terry Kupers) to expose the truth and demand change. 📖 Pre-order now: www.plutobooks.com/978074535128...
ZEKE Magazine has published their Solitary Confinement Issue, a collaboration between ZEKE Founder Glenn Ruga + myself. It features powerful voices from inside exposing the devastating realities of isolation + calling for an end to this torture. 🔗 Read the issue, link in bio.
🔥 We’re taking the fight to end solitary confinement on the road. 🚍 This fall, 17 cities will feel the power of the #JourneyToJustice Tour. 📅 Sept 4–Oct 31, 2025 — see if we’re coming to your city: journeytojusticetour.com #EndSolitary #AbolitionInAction
🔥 “To get a second chance at freedom, I had to walk back into Hell.” My new piece in @thenation reflects on returning to the jail where I once endured solitary confinement—this time, to advocate for my freedom. #EndSolitary #SolitaryIsTorture #PrisonJustice
📣 Incarceration isn’t entertainment. Exploitation isn’t justice. Join @americaontrialinc Aug 1 to rally against Love After Lockup + all carceral reality TV. 🕛 12PM 📍11 Penn Plaza, NYC #EndCarceralEntertainment #NotYourPlotTwist #AbolitionNow
🚨 July 23: The Moth’s Community Showcase at Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn) features Christopher Blackwell (@christopherwblackwell)—the first currently incarcerated person ever invited to speak at a Moth event. Don’t miss it. 🎟️ themoth.org/events/commu...
🕊 We want to honor the life of Robert (Boo) Lewis who recently committed suicide while detained in solitary confinement. 🔗 Visit the link in bio to learn more about the movement to end solitary confinement! #endsolitaryconfinement #unlockthebox #chrisblackwell #solitary
⚠️ Sarah Sax and myself won the 2025 Stillwater Prison Journalism Award 🏅 for Best Collaboration. Decarceration is not just justice—it’s climate action! Check the link in bio to read the full piece! #ChrisBlackwell #SarahSax #DecarcerationNow #PrisonJournalism #StillwaterAwards
Thank you for the love!
Empowerment Avenue@empowermentave.bsky.social · last yr.Congrats to @chriswblackwell.bsky.social and Katherin Hervey who launched their podcast Broken is Beautiful today. They will be telling transformational stories from an unexpected place: the U.S. prison system. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
🎙️ @KatherinHervey, a documentary filmmaker and lawyer, and I had an idea: Could a podcast, partly recorded behind prison walls, help uncover what truly connects us? 🔗 Listen to the podcast and learn more, link in bio! #chrisblackwell #katherinhervey #brokenisbeautiful #podcast
📰 Chris alongside investigative journalist Sarah Sax explores how strip searches in U.S. prisons are rooted in racial oppression and continue to inflict trauma and humiliation, disproportionately affecting Black individuals and women. #chrisblackwell #sarahsax #incarceration #stripsearch #theappeal
Thank you for all that you do @sarahlsax.bsky.social! 🙏
Sarah Sax@sarahlsax.bsky.social · last yr.Honored to have won the @spj-posts.bsky.social Stillwater Award for best collaboration together with @chriswblackwell.bsky.social for our @prismreports.org piece on climate change and prisons. If you haven't already, read it here prismreports.org/2024/07/25/d...
Honored to have won the @spj-posts.bsky.social Stillwater Award for best collaboration together with @chriswblackwell.bsky.social for our @prismreports.org piece on climate change and prisons. If you haven't already, read it here prismreports.org/2024/07/25/d...
Decarceration is the best way prisons can adapt to climate change
Most prisons have no real plan for how to deal with the kind of misery climate change inflicts—and will inflict—on incarcerated people
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Thank you all for the support! May we end this brutal barbaric practice 🙏
Inquest@inquest.bsky.social · last yr.Congratulations @chriswblackwell.bsky.social for winning the Stillwater Award for Best Collaboration! From Inquest's archive, here's the compelling essay you wrote about ending solitary confinement inquest.org/seeing-the-l...
Thank you @empowermentave.bsky.social for the shoutout! Love the work y'all do!
Empowerment Avenue@empowermentave.bsky.social · last yr.For @theappeal.org, @chriswblackwell.bsky.social + Antoine Davis write about the infamous "Scared Straight" program. "There are far better ways to deter at-risk youth from crime." theappeal.org/prison-mento...
📰 Our Director of Inside Organizing Antoine Davis and ED Chris Blackwell penned this piece about the failures of programs created to scare children from causing harm. 🔗 Read the article and learn more, link in bio! #chrisblackwell #antoinedavis #look2justice #theappeal
📢 Join our Chris Blackwell alongside Azadeh Afsahi, Marci Marie, and Dr. Terry Kupers for an IG on the impacts of solitary confinement! 📆 Tuesday May 6 1-2PM EST and 10-11AM PST 🔗 Follow Chris on IG to join the convo, link in bio! #unlockthebox #endsolitary #chrisblackwell
