Write with us. Organizers, grad students, and system-affected folks are particularly invited. Sign up: uny-prc.org/coworking-gr... #amwriting #academicsky 🗃️

Write in community with us. Casual weekly co-working sessions help us hold ourselves accountable to our work and root others on in theirs. Come make progress with us. Link in bio to sign up or visit uny-prc.org/working-group/

Sign up to join our last Writing Workshop of the semester, featuring Dr. Jessica Olivares: uny-prc.org/writing-work... 🗃️ #academicsky #writingsky

There's still time to sign up for Dr. Tiana Wilson's Writing Workshop next week. 🗃️ #academicsky Sign up: uny-prc.org/writing-work...

As @sayburgin.bsky.social argues, the contemporary resonances of the history of Jail, No Bail, are significant 🗃️. #academicsky

Clio and the Contemporary@cliocontemporary.bsky.social · 5mo ago

@sayburgin.bsky.social argues that today’s activists know what those in the Black freedom movement knew: Jail, No Bail was a critique of an entire system of unjust laws and courts. Then and now, they understand that power concedes nothing without a fight.🗃️ clioandthecontemporary.com/2026/03/26/j...

Meet our Spring 2026 slate of featured authors for the UNY-PRC Writing Workshop Spring series. To receive precirculated papers and Zoom link, sign up at unyprc.org. Grad students and independent scholars are especially welcome. #amwriting

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Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium@unyprc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join us Feb 19, 2026, 3:30-5pm EST for our next Writing Workshop. Dr. Sarah Steele, postdoctoral scholar at the Trans+ People in Canadian Prisons Project, will present their paper: “Transmisogyny in BC Federal Prisons: Experiences and resistance strategies of incarcerated trans women.” #academicsky

Join us Feb 19, 2026, 3:30-5pm EST for our next Writing Workshop. Dr. Sarah Steele, postdoctoral scholar at the Trans+ People in Canadian Prisons Project, will present their paper: “Transmisogyny in BC Federal Prisons: Experiences and resistance strategies of incarcerated trans women.” #academicsky

Dr. Laura Warren Hill presents this month about Betty Tyson and the Innocence Movement. Our Writing Group meets monthly. Sign up to join: uny-prc.org/writing-work... 🗃️ #academicsky

Beginning Jan 19, our Working Group meets Mondays at 10:30am EST. Writers at all levels focused on policing and carcerality are welcome. More info and to sign up: uny-prc.org/working-group/

Only two rooms left! Join us in a cozy (massive!) Upstate NY home. Let us cook for you and support your writing in a semi-structured week of writing. uny-prc.org/writing-grou... #academicsky 🗃️

Join our next Writing Workshop on Dec. 1. Sign up to receive the paper and Zoom link. #academicsky 🗃️

The UNY-PRC Digital Archive will house materials about state violence that are not dependent on state resources or perspectives. We facilitate collaborative and comparative research, and we are looking for partners in NYS and beyond. Learn more on Zoom Mon. Oct 27 4-5pm EST. bit.ly/4mVbdAd

The UNY-PRC Digital Archive will house materials about state violence that are not dependent on state resources or perspectives. We facilitate collaborative and comparative research, and we are looking for partners in NYS and beyond. Learn more on Zoom Mon. Oct 27 4-5pm EST. bit.ly/4mVbdAd

Is the mid-semester slump getting you down? Have you been neglecting your writing project? Switch it up. Come write with us on Tuesdays. Our host, Dr. Nick Robertson, associate professor of criminology at RIT, will help us protect our writing time. 🗃️ #academicsky #amwriting

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Mallory Szymanski@malszy.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Not that I’m rushing the snow, but I am so ready the for cozy, uninterrupted writing time that wintry January in Upstate NY can offer.

Only two rooms left! Join us in a cozy (massive!) Upstate NY home. Let us cook for you and support your writing in a semi-structured week of writing. uny-prc.org/writing-grou... #academicsky 🗃️

We invite writers to retreat with us in Central New York on January 3-9, 2026. We have two rooms left. Visit uny-prc.org/writing-grou... for more details

UNY-PRC has developed a digital archive that helps bring together materials from system-affected people alongside hard-to-access state records on policing, alongside state records that are often difficult to access by researchers. Everyone is welcome to join. Register at bit.ly/4mVbdAd #academicsky

Prioritize your writing this fall by joining this regular community of committed writers on Zoom. Bring friends. 🗃️ #academicsky

We have a last-minute opening for our summer retreat, and we are able to offer a deep discount. Come write with us, and start your fall semester with real progress on your project and some new friends. 🗃️ #Academicsky

New York is about to make all prison phone calls free. This move will make it easier for the state’s over 30,000 prisoners to stay connected to loved ones, saving them over $13 million a year. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...

Prisoners’ Phone Calls Will Soon Be Free in New York State

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Applications open for January 3-9, 2026 Retreat in Central NY. Start 2026 by making substantial progress on your writing project. We provide nourishing food and hot coffee. You bring the brain power and writing materials. #skystorians #AcademicSky uny-prc.org/writing-grou...

UNY-PRC Writing Retreats - Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium

Come write with us. Escape to a beautiful home in Upstate New York with other folks writing about policing, the carceral state, liberation, and related fields. Enjoy semi-structured morning and aftern...

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Join our monthly UNY-PRC Writing Workshop. On Aug 8, 3-4:30pm EST, we'll discuss new work from Dr. Camilla Fojas, Foundation Professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Sign up to receive the paper & Zoom link. #AcademicSky #Skystorians uny-prc.org/writing-work...

Writing Workshop - Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium

UNY-PRC Writing Workshop Once a month, Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium (UNY-PRC) hosts a writing workshop. An article or chapter-length draft is circulated a week prior to the Zoom meeti...

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Congrats Ty Thomas and Carissa Bayack, two UNY-PRC interns who contributed to this guide. UNY-PRC offers internships in interdisciplinary undergraduate research and our students have presented at the AHA among other national conferences.

Clio and the Contemporary@cliocontemporary.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out this advice from undergrads who are on the other side of their first conference. This would be great for a methods or research seminar syllabus and a handy tool for PAT advisors. 🗃️ clioandthecontemporary.com/2025/07/12/f...

It's mid-July. How's your summer writing project going? Join the UNY-PRC Working Group, Tuesdays 10am-noon EST on Zoom, and write in quiet solidarity with others. #AcademicSky #Skystorians uny-prc.org/working-group/

Founded in 2023, UNY-PRC is a network of interdisciplinary scholars, political activists, and community members impacted by the criminal legal system. We believe in the radical power of collaborative documentation and research to critically examine the carceral state. uny-prc.org