“Idle hands are the devil’s playthings” was a phrase often repeated throughout my childhood. However, the idea that being inactive...
This dramatization of past traumas through the future tense is the essay’s narrative engine.
As one of the fiction editors at Beyond Bars, I take a look at how movies from different time periods show the carceral system.
Submissions we receive illustrate the process of creating art in confinement; they thrum with the energy of makeshift ingenuity.
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