Carceral Communities and Cultural Awareness Groups
Web Map Repository
This web map repository shares historical instances of community involvements and organizing of cultural awareness groups within correctional facilities of the Pacific Northwest. The map fields and demonstrates the connections formed between those incarcerated with outside communities. Ultimately, the project stands as a collective text and repository to continuously contribute towards and share stories, histories, and involvements that have bridged carceral environments with outside, interconnected communities.
Consider completing a Contributors Form if you know of any relevant material that could be digitized and posted onto this website. Being a collective project, the web map repository also allows for annotation submissions to all material posted onto the website. Please contact carceralorgculturawareness@gmail.com with any inquiries about the Carceral Communities Repository.
Support
This project received generous support from Humanities Washington. Much of the current archival material digitized to this website are housed at the University of Washington’s Special Collections, the Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections at Washington State University, and the Nettie Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas Austin.
Indispensable individuals and groups have contributed to this website and project. Vitaliy Alekhnovich and Cesar Lucatero collaborated and led the development of the website. Members of the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Awareness Group (APICAG) and Nuestro Grupo Cultural (NGC) were willing to share oral testimonies and stories about their involvements in organizing cultural awareness groups, peer-led education and re-entry programs.
We hope the project proves to be historically significant and lasting for all the individuals and groups contributing to this history.