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In honor of Black August, read this powerful dedication by Jeremy Busby to his dear friends and comrades Kevin "Soul Train" Kincy and Derrick “Hasan Shakur” Frasier on The Collective at joinjeremy.substack.com / joinjeremy.org:

Normally inside these concentration camps labeled as “prisons,” the occupants are separated by what city one came from, race, ideological or religious preferences. Soul Train and Hasan Shakur were immune to these destructive social constructs. Through action, they both taught me and anyone else who might be watching that you can blossom from where you are. That true power-building comes from possessing real genuine relationships with all oppressed people.

EDUCATE, EDUCATE!
ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE!
MOBILIZE, MOBILIZE!

DARE TO STRUGGLE, DARE TO WIN!

Long Live Kevin “Soul Train” Kincy & Derrick “Hasan Shakur” Frasier!!!

9 Years in Solitary: Kevin Light-Roth on Surviving the Hole Kevin Light-Roth has spent 23 years incarcerated in Washington Stat...

The Reality of Solitary Confinement in Texas Prisons | Lenae Tipton What does two years in solitary confinement do to a person?In thi...

Join Jeremy: Amplifying the Voices Texas Prisons Try to Silence In this episode, we delve into the ongoing crisis within the Texas ...

Thank you Inmate Tea with A&P for featuring Jeremy Busby, Michael Montgomery and other incarcerated writers in Texas! We are so so excited for the episodes coming soon in this series.

🤠🇨🇱 DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS... because for the next TWO WEEKS, we're taking over! 🇨🇱🤠

They say everything's bigger in Texas, and after hearing these stories... they weren't kidding. 😳

We're kicking off our Texas series with none other than the baddest incarcerated journalist in the Lone Star State, Jeremy Busby of JoinJeremy! 🎙️🔥 He's taking us on one heck of a ride through the Texas prison system, introducing us to stories that deserve to be heard.

So grab your boots and saddle up! We've got two weeks of Texas-sized interviews, truth, laughs, and conversations you won't want to miss.

⭐️ Y'all know the drill... Like. Share. Subscribe. And if Texas is really bigger... let's make these episodes BIGGER too!

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From left to right: Silverio Villegas González, Renée Nicole Good, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and Joan Sebastian Guerrero

Read "Absolute Immunity": The Decriminalization of Violent Crimes Committed by Law Enforcement by by Jeremy Busby with Deborah Zalesne on The Collective (joinjeremy.org / joinjeremy.substack.com):

The system is not breaking down. It is functioning as designed. When federal agents can kill people like Renée Nicole Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti in high-profile incidents, with video, witnesses, and national outrage, and still face no immediate criminal consequences, and when guards can do the same thing to incarcerated people in total silence, it confirms that this design is working exactly as intended.

Brutality by law enforcement is no longer rare. It is not isolated. It is routine. It is systemic. And it has become so unchecked that officers increasingly commit acts of violence even when they know they are being recorded, because they do not fear consequences.

Their willingness to take human life, in direct contradiction to the oath to protect and serve, is fueled by a belief that has been cultivated by every prosecutor who looks away, every internal investigator who sanitizes a report, every medical examiner who lies, and every politician who praises the shooter before the autopsy is complete.

JoinJeremy members Corinne Shanahan (Policy Fellow at Institute to End Mass Incarceration) and Seth Stern (Chief of Advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation) at Bridging the Gap: Amplifying Incarcerated Voices in Chicago on May 30, 2026.

Organized by and , Bridging the Gap was the first-ever conference on strengthening US prison journalism. It was a meaningful two days of presentations and film screenings by incarcerated writers and artists, spreading education and tools for addressing carceral system injustices, and building solidarity across prison walls.