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  Board Members
"By composing a loose collective to form an alternative to riot, no visible leadership was created. Spread throughout the housing units, the intelligensia (for lack of a more definitive term) met, debated and resolved a synthesis of ideas at recreation, meals, and work assignments. Without a centralized plan, other than to avert a riot, this constantly merging and diverging group, developed by consensus the idea of the unity walk. By not establishing a hierachial leadership, it became much more difficult for the administration to take preventative action by isolating the 'leadership'. Such a designation of individuals was too elusive to determine."
-Jon Marc Taylor, from JPP Vol. 9:2 (1998)
Board Members & Editorial Staff

  • Collectively, the JPP has a spirit that is both diverse and unique. Some people are more involved at various times, but everyone remains an available resource. This has produced a JPP entity, which the journal relies upon in the struggle.

  • Unlike a majority of publications in the academic world the JPP has emphasised communication and correspondence with people inside, rather then those in free society. The journal has forged networks deep inside penitentiary 'cystems' across North America and other parts of the world , to understand what is really happening behind the walls of prisons to make sense out of the experience of incarceration.

  • Many prisoners & JPP travelers have been with the journal since it started in 1988, while others paths cross when, and where they do.


Currently the JPP has chosen to designate the following revolutionaires:


Dr. Howard Davidson

Dr. Daniel Dos Santos

Dr. Liz Elliott

Dr. Robert Gaucher

Viviane Saleh-Hanna

Zain Hirji

Charles Huckelbury Jr.

Jay Jones

Thomas Mann

Dr. Alan Mobley

Dr. Peter Murphy

Susan Nagelsen

Dr. Greg Newbold

Stephen Reid

Dr. Stephen C. Richards

Robert "Rosy" Rowbotham

Rashad Shabazz

Dr. Jon Marc Taylor


Additional thanks to: Ruth Bradley St-Cyr, Brad Horning, Gayle Horii, John Lowman, Brian MacLean, Kim Pate, Hal Pepinsky, Curtis Taylor, Kim Cunnington-Taylor & Paul Wright.