Volume 22, Number 1 of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons is a general issue edited by Professor Susan Nagelsen (New England College) and Charles Huckelbury, who is an award winning author and former prisoner. The volume explores a range of topics including capital punishment, wrongful convictions, mass incarceration policies and practices in the United States, the move towards penal intensification in Canada, the pains of imprisonment experienced by prisoners and the barriers faced by the criminalized upon their exit from prison walls.