Demetrius Buckley

Demetrius Buckley

Demetrius Buckley’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Michigan Quarterly Review—where he won the 2020 Page Davidson Clayton Prize for Emerging Poets—Apogee, PEN America, and RHINO. He is also

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‘Everything in prison is done in a timely manner, except when our lives are on the line’
Crime, Reform & Abolition

‘Everything in prison is done in a timely manner, except when our lives are on the line’

Prison is bound to a punitive clock—a clock that was ignored when it could have saved a life

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5 Min
By: Demetrius Buckley
color photograph of a man in an orange prison jumpsuit sitting behind bars reading a book
Crime, Reform & Abolition

Walking on eggshells: The abuse of power and authority in prisons

For many incarcerated people, access to already limited rehabilitative and educational prison programs can be arbitrarily revoked by officers

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5 Min
By: Demetrius Buckley

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