Articles

Stephen Dillon. “The Prisoner’s Dream: Queer Visions from Solitary Confinement.” Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 23 no. 2, spring/summer 2015, pp. 161-184.

Francis Baptiste Haselden. “L’empathie sans lendemain de l’oeuvre participative/The Short-Lived Empathy of the Participatory Work.” 02 Revue d’art contemporain gratuite / 02 Free Contemporary Art Review, no. 89, spring 2019, pp. 78-83.

Laurie Jo Reynolds and Stephen F. Eisenman. “Tamms Is Torture: The Campaign to Close an Illinois Supermax Prison.” Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System, edited by Risa Puleo, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and [NAME] Publications, 2018, pp. 418-431.

Albert Stabler. "Legislative Art as Policy and Pedagogy."  Marilyn Zurmuehlen Working Papers in Art Education, vol. 2016, article 6, Jan. 2016.

Book Excerpts

Nick Aikens. “Beyond the Exhibition: A Speculation on How the Museum Might Be Put to Use.” What’s the Use? Constellations of Art, History, and Knowledge: A Critical Reader, edited by Nick Aikens, Thomas Lange, Jorinde Seijdel, Steven Ten Thije, Van Abbemuseum and Hildesheim University Press, 2016, pp. 328-340.

Christina Aushana. “Collective Difficulty, Feminist Interventions: Tamms Year Ten and Socially Engaged Art Praxis.” What’s the Use? Constellations of Art, History, and Knowledge: A Critical Reader, edited by Nick Aikens, Thomas Lange, Jorinde Seijdel, Steven Ten Thije, Van Abbemuseum and Hildesheim University Press, 2016, pp. 286-289.

Ben Davis, et al. “Growing Dialogue: What is the Effectiveness of Socially Engaged Art?” Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good, edited by Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson, Dominic Willsdon, New Museum and MIT Press, 2016, pp. 458-461.

María del Carmen Carrión and Meredith Johnson, “Talking Points.” Public Works: Artists' Interventions 1970s – Now, edited by Christian L. Frock, Tanya Zimbardo, María del Carmen Carrión, Courtney Fink, Leila Grothe, Stephanie Hanor, Valerie Imus, Meredith Johnson, Mills College Art Museum, 2015, pp. 67-75.

Melinda Guillen. “Time Spent.” What’s the Use? Constellations of Art, History, and Knowledge: A Critical Reader, edited by Nick Aikens, Thomas Lange, Jorinde Seijdel, Steven Ten Thije, Van Abbemuseum and Hildesheim University Press, 2016, pp. 290-294.

Judith Levine. “Sympathy for the Devil: Why Progressives Haven’t Helped the Sex Offender, Why They Should, and How They Can.” The War on Sex, edited by David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe, Duke University Press, 2017, pp. 163-164.

Mary Jane Jacob and Kate Zeller. “Tamms Year Ten Family Room: Tamms Year Ten and Laurie Jo Reynolds.” A Lived Practice (Chicago Social Practice History Series), edited by Mary Jane Jacob and Kate Zeller, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2015, pp. 63-67.

Press / Media

Colby Chamberlain. “Brought to Justice: Colby Chamberlain on Walls Turned Sideways.” Artforum International, vol. 57, no. 5, Jan. 2019, pp. 45-46.

Priscilla Frank. “Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Requested Photos of the Outside World — and Here They Are.” The Huffington Post, 6 Dec. 2017.

Hanna Kozlowska. “Visions of Freedom: These Images Capture the Dream Life of Prisoners in Solitary Confinement.” Quartz, 15 Sept. 2017.

Laurie Jo Reynolds. Interview by Phoebe Judge. “In Solitary Confinement, Requesting the Outside World.” The Story, American Public Media, 27 Sept. 2013.

Doreen St. Félix. "Photo Booth: What Do People in Solitary Confinement Want to See?" New Yorker. 7 Jul. 2019.

Erica Tempesta. “Men Serving Life Sentences in Solitary Confinement Given Chance to Request One Image.”DailyMail.com, 9 Oct. 2015.