PUBLICATION: Zocalo Public Square DATE: Aug. 19, 2024 In this first-person essay, Phillip explains how he helped plan a mock election in prison to get prisoners involved in politics. Despite not being able to vote, elected officials control every aspect of his life behind bars, and Phillip describes how past elections affected him.
PUBLICATION: Film Comments DATE: April 22, 2024 Phillip breaks down how prisoners watch film on prison-issued tablets. Everyone wants to be entertained, but for the incarcerated, escaping confinement through movies means much more. “Watching films has helped me make it through twenty-two years of a life without parole sentence in North Carolina,” he writes. Phillip […]
PUBLICATION: In These Times DATE: October, 2024 The October issue of In These Times reprinted two of Phillip’s poems from his poetry collection “LIFE: Learning Instructions For Everyone…in prison & out.” The poems accent a groundbreaking essay by Kwaneta Harris, an incarcerated woman in Texas who writes about experiencing menopause while in solitary confinement.