James Kilgore is a researcher and activist based in
Urbana, Illinois. He is the author of six books, including the National
Book Foundation Award-winning A People’s Guide to Mass...view moreJames Kilgore is a researcher and activist based in
Urbana, Illinois. He is the author of six books, including the National
Book Foundation Award-winning A People’s Guide to Mass Incarceration.
He drafted four of those volumes during his six and a half years in
California prisons. He is a research fellow at MediaJustice, where he
founded the Challenging E-Carceration project and is director of
advocacy and outreach for FirstFollowers Reentry Program in Champaign,
Illinois.view less