Writing & field notes
We name our influences plainly — and we write the work down.
Much of Amparo’s thinking was worked out in essays through Reentry & Beyond. These are the founder’s pieces the canon draws on most directly.
From the Inside: Harm Reduction in a System That Still Exists
On going inside a prison without endorsing it — reaching people where they are, while keeping faith with a different horizon.
Can the Systems That Punish People Also Teach Them How to Rebuild?
What it means to take what is useful from correctional settings, strip the control-and-compliance logic, and rebuild on community logic.
The Prime Directive of Reentry
Holding open the possibility of change — not the certainty of it — as the single wager everything else rests on.
What Do Abolitionists Actually Want Instead of Prisons?
Abolition as presence, not absence — building the safety, healing, and belonging that make cages less necessary over time.
Links open to the published essays at Reentry & Beyond. More writing is added as the work develops.