“A Persona Separate from His Crime”: Multimedia “Redemption Narratives” and the Voices of “Juvenile Lifers” in the United States

• In Event: Alternative Media and Counter Narratives

Abstract

This paper documents and analyzes a multimedia project designed to foreground the voices of juvenile lifers, men and women incarcerated under the age of 18 in the United States. Typically silenced in the public narrative of prison reform, this project -designed and implemented in a collaborative effort between three juvenile lifers and the researcher - brings those voices into the public sphere. The pap[er places the project within a framework of storytelling and social movements.

Author

• Mike Lyons, Saint Joseph's University