Another exciting title forthcoming from Duke University Press, Leanne Trapedo Sims’s Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawai’i Women’s Prison Writing is one of the most recent scholarly books we have indexed at Southwest Humanities. This book focuses on the women incarcerated at the Women’s Community Correctional Center in Oahu (the only women’s correctional facility in Hawai’i), particularly participants in the Kailua Prison Writing Project and its Prison Monologues program. Trapedo Sims offers a critical examination of these programs, highlighting the conflict between the undeniable value they offer participants and their embeddedness in carceral logics. “Blending ethnography, literary studies, psychological analysis, and criminal justice critique, Trapedo Sims centers the often-overlooked stories of incarcerated Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women in Hawai‘i in ways that resound with the broader American narrative: the disproportionate incarceration of people of color in the prison-industrial complex.” For more information about this book, which will be published in late September 2023, please see the publisher’s website here.