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Contributors Chris Bruckert is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. Since receiving her PhD from Carleton University in 2000, she has devoted herself to researching various sectors of the Canadian adult sex industry (erotic dance, street level, in-call, and out-call) through the lens of feminist labour theory. She is committed to sex worker rights and endeavours to contribute to the movement as an academic activist. Dave Dessler is a poet. He lives on a street corner in Ottawa. Dave is the co-author of a volume of poetry and photography entitled Mindlessly Adrift: Street Poetry by “Crazzy” Dave Dessler / My Ottawa Streets: Street Photography by Jean E. Boulay. Stacey Hannem is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at the Brantford Campus of Wilfrid Laurier University. She was formerly an instructor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa and held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship. She completed her PhD in sociology at Carleton University in 2008. Stacey has pursued research and published in the areas of reintegration for sexual offenders, restorative justice, and families affected by incarceration. She is currently the chair of the Canadian Criminal Justice Association’s Policy Review Committee and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons. Charles Huckelbury, Jr. was sentenced to life imprisonment (twenty-five year minimum) at the age of twenty-seven and has spent the last thirty-seven years in prison. Awarded second place in Prison Life’s fiction contest in 1995, he won the PEN first prize for fiction in 2001. A regular contributor to the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons since 1997, Charles joined the editorial board in 2001. He was one of Contributors 199 four featured writers in Shawn Thompson’s Letters from Prison (2001). His book of poetry, Tales from the Purple Penguin (2008) has received wonderful reviews. Jennifer M. Kilty earned her PhD in criminology from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. She joined the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa as an Assistant Professor in 2008 and also teaches in the Social Science of Health program. Professor Kilty’s research interests include criminalized women, theorizing self-harming behaviour, the social construction of dangerous girls and women, transcarceration, penal abolition, and the criminalization of HIV/AIDS. Nicholas Little is trained as a social worker. He holds two Bachelor degrees from McGill University (Montreal) and a Master’s degree in Health, Community, and Development from the London School of Economics. After living in France, Nicholas moved to Ottawa where he worked as an HIV outreach worker in gay bathhouses, bars, and online chatrooms. Nicholas is a founding member of POWER (Prostitutes of Ottawa–Gatineau Work, Educate, and Resist), an organization of current and former sex workers and their allies advocating for recognition of sex workers’ labour, Charter rights, and human rights. Nicholas now lives in the United Kingdom. Melissa Munn received her PhD in Criminology from the University of Ottawa in 2009. She is the co-author (with Chris Bruckert) of Falling Out of the Rabbit Hole: The Journey from Lengthy Imprisonment to Enduring ‘Freedom’ (UBC Press). Melissa has been a prisoners’ rights advocate for over two decades and researches in the areas of prisoner release, re-entry, and reintegration. She currently teaches in the sociology and women’s studies departments at Okanagan College and in 2011 launched PenalPress.com, a virtual library of penal press materials. Vajmeh Tabibi was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and immigrated to Canada with her family in December 1990. She has worked with the Program Department of Correctional Service Canada and earned a Master’s degree in Criminology in 2008. Since then, Ms. Tabibi has taught as a part-time instructor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. Kevin Walby is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is co-editor of Brokering Access: Power, Politics, and Freedom of Information Process in Canada with M. Larsen (University of British Columbia Press, 2012) and Emotions Matter: a Relational Approach to Emotions with Alan Hunt and D. Spencer (University of Toronto Press, 2012). He is the Prisoners’ [34.228.168.200] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 12:19 GMT) 200 Stigma Revisited Struggles editor for the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons. He has many published articles including in Social and Legal Studies, British Journal of Criminology (with J. Piché), Punishment and Society (with J. Piché), and Crime, Law and Social...