SawariMedia
Organization Details
SawariMedia is a fiscally sponsored project of Warm Cookies of the Revolution that creates media products in service of men and women incarcerated across the U.S. in order to increase civic engagement towards reduced recidivism rates. Our aim is to share impacted people’s narratives in order to shift public opinion around legislation impacting incarcerated citizens while also equipping them to engage in public policy as constituents to their legislators through the regular publication of our current Prisonality Magazine.
Impact Story
Bill, a loyal subscriber of SawariMedia who is incarcerated in Texas' Dept. of Criminal Justice Bill Clemens Unit writes, "I think that prisoners should be informed about our right to vote. We should have a voice in voting because many of the laws enacted impact our day to day lives. Jim Crow intended to disenfranchise us forever. Our right to vote should be an inalienable right". Unfortunately the structure of state and federal corrections departments do not afford those incarcerated in their care with that right. Fortunately, the production and distribution of Prisonality Magazine has operated as the main vehicle of this work nationwide. The problems our work addresses include closing the gap for 10,000 - 12,000 readers who lack access to critical, impactful information and civic education as well as the nonexistent pathway of communication between elected officials with their incarcerated constituents. Bobby Bostic, sentenced 241 years in Missouri Department of Corrections and a subsriber of SawariMedia shares, “Words are not enough to express the gratitude that prisoners have for you...every minute of the day your writings are being read by some prisoner and we are constantly inspired by your words and vision.”
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