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Rachel Zarrow March 17, 2021Updated: March 18, 2021, 1:07 pm An adaption of artist jackie sumell’s “Solitary Gardens” at UC Santa Cruz. The garden plots are meant to represent a solitary confinement cell, taking up the same 6-by-9-foot space. The plants, which are selected remotely by an incarcerated person in solitary confinement, only grow in the spaces where humans would usually be able to walk in the cell. Photo: R.R. Jones In the 2017 book “How To Do Politics With Art,...

Rahsaan Thomas, photographed by Antwan Williams. Courtesy of "Ear Hustle." For Rahsaan “New York” Thomas, success came later in life—and at a cost. After being incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison in California, Thomas began to work with organizations and initiatives using creative forces to combat mass incarceration and shift attitudes about prisoners from the inside. He is now the co-host of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated podcast “Ear Hustle,” co-founder of Prison Renaissance (whi...