Creative Prisons Project

Imagine if prisons encouraged residents to produce literature, visual arts, and music, rather than exploiting their labor: Prisons of Creativity (Routledge, 2025)

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"The size of this volume belies its value. With a startling breadth of research, Whitman provides an engrossing history of arts in criminal justice settings, laying out a convincing argument for the value, also, of prisoners' creativity and how it can benefit all of us."
Amanda Gardner, Ph.D. (Amazon review)
Prison Arts Resources Project
Co-author, Arts in Criminal Justice and Corrections (Routledge, 2025)

"This is a wonderful book. Creative, wise, scholarly, and sometimes surprising. The prose is accessible and engaging. The touch is light."
Dr. Benjamin Justice
Distinguished Professor of Education, Rutgers University
Past President, History of Education Society



Intellectual Property, Entrepreneurship, and Social Justice: From Swords to Ploughshares, Lateef Mtima, editor (Edward Elgar, 2015)



The Cambridge Handbook of Intellectual Property and Social Justice, "Chapter 12: Intellectual Property Empowerment and Protection for Prisoners" (Cambridge University Press, 2024)



Forthcoming: Prisonopolis

A protocol for registering copyright from prison.