UO Libraries recently contributed six Oregon prison newspapers to American Prison Newspapers, a new open-access collection available through Reveal Digital, a project of JSTOR.
American Prisons, 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside provides free online access to over 450 newspapers published from U.S. prisons.
UO Libraries provided the following titles, which were digitized from the original paper copies held in Special Collections & University Archives:
- Detour (24 issues, 1960-1965); Oregon State Correctional Institution
- Inside-Out (1 issue, 1972); unknown facility
- Lakota Oyate-ki (11 issues, 1973-1988); Lakota Indian Club, Oregon State Penitentiary
- Lend a Hand (52 issues, 1908-1922); Oregon State Penitentiary
- Shadows (159 issues, 1935-1967); Oregon State Penitentiary
- The Walled-Street Journal (2 issues, 1969-1971); Oregon State Penitentiary
Reveal Digital develops open access primary source collections from underrepresented 20th century voices of dissent. Reveal Digital partners with libraries, museums, historical societies, and individual collections to curate and source materials, which they digitize and host on the JSTOR website.
Digital Collections Librarian, University of Oregon Libraries
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