James Kilgore

James Kilgore is a formerly incarcerated activist, researcher, and author based in Urbana, Illinois. He is the director of the Challenging E-Carceration project of Media Justice’s #NoDigitalPrisons campaign. He is also the co-director of FirstFollowers Reentry Program and the author of five books, including “Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time.”