Christopher Blackwell

Christopher Blackwell is serving a 45-year prison sentence in Washington State. He co-founded Look 2 Justice, an organization that provides civic education to system-impacted communities and actively works to pass sentence and policy reform legislation. He is the author, with Deborah Zalesne, of Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement. His writing has been published by The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, HuffPost, Insider, and many more outlets. Follow him on X: @chriswblackwell.