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Carla Canning

Former Tow Fellow

My Background

Carla Canning is Prison Journalism Project’s associate editor. Prior to PJP, she was a Tow audience engagement fellow at The Marshall Project and worked on the Life Inside section. Carla holds a master’s degree in engagement journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, where she created a website guide for people visiting loved ones incarcerated in New York State prisons.

An illustration shows Ralph Marcus, a White man wearing a white baseball cap and t-shirt, and a fingerless glove in pale blue. The illustration shows his body dissipating into oblong shapes in white, orange and red into the air. In the foreground are green plants with flowers blooming among them in orange, red and yellow.
Life Inside October 31
The Last Words of a Man Who Died in Prison From a Treatable Cancer
Months before his death, Ralph Marcus explained how a COVID-era leg injury led to a rare bone cancer that didn’t have to be fatal.
By Ralph Marcus as told to
Armour, a Black woman wearing dark jeans and a white long sleeved shirt with a chest cutout, and Moses, a Black man wearing an olive green T-shirt and pants, sit on a couch holding hands. A painting of blue butterflies is visible in the background.
Life Inside May 23
Love Beyond Bars: Larry and Gloria
Larry Moses and Gloria Armour first dated in their 20s. The New Orleans duo reunited in their 60s, after Moses was wrongfully imprisoned for 29 years.
Photographs and Interview by
Camille Farrah Lenain
Written by
Raymond Flanks, a Black man, and Cassandra Delpit, a Black woman, embrace each other by Lake Pontchartrain.
Life Inside July 26, 2024
Love Beyond Bars: Raymond and Cassandra
Raymond Flanks spent nearly 39 years in Louisiana lockups for a murder he didn’t commit. Luckily, he found love with an old friend, Cassandra Delpit.
Photographs by Camille Farrah Lenain
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Jules Werkheiser, a White person wearing a leather jacket, with her wife, Samantha, a White woman wearing a blue floral dress, and their son, Julius.
Life Inside July 19, 2024
Love Beyond Bars: Jules and Samantha
Jules and Samantha Werkheiser fought their wrongful convictions for over a decade. Here’s their journey of survival — and motherhood — in pictures.
Photographs by Camille Farrah Lenain
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Miguel, a man with medium-toned skin, short hair and a mustache, hugs his wife, Silvia, a woman with medium-toned skin and long brown hair, on the beach.
Life Inside July 5, 2024
Love Beyond Bars: Miguel and Silvia
While Miguel Solorio did 25 years for a crime he didn’t commit, his wife, Silvia, was right by his side. Here’s their California love story in pictures.
Photographs by Camille Farrah Lenain
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An illustration shows a portrait of an older Indigenous woman, wearing a red and white tribal headband, beaded necklaces and shirt. Clouds and a purple moon are in the background.
Life Inside July 14, 2023
While Doing Time in a California Prison, I Was Given a Hysterectomy Without My Consent
Moonlight Pulido believed she was having surgery to remove growths from her uterus. In a brutal bait-and-switch, she was sterilized.
By Moonlight Pulido as told to
Silhouettes of staff members looking through window blinds to view a parking lot.
Life Inside June 30, 2023
Reproductive Healthcare Behind Bars Was Dismal Even Before Roe Ended
Abortion is just one part of a greater story about how indifferent — and even cruel — reproductive healthcare can be in prisons and jails.
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A group of women in tan prison uniforms sitting in a room, watching a television show.
Life Inside April 7, 2023
What I Learned From a Year of ‘Life Inside’
Publishing personal essays about the criminal justice system can be as complex as the system itself, writes engagement journalist Carla Canning.
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An illustration shows a dark brown-skinned baby's hand gripping the index finger of a light brown adult hand against a black background. Shreds of paper showing a woman's varying expressions of worry overlap on top of the image of the two hands.
Life Inside April 1, 2022
I Had a High-Risk Pregnancy in Jail — Then I Gave Birth in Chains
When Rebecca Figueroa was arrested two months into her pregnancy, she didn’t worry because she wasn’t guilty. But seven months later, she was still in jail and totally unprepared for a high-risk pregnancy, childbirth in restraints and the constant fear of losing her daughter.
By Rebecca Figueroa as told to
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