Matthew Vernon Whalan is a writer and oral historian living in New England. His work on Alabama prisons and other topics appears weekly on his substack, The Hard Times Reviewer. His work has appeared in Eunoia Review, New York Journal of Books, Counterpunch, Alabama Political Reporter, Jacobin Magazine,The Brattleboro Reformer, Scheer Post, and elsewhere. He is the author of Doing Time: American Mass Imprisonment Pandemic. He is a regular contributor on Ben Burgis’ program, Give Them an Argument with Ben Burgis.