Introduction: Intimate Understanding through Profound Immersion

Part 1
Nothing Barred: How Reporting Can Humanise the Criminal ‘Other’

1. On Death Row: Giving Voice to Apartheid’s Forgotten Prisoners

2. ‘Feeling the Facts’: Literary Journalism, Colonialism and Behrouz Boochani’s
No Friend but the Mountains

3. ‘We Risked a Whole Newspaper’: Thami Mkhwanazi’s Robben Island Series
and the Weekly Mail

Part 2
Fully Inside? The Challenges of ‘Immersion’ Reporting

4. Writing from the Inside: First-Person Reportage of Prison Life by the Incarcerated

5. The Sorry Places: Cristina Rathbone’s A World Apart

6. The Architecture of Immersive Writing: Sites of (Self-)Scrutiny in Ted Conover’s Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

7. The Hot House: Reporting and Writing Strategies to Navigate Deep Immersion

Part 3
Breaking Out: Exploring Diverse Definitions for Literary Journalism

8. Dialogues with Death: Fact, Fiction and the Many Adaptations of Arthur Koestler’s Prison Narrative

9. George Orwell: Making Writing on Prisons ‘An Art’

10. Ear Hustle: Connecting to Prison Life Through a Narrative Podcast

11. Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Reportorial Story Songs’ ? Grace and Kinship on Death Row

Afterword: Journalists’ Many Creative Ways of Covering the Correctional System