Jamie Bissonnette

Jamie Bissonnette is a Native American poet, painter, mother of two and co-director of the AFSC Criminal Justice Program in New England. A grassroots intellectual and self-made criminologist, Bissonnette has worked to reform and abolish the prison system for over 30 years. Her current focus is ending all imposition of solitary confinement.

Jamie Bissonnette is a Native American poet, painter, mother of two and co-director of the AFSC Criminal Justice Program in New England. A grassroots intellectual and self-made criminologist, Bissonnette has worked to reform and abolish the prison system for over 30 years. Her current focus is ending all imposition of solitary confinement. See less