Sorry, more self-promotion. For Cooleh magazine, I rewrote old speculations on the non-existent genre of prison photography. I discuss the visual vocabulary of prison photography and the slipperiness of cliche depending on the experience of the camera operator.
The editor confirmed it for me though: It was the strength of the images by nameless inmates of Remann Hall youth detention facility that carried the story! Fearful Symmetry is part of Cooleh’s 14th issue which takes a story-based, raw and somewhat irreverent angle on crime; politics of crime in jamaica, urban pot growers, secession states, botched 7/11 robberies and interviews with the unheard.
Prison Photography 
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July 26, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Steve Davis
A note to your readers. The images are in fact taken by the “nameless inmates of Remann Hall,” and not by me, as the Cool’eh article inaccurately credits.
July 26, 2009 at 6:45 pm
petebrook
True, and I am working with the editors to correct the attribution.