Proposing a national carceral creativity policy

The thesis of my book, Prisons of Creativity: Artistic Innovation During Incarceration (Routledge, 2025), is that the Constitution's intellectual property clause calls for promoting innovation by all people, including the incarcerated, to benefit the nation. The book proposes a shift from exploiting prison labor to supporting creativity among those who opt in, protecting their intellectual property rights, and making their creative products in literature, the visual arts,  music, drama, and other expressive products available to the public. The size of the prison population is equivalent to the fifth largest city, which should be included in the nation's innovative ecosystem, especially in a way that can benefit corrections administrators, creators in prison, and society. The book opens with a retrospective on creativity in prison, highlights current creators, and lays out the supply and demand landscape of carceral creativity. I would very much welcome further discussion. The book is on Amazon and available from Routledge using the attached discount.