Lamarr Reid has a bachelors degree in social studies and a passion for creative arts. He is a free-incarcerated individual who is 20+ years in and of the struggle. His hyphenated status is a contrast of his free range of being and thinking against his physical captivity, which means that he is resisting the arrest of mind although his body is confined. Reid is an advocate for youth criminal justice, parole reform, and prison conditions in New York. He is working on a book project about abolition, trauma, care (or lack thereof), and day-to-day institutional harms of the PIC. His work has been published in venues including Village X and Archive-Based Creative Arts.