Prisoners’ Inventions
The unmissable new edition of a maker classic for a carceral nation.
6 min readJun 9, 2021
2003’s PRISONERS INVENTIONS is an underground classic, a high-stakes precursor to MAKE Magazine, combining ingenuity, adversarial interoperability, and user-centered design. After 13 years out of print, Half Letter Press published a new, expanded edition.