James Kilgore is a Media Fellow at MediaJustice, where he directs the Challenging E-Carceration project. He is also the Co-Director of FirstFollowers Reentry Program in his hometown of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. He is the author of the award-winning Understanding Mass Incarceration, based largely on his observations from his six-and-a-half years of incarceration in federal and state penitentiaries.