Volume 31, Number 2 (2022) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons featuring two dialogue sections. The first, featuring pieces on "Prison Labour", is edited by Jordan House (Brock University) and Kelly Struthers Montford (Toronto Metropolitan University). The second, featuring pieces on "Gender, Health and (In)justice in Canada", is edited by Martha Paynter (University of New Brunswick), OmiSoore Dryden (Dalhousie University) and El Jones (Mount Saint Vincent University). The collection also features a preface commemorating the 35th anniversary of the JPP, a Response on the importance of mutual aid following imprisonment, as well as reviews of a film and two books. The cover art was created by Joker (front) and Peter Collins (back).

Contributions by: Deepan Budlakoti, Justin Piché, Jordan House, Kelly Struthers Montford, Kim Jackson, Johanne Wendy Bariteau, Billie Cates, Calvin Neufeld, Shaun Shannon, Martha Paynter, Corinne Sauve, El Jones, Sheila Wildeman, Julie Bilotta, Mirinda Bray, Clare Heggie, Lauren Matheson, Rebecca Shlafer, Linda Mussell, Rachel Fayter, Maggie Rahr, Jennifer Taylor, Grisha Cowal, Ashley Avery, Sara Tessier, Kate Harland, Holly Richards, Matthew Bonn, Stefanie Materniak, So a Bartlett