1664

1664 was established on February 22, 2024. At that time there were a total of 1,664 federal and state prisons in the United States. Together these systems along with jails, juvenile facilities and immigration detention centers hold over 1.9 million people. The mission of 1664 is simple: to provide names and faces where there were once numbers and statistics. This quarterly publication features stories of incarcerated people and offers an anthology of creative art and writing from justice-involved individuals. Prisons are often factionalized societies with institutional, psychological, geographical and sometimes self-imposed barriers. 1664 aims to chip away at those barriers by sharing stories of humanity from behind the razor-wire.