Vidal Guzman’s “The Prison Spectacle,” published by Inquest on December 4, 2025, examines how the media turns incarceration and the lives of incarcerated people into entertainment. The piece highlights the work of America On Trial and the #AIRS campaign to challenge the exploitation and normalization of incarceration through reality television.

Don’t Feed the Algorithm of Carceral Entertainment: A Media Justice Toolkit is a resource from the #AIRS Campaign (Abolish Incarcerated Reality Shows) and America On Trial, created to help educators, organizers, advocates, and community members understand and challenge the exploitation of incarcerated people through reality television. The Toolkit provides practical tools for examining carceral media, understanding its impact, and building a movement for more ethical and justice-centered storytelling.

The episode is “Against the Carceral-Entertainment Complex”, part of the three-episode Unmaking the Prison Image series from Visualizing Abolition / UC Santa Cruz. Vidal Guzman joins filmmaker Davit Osit and criminologist Michelle Brown to discuss prison reality TV, 60 Days In, the harms experienced by incarcerated people, and Vidal's #AIRS (Abolish Incarcerated Reality Shows) campaign

Vidal Guzman’s “Punishment TV,” published by Inquest on February 25, 2025, examines how incarcerated reality television turns people’s experiences of incarceration into entertainment and profit. The piece connects these concerns to the #AIRS campaign, which advocates for an end to the exploitation of incarcerated people through reality television.