How Free Are We? asks an enduring question, which takes on particular urgency in contemporary America, a nation that incarcerates 2.3 million people. The text is imposed over the portraits of five currently incarcerated men who were invited to stage photographs behind bars and select additional background imagery and clothing that reflected their values, aspirations and visions of freedom. Artist Jesse Krimes used image transfer, painting, and quilting to render the portraits on individual quilt squares. These squares enable the participants to prefigure who they might become when they return from prison—or might have become if they were not incarcerated. As millions of Americans go to the polls, we are called to use our voices to advance freedom and justice for all, including our brothers and sisters who are disenfranchised behind bars.