Over the past few decades, archivists and scholars working in academic institutions have joined community efforts to contemporaneously document the stories of people impacted by state violence and human rights abuses. Community-based and institutional archival projects can serve as powerful sites for self-documentation, counter-narrative creation, and movement building. However, they also risk reifying carceral tactics of surveillance, criminalization, and erasure, especially as they relate to collecting, digitizing, and sharing materials originating from prisons, jails, and detention centers.