This disabled Iraq War veteran suffered a traumatic brain injury from an IED. Now permanently disabled, heâs incarceratedâand searching for community. âI need to find friends who are gonna have my back. People like I had when I was in the Army.â
This Army veteran served in the Airborne Rangers and fought in Iraq. After returning home, he struggled, and ended up incarcerated. He takes responsibility for his actions, but what he really needs now is support, connection, and the chance to be seen.
This U.S. Navy veteran is serving a 10-year sentence far from home, making visits from loved ones nearly impossible. Heâs doing everything he can to grow in a violent, unstable environment, but prison doesnât make it easy. For many veterans, isolation is a second sentence.
He served overseas in the Army for six years. Now heâs in prison, with no outside contacts, and fighting to receive the veterans benefits he earned. This is not what justice looks like. This is what abandonment looks like.
This Army veteran is a writer, teacher, and self-proclaimed coffee-loving book nerd. He also happens to be incarcerated. Todayâs Memorial Week post highlights his voice, and the truth that “To treat a person inhumanely is one of the most awful acts there is. To do so is violence; you reduce a person to a thing.”
Over 100,000 veterans are incarcerated in the U.S., often without access to mental health care or support. Kenneth, a disabled Army vet and former teacher, shares what itâs like to be erased while still alive.
Every once in a while, a headline floats across the internet promising that Alcatraz might reopen. Most recently, itâs come from Trump, who proposed turning the shuttered island prison back into a functioning one. The idea is as theatrical as it is empty. Itâs exactly...
âIf you canât do the time, donât do the crime.â
Itâs catchy but itâs also misleading. Most people in prison didnât get a trial. Many are innocent. And the punishment doesnât stop when the sentence ends.
Matt, formerly incarcerated in New York, reflects on the power of reading, the failures of prison grievance systems, and his hope for a more restorative approach to justice.
Explains how people in prison are counted for political maps, usually in rural areas, giving political power to places where they canât vote. Deeply skewed representation, zero voice.