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The Shake Down
Shake down Go ahead and take it from me Shake down In the middle of the night Shake down Iâm sleeping here canât you see Shake down itâs not alriiiiiight⌠With me Although this sounds like a parody from weird Al Yankovic of a famous Tom Petty song, it really...
Change Starts With You
"How am I racist? Iâm Black!â Racism is something I never gave much thought to for most of my life, I just didnât ascribe to the unconscious practice even before I began waking up. My opening quandary is an actual, honest-to-God exchange between an inmate and a...
New Mail Rules for Virginia DOC
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Trailer: Letters From Prison
Some of you may have already seen this in our Spring 2017 Quarterly E-Newsletter - but it deserves it's own post, and we want to be sure no one misses it. We are honored and excited to share the beginnings of a joint project between AI and a young acting class. Using...
AI Spring 2017 Quarterly E-Newsletter
So much news this quarter! After some technical snags we are back on schedule with the newsletter. You won't want to miss this expanded issue, with a recent podcast from Ashley Asti in conversation with Melissa, news and pictures from our recent volunteer work weekend...
My Reluctant Ministry – Family
The most remarkable part of being locked up is not the lack of remorse and compassion from these prisoners, but the level of humanness of these so called hardened criminals. A man came to me the other day because, he said, I was a father and he didnât know what to do...