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Nambi’s Pleasure and Pain
February 9, 2021 Today is special. It's my late brother Nambi's birthday. Nambi struggled with drug addiction since he was about 13 y/o, and he unfortunately lost that battle last year on 5/18/20. Nambi found pleasure in poetry, and I wanted to share with you his...
Slavery Abounds
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude . . . except as punishment for a crime . . . shall exist. --13th Amendment (1865), U.S. Constitution YES, it's true! The 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution still permits slavery for anyone convicted of a crime and...
Establishing WSRU’s Negligence
February 8, 2021 Negligence, n. 1. The failure to exercise the standard of care that a reasonably prudent person would have exercised in a similar situation any conduct that falls below the legal standard established to protect others against unreasonable risk of...
“Wintegrity”
I recently read this July 2020 article written by David Waldstein about whether racial slur words should be officially banned from Scrabble tournament play, and while some black Scrabble players want the ban, others do not. (There are supposedly 225 offensive terms on...
Opinion: Time for Oregon to pull back on Measure 11’s mandatory minimums
Time for Oregon to pull back on Measure 11’s mandatory minimums. An opinion piece by one of our featured writers, Martin Lockett in Oregon, published in The Oregonian. Lockett is serving the final year of a 17-year sentence at Deer Ridge Correctional Institution in...
Update: Here’s what’s happening
An update from our friend in WSRU in WA DOC - read his post Preparing for Quarantine that he wrote just before being moved. Today he was moved back to general population. I'm doing great physically. I developed a sore throat (which became a slight cough) and rolling...