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Handmade Cards

by Melissa Bee | Mar 2, 2016 | From the Staff

We received this angelic donation of beautiful handmade cards to be sent to inmates. The care that went in to these cards will not be lost on the recipients - thank you, Heather, you're an angel.

Review of Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

by Martin Lockett | Mar 1, 2016 | book review, Inmate Contributors

Perhaps the number one goal humans pursue is love, but coming in at a very close second has to be the pursuit to find meaning; to devote oneself to a purpose that validates their existence in some way. This 150-page book depicts in great detail, page after page, how...

Letters From Prison: Prison & Kids by Tod Bailey

by Inmate Contributor | Feb 29, 2016 | Additional Contributors, Inmate Contributors

Ainsworth, Michael. Retrieved February 27, 2016 from The Steep Cost of Keeping Juveniles in Adult Prisons [Online image]. No mother or father would ever expect their child to go to prison. Mine didn't. First off, people need to know exactly how easy it is...

Review of Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings

by Rick Fisk | Feb 28, 2016 | book review, Inmate Contributors

Empires leave indelible marks on their conquests. Decades after they leave, voluntarily or not, their influence is still felt. Take Jamaica, for instance.Its natural resources and people had been plundered by the British for centuries. Even after slavery was finally...

Throw Away People by Connie Bergstrom

by Melissa Bee | Feb 26, 2016 | From the Staff

It’s not until you live this life on the outside looking in, that you find out how messed up it is. I have heard "our people" called the throw away people. It has always stuck in my head... We were not created to be trash! We are human. We come with flaws. Society...