We are beginning to hear from prisoners housed in Gulf Correctional Institution in the direct path of Hurricane Michael at the time it hit. They were not evacuated until days later. Below is a letter from one of them: The hurricane ...
I read this book through two times. I enjoyed it so well that I developed an eight-week curriculum from this book, and as the Vice President of the NAACP here at Madison Correctional Institution, am in the process ...
I get calls from inmates all over the country, all day long. Many of them are collect calls, and as much as I wish I could, I can’t accept them – we’ve no budget for it. Each state’s prison phone ...
In our youth obsessed culture, Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Black Women Over 50 by photographer Micheal Cunningham and novelist Connie Briscoe is an inspiring treasure. This book of photo-essays contains portraits of celebrities andnon-celebrities alike, who overcame tremendous barriers ...
Thanks to Jared Ware for this thorough coverage. We are publishing his interview with three SC inmates in its entirety with his permission. The deadliest incident of violence in a United States prison in a quarter century ...
Please enjoy this speech delivered by our friend and featured writer Martin Lockett about Martin Luther King Jr. In 2013 Martin ...
Support for people who have been convicted of a crime is not a popular cause – but only because we’re not looking at it from the proper perspective. Support does not mean providing cable tv, video games, and haute cuisine ...
It took several agonizing months of listening to cellmate’s stories before I realized that my innocence didn’t matter. At fifty-one, I’d had a pretty full life. This 17-year-old African American boy, arrested in front of school merely because he stood next ...
Received via Corrlinks (the email system for BOP [Federal] inmates) today from our friend Mickey: Gosh, It’s so great to be out of the Hole after 35 days! It feels super weird to me after being locked ...
