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WA DOC Cohort Policy Applies Only to Prisoners, Not Officers & Staff

by Inmate Contributor | Mar 24, 2021 | From the Inside | 0 Comments

This morning (3-24-21) at Twins Rivers Unit in Washington state, an incarcerated individual approached C.U.S Collins with a...

by Eric Burnham | Mar 12, 2021 | From the Inside | 2 Comments

We live in extremely hard times. The last year was certainly one of the more daunting of my life. The theme of 2020 was "If it...

by Melissa Bee | Mar 10, 2021 | From the Inside | 0 Comments

We've heard a few stories about how prisons use Covid as an excuse to enhance punishment of their charges. We received this...

February 9, 2021 Today is special. It's my late brother Nambi's birthday. Nambi struggled with drug addiction since he was about...

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude . . . except as punishment for a crime . . . shall exist. --13th Amendment (1865),...

February 8, 2021 Negligence, n. 1. The failure to exercise the standard of care that a reasonably prudent person would have...

I recently read this July 2020 article written by David Waldstein about whether racial slur words should be officially banned...

by Martin Lockett | Jan 30, 2021 | From the Inside | 3 Comments

Time for Oregon to pull back on Measure 11’s mandatory minimums. An opinion piece by one of our featured writers, Martin Lockett...

by Melissa Bee | Jan 29, 2021 | From the Inside | 0 Comments

An update from our friend in WSRU in WA DOC - read his post Preparing for Quarantine that he wrote just before being moved....

Faith is the essence of being. Everyone has faith. Whether theistic, pantheistic, or atheistic, everyone believes in something,...