Prison is a place I have been for over half my life. I was 21 years-old when I stabbed a man during a fight that I started while...
Prison Is a Place
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Bobby Bostic and the Judge who sentenced him to 241 years in prison
Our friend Bobby Bostic has a familiar name for many with an interest in prison reform, and juvenile life sentences. Locked up...
Daily Prison Life Series: How To Fix What We Refuse To Acknowledge Is Broken
In a real world of problems and solutions it is generally practiced to recognize where a problem exists and to seek a resolution...
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...
Retribution vs. Rehabilitation
What is the most effective approach to dealing with crime and punishment? Should the criminal justice system primarily be used...
Restorative Justice is Key to Rehabilitation
For a peek inside the Restorative Justice process, see CNN's original series The Redemption Project with Van Jones. For the...
Nothing On My Table
While certainly not as grossly unjust as it was prior to the 1980s, incarceration is still an incredibly dehumanizing...
What Rehabilitation Means
In the movie Shawshank Redemption, one of the incarcerated characters, Red they called him, went before the parole board. He had...
My Unique Dilemma
As of 2018, I have a little over eight years left before I go before the board of parole and potentially release back into the...
Doing the Right Thing Ain’t Easy
These days people can be quick to tell you what's wrong with our society, and we all have canned solutions to almost every...