Hope on the Inside

  Maybe the title of this post is a little misleading. You see, I've been in prison for over 13 years now, and I've never once even ...

  Several days ago, another prisoner, whom I've known for eight years, experienced a medical emergency that had him leave the prison in ...

  Blam! Blam! Blam! The sounds of staccato gunfire rang loudly in the background. If you didn't know better, you'd think you were in...

  Every year on Mother's Day, I like to honor mothers of prisoners by highlighting how important they are in the lives of many prisoners...

In a recent article published in Prison Legal News (www.prisonlegalnews.org), Stephen Raher from the Prison Policy Initiative (www.prisonpol...

  The Covid-19 pandemic, together with other factors, has made America's job market tough. Companies are having difficulty finding emplo...

  Another tragedy involving an officer shooting and killing an unarmed black man has made national news--only this incident occurred in our ...

  In what has generated a giant sigh of relief among both prisoners and staff, the Michigan Department of Corrections has this past week rel...

  In the last five to ten years, America has developed a ruthless insensitivity to the human condition--people making bad choices sometimes....

  Two years ago, when the Covid pandemic hit in full force, the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) cancelled all visit between loved ...

  One of the things I've struggled with a lot in prison is balancing what I know victims of crime need and the often moronic legislative...

  This week, I was talking to another prisoner whose life may change if the Michigan Supreme Court rules favorably in a case concerning yout...

After several years of struggling through the many complications prison presents, a book I co-authored about prison life is finally availabl...

  (Guest post by Arthur Cayce) Michigan legislators face controversial problems when new criminal justice bills are introduced. First, they ...

  For the last decade, or so, criminal justice and prison reforms have trickled through legislatures around the county. Some of these reform...

  When Michigan citizens voted in so-called Truth in Sentencing, eliminating opportunities for Michigan's prisoners to earn time off the...

  The book of Proverbs says, "Hope deferred makes the heart sick" (13:12), an experience probably shared by nearly everyone. One d...

  "It makes no sense!" one prisoner complained to another on his way to chow. "First, they lock the close contact prisoners i...