How I celebrate Pride in prison
By Lexie Handling on Despite being incarcerated, people in prison find a way to build community and celebrate Pride.
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Incarcerated insights into isolation
By Joe Garcia on To those of you going stir crazy while struggling to shelter-in-place and self-isolate, please try and focus on the positive aspects of this new reality. It’s important to find your own beacon of light to pull yourself through the worst of the chaos. Decades of incarceration have taught me this and ingrained in me the coping skills to get through any seemingly depressing situation.
A jail is not a home
By Kevin D. Sawyer on When the problem of homelessness was in its infancy and jails were expanding to greet new “clients” each day, the issue concerning the growing number of unsheltered people on the street was practically invisible. Years later, two wars overseas, and a financial meltdown created The Great Recession.