Family dynamics The incarceration of over a quarter of a million individuals disrupts the networks of support within families. It distorts parent-child interactions. And adds unnecessary demands to governmental services including schools, foster care facilities, adoption agencies, and youth-serving groups. Little research has been done to examine the effects of imprisonment on families or to…
Be you. Be your Authentic self Don’t Front. Hopefully you can chalk this up to a fucked up learning experience. Whether you were born into it, or one day you made that one fatal error or if you said fuck it, got curious, we are all in the same spot. I do know one thing,…
COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES Society. Please meet the very dysfunctional criminal justice system. the radical truth (X): There has been a long and brutal history of keeping the inside of United States safe through controversial methods, models, and concepts. Collateral Consequences is a much-needed piece of the puzzle in facilitating dialog between the defendant, lawyers, judge and even…
Through government grants and private donations, we can provide the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated population with desperately needed educational services and job training to help them re-enter society.
Hear no evil | see no evil | speak no evil Exposing a pattern or behavior is often , at times, the only way we know how to rid ourselves of it. Sometimes we get lucky and identify the problem. Other times we are stuck riding someone else’s agenda or better yet, lies. A simple…
Another inmate was found unresponsive two days ago at the Metropolitan Detention Center. He committed suicide while he and the whole Pod were left unsupervised in the Segregation Unit (SEG). The corrections officer, that we will not name at this point, will face charges. How the do you let someone die there with a billion…
The Good Shepherd Center (GSC) The Good Shepherd Center plays a key role in facilitating our homeless population; make no mistake, that is why they are here. As an added benefit, they have a rock star rehab facility on campus, and countless programs. I was unhoused for about three years. The Good Shepherd saved my…
With that said… Karma is such a bitch. David Hunter. Now. Are we all talking about the same David Hunter? Because the David Hunter that KOBTV and KRQE are talking about was an “amazing corrections officer who we will dearly miss”. Then, on the MDC Facebook page, Hunter’s co-workers describe him as a “hero,” a…
So Close My very good friend died a couple weeks ago and, when I think of him now I can’t help but think that he was in a place like this. We aren’t dignified enough during death. It seems as if we should be, we want to be known as the ones that paved the…
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