Dear Reader, “To be or not to be?” Hamlet famously asked this question in the play by the same name written by William Shakespeare. I first encountered the life-changing power of Hamlet when I signed up for a prison playwright’s circle called Voices Inside, created by Curt Tofteland and
Over time, I’ve realized that every setback can become an opportunity to rewrite our problems into solutions
Loneliness can make people vulnerable to exploiters, and prisons are deeply lonely places
Community is difficult to build in prison, especially when manipulation and pitfalls abound
“There’s a reason some animals gnaw off their own limbs to escape a trap. That’s what jail and prison are: a trap”
“Because prisons are not just someplace else, somewhere else … They are our communities”
Incarceration causes total and absolute loss—it is the absence of freedoms that compound punishment. Prison is the ultimate deprivation
Fighting racial capitalism and white supremacy is key to closing the “hope gap” between wanting and achieving reparations and abolition
For many incarcerated people, access to already limited rehabilitative and educational prison programs can be arbitrarily revoked by officers
The Adult Survivors Act has brought to light the stories of formerly and currently incarcerated women who faced sexual abuse at the hands of authorities in New York State prisons
The Department of Public Advocacy regularly submits a proposal to reduce Kentucky’s draconian sentencing guidelines to no avail. I still hold out hope for change
Counties across California didn’t do a sufficient job of investing in alternatives to incarceration ahead of the June 30 closure
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