Right To Write (R2W)

85 posts

Rehabilitation resources in prison are crucial to breaking the cycle of intergenerational incarceration

Last year, my oldest daughter went to juvenile detention, thus completing the three-generation cycle of incarcerated women in my family. I want to forge us a new path

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4 Min
By: Heather C. Jarvis

Never eat the candy on your pillow: Rewriting your life one character at a time

Over time, I’ve realized that every setback can become an opportunity to rewrite our problems into solutions

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5 Min
By: Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.

People with traumatic brain injuries need care, not criminalization

“Concussion protocols” is a phrase we hear nearly every week during football season. The effects of head trauma on a person’s behavior and personality are not new science, though research on the topic is far more advanced now than it was when Phineas Gage had a railroad spike shot

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4 Min
By: David Annarelli, Zeb Larson

Never eat the candy on your pillow: Technology and the imprisoned

Powerlessness impacts every aspect of an incarcerated person’s life—including the use of technology

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5 Min
By: Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.

Never eat the candy on your pillow: The artist’s hustle

Art gives incarcerated people a chance to create something beautiful and unique in an environment that cultivates monochrome sameness

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5 Min
By: Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.

The psychological torment and unconstitutionality of the state’s intent to kill

The threat of a death sentence creates a crucible of dehumanization that no one should have to experience and no one has the right to inflict

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4 Min
By: Lyle C. May

Never eat the candy on your pillow: An introduction to prison hustles 

Prisons provide bare-minimum living conditions and insufficient pay, forcing people inside to find alternative ways to make enough money to survive

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5 Min
By: Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.

California bill reduces markups on essential items across state prison canteens

Though SB 474’s passing will help curb excessive price gouging of commissary items, it still doesn’t address systemic issues like low prison wages and gender pay inequality

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5 Min
By: Tomiekia Johnson

Never eat the candy on your pillow: Friend or foe?

Loneliness can make people vulnerable to exploiters, and prisons are deeply lonely places

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5 Min
By: Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.

Never eat the candy on your pillow: The setup

Community is difficult to build in prison, especially when manipulation and pitfalls abound

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4 Min
By: Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.

Never eat the candy on your pillow: Truth inside the fences

“There’s a reason some animals gnaw off their own limbs to escape a trap. That’s what jail and prison are: a trap”

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6 Min
By: Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.

‘If my life is to matter, then mail must matter. Support must matter.’

Timothy James Young has been wrongfully incarcerated on death row since 1999. Letters line his path to freedom

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4 Min
By: Timothy James Young

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