Hundreds of people die every year as a direct result of incompetence or indifference of medical care in prison. Thank you to the Everett Herald for publishing my article on this subject and elevating the issue. Everett Herald #medicalcareinprison #prison heraldnet.com/opinion/commen…

To people who believe in mass incarceration theres a nice symmetry to a sentence like this. You go to prison as long as you’ve been alive and things sort of balance out. Thats not how it works in real life. I went to prison when I was 19 and I couldn’t conceive of how long 19

I woke up three times last night and every time I went back to sleep I reentered a dream about being confined to a mental ward. Then I woke up the last time and realized that dream isn't much different from my real life.

80% of women in jails are mothers, and most of them are primary caretakers of their children. Mass incarceration has a ripple effect, causing trauma that can last generations within a single family.

There are so many consequences of mass incarceration that go overlooked -- increased divorce rates, shortened life expectancy and a thousand other things. But none of them is as catastrophic to individual lives as the impact of incarceration on children.

The overwhelming majority of violent crime survivors are not in favor of extraordinarily long prison sentences, and don’t see prison sentences as facilitating their healing. This is off subject a little but it’s worth noting the overwhelming majority of people in prison are

Apparently this old presentation I gave on solitary confinement is making the rounds -- three people have hit me up about it since last week. I have no idea why that's happening, but I'm riding the wave. I recorded this for the Abolition Christian Justice Reform Summit in

Thank you HermanJ! My secret sauce is spending a huge chunk of my life in solitary confinement. Anyone can do it if they are committed enough. 😉

When people become aware of what's happening with solitary confinement -- what it's really like to live there, how many tens of thousands prisoners are exposed to solitary and what kind of psychological damage solitary causes -- they get pissed. People with no personal connection

You don't need to be religious to feel something pull at you when you read this from Dwayne David Paul: "Christian mystical experiences are typically described as solitary -- even if the fruits of those experiences feed our common life. Today, atomized as we are, we could benefit

Over the span of the mass incarceration era the disparities in incarceration rates between races has remained surprisingly steady, but the disparity between the incarceration rates of the rich and the poor has widened dramatically. We won’t get criminal justice reform until we

Here’s another example of how being poor can get you killed in America!

Here’s the prosecutor who’s willing to kill an innocent person to advance his career, and the best part is he’ll go in to court and call other people sociopaths.

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Having a parole system is an uptown problem. The real problem is having no parole at all. Since the 1970’s dozens of states have abolished parole and, gone to determinate sentencing schemes which are less effective in terms of rehabilitation, and almost always mean prisoners

No one can report on incarceration the way that incarcerated writers can. Please share this every which way and help us get our stories out. #prison #incarceration

Crazy to discover that Dick Cheney -- Darth Vader Himself, in his time the world's most dangerous man -- has for all these years been a closeted childless cat lady.

These would be assassins are so ineffectual lately that I’m starting to get the feeling the attempts are staged. Is the RNC paying these dudes or are they just klutzes? 🤷‍♂️