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Seven Steps to a Successful Prison Disciplinary Outcome
It's a sad fact that a prisoner charged with inmate misconduct is judged by the reporting officer's co-workers.
Read More »Four Letter Words: Learning How to Write from a Federal Prison
If we as Americans want prisoners to succeed at something pro-social whether it be writing, learning, or not returning to a life of crime, we have to provide them with the tools to do so.
Read More »Governor Cuomo’s Cost-Saving Prescription for Safer Streets: Prisoner Education
Providing college-level education to inmates has been shown to dramatically reduce recidivism and the cost to taxpayers of incarceration.
Read More »Seven Prison Survival Secrets
By internalizing and abiding by these principles, a new inmate will save a lot of strife and possibly violence, and even transform potential hard time to easy time.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘Riot in Cell Block 11’ – The Criterion Collection
Don Siegel's Folsom Prison blues.
Read More »Energize: The Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Technological Revolution
Giving federal prisoners access to technology benefits not only the prisoners but their families, prison administrators, and the society into which the inmates will eventually be released.
Read More »Federal Prison Discipline: The Case of the Education Behind Bars Newsletter
Held in solitary confinement for months for publishing an educational newsletter for inmates, I eventually had the guilty findings overturned, but not before much suffering.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘Riot in Cell Block 11’ (Criterion Collection)
There is plenty of action in 'Riot in Cell Block 11,' which is brilliantly intensified by the psychological dramas of Don Siegel's first important film.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Enchanted’ by Rene Denfeld
Is the mind really able to disconnet in times of need and danger and take us into the beauty and enchantment of the situation, leaving us free of fear and distress?
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