YOU OVERSLEPT. So you are rushing. Maybe to a call-out or program. You throw on your greens. Lace up your boots. A buzzer screams, long and grating. You glance warily around your cell; you may have forgotten something. You are rushing. [...]
Getting a prison education in California is a joke. Allow me to explain why. When a prisoner gets assigned to school, that is basically his job. The incentives for him to go to school every day are unlimited access to the [...]
Over the past 18 months, twenty-three incarcerated men died at the Jessup Regional Hospital (JRH), according to an unnamed staffer at JRH. Many were elderly prisoners. The youngest was in his mid-fifties. The oldest was 69. Official causes of death ranged [...]
Americans, like the rest of the planet, have endured the COVID19 pandemic since early 2020. Tragically, there have been thousands of deaths. Even for those who have not experienced loss, life has been very difficult for most, especially economically. For [...]
Growing up in the collapsing Soviet Union, I remember my parents trying their hardest to put food on the table. Our most common meal was potatoes with canned sardines. If we had a good week, we could even afford sour [...]
