Recently there has been a fair wind blowing life into the men at the Taft Correctional Satellite Camp facility — a breath of the human spirit. It has come in the form of four legs, short stature, and floppy ears. [...]
When the prison I've grown up in partnered with a local animal shelter and a service-canine organization to start a dog rehabilitation and training program, it had been nearly 4,000 days since I had last seen a dog in person, last [...]
I am often amused by the prison stereotypes I run across in the media. We are all big, buff, tattooed beasts who spend our days pumping iron, slugging the boxing-bag, and intimidating the other stereotypes: weak, effeminate youngsters, barely-bearded. While there [...]