In my spare time I wrote letters to my son and poems to my wife, from which I could track the visible improvement in my writing. I continued working with Robyn right up to the end of my sentence. Before I went to prison, my wife used to do all of my paperwork for my company, ...
Espinal, 23, said she has gone from writing letters to speaking with her pen pal nearly every day. Coincidentally, both Lapkin and Espinal studied criminal justice in college and credit their ability to empathize with inmates to their education. Espinal said that younger generations are more ed...
State releases revised inmate discipline policy ; Prison inmates will no longer be prohibited from writing to pen pals or under a byline for news media.SCOTT DOLAN
I live in a rural mountain subdivision in Colorado. Last week, there was a house fire very near to my house. Firefighters (all volunteer here) showed up quickly and began their attack. The structure was too far gone to save, and the dried grasses which had grown quite tall due to a ...
I could find mistakes other inmates(同狱犯人)were making in their letters home. In my spare time I wrote letters to my son and poems to my wife, from which I could track the visible improvement in my writing. I continued working with Robyn right up to the end of my sentence. Before...
They also gave us a little tote bag filled with notes and letters from Kairos men and their families, even from incarcerated men and women who took part in previous Kairos events. I read every one. Some were written with a formal message, but there were a few personal messages from the ...
inmates in Egypt—or anywhere for that matter—to write their own experiences, free from the narrative constraints that often paint prison solely as a political battlefield, and prisoners as victims. My aim is to provoke thought, prompting people to address lingering questions about the purpose ...
During camp, Arden mailed letters to every person she could possibly think of, including seven or eight letters to her dear old mom and dad. Henry sent two letters his entire time at camp — one to us, one to a friend back home. Boys and girls, man. We’ve been laughing over their...
Andy Dufresne is an innocent man, sent to prison for the murder of his wife and her lover. That alone grabs our sympathy, but that's only the beginning. To make your character an underdog, you need to really stack the odds against him. ...
Square in Savannah in 2010, outside the federal courthouse where Troy’s evidentiary hearing was being held—the first time Troy had been back to his hometown since his conviction in 1991. It’s the same as the wristband I still wear today, blue with white letters illuminating two sentences...