by Dymitri Harazewski As an out-and-proud anarchist, I'm sometimes asked how I can favor abolishing prisons entirely over simply "reforming" them. The people who read my blog (betweenthebars.org/blogs ...

By David Holloman My name is David Holloman. I’ve been incarcerated for 18 years on a 34-year sentence for 2nd degree murder and gun charges. I can go into the specifics of what led to my incarceratio ...

by Ellis Lund As I grew from a child into my teenage years, I witnessed that I had a direct and indirect impact on my social relationships, as well as the morale of my environment. If I was being unru ...

by Marcel Invaka Roberson The first day of my feeling like a prisoner was when I was getting ready to take the bus ride to prison. I was shackled from my ankles up to my wrists. Every time I would ste ...

by Gary Salcedo I’m a 43-year-old ex-gang member who is sitting in a prison cell, teetering a pen between finger and thumb like an artist’s paintbrush, in deep contemplation of how to begin his master ...

by Justin Ennis When I tried to trace the events that led up to my crime, I could not initially figure out how I had arrived at this destination. All I knew was that I carried a pain so unbearable tha ...