By David J. Annarelli The legitimacy of the United States Courts, both Federal and at the state level, is an issue of growing concern today. That the courts are in fact NOT legitimate seems to be prov ...

By David J. Annarelli  Equal protection under the law. We hear these words all too often, and we see evidence that there is no such thing with increasing regularity. I say this, as I am writing from i ...

By James S. Kor How the failure of our criminal justice system is actually success to those who have prepared the most fertile ground to cultivate crime and profit from human suffering. Hiding in plai ...

By Jose Delgado Once I became exposed to the industry of human warehousing, I was introduced to a culture of people who did not lack the depravity to use humans for financial gain, depriving them of t ...

By Jamel Walker In the information age, our society is voracious consumers of mass media There are many more media options than there were 40 years ago, but the business model of many media outlets ha ...

By John L. Orr I awoke at about 5 a.m. in the dark confines of a b-man cell at Mule Creek prison in California. Conscious of my five slumbering companions nearby, I quietly reached for a morning vitam ...

By Randall Morris  FCI Seagoville is a low security federal facility located fifteen miles Southeast of downtown Dallas, Texas, with an inmate population of circa 1,800. I arrived here on 3/2/2023 to ...

By Randall Morris It is early May, 2023, and you are about to render a guess as to the actual retail price of an 8oz. jar of Folgers Classic Roast Instant Coffee. The collective shouts from the audien ...

By C.S. Bryson The recent inaugural graduation ceremony for the California State University Sacramento's Transforming Outcomes Project at Sacramento State (TOPSS), at Mule Creek State Prison (MCSP) in ...

By Ronnie Shelton The world we wander upon, This planet of varied inequalities. Always rearing its ugly head, The impact showing no mercies, Prejudice, poverty and judgment, never dead. That one stron ...

by Fred Munch  The superior courts in California hand out life sentences like candy at Halloween. In doing so, they've filled the numerous state prisons with multitudes of the aged and infirm. If only ...

by Ifoma Modibo Kambon (Daryel Burnett) Prison mirrors society, surrounded by a landscape of electrified barb wire fences, warning signs for trespassers—and gun towers are concrete structures of patho ...

By Darius F. Holloway I’m serving an active sentence of 23 years for two malicious woundings and for use of a firearm committed in the 12th grade. Luckily, I graduated on time. Class of 2007. I have b ...

By Ricky Ortega Facing the death penalty, my jury trial began with testimony from the mother of my victim. Unprepared for the impact her presence had on me, I stared intently at the ground beneath my ...

By F. Orlando Wells There is a great deal of focus currently on innovating rehabilitation programming and the long term benefits to the incarcerated and public safety. The changes planned for San Quen ...

by Hollie Garrett As I sit in this small cell the walls continue to close in on me. I watch small glimpses of the world through my 15-inch TV as thoughts of life lived and time lost flood my mind. How ...

By Brandon Rendon 2023 TX H.B. 607 “AN ACT relating to the Solicitation of Pen Pals by certain inmates of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.” “Certain Inmates,” this bill targets only sex offen ...

by Keri Blakinger As soon as I walked in the room, I burst out crying. The place was shockingly white—neon white. And so small. There was no clock, and no books besides a Bible. The window was too hig ...

By C.S. Bryson The quiet shuffle of students' shoes down a linoleum hallway is a common sound on any college campus in  America. Filled with the desire for knowledge, laptops under arms, they engage o ...