What it would be to be free. Is my Father in Heaven looking down on me? I sit here in this cell, wondering about all the wrong I have done Wondering when this boring life will be alive again; is... Read more >>

What makes a mother legitimate? Who has the right to be a mother in the United States? Are women who are incarcerated fallen women, prime examples of the patriarchal version of the Garden of Eden... Read more >>

I have what you can call a reoccurring dream. It has the same people in my dream, but different situations, but the same, you understand? Little background:  My ex-husband is in prison. He has a... Read more >>

Since I was a child I’ve always had a taste for expensive things. I was the only kid in elementary school without a bike. Instead of wishing for a bike, I told my parents I wanted a pearl... Read more >>

“I was a wild child,” said Lysette Navarro before writing in a prison. Lysette Navarro grew up angry. When she was a teenager living in the north end of Springfield, Massachusetts, she... Read more >>

In Perversion of Justice, director Rev. Melissa Mummert introduces us to Hamedah Hasan, a mother of three serving a mandatory life sentence for a drug crime she didn’t commit. I interviewed Rev.... Read more >>

Perhaps the single most glaring example of legislative discrimination currently on the books is Oregon House Bill 2770, which was originally set to make strangulation a felony. It was stripped of this... Read more >>

We like receiving letters. Yes we may groan at the dozens of bills, the advertising leaflets, and the vast number of charity envelopes that fill our mail boxes, but a proper, hand written letter is... Read more >>

Set in the lush New York City suburb of Westchester County, the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility—New York State’s largest women’s prison and its only maximum-security prison for... Read more >>

I am very sorry that you find my son-in-law such a pleasant chap, but the only possible reason you could have for finding him pleasant is because you don’t live with him. If you just... Read more >>