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A Land of the Free
Dortell Williams
Remember when America was the Land of the Free? Before the American landscape became peppered with prisons, dotting across the continental horizon? Before America committed to locking up more people than any industralized nation on… Full Transcript
Epiphanies
Dortell Williams
Dortell Williams, prison in Los Angeles County. The epiphanies. In the 80’s, American demagogues birth an epiphany. Their tough on crime ideals that led the way to a shameful historic leveling over of our nation’s… Full Transcript
Junior Prison Jumpsuits
MOVE Bombing 30th Anniversary
Dortell Williams
It seems incompatible with civility, o logic for that matter, that African Americans, in the 21st century, and under un Moreno president, are still asserting, and chanting phrases like: “Black lives matter” to prove human… Full Transcript
1985: Where Was I?
Prisons, A Growth Industry
A Generational Memory
A Post-Racial America?
Anger But No Management
A Pot Smoking Past
Dortell Williams
Imagine, if you will, the governor of California, the Honorable Arnold Schwarzenegger, in one of many recent photo ops – statuesque, suited up in an olive-green suit perhaps; clean as new money. Now picture… Full Transcript
California’s No Parole Policy
Dortell Williams
When prison officials break laws, any they any better than those they’re sworn to oversee? That’s what thousands of lifers adversed by a contempt parole board are asking. Vantrae Gregory recently brought that… Full Transcript
The Politics of Rehab
Centuries of Female Struggle
Prison War Vets? Shame on Us
A Plea for Rehabilitation
Insane Asylums: An Infamous Alternative
Desperately Seeking A Humane Way to Kill People
Faith and Hope Beyond Prison Walls
Dortell Williams
How’z zat game go, you know, where someone names a subject and you blurt out the first thing that comes to mind? How ‘bout prisoners? Did muscle-bound ghouls and heartless, evil minions… Full Transcript
A Dark Testament to Our Two Americas
Dortell Williams
When a 23-year old Latino was stopped for what police called, “a routine pedestrian stop” no one imagined the tragedy that would ensue from this seemingly innocuous encounter. According to a police spokesperson, the young… Full Transcript
California prisoners love PREP. You know why? Because PREP offers faith and hope. PREP stands for Partnership For Re-Entry Program. What PREP does is to offer rehabiltative correspondence lessons to prisoners thristy for self-help and… Full Transcript