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UFD is the original TRUE
Dontie Mitchell
Two days ago, I received an article entitled quote, “How Scott Semple Helped Turn Connecticut’s Prisons Into a Nationally Recognized Laboratory of Reform,” end quote, which was posted @wwdotconnecticutmag.com. I had just come back to… Full Transcript
A Call for Prison Reform; Norwegian Style
Dontie Mitchell
I had a conversation the other day with a good lady named Dianna Goodwin. She’s a senior advisor to New York state Senator Lewis R. Sepúlveda, who is also the chair for the State Senate… Full Transcript
Contradictions in the Rhetoric of Prison Rehabilitation, Part 2
Ivan Kilgore
My name is Ivan Kilgore. The piece I’ll be sharing with you today is entitled “The Glaring Contradictions in the Rhetoric of Prison Rehabilitation, Part Two.” That said, I have never partaken in or heard… Full Transcript
Contradictions in the Rhetoric of Prison Rehabilitation, Part 1
Ivan Kilgore
My name is Ivan Kilgore, and the piece that I’ll be sharing with you today is entitled “The Glaring Contradictions in the Rhetoric of Prison Rehabilitation, Part One.” I begin this piece with a quote… Full Transcript
Is This Corrections?
Dontie Mitchell
Ujamaa ujamaa. This is Dontie S. Mitchell, better known as Mfalme Sikivu, reporting to you from Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, New York. I know this guy incarcerated with me, named Chris. He’s a… Full Transcript
Open Letter to Meek Mills and Jay-Z
Dontie Mitchell
Ujamaa. Ujamaa. This is Dontie S. Mitchell, better known as Mfalme Sikivu, reporting to you from Great Meadow Correctional Facility, in Comstock New York. Word on the street is Meek Mills and Jay Z have put… Full Transcript
Fighting From Within
Dontie Mitchell
Ujamaa. Ujamaa. Hi everyone. This is Dontie Mitchell, better known as Mfalme Sikivu, reporting to you from Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, New York. In this segment, I want to talk to you more… Full Transcript
UFD
Dontie Mitchell
Hello. My name is Dontie S. Mitchell reporting from Great Meadow Correctional Facility. I’m the founder of UFD, which stands for the Ujamaa Fraternal Dynasty. UFD is a mutual self-improvement fraternity that I use as… Full Transcript
PA DOC Juvenile Lifers Initiative Excels Under Robert Hammond
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Juvenile Lifer Initiative excels under Robert Hammond,” by Kerry Shakaboona Marshall. One of the most successful projects by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections in the past decade has to be the… Full Transcript
Education
Terri Harper
“Education.” You cannot expect many, let alone all of us, to be rehabilitated over the decades. It takes for legal relief. Be it through the courts or commutation, if we have no continuing education avenues… Full Transcript
American Prisons as Senior Citizen’s Warehouses
Charles Karim Diggs
Hello everyone. My name is Charles Karim Diggs. I’m at Graterford, uh, prison. And my number is AK7945, Box 244, Graterford, PA 19426. I wanted to, uh, share my feelings about the senior citizens in… Full Transcript
The Return Of The Missing Citizens
Charles Karim Diggs
“Return of the Missing Citizens: Why So Many Citizens in Prison?” American prisons, on any given day, have over 3 million or more women and men in jail. These prisons are local, county, statewide—also the… Full Transcript
How Prisons Create Criminals
Ozzie Mannwright
My name is Ozzie Mann Wright, and I’m at the Summit County Jail in Akron, Ohio. Ever see an assembly line in a big factory where various parts are being ushered down the line and… Full Transcript
The Three Strikes Reform Act of 2016
Speech to the National Convention of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Kenneth Hartman
Speech to the National Convention of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, delivered November 13, 2015 via telephone from the California State Prison, Los Angeles County in Lancaster, California. Greetings, from inside California’s prison… Full Transcript
Statistics
Edward Pinkney
Reverend Edward Pinkney from Benton Harbor, Michigan, now located in Marquette, Michigan penitentiary, Michigan Branch Prison, just across Lake Superior from Canada. Hundreds of years ago, our nation put these considered less than human in… Full Transcript
What is PREP?
Dortell Williams
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
Free Alabama Movement
Bennu Hannibal Ra-Sun
Greetings to everyone from the struggle here in Alabama, Free Alabama Movement. My name is Bennu Hannibal, and we send out greetings to all of our brothers and sisters who are incarcerated inside of the… Full Transcript
America, America
Bryant Arroyo
America, America Land of the free, A society filled with justice and equality. This is a clear example of hypocrisy, Unless they forgot to include me And millions of others kept in captivity, Confined behind tall walls and razor wiresWith… Full Transcript
In my last commentary, I talked about the TRUE program in the Cheshire Correctional Institution in Connecticut. It’s a program where young prisoners, 18 to 25 years old, are housed together along with a small… Full Transcript