The number of lifers continues to rise. So does the stupidity behind it! The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be some lives out there that matter less than other li...
Pardon my French, but Michigan voters, you should be pissed! Leonard Pitts, Jr., fine columnist for the Miami Herald, wrote a great piece the other day about that high school principal in South Caro...
Black History – Pastor Gulley can tell many “Jim Crow” stories! Pastor Rodney Chester Gulley, an inner-city preacher since 1974, can tell Jim Crow stories that’ll make your straight hair curl up into k...
Watch your mouth! I wonder what my mom might have been. I say that because something rotten happened to her when she was just a kid. That episode helped mo...
Sitting on our hands while prisoners croak? Shameful! I’m going to let some other folks do the talking today. The words of a HUMANITY FOR PRISONERS client suffering from COVID: “From what the...
When will we think about prisoners? I’m impressed. I must admit it. As a news junkie, I was glued to the TV screen watching the peaceful transfer of power. But this time I f...
Martin and Cy: Free at last! Thank God Almighty, they’re free at last! I must admit that Dr. Martin Luther King didn’t make much of an impact on my life while he was alive. Sure, I remember the I Have a Dream...
Some people in Washington DC didn’t have a dad like mine! It was early in the 1940s. A little boy named Doug Tjapkes went down the street to play with his friends Billy and Chucky. Playing in the...
Second chances for juvie lifers? Elusive! I blame it on prosecutors! Here’s what’s going on. The U.S. Supreme Court, in 2012 and 2016, ruled that we may not sentence juveniles to ...