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Dispatches from Beyond Incarceration

18 Nov

Posted at 15:55h in Dispatches from Beyond Incarceration, V-Day

"Women's prison opens nursery for mothers, babies behind bars" (The Blade, September 16, 2019, Kaitlin Durbin) The women's prison in Marysville, Ohio has just opened up a new $2 million dollar addition to their nursery for women to promote family bonding. It is refreshing to know that some states in the US are seeing the importance of having a child bond with their mother despite the fact they they are incarcerated. Statistics have proven that the more social experience a child has with a person, the more likely the child will become attached to that person. This initial social tie between mother...

18 Nov

Posted at 15:54h in Dispatches from Beyond Incarceration, V-Day

I am having the most incredible experience of trying to find housing after being incarcerated for 39 years. The graces have been with me and I have a dream job thanks to the connections I acquired while incarcerated, yet the picture is still not complete. I need a place to call my own. It's been 10 months that I'm free and I have been faced with so many harsh realities of just what freedom looks like, feels like and actually is, especially for women such as myself, whose past includes having served a lengthy sentence. There have been many amazing experiences...

18 Nov

Posted at 15:53h in Dispatches from Beyond Incarceration, V-Day

Opioid addiction is just one component of mass incarceration. In the past several years it has bombarded our daily news feed. We hear about the opioid crisis throughout the United States and different approaches to ending it, creating safe measures to eliminate overdoses or finding ways to help people who have been diagnosed with this condition. This is a major breakthrough because years ago while black and brown people and war veterans were addicted no one really cared. They were sent to prison and jails or just left to die in the streets. I think the conversation is important...