Category: Advocacy

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Advocacy

While in prison, I began dedicating my life to improve the criminal justice system. I continue today to advocate for treatment versus incarceration for people

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Prison Reform

“There’s a difference between those inmates we’re ‘mad at’ and those we fear. Let’s release and help assimilate into society those who we can, and

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Pound-foolish

Originally published as a Letter to the Editor in the Wichita Eagle on April 5, 2013. Reprinted here from a copy of the letter submitted. As

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Presidential Pardons

Originally sent as a Letter to the Editor in the Wichita Eagle on March 24, 2013. Reprinted here from a copy of the letter submitted.

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Treatment, not prison

First published on May 28, 2007 in America Jesuit Review Treatment, Not Prison My journey from childhood to prison, and my abrupt release from a

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