Terry M Collum-06/19/2025
Beauty is simply reality seen through the eyes of love. We should learn to see the sentences and paragraphs of love made visible to us in each day, on loving days the leaves are greener, the sky bluer. We can see love in the wrinkles of faces and in the small, heroic acts of trying […]
Creed White-06/19/2025
Celeste Monette Blair-06/19/2025-TRYING
Lately I have noticed there is a uniform response here to the questions of accountability and positive change, too often I hear, ” I am trying”. Yesterday I asked on the ladies whom I mentor, ” how would you feel if you were boarding a plane and the pilot came on and said to sit […]
Celeste Monette Blair-06/19/2025-My Reason for Seeking Clemency
As you may know, I recently received a commutation of sentence.Number 7 of the petition is titled, REASONS FOR SEEKING CLEMENCY, here is how I answered the question: I know that I made terrible, foolish, unlawful mistakes but in my life, I was simply doing my best to numb my pain after a divorce. My […]
Sherida Nabi-06/19/2025
Today is Juneteenth, at last freedom and acknowledgement of the end of suppression, the end of slavery, something that should never have happened to mankind. The history of The Netherlands, where I am from, is unfortunately tainted just as much due to the very active slavery trade to keep the farming businesses (plantations) running in […]
Michael Santos-Felony Backgrounds
This morning, I received an email from a journalist at The New York Times. They wanted to confirm details about someone who had just received clemency—a person who had been part of our Prison Professors community. I didn’t know them personally, but I wasn’t surprised. Why? Because we’ve been planting this seed for years: If you want […]
Lee Elbaz-06/18/2025
“I have learned that people will forget what you said , people will forget what you did , but people will never forget how you made them feel.”–Maya Angelou I received a book in the mail last month (that had this quote ) , it looked interesting . My friend wanted to read it , […]
Kirby Perrault-06/18/2025-Exercise from a book I was reading…
If I had a week to live, this is what I would want my kids to know…
Kirby Perrault-06/18/2025-2 month assessment
Month Two Assessment; Hard to really believe this has been two months. Reality is really starting to set in now. In one respect it seems like I have been away from my family for a year already. In another respect it feels like I could do this (camp life), if needed, if I just settle […]
Sherida Nabi-06/18/2025
When I was incarcerated at FDC Miami, a very young girl was brought in, I will call her “Bambi”, for she reminded me of a young deer, lithe, pretty face, but easily scared off. I could instantly tell that she had had a rough life and at barely 21, she had this demeanor of an […]
