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Wrongfully Convicted Murderer Develops & Implements Successful Student Volunteer Program
Controlling the narrative as to who the incarcerated are and their potential is a critical to defining how society perceives and interacts with the incarcerated and how they themselves see themselves. They are not the worse decision of their lives.
March 2025 Volunteer Highlights by Taos Washington
Volunteer Highlight By Taos Washington Since joining the United Black Family Scholarship Foundation (UBFSF) in August 2023, I have progressed through several roles, each enhancing my ability to drive meaningful change within underserved communities. Beginning as the...
Being the Wife of an Incarcerated Man in the United States: My Testimony By Halima Kilgore
Being the Wife of an Incarcerated Man in the United States: My Testimony By Halima Kilgore My name is Halima Kilgore, and I am the wife of Ivan Kilgore, founder of the United Black Family Scholarship Foundation (UBFSF). Through this testimony, I want to share my...
Can You See Yourself With It?
By Mandrel Miller G29534 P.O. Box 1902 Tehachapi, CA 93581 In 2006, I was in the Wayside facility of the LA County Jail fighting at three-strike case for robbery when I met this OG pimp named “Dark Gable.” Dark Gable was in his early forties, about 6' 2” with dark...
February 2025 Message From Our Founder
Rethinking Black History Month: Moving Beyond Western Benchmarks and Tokenized “Firsts” By Ivan Kilgore Every February, Black History Month is celebrated across the United States with tributes to African American pioneers who have "broken barriers" in politics,...
February Volunteer Highlight – Tom Gambaro
As Field Director for the R.E.B.U.I.L.D. Community Reinvestment Program, my focus is on addressing systemic challenges such as criminalization, homelessness, and barriers to affordable housing and homeownership. Through strategic partnerships and grassroots...
OUR 2023 SCHOLARSHIP LAUREATE
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Alabama Department of Corrections on Lockdown/ Incarcerated Activist Robert Earl Council Transported to University of Alabama at Birmington Hospital
Alabama Department of Corrections on Lockdown/ Incarcerated Activist Robert Earl Council Transported to University of Alabama at Birmington Hospital
Inspiration: A Life Born of Necessity
Going from prison yards to a university campus is quite the contrast of a life once lived; however, the brightness of his future blinds all doubts from his view.
University of California, Irvine Prison Pandemic Oral Archive
We often think of prisons as closed institutions that do not affect us or our communities. But, in fact, our society’s health, safety, and well-being are closely tied to our prisons. The COVID crisis in prisons is revealing long-standing and entrenched problems with mass incarceration generally….
We Can Use Dr. King’s Legacy
We Can Use Dr. King’s Legacy By Erena Daniel The legacy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. left at the height of the Civil Rights Movement had lasting and profound impacts on the consolidation efforts of African American people, both then and today. Despite the magnitude of...
The Intersection Between Dr. King’s Incarceration & Today’s Incarcerated Writer By Ivan Kilgore
THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN DR. KING'S INCARCERATION & TODAY'S INCARCERATED WRITER By Ivan Kilgore, January 2025 This year, I was invited to speak at the University of Santa Clara to commemorate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and its connection to...
#Free California Movement: A Letter to Prison Reform Organizations
…if we are to invest in the notion of rehabilitation and entrust American institutions, then we must demand that CDCR release our loved ones, including those serving LWOP and death sentences.
December 2024 Message From Our Founder
December 2024 Message From Our Founde This month, we wanted to highlight the organization's biggest accomplishments for 2024. Personally, for me as someone who's been in a cage for over two decades, building infrastructure was at the top of the list. Hands down, any...
Rehabilitation Over Profit by Megan McDrew
Rehabilitation Over Profit By Megan McDrew Growing up in the shadow of San Quentin and Alcatraz, I’ve always been drawn to prisons with a mix of curiosity, disdain, and a healthy dose of fear. San Quentin, once one of the most notoriously dangerous prisons in...
November 2024 Message From Our Founder
November 2024 Message From Our Founder November marked the 24th year I've been incarcerated. In May, I graduated with two degrees: one in Liberal Arts and another in Political Science. It was a bittersweet moment. On one hand, I looked to the sky and smiled, knowing...
Prisoners of War by Monsour Owolabi
Prisoner of War By Monsour Owolabi this poem is part of the “100 Stories” Archive with Stony Brook University to be published 6 November 2024 I’m in a tomb for the living, locked in a box. My clothes are all white except my gray socks. It’s 95° or so I hear;...
The People v. The Prison By Ivan Kilgore
This article was originally published by Inquest Magazine on 10 October, 2024 The People v. the Prison By Ivan Kilgore California is discovering the hard way that you can’t leave decarceral reforms in the hands of prison officials At times it appears as though...
October 2024 Message From Our Founder
It's said that processionary caterpillars travel in long, undulating lines, one creature after another. Jean-Henri Fabre, the French naturalist who died in 1915, once led a group of these caterpillars onto the rim of a large flowerpot, so that the lead caterpillar...
Catherine Clark Perkins affectionately known as Ms. Cat (Catron Academy Learning Institute) is a community activist/advocate working to end Mass Incarceration and gang/gun violence. She is the CEO and founder of Catron Academy Learning Institute. A member of the...
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