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Three corrections Officers Under Arrest for the Brutal, Unprovoked Attack on Multiple Prisoners.
Paula Lehman-Ewing paula@reimaginingtherevolution.com Published 12:10 Central January 10, 2023 JEFFERSON COUNTY, Alabama — Three...
Michael L. McKuin: Fighting Injustice Through Science Fiction and Horror
Michael L. McKuin: Fighting Injustice Through Science Fiction and Horror By Michael McKuin and Laurie Tang For some, writing is a hobby, a means of creative expression. But for Michael L. McKuin, author of Kill the Bastard, writing is a lifeline, using it as a weapon...
HOW WE ORGANIZE WITH OUR INCARCERATED LEADERS.
HOW WE ORGANIZE WITH OUR INCARCERATED LEADERS. By Ivan Kilgore. People often ask me, "How can you be incarcerated and yet accomplish all you have as the founder of a successful nonprofit organization?" My response, PEOPLE! Sure, determination and a passion for...
PRISON SLAVE MOVEMENT–AN ABOLITIONIST CRITIQUE
Not Worker, But Chattel Ivan Kilgore Whereas the positionality of the worker (whether a factory worker demanding a monetary wage, an immigrant, or a white woman demanding a social wage) gestures toward the reconfiguration of civil society, the positionality of the...
UBF Juvenile Mentoring Program
In order for tomorrow's youth to become leaders and not statistics, they require the support of the greater community. With all the controversy...
How Prison Has Effected My Family & Community
By Ivan Kilgore —May 2019 (The following is an excerpt from my latest book Domestic Genocide: The Institutionalization of Society.) I begin by informing you that institutions affect people in both positive and negative ways. Arguably, the positive aspect of prisons in...
FACING DEATH PENALTY, AGNOSTIC STARTS TO PRAY–RADIO INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR IVAN KILGORE.
FACING DEATH PENALTY, AGNOSTIC STARTS TO PRAY–RADIO INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR IVAN KILGORE.
We Care For Our Pets Better Than Our Incarcerated Citizens
He’s gone years without touching or being touched by another human being (except when the guards put handcuffs on him to escort him from his cell).
Why Philanthropy Must Start Investing in the People Behind Prison Bars By Glenn E. Martin
Why Philanthropy Must Start Investing in the People Behind Prison Bars By Glenn E. Martin Walk into almost any prison in America and, if you know where to look, you’ll find something philanthropy has been searching for: talent. We lock up some of America’s best and...
Intersectionality Behind Bars By Isabella Cain
Intersectionality Behind Bars By Isabella Cain Women’s History Month calls us to remember, celebrate, and amplify the voices of women who have shaped our world, often against extraordinary odds. Yet too often this recognition excludes one of the most marginalized and...
Rebuilding from Within: A Community Assessment of Northeast Oklahoma City
Rebuilding from Within: A Community Assessment of Northeast Oklahoma City By EJ, R.E.B.U.I.L.D. Program and Policy Coordinator The United Black Family Scholarship Foundation (UBFSF), through its R.E.B.U.I.L.D. initiative—Reinvesting in Every Black and Underserved...
Women’s History Month: Memory, Movement, and the Responsibility of Truth By Ivan Kilgore
Women’s History Month: Memory, Movement, and the Responsibility of Truth By Ivan Kilgore Every year, Women’s History Month invites me to pause and reflect not only on the victories that have been won, but on the work that still remains. For me, it is a time to...
Building a Legacy: Adversity Introduces A Man to Himself
I was in prison sentenced to spend the rest of my days on earth locked in a cell. Still and yet, I possessed the ability to make a conscious decision to not allow these circumstances to define me….
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
Prisoner Lives Matter
Megan McDrew Prisoner Lives Matter, or at least they should. Yet, I’ve come to wonder if society actually sees the incarcerated as valuable or worthy of protection, especially in recent light of the pandemic? It pains me deeply to think of their plight but it hurts,...
Redefining “Rehabilitation” By Isabella Cain
Redefining "Rehabilitation" By Isabella Cain, UBFSF Media & Marketing Director The word “rehabilitation” implies restoration. It suggests healing, renewal, and reintegration, however, in the context of incarceration, rehabilitation has often meant something very...
Care & Cooperation: Leadership Rooted in Humanity by Ivan Kilgore
Care & Cooperation: Leadership Rooted in Humanity By Ivan Kilgore, UBFSF Founder When I first began reflecting on this month’s theme—care and cooperation—the answer came to me almost immediately. What surfaced was not a theory, framework, or abstract leadership...
Expanding Leadership Education for America’s Incarcerated By Ian Wilson
Expanding Leadership Education for America’s Incarcerated By Ian Wilson, UBFSF Project Manager My name is Ian Wilson and I serve as the Project Manager for Nonprofit Coaching and Leadership Training for America’s Incarcerated (NPCLT), working under Ivan Kilgore and...
On Sustaining Collaborative Partnerships By Dr. Zebulon Miletsky
On Sustaining Collaborative Partnerships By Zebulon Miletsky, PhD Considering this year’s theme of “Care and Cooperation: Partnerships that Work” leads me to meditate on my own methods to sustains collaboration—and our larger effort to create such a thing at the...
Successful Inside-Out Restorative Justice Programs Are Possible By Isabella Cain
Successful Inside-Out Restorative Justice Programs Are Possible By Isabella Cain For decades restorative justice programs within the United States have focused on outside-in tactics. How can people or groups outside of the system help those individuals inside, where...