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Lessons Learned Through Life, Service & Building People By Timmy Young
Lessons Learned Through Life, Service & Building People By Timmy Young Healing does not begin in buildings. It begins in people. I’ve learned through experience that communities don’t collapse overnight, and they don’t heal overnight either. Healing starts when...
Reclaiming Our Humanity: Community, Culture, and Healing
Reclaiming Our Humanity: Community, Culture, and Healing By Ivan Kilgore For much of my younger life, I believed crime was primarily the result of individual choices. I accepted the common narrative that if people simply made better decisions, our communities would...
The Truth They Don’t Want You to See: How CDCR Fuels Fear to Feed the Prison Industrial Complex
The Truth They Don't Want You to See: How CDCR Fuels Fear to Feed the Prison Industrial Complex By Ivan Kilgore It never fails to amaze me how easily people accept the narratives handed to them by the media and those in power—especially when it comes to prisons. Few...
The Terrible Beauty Of Hip Hop,Ft.Ivan Kilgore,Mike B & Big Chief at O.T.S Studio,Engineer Big Chief – SoundCloud
Listen to The Terrible Beauty Of Hip Hop, Ft. Ivan Kilgore, Mike B & Big Chief at O.T.S Studio, Engineer Big Chief by Da_Biggest_Chief #np on #SoundCloud Lets hear what these guys gotta say https://soundcloud.com/da_biggest_chief/the-terrible-beauty-of-hip-hop
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,...
What You Can Learn From the Incarcerated if You’d Stop, Think About it & Answer A Few Questions…
It’s time to change it up, find another way – it’s time to listen to those that we are advocating for.
R.E.B.U.I.L.D.: Community Reinvestment Program
R.E.B.U.I.L.D. Program Projected Launch Date: 01/21 Program Summary: Our program R.E.B.U.I.L.D. "Reinvests in Every...
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.
What Change Means on the Inside By Ivan Kilgore
What Change Means on the Inside By Ivan Kilgore People often ask whether people can truly change in prison. It’s a fair question, but I believe it’s the wrong one. The better question is : What does change actually look like on the inside ? For many people, change is...
A Tool in Your Hands By Gregory Ringler
A Tool in Your Hands AI will not save anyone. But in the right hands, used for the right reasons, it can help a person save themselves. Here is what that looks like behind the wall. By Gregory Ringler There is more being written about artificial intelligence right now...
IVAN KILGORE, CORONAVIRUS WHISTLE-BLOWER, IS IN A CRISIS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tynlUWVcUQU&t=4s The coronavirus is spreading in the U.S prison system with new cases emerging daily. People in prison are sick and rebelling. Recently, Vice News did an interview with an incarcerated person who exposed the...
Socialism vs. Capitalism: Food For Thought!
It done got real UBF fam! Tomorrow (Sunday, August 18th ) our most recent addition to the organization, Cedric O'Bannon, informed he will be conducting a video interview with the following individuals for an international conference on socialism. On behalf of the...
Give Me Free! A Critique on Contemporary Prison Movements.
By Ivan Kilgore, June 2019 I'd say the Free Alabama Movement had a lot to do with many of the reforms in the state of Alabama that we are seeing in the news recently. Namely, the resending of the Habitual Offender Act, which lead to a sentence of LWOP. For those of...
Inside Leadership, Outside Impact
Inside Leadership, Outside Impact By Isabella Cain One of the most overlooked employment pathways for formerly incarcerated individuals begins long before release. It starts inside prison, where individuals take on leadership roles in educational programs, peer...
Success is Possible After Incarceration By Glenn E. Martin
For a long time, I felt like my life story had already been written for me. Like many formerly incarcerated people, I returned home carrying more than a criminal record. I carried shame, anger, and the overwhelming understanding that society often expects people like...
From Prison Leadership to Nonprofit Careers: How the In-Building Self-Help Program (IBSHP) Creates a Pipeline of Community Leaders
From Prison Leadership to Nonprofit Careers: How the In-Building Self-Help Program (IBSHP) Creates a Pipeline of Community Leaders Inside California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation facilities, rehabilitation programs often focus on individual...
Creating My Own Opportunities : Building a Pathway to Gainful Employment From Inside Prison By Ivan Kilgore
Creating My Own Opportunities : Building a Pathway to Gainful Employment From Inside Prison By Ivan Kilgore When people ask me how I prepared for gainful employment after prison, I tell them something many people do not expect to hear : opportunity is not something...
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….
Building My Lifeline By Ivan Kilgore
Building My Lifeline: The First Time I Negotiated With Prison Administration to Start a Program By Ivan Kilgore I landed on B-facility at CSP-Sac in 2011 with the kind of quiet dread you don’t always admit out loud. It wasn’t just a housing move from C-yard to B-yard;...
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...