Why is it people think that prison is a place where you learn to make good choices, pick good friends, be polite and respectful all the time? Reply: Prison isn't where you learn to make 'good decisions.' It is a place you wind up warehoused as you await the day you...
Tales From The Zo
This Month’s Prison Reading List Favorite: Can You See Yourself With It?
How much I paid for the cinnamon roll has nothing to do with how much I’m willing to sell it for.
An Inspiration! Excerpt from Our Founder’s book Mayhem, Murder & Magnificence: A Memoir
…the social death of the African American has always been part of the American Experience
What Happened to California’s Prison Movement?
Today, some seven years after the historic California hunger strikes, the general attitude on the yard is not that of resistance but compliance…
A Decade of Criminal Justice Reform: Have We Moved The Needle?
Just how much has changed over the course of the past decade in terms of Criminal Justice Reform and abolition efforts?
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).
Inspiration: A Voice from the Inside
Inspiration: A Voice from the Inside A life-changing conversation with the incarcerated author, philanthropist, and activist Ivan Kilgore as he takes us on the journey of the inspirational story behind his recently published book, Murder, Mayhem & Magnificence: A...
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...
Cryin’ Brian, Queer Bait & Vanilla Tears….
Empathy should be a staple of the human experience, and evolution indicates that normally, it is. But, for the criminal mind, empathy is an impediment, not an empowerment.
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.
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