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From the ferry: 11/19/09
It’s one of those nights when I am at capacity. How to let go of learning that a man in our group was sentenced to life–life–at the age of sixteen. What do you have to do to receive … more →
Deep Water: Teaching Writing Inside Prison
From the ferry: 11/19/09
islandwriter wrote 3 days ago: It’s one of those nights when I am at capacity. How to let go of learning that a man in our gr … more →
Colbert jokes privatization
islandwriter wrote 2 weeks ago: Last night on Stephen’s Colbert’s the Colbert Report in a segment he calls The Word (typ … more →
Know Thyself
islandwriter wrote 4 weeks ago: Annual training today at the prison. I’ve heard the presentation three times now, and it doesn … more →
Happy Day to All
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islandwriter wrote 1 month ago: Happy Day to All is what it reads on the sign in the lobby at the prison. I’ve written it down … more →
Last Words
islandwriter wrote 1 month ago: Published in the New York Times Op-Eds on September 19, 2009. A listing of “last words” … more →
Mom is worried I'm going to marry a con
islandwriter wrote 2 months ago: My mom talked to a woman a few weeks back who used to work in the medical ward of a prison. I’ … more →
Endings and beginnings, part 2
islandwriter wrote 3 months ago: Something ought to be said about moving our program to the Washington State Reformatory. Sometimes I … more →
Endings and beginnings, part 1
islandwriter wrote 3 months ago: I’ve been silent here on the blog for several weeks now. Not good for consistent readership, I know. … more →
All's Fair? Questions from the Madoff sentencing
islandwriter wrote 4 months ago: Bernie Madoff has been sentenced. 150 years. I confess I haven’t been following the case all that cl … more →
Webb proposing major reform
islandwriter wrote 5 months ago: For those who don’t know Senator Jim Webb has been championing new legislation–the Natio … more →
Frozen
islandwriter wrote 5 months ago: Listening again to the KUOW interview (link in yesterday’s post) about Stevan Dozier, the man … more →
A conversation on clemency, three strikes and prison reform
islandwriter wrote 5 months ago: My local NPR station, KUOW, aired this conversation this morning on Stevan Dozier, who recently won … more →
Prisoners bike in France
islandwriter wrote 5 months ago: Interesting story on NRP’s series The World about a bicycle race in France for prisoners. Defi … more →
Article on race, incarceration and shame
islandwriter wrote 5 months ago: This article by Helen Epstein in The New York Review of Books is worth a read, particularly her disc … more →
Most often the stranger is...someone you know
islandwriter wrote 5 months ago: In his April 21 posting, Better Man writes about something close to my heart as a former advocate fo … more →
It's all story
islandwriter wrote 6 months ago: Tonight I am prepping to go up to the prison on Wednesday. I’ll be presenting two archetypes found i … more →
An overdue "from the ferry"
islandwriter wrote 6 months ago: It is time to start making plans to go up to the prison again this coming Wednesday. How do two week … more →
Better Man writes from the outside
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islandwriter wrote 6 months ago: I’ve added a new page to the blog (see the column to the right). There I will post journal ent … more →
Four more sleeps and a wake up
islandwriter wrote 7 months ago: I wrote this Sunday night, to post yesterday, but now it is today and I’m just getting it post … more →
