(From tnsocialjustice.wordpress.com) Tennessee is drawing wide attention for its policies on the death penalty. Less well known is how...

How much longer do we as Christians intend to accept (encourage) the continuance of slavery in our nation? Our Christian ancestors didn't...

I am an inmate in the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC). For a long time, I was also a computer programmer. The sad fact is,...

My pebble was a theft, then a robbery My hypocrisy started the ripples of victimization Behavior re-calibration minus criminal...

I know what community is. Many people in our society live in near isolation in their day-to-day lives. They have family; they know a few...

Momma was sobbing as she told me that my sister was dead. I sat in the Chaplain's office in a daze. She was murdered while her daughter...

I was a juvenile when I committed a heinous murder. A "jury of my peers" decided I should spend the rest of my life in prison. They...

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It is easy to suggest that someone forgive someone else. However, when you or someone you love has been...

I am an inmate in the Tennessee Prison System. I have been here for eighteen years. I have four years left and will then be returning to...

In addition to keeping offenders confined, the walls and the policies of prisons are designed to keep outsiders out as well. Why? Why are...