Brown and O’Neil have made it easy to relate to what they experienced before sobriety; I felt like I was there with them all along.
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A 12-Step Program to Change the World
Sitting in my cell one day after attending a self-help class, it dawned on me that society needed the same help I was seeking. Harry Goodall writes about the inspiration behind his book.
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“The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto” by Charles M. Blow
My situation as a Black man in prison imbued a sense of urgency to my reading of Blow’s book, allowing me a look over the wall to the horizon of possibility from a cage filled with Black and Brown bodies, including my own.
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Book Review: “Writing My Wrongs”
In the beginning of the book, Shaka wrote that he was in the Wayne County Jail for only six weeks following his arrest and conviction for second-degree murder. Anyone who has ever faced a murder charge knows that these cases go through the judicial system at a snail’s pace.
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Reading “Orange is the New Black”
I can’t read her expression, but it’s familiar to me, an expression I’ve seen on the face of someone who has gone through something that was mentally and emotionally challenging.