Tag: Wisdom Behind the Walls

  • Holiday Card to Save the Kids from Fong Lee

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  • Restore the Justice by Fong Lee

    Restore the Justice By: Fong Lee December 22, 2014 Bur the body, Skin. Eye. The world of the dark flower. Let the good heart lift – a thousand stemless Irises. Fluttering. __________________________________ OID# 217805 970 Pickett St N Bayport, Minnesota 55003

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  • Walled by C Fausto Cabrera

    Walled By: C Fausto Cabrera I drag a calloused finger along a smooth white washed wall in the prison yard. Glistening oil-based paint covers gritty crushed rock compressed into heavy cinder blocks surrounded By crusted mortar reinforced with rods of re-bar, black iron ore molten bright orange, shaped and cooled. There is an age one…

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  • Education not Incarceration by Barry Dodd

    Education not Incarceration By: Barry Dodd March17, 2014 A little bit about myself. I come, from a single parent home, and my father died of a drug overdose two weeks before I was born, so it was a challenge for my mother to raise my twin sister and me. We grew up in the Twin…

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  • An Unremarkable Nan Named Hideyoshi by Trevor Brown

    An Unremarkable Nan Named Hideyoshi By: Trevor Brown I would like to take a few moments of your time to share with you a rather remarkable story about a seemingly unremarkable man named Hideyoshi who was born almost five hundred years ago in 15th century feudal Japan. At first glance Hideyoshi didn’t look like much,…

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  • Yes to New Positive and Healthy Influences in Your Life by Trevor Brown

    Yes to New Positive and Healthy Influences in Your Life By: Trevor Brown Statistically, one in every ten children across the united states has a parent who is currently incarcerated on parole or on probation. So chances are that you could in fact be one of these children. However, while you may be a representative…

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  • What Happens When the Bull Elephants are Taken Away? by Toby Earl Johnson

    What Happens When the Bull Elephants are Taken Away? By: Toby Earl Johnson There is a story about a nature preserve in Africa: In this particular preserve, all the male adult elephants were taken away.  As a result, the juvenile elephants were rampaging, killing rhinoceroses and threatening farmers. A couple of them were so dangerous…

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  • Helping Hands by Toby Earl Johnson

    Helping Hands By: Toby Earl Johnson Theres a story about a man walking down a beach and seeing a kid picking starfist up off the sand and throwing htem back into the ocean. Not fully understanding, he asked the kid if he really felt like he was making a difference? Picking up anohter starfish and…

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  • Introducing Myself by Jamie Rohr

    Introducing Myself By: Jamie Rohr My name is Jamie Rohr. I am currently serving time for Sales of Meth. They sentenced me to 135 months in prison. I got a lil story I think some might like to hear. I grew up with a mother who would do anything to insure I was happy as…

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  • Save the Kids Presents at the 2014 International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA)

    Save the Kids Presentation at the International Conference on Penal Abolition 2014 “Taking  to  the  Streets  and  in  the  Detention  Facilities:  Youth  Justice,  Hip  Hop  and  Transformative  Justice” Presentation by: Mysnikol  Miller,  Anthony  J.  Nocella II,  Kable  Reid, Luke Reynolds,  and  Reies Romero ___________________________________________________________ PART 1. PART 2. PART 3.

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  • Intro to Restorative Justice by Maurece Graham

    Intro to Restorative Justice Maurece Graham 03/27/14                     Margaret Mead once said “We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share.” If, then the imbalance that is crime is of our making so too must the re-balancing be…

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  • My Message To You by Maurece Graham

    My Message To You Maurece Graham January 25, 2013 Dear Young One: Hope has a name, and I’ve found that it’s name is ‘You’. Why do I know this? Because I’ve been in prison for almost 15 years and I had to find to hope to survive. Let me explain to you what I mean.

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  • Untitled by David Austin

    Untitled David Austin April 23, 2013 My name is David Austin and I was born December 30th, 1986 in Coon Rapids, MN. I grew up an hour northwest of the twin cities in a small town. I had medical problems as a child with having a hernia and pinched small intestine. My parents worked a…

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