Rehabilitation for prisoners is a communial effort. It is not always so simple as lock them up and when they are ready to reform they will find the tools that they need to do so. Everyone in the world has done something illegal and against the standards of society. Hence the term ‘skeletons in the …
Author Archives: Ruth Utnage
I remember when I was a free man I went to a bar with my now ex-wife. We went there and met this couple, the husband seemed to be a very happy man who was content to simply follow his wife’s lead. While the wife was a dominant personality, she was boisterous and funny and …
Born For Adversity
Born For Adversity:What happens when every door you try to walk through closes in your face? Well, in short, we keep going. There is a part of us as LGBTQ family that is almost uniquely designed for adversity. It is almost like we were specifically designed to withstand trauma. We are born with a target …
PROPOSAL
SUBMITTED: 6-15-2015SUBMITTED TO: STAFFORD CREEK CORRECTIONS CENTER IN ABERDEEN, WASHINGTONLGBTQ & HIV/AIDS Peer Support & Education Group:Summary:Having a sexuality or gender identity divergent from the norm can be difficult under any circumstances, not to say anything about the life altering prospects of contracting a potentially fatal immunodeficiency disease. Inside prison, however, one’s experience with these …
Hate…Do you know what that looks like? Have you ever stared hatred in the face and understood that you are powerless to change their mind? In here I am a circus freak, a side show that bigot minded men can’t help but stare at. I know they hate my confidence. They talk to each other …
Not much gets me going the way hateful Christians can. Let me say this; I am a Christian, meaning I follow the covenant of Jesus the Christ, I believe He was God in the flesh and my sins are forgiven. Period, no one is going to change that.Nowhere in the Bible does Jesus preach hate, …
I came to prison in September of 2011. I did not come here for some noble or just cause. I came here because I was an awful and miserable man who was willing to do anything other than me, whatever that was. Upon arrival here a man told me “this place can be a womb …