Prison Mathematics Project- Essay Project: The Value of Higher Education Within Prisons by Elmer Cisneros-Alvarado
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Prison Mathematics Project- Essay Project: The Value of Higher Education Within Prisons by Joshua Goldman
Prison Mathematics Project- Essay Project: The Value of Higher Education Within Prisons by Joshua Goldman
Prison Mathematics Project- Essay Project: The Value of Higher Education Within Prisons by Eric Lusk
Prison Mathematics Project- Essay Project: The Value of Higher Education Within Prisons by Eric Lusk
Crimiphelia…
Crimiphelia… Last week, the news introduced me to an interesting term: crimiphelia. It came with the reporting over the end of a manhunt for the escaped convict, Casey White, and his willing love interest and captor, Vicky White. According to the news reporter, it’s estimated that as many as 5% of people in authority over …
Prison Mathematics Project- Essay Project: The Value of Higher Education Within Prisons by Joshua Phillips
Prison Mathematics Project- Essay Project: The Value of Higher Education Within Prisons by Joshua Phillips My name is Joshua Phillips, also known as #874060 in the Washington State DOC. My friends call me Josh. I’ve been incarcerated for about 13.5 years. The day I went to jail was November 3,2008. I was poor, from a …
Prison Mathematics Project- Essay Project: The Value of Higher Education Within Prisons by Randy Brennan
Prison Mathematics Project- Essay Project: The Value of Higher Education Within Prisons by Randy Brennan by Randy Brennan, 18 years Nineteen years old, barely literate, and despondently ignorant of my aptitude for education, I showed up to prison angry and resistant to positive change. After completing the “mandatory” Basic Education (GED) tests in 2005, I …
Justice’s Evolution…
Justice’s Evolution… The other day I got into a great philosophical discussion with a friend about the evolution of justice. Most people understand that crime and punishment can be tempered with redemption and forgiveness and that these are the biggest elements of justice, but there was an interesting topic about law and how laws factor …
Scott Gallina…
Scott Gallina… Who’s Scott Gallina? I had the same question until I read his story in a friend’s newspaper and I found myself extremely pissed, but not for what would seem like obvious reasons. Scott Gallina was a Superior Court judge from Asotin County, Washington who was recently convicted on two counts after being charged …
The Hinckley Hypocrisy Follow Up…
The Hinckley Hypocrisy Follow Up… Last June, I wrote a piece about the backlash over John Hinckley Jr’s growing popularity on his YouTube channel, where he plays guitar and sings music that he wrote. The Hinckley backlash was over the fact that he had tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in the early 80’s and …
Life’s Hardships…
Life’s Hardships… When it come to the hardships of life, it helps to keep things in perspective. I heard a joke a while ago that makes me laugh. Here we go… A woman sits down on the end of a park bench and sees a disheveled man sitting on the other end of the bench. …