Collecting My Thoughts

How many myths about the prison system are you believing—they are mostly drug offenders? Wrong. Long sentences? Wrong. Media and activists a...

Persons sentenced for murder or non-negligent manslaughter served an average of 15 years in state prison. 57% of violent offenders who were ...

The 2018 Ohio Neighborhood Safety, Drug Treatment, and Rehabilitation Amendment is a ballot initiative aiming to change Ohio’s constitution...

"Drug sentences do not explain blacks’ overrepresentation in prison. Blacks represent 39% of drug convicts, compared with 37% of all pr...

Definition:  In a literary work, verisimilitude is likeness to the truth i.e. resemblance of a fictitious work to a real event even if it ...

Obama must have used a lot more drugs and committed crimes while doing so or sold them to others if he's comparing his drug use to those...

The gains in our life expectancy in the United States have primarily been in the area of public health, not miracle technology, end of life ...

Have you ever visited Cyber Cemetery in Texas? What an amazing place. It's where old government reports go to be forgotten and die. ...

Would you deem this cruel and unusual? John Edwards , Bernie Madoff , Charlie Rangel and Barney Frank should be locked up together in a sma...

Now he's old and sick and wants the prison system to pick up the tab. Edward Edwards has confessed to . . . "In 1977 in Ohio, 18-ye...

I've been in a number of prisons, not as a prisoner, but as a visitor primarily following the same guy through the system until after se...

Lessons from San Quentin “Real-estate entrepreneur Bill Dallas's charmed life changed dramatically when he was charged, convicted, and s...

The closing of Gitmo Oh, weren't they jubilant yesterday. The War on Terror is over--with a stroke of the pen. Now we're safe again-...

Today's new word (phrase) is CONSTITUTIONAL LEVEL OF CARE This phrase appeared in a JAMA want ad for a “medical executive” (physician? B...

You want how many cookies? Twenty nine thousand, give or take a few dozen. Our Upper Arlington Lutheran Kairos Prison Team will be going t...

An economist looks at illegal drug costs Boston University Economist Jeffrey Miron argues on University of California TV that legalizing dr...