Volunteers Play a Key Role in Breaking Down the Patterns That Enable Prisons
During my decades behind bars, I’ve watched community volunteers help fight the invisibilization that props prisons up.
A prison volunteer named Janet Wolf opened her first meeting with 12 incarcerated men like this: “As we begin our circle this morning, let us go around and say one word that describes our state of mind.” As one of the 12 men, I found myself scrambling for a word. It had been years since anyone cared about my state of mind. It was strange. This free-world lady, obviously highly educated from her...