Go to Oklahoma and you will find the quality of mercy is now strained. It withers in the rainless, nameless plains out west and finds no purchase in the Cross Timbers or the Red River Basin down south. Twice profaned… Read More ›
Prisons
Watching As He Wastes Away: How a Kentucky Prison Let a Mentally Ill Man Starve to Death
As I type this, a delectable, carbohydrate filled pretzel bagel from Servatti’s is busy baking in the convection oven of my favorite coffee shop. Within the next minute or so that bagel will be brought out to my table and… Read More ›
The Eye of God Looks Upon You: Eastern State Penitentiary & The Failure of Solitary Confinement
In three of the four Gospels of the New Testament, the two thieves crucified on either side of Jesus are but bit players. The Gospels of Matthew and Mark portray them as impertinent and ignorant men who readily echoed the… Read More ›
