I am 29 and live in the Mississippi area. I am currently back in college after loosing my job to recession cutbacks.

I also am the Executive Director for Mississippi CURE and serve on the International CURE Board of Directors

www.mississippicure.org

www.internationalcure.org

www.curenational.org

I am a former guest of the Mississippi Department of Corrections where I served 18 months in Parchman for Probation Moving Violation....

What is “Edification”? Lets start with the definition:

Edification \Ed`i*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. aedificatio: cf. F. ['e]dification. See {Edify}.] 1. The act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improvement; instruction.

How do we learn right from wrong or good from bad? By example? How do we know when we are right? How do we know when we are wrong? Usually there...

Is the system broken????


Is there justice in our prison system? Or The system that governs our prisons.


Outside of the prison walls, when you commit a crime and are caught, you are charged, brought before a judge and perhaps a jury of your peers, and a trial brings forth a decision on your guilt or innocence. Is this a perfect system? No - not by any means, but it is a system that serves our society well and it is by far the best justice system in the...

An inmate essay about California and National Prison Reform~

I am in prison and have been most all of my adult life. When prison reform is discussed, what should be done etc., I am pretty close to this issue. I have seen a lot of things tried over the years and believe me, prison reform is not a new idea. To look at me one may not think that I pay a great deal of attention to politics, economics, judicial concerns and social issues,...

For a prisoner's loved one, there is ample time to sit back and dwell on one of the things that dominates existance: Purpose.

There are a lot of questions that have to be asked. Why? Why now? Why us? Why this? What's the point?

Who's in charge here, anyhow?

For the wives, the husbands, the girlfriends, the boyfriends and the relatives, life grinds to a screeching halt the day the prison door slams shut. Things start to look different. The fragile...