Fall 2019 the movement to repeal TIS laws was reinvigorated by congressional failure to get another criminal justice reform across the finish line. In 2018, I received a prison phone call out of Gus Harrison that a bipartisian HB 5666 was introduced in the House of Representatives in order to revive an earned time system […]
I was never excited about the Joe Biden’s potential election, not during his initial run or especially after his selection of Kamala Harris as his VP. Prior to their political union I advocated against their federal leadership as early as when they ran competing presidential campaigns. Biden Bills are stained with stench of mass incarceration. […]
Being one of the first areas to have encountered Covid-19, the West Coast is ahead of the rest of the country in its response and preventative efforts. Like many states the entry of nonessential personnel into state facilities have been suspended, this includes visitation, extended family visits, social outings and work release as well as […]
As a Michigan native I’ve done a lot of work on behalf of our incarcerated residents, especially last year’s Good Time Campaign promoting HB 5666. I get questions from people interested in contributing to the movement about how they can get involved. Often people don’t know where to start and I always tell them that […]
When inmates choose to participate in the strike, particularly the hunger strike component its essential that we at the very least we choose alternatives to purchasing from companies who participate in the prison industrial complex by exploiting prisoners’ labor by paying them pennies on the dollar for the work that they do. When prisoners choose […]
Every third Friday of the month Representative Klint Kesto holds public office hours at Biggby Coffee. Rep. Kesto is chairman over the Law and Justice Committee and oversees the progress of HB 5666 which would allow thousands of incarcerated individuals to reduce their sentences by up to 30% and even 40%. The bill can only […]
Miles of Flight and Travel I traveled from Seattle to Detroit to attend a Women’s conference at Word of Faith International Christian Center and while in the city I planned to visit someone I’d grown close to over the past year at Kinross Correctional Facility in Kincheloe, MI. I flew over 2,300 miles from Seattle […]