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Classroom lessons on accountability, incarceration, support services, and policy reform from a former addict, criminal, and prisoner—now a UW graduate, Truman Scholar, and system infiltrator working to fill gaps of inefficiency from real life experience.
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Every Door Leads to Drugs (opens the original)
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Getting In Line For Rotten Fish (opens the original)
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I was one of the people this country throws away, so let me tell you what I know about them.The man you saw on the sidewalk this morning is one of the strongest human beings in your city. No home, no bed, weather, addiction, withdrawal and violence at three in the morning, and being looked at as scenery by everyone who passes, every day, for years. Living in squalor and chasing the next high as if no one can see him. Whatever you think that kind of life takes, it is likely more than you have got
Stop Yelling. Start Walking. (opens the original)
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Western Washington is screaming about the spiral I spent six years warning about. I am done warning.Inside a prison, I am succeeding with the very people who make up the majority of our streets, using the process that saved my own life and is now practiced by hundreds. Men society wrote off are flourishing, living lives that no longer create the problems everyone is screaming about. They are solving them. And I have the data to prove it.I spoke up in 2020 about the problem that was getting ready
The Warning Seattle Never Read (opens the original)
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On July 29, 2020, five days before the Seattle City Council voted on its plan to defund the police, I called in to the Select Budget Committee and used my two minutes. You can watch it here. This is what I said:I’m a current UW student, a former prisoner, drug addict, and a supervisor of housing programs in Seattle. The defunding is going to attract and encourage more criminal behavior. It won’t be enough to fund the services communicated, especially housing. As a former criminal, I would have t
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