HeyJaredSecond Round: Desistance After Incarceration
True stories, criminology insight & life after incarceration
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Two Podcasts, Same Ending (opens the original)
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The Men Who Kept Showing Up (opens the original)
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I have been thinking about writing this for a long time. I thought I would save it for a book. It came out this morning. This writing is very raw. I struggled with leaving names out, but here will be a time for that. Also, and mainly, I have been trying to write something positive, but positive is not exactly where I live. Anyway…..I grew up in Champaign. I wasn’t from the hood, and I never pretended to be from the hood. But the neighborhood I grew up in was mostly Black, and my parents never ta
I Wish I Had Chosen Something Else (opens the original)
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Stop Calling Me a Liberal! (opens the original)
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Prison Did Not Save Me. I Saved Myself. (opens the original)
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Sorry, this is going to be more of a rant than a blog, but some folks need to hear this as hard as I am about to fucking deliver it!Every once in a while, somebody asks me a question that makes me wonder if they have ever read a single fucking thing I have written.“Do you think prison played a role in the success you have today?” Or, “aren’t you glad th… Read more
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