by Zach Dawes Jr | Jun 6, 2022 | News
There were 5,500,600 adults in the U.S. correctional system at the end of 2020, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report published in late March 2022. This is the lowest level since 1996, when 5,531,200 adults were in the system, and it continues more than a...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | May 20, 2022 | News
Editor’s note: “Look Back” is a series designed to highlight articles from the Good Faith Media archives that remain relevant or historically interesting. This article is being re-published to call attention to May as Mental Health Awareness Month. If you have an...
by Michael Chancellor | Apr 11, 2022 | Opinion
Two hard conversations with African American clients I have come to admire culminated a recent week of counseling sessions. For me, a key to successful therapy is being a counselor who cares about his clients and finds virtue in their courage and resolve. In these...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Dec 29, 2021 | News
There were 1,215,821 people in U.S. state and federal prisons at the end of 2020 and 549,100 in U.S. jails at mid-year 2020, according to two Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reports published in early December. This is a 15% (214,400-person) and a 25%...
by Michael Chancellor | Dec 29, 2021 | Opinion
I spent nearly six years leading the mental health department at the Allan B. Polunsky Maximum Security Prison in east Texas. This prison housed “death row” (DR), as well as a significant number of offenders in administrative segregation (AdSeg), more widely referred...
