by Colin Harris | Apr 23, 2015 | Opinion
Michael Santos continues his long road of redemption. Santos is a former student and friend of mine whose personal journey I’ve described on EthicsDaily.com in two previous columns. The first, written as he was beginning the last of his 26 years of confinement...
by Hugh Hollowell | Apr 3, 2014 | Opinion
Her name is Mickey and she found me on Tuesday of last week, timid and uncertain. If you look up the definition of “mousy” in the dictionary, the entry should have her picture next to it. She is petite and naive looking. Though 26 years old, she looks 18...
by Sara Powell | Feb 12, 2014 | Opinion
The sound of clanging jail or prison doors is jarring for me. I am slightly claustrophobic, and the rare occasions when I have gone behind bars were challenging. I was there to do a handbell program with the choir I was directing. Even though I knew that at the end of...
by David Hughes | Apr 18, 2013 | General
A sermon by David Hughes, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Winston Salem, N.C. Acts 5:12-32 About six years ago, I participated in a crusade in the Forsyth County prison system. My assignment was to preach in a prison block in the downtown Forsyth Detention Center. I...
by Stan Moody | Mar 26, 2013 | Opinion
The criminal justice chapter of my life, now well into its sixth year, stretches out into a long dark tunnel. The more you learn, the fewer solutions you have to address the social degradation that follows the warehousing of disposable citizens of these United States....
