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Where do we go from here?
Where Do We Go From Here? By Jeramy Essary 1/5/2021 Over my 20+ years of incarceration I have witnessed and experienced the worst of humanity when I should have been learning not only how to...
The coronavirus and Black Lives Matter in Iowa prisons
THE CORONA VIRUS AND BLACK LIVES MATTER IN IOWA PRISONS By Jack Hays The marginalized and imprisoned here in Iowa have no voice -- whether you are Black, mentally ill, poor, other minority, or all...
Censure and deceit: Another Iowa scandal swept under the bureaucratic rug
"Censure and Deceit: Another Iowa Scandal Swept Under the Bureaucratic Rug" By Jack Hays As early as 2006, a female employee of the Clinical Care Unit - a unit for the seriously mentally ill at...
Why solitary confinement is torture
Why Solitary Confinement Is Torture By Jack Hays Black's law dictionary defines "torture" as, "To inflict intense pain to body or mind for purposes of punishment..."1The United Nations has classified solitary confinement by its very...
America's alternative slavery
America's Alternative Slavery By Jack Hays (2019) "We've gone from plantations to penitentiaries..." --Reverend Al Sharpton 1 I am the "white" son of a "black"2 Labor Leader. That is what he called me... his "white...
Shades of innocence: America's wrongful conviction trade
Shades of Innocence: America's Wrongful Conviction Trade By Jack Hays On October 26th, 2015, former Iowa Governor, Terry Branstad, lamented, "We know that in a system run by humans, mistakes can be made."1 This was...
A personal proposition
A Personal Proposition (Lifer seeks to hock his life by asking to sign death penalty contract and to have an implant monitoring chip placed in him to regain freedom!) UPDATE REVISIONS: I originally wrote this...
A proposal: The death penalty
A proposal: The Death Penalty Contract. Who: Incarcerated individuals serving a term of Life without the possibility of parole. Eligible applicants must have served a term of no less than 25 years. What: A Death...
Self-policing
SELF - POLICING An explanation of behavior modification to be practiced by candidates for the Death Penalty Appeal Contract Self conduct formula of self policing: “C+C+D+C=WA (Consciousness Plus Choices Plus Decisions Plus Commitments Equal Willful...
Corruption, fraud, dishonesty, and exploitation in Iowa prisons -- with impunity
Corruption, Fraud, Dishonesty, and Exploitation in Iowa Prisons -- With Impunity By Jack Hays Clarinda Correctional Facility, Clarinda, Iowa (2019) In Spring of 2016, I was the elected Secretary of the National Association for the...
Part I: The U.S. prison asylums: Why Americans should be concerned
Part I The U.S. Prison Asylums: Why Americans Should Be Concerned by Jack Hays* *I apologize for the handwritten work. The Administration of this prison - all former prison guards - deliberately suppress any use...
My experience as a hospice volunteer
My Experience as a Hospice Volunteer By Cedric B. Theus “I don’t think I can do it,” I said, after being invited to join the hospice program at the Iowa State Penitentiary in 2006. My...
Part II: The U.S. prison asylums: Why Americans should be concerned
Part II The U.S. Prison Asylums: Why Americans Should Be Concerned By Jack Hays* "Prisons are designed for keeping secrets, for holding inside not just men [and women] but also their lives and the details...
It is assumed that Pell
2016 Before being eliminated Pell Grants were a major and necessary part of prison education. Do you think Pell Grants should be reestablished as a means of continuing advanced educational opportunities for inmates? It is...
Advice for those new to prison
9/30/2015 Advice for those new to prison By Cedric B. Theus I have been asked many times about how I got through almost twenty years in prison with my mind, body and spirit still in...
Officially, the penitentiary has existed
Prisons have become warehouses while education and reform have fallen by the wayside. What can be done to correct this negative imbalance? 2015 Officially, the penitentiary has existed since the 19”‘ century although human beings...Loading...
