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Interviews

Interview of Dr. Robert Weide

Interview with Dr. Robert Weide, Author of Divide & Conquer:  Race, Gangs, Identity, and Conflict Excerpts from Interview of Dr. Robert Weide: “I don’t buy the line that it’s impossible for resistance to succeed… it is impossible for it to happen in a system where everyone is divided according to identities …  […]

Interviews

Melissa Hipple

Interview of Melissa Hipple Collin Davis with his mother, Melissa Hipple   Excerpt from Interview of Melissa Hipple:   “Collin implemented a hospice program in the prison and coordinated it with the dogs going into the hospice program with him.  He wrote a proposal, got it approved, and set up […]

Interviews

Collin Davis

Interview with Collin Davis at Men’s Colony Prison at San Luis Obispo   Men’s Colony at San Luis Obispo Excerpts from Interview with Collin Davis:   Collin Davis, with Amara   “Getting a life sentence meant you were never going to go home. Everybody was getting shut down at court.  […]

Essays

In the Matrix

Inside California Prisons “In the Matrix” Terrance Steele Terrance and his daughter Sarya Steele Excerpt from “In the Matrix”: “I became anxious.  I knew I had to maintain my bravado; if not, I would lose respect from my friends and foes alike and be preyed upon, as fast as a […]

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Art of Don Hata

Art of Don Hata Soaring Jail Birds         Don Teruo Hata, PhD, was born in East Los Angeles in 1939.  At age three years old, he was arrested with his parents and sent to a concentration camp at Gila, Arizona, pursuant to the round-up of over 110,000 […]

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Art of Sandow Birk

Art of Sandow Birk California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison (Corcoran) From his book, Incarcerated:  Visions of California in the 21st Century

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From the Editor

  From the Editor                 NASA Photo (James Webb Telescope) “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”                         Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1935)             Dear Reader,             Welcome to the premier edition of Headwind!             […]