by jeffgrant | Feb 7, 2019 | Blog, prisonist - the blog
by Tom Breen, Reprinted from New Haven Independent, Feb. 6, 2019 Jeffrey Deskovic was playing whiffleball with a friend the night his high school classmate was raped and murdered.Despite DNA evidence to the contrary, the state still thought he did it. So did a jury....
by jeffgrant | Jan 23, 2019 | Blog, prisonist - the blog
by Thomas Breen I Reprinted from the New Haven Independent I | Jan 23, 2019 (3) Comments | Post a Comment | E-mail the Author Peter Henning (center) with WNHH hosts Jeff Grant and Babz Rawls-Ivy. The government will always prioritize going after insider traders over...
by jeffgrant | Jan 4, 2019 | Blog, prisonist - the blog
Reprinted from New Haven Independent, Jan. 3, 2019, by Tom Breen Ban the box, not just for job applications, but for housing applications, too. A criminal justice reform group plans to pitch that idea to the state legislature this coming session as part of...
by jeffgrant | Dec 24, 2018 | Blog, prisonist - the blog
We invite you to share your holiday messages of experience, strength, love, hope and faith. Please email them to me at jgrant@prisonist.org and I will post them on our blog at prisonist.org/prisonist-the-blog and email them to our families, friends, neighbors,...
by jeffgrant | Dec 17, 2018 | Blog, prisonist - the blog
I was so moved by this email I received today from a ministee in Seattle that I asked his permission to republish it. It speaks of the difficulties he has faced since returning from prison in getting a job, providing for his family, and feeling like a whole person....
by jeffgrant | Dec 13, 2018 | Blog, prisonist - the blog
By Tom Breen, Reprinted from New Haven Independent, Dec. 13, 2018 Glenn E. Martin spent eight years of his youth sticking up jewelry stores. He spent nearly four years of his adulthood raising tens of millions of dollars to help end mass incarceration. In Martin’s...
