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Maya Pope-Chappell Bids Farewell
Posted on March 10, 2010 | No CommentsShe was a host of the Family Life Behind Bars Radio show. -
Poem inspired by a prison visit
Posted on February 22, 2010 | No Comments"The trip is dreadful, lots of trees pretty houses and women with children in a van going to visit loved ones that have been away in 'confined quarters.'" -
Site recommendation: Living as a spouse of an inmate
Posted on February 12, 2010 | No CommentsWhat is the life of a spouse in prison? The author, who goes by the name K St. John, writes that she shares her feelings of living everyday as a single parent while her spouse is in prison. -
Tips for handling separation during the holiday season
Posted on November 2, 2009 | No CommentsDr, Harland Kessaris, a psychologist specializing in re-entry of incarcerated individuals back into family and society, provides some insight into handling the feeling of isolation and separation during the holiday season when you have a loved one in prision. -
Healthcare: Ill and dying in prison
Posted on October 18, 2009 | No CommentsThe New York Times has an interesting piece about how more prisons are starting hospice programs as the prison population ages with many of them using inmate volunteers to ease the pain of dying in prison. Without family to help deal with the illness, the last days or months of life can be difficult. Fellow inmates can help deal that remaining time. -
In prisoners’ wake, a tide of troubled kids
Posted on July 6, 2009 | No CommentsRecent studies indicate that having an incarcerated parent doubles the chance that a child will be at least temporarily homeless and measurably increases the likelihood of physically aggressive behavior, social isolation, depression and problems in school. -
Jail time increases odds of hypertension, researchers find
Posted on April 14, 2009 | No CommentsFormer prison inmates are more likely than those who have never been incarcerated to have high blood pressure as young adults and to develop a dangerous thickening of the heart’s left ventricle. -
Pledge your support so this site can keep publishing
Posted on March 27, 2009 | No CommentsSupport Needed to Keep Publishing: A New Voices grant allowed me to purchase equipment that I use in the media training workshops for community members who have been affected by incarceration and to pay the community columnists for their work. The grant came with a challenge, however. I must raise $5,000 from the public in order to receive the final $5,000 installment from the Knight Foundation. So I ask you for your generous support. Your donation is tax-deductable. -
Any thoughts on this New Yorker cartoon?
Posted on March 18, 2009 | No CommentsA New Yorker cartoon depicts a former inmate. Is it fair? Unfair? -
![I’ll be co-hosting a monthly radio program starting next week that will feature guests who will address many of the questions and concerns people have when a loved one is in prison. Makeba Lavan, a columnist for Lives in Focus, […]](https://cdn.nycitynewsservice.com/blogs.dir/133/files/2009/03/small-logo-115x115.jpg "New Web Radio Show to Focus on Interests of Families of Incarcerated")
New Web Radio Show to Focus on Interests of Families of Incarcerated
Posted on March 12, 2009 | No CommentsI’ll be co-hosting a monthly radio program starting next week that will feature guests who will address many of the questions and concerns people have when a loved one is in prison. Makeba Lavan, a columnist for Lives in Focus, […]