"I am a substance abuser"
"Everybody is not perfect"
"I'll be a new person"
"No phone calls, no letters"
"I experienced things that no kid should ever have to go through"
"I didn't shoot anybody"
"I have two kids and no home"
Today is the one-year anniversary
Literacy and Resistance to the School-To-Prison Pipeline
Blog, Features, Transitionedrichard rossAbstract Martin, juvenile, Multnomah County, Oregon, Photo Credit Richard Ross, school, Urban Education, 2017
Graham v. Florida (revisited)
"I pray I live long enough to have kids and grandkids..."
Features, Transitionedrichard rossBran Gowdy, Dear Richard, health, kids, OK, parole, Terrence Graham, time, 2017
"In the south, it was nothing for a black man robbing a white establishment to get life."
Blog, Features, Transitionedrichard rossgirl, kids, Lee Albert Ansley, life sentence, mother, parole, robbery, school, 2017
"Societies has to give opportunities"
"It was never easy being a kid and going straight to prison..."
Features, Transitionedrichard rossfather, Florida, life, mother, murder, prison, single, violence, 2017
"It goes on and on and on until somebody stands up.."
Blog, Features, Transitionedrichard rosscrime, father, kids, school, Stiles Unit, time, TX, YEARS, 2017
"This is slavery."
Blog, Features, Transitionedrichard rossabuse, AGE, Columbia Correctional Institution, Florida, months, parole, prison, violence, 2017
I was taught the game.
Blog, Juveniles, Transitioned, Youth Storiesrichard rossBPS, California, gay, girl, Juvenile Hall, months, Nidorf Juvenile Hall, school, 2016
"Now the center is my home."
"There isn't a sober person in the family."
Blog, Juveniles, Transitioned, Youth Storiesrichard rossalcohol, drugs, facility, meth, months, mother, school, weed
Graham v. Florida
Blog, Features, Transitionedrichard rossboys, case, Florida Supreme Court, kids, life, parole, sentences, time, 2016
