Spent Wednesday afternoon with Yohance Lacour at Hastings College in Nebraska. We had the honor & privilege of speaking at their Lecture Series “We All Belong Somewhere”.  Yohance & I spoke on belonging after Incarceration. I opened the conversation by reading an essay I recently wrote entitled “The Spirit of Death: The Predicament of Being Directly... Continue Reading →

“Whenever we cage people, we are in reality fueling and participating in the same spirit we claim to renounce. In the biblical understanding, the spirit of the prison is the spirit of death.”[1] ~Lee Griffith The year was 2014. The charges had been dropped. Justice was finally home with his family and two daughters. This time... Continue Reading →