Stories tagged: peer-support

Excerpt from Banished Pride
by Gina Autrey

I have a hard time trusting others. My friendship is not something that is given freely. I can count on one hand the people who I truly consider to be my friend.

 peer-support  personal-narrative  prison-life  prison-industrial-complex  reentry  relationships



A Maypole in Prison
by Starhawk

“When Pagans get their rights, everyone gets their rights,” say Patrick McCollum, who for the last fifteen years has volunteered to serve as a Pagan chaplain in the California prisons. McCollum, a talented jewelry designer and craftsman by nature, has in the last decade spent the bulk of his time—and money—helping prisoners and making interfaith alliances worldwide.

 health  mental-health  peer-support  prison-life  prison-industrial-complex