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How I Keep Hope Alive While Serving 150 Years in Prison In those moments when I feel like a puppet tied up in strings, I draw on my Muslim faith to stay hopeful. Sana Nasir for The Marshall Project by Tariq Maqbool Perspectives from those who work and live in the criminal justice system. Sign up to receive Life Inside emailed to you every week. When I was a boy growing up in Lahore, Pakistan, I vividly remember a local puppeteer who would bring his show to the big bazaar near my house during the Kites Festival. Children ignored the lure of video games and became mesmerized by the timeworn art of the puppet show and the simple tale of a young boy and his kite. ....
Why it’s important to reduce COVID-19 in prisons Prisons represent a public health and human rights crisis during the pandemic. By Shaheen Pasha Just over wo years ago, Adnan Khan was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison in California. Serving a sentence of 25 years to life at the time for felony murder, Khan stood side-by-side with other incarcerated men putting together packs for a hygiene drive for homeless youths items many of the men paid for out of their accounts. It was one of the many ways, Khan said, that the prison residents aimed to give back despite their incarceration. ....
Rahsaan Thomas, photographed by Antwan Williams. Courtesy of Ear Hustle. For Rahsaan “New York” Thomas, success came later in life and at a cost. After being incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison in California, Thomas began to work with organizations and initiatives using creative forces to combat mass incarceration and shift attitudes about prisoners from the inside. He is now the co-host of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated podcast “Ear Hustle,” co-founder of Prison Renaissance (which connects prisoners to people outside), contributor to multiple national news outlets, and staff writer at the San Quentin News. He has written about the devastating impact of the coronavirus on prisoners and the prison system for Insider, the Prison Journalism Project, Current, and more. ....
Open up the profession “Making journalism more equitable will require a more inclusive definition of what it means to be a journalist. We’ll need to stop being precious about what we do and how we do it.” 2021 will be the year we are forced not only to confront our collective failures but to do something about them. Our biggest failure: the total breakdown in trust between American communities and the journalists and newsrooms that are supposed to serve them. Going into the future, we’ll have to raise our standards for the relevance and usefulness of our work to the communities we’re supposed to serve. ....