Seventeen-year-old Harrison “Stone” Seuga, aspiring to join a Los Angeles street gang, obeyed a gang leader and fired a submachine gun into a steel … [Read more...]
Preparing Your Case
The most important element for inmates preparing petitions to a court is “Telling your story so the person reading your case says, ‘This is … [Read more...]
Van Jones Shares His Green Mission
Van Jones, a Yale Law School graduate and Bay Area community organizer, uses words to inspire, encourage and educate. Jones is the author of The Green … [Read more...]
How to Persuade a Judge
When faced with someone who sits in judgment over us, we need wisdom and skill to persuade that judge to rule in our favor. We all must appear before … [Read more...]
Living Between Breaths
For those of us sentenced to a life term, time is inexorable. Years pass and seem to bring us not closer to release while our bodies succumb to age. … [Read more...]
When The Past No Longer Matters
The California Supreme Court has accepted several cases for review to determine when, if ever, the fact that a person committed a murder in the … [Read more...]