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Created by a team of graduating seniors, “Notes from The Farm” is an unofficial student-led guide featuring 50 personal ...
In celebration of this new addition to the pantheon of stewardship storytelling, we invited Ellen Wayland-Smith to speak with Helen (former Orion editor-at-large) about the cycles and seasons of life ...
I started this column after Lorna Quimby said a few years ago that she wasn’t going to do hers anymore. My first was a tribute to her, and her legacy ...
The collection is comprised of writings from over 30 inmates housed in Unit 29 at Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman Farm). The book delves into the aftereffects of the infamous riots in ...
The prison commissioner needed to be replaced, but there were few people qualified to run Cummins Farm Unit ... Angola in Louisiana, Parchman in Mississippi, and Ramsey in Texas are still run ...
But I’ll let the reader decide for themselves if the book is successful ... Writing From Parchman Prison” in 2014, “Unit 30: New Writings from Parchman Farm” in 2016 and “Mississippi ...
The collection is comprised of writings from over 30 inmates housed in Unit 29 at Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman Farm). The book delves into the aftereffects of the infamous riots in ...
Parchman Farm was reborn as Parchman Prison in 1900 ... Criminal and Social Justice Essay by author Jelani Cobb for ‘The Book of HOV,’ published by Assouline.
His family footprint once stretched to the gates of Parchman, the infamous Gothic prison farm that serves as the ... The history books say he walked six miles in the dark. Nobody knows for sure ...