Category: Reform
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IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM ADMIN
This website was inspired by my brother, Brian, who has been incarcerated for over 3 decades. Prisoner Exchange (PE) is NOT a business, it is simply a website that is owned and operated by his family and friends. The purpose of PE is to give prisoners a forum so their voices can be added to…
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Comment by Darrion Benson who played the character Benson
“See Me!” were the final words I’d screamed doing my character’s monologue. It was important to me as a performer and a human being able to scream these words from a stage where people were more or less forced to listen to the words my soul has held in mantra for the past 10 years. …
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Black History Matters by Darius Franklin
After many years in the prison system and seeing Black History Month underappreciated, disrespected and barely acknowledged beyond slave matters, this past Black History Month was a monumental one for me. I experienced a series of actions and reactions that proved the cliche “If you believe you can achieve” to be true. About a month…
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Happy 2019 from Admin
We are really looking forward to 2019. Since our inception in 2016, we have been been posting essays and articles that reflect the insights of Illinois prisoners about prison life, culture and conditions. This year we will concentrate on the thoughts and ideas of IDOC prisoners concerning a very important topic, REFORM. The Federal Legislature…
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PRISON HEALTH CARE WOE’S
IDOC and its numerous prison facilities, throughout the State of Illinois, has a whopping 32 million dollar deficit in regards to paying its bills. There have been numerous writings and reports on IDOC’s severe “Medical situation” which has claimed the lives of numerous inmates, due to the lack of adequate medical care. The Chicago Sun-times,…
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Mental Health Update
Source: Chicago Law Bulletin June 2018 Issue In 2007, a prisoner named Ashoor Rasho filed a pro se lawsuit arguing that IDOC was violating his 8th amendment rights by failing to provide proper medical treatment. A year later, Attorney Marc R Kadish of Mayer Brown LLP agreed to be his lawyer. After years of court…
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Root Causes
” I was born black, I lived black, and I’m gonna die black, probably because some cracker knows I’m black-better -than you nigga- is probably gonna put a bullet in the back of my head.” The Spook Who Sat by the Door. I remember when I was younger growing up, my brother and sisters and…