They Don’t Hang Them in the Streets Anymore:
Now They Hang Them In The Courtroom Strung up. Hung. Done. Any of these could have been…
The Unconscious Mind
Look around. Millions of people within the United States of America feel as though the best way…
LET’S HIKE UP THE MOUNTAIN
My desire is to remove the blinders, clear away the fog in the mirror, and ultimately provide…
SOCIETY’S VIRUS TRANSREFORMED: Crime and the Criminal Cure
Tens –if not hundreds –of millions of human beings have existed on Earth who were…
Sins of The Father: Correcting the Trauma Imposed by ‘Corrections’
I was born to a mother serving time in 1983. Now, as I serve a life sentence…
THE THEORY OF REFORMATIVITY: The Man That Gave Us the Theory of Relativity Inspires a Creative Take on Reform, What It Actually Is, What It Can Become (Part Two)
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be…
2C2S LWOP Walk For Life Walk-a-thon: A Journey of Redemption and Giving Back
October 16, 2024 – I never imagined that a small act of giving—a $10 donation to Shriners…
The Theory of Reformativity: The Man That Gave Us The Theory of Relativity Inspires a Creative Take on Reform, What It Actually Is, What It Can Become (Part One)
We live in a society where the outcry for both prison and justice reforms has reached a…
How CDCR De-Constructed a Positive Working Program (Part II)
The previous article described the PPF (Progressive Programming Facility), and what was working. Now, I will get…
CDCR’S De-Construction of a Positive Working Program (Part 1)
The fresh blood stains smearing the basketball court served as a reminder that the “Shotcaller” from San…
The Mirror
Looking in the mirror, I see a 39-year-old extrovert. My name is Dominick Jerome Porter, and today,…
The Unknown about the Inner Working of the California State Prison System
California is well known for its costly housing, high end apparel, high class lifestyle, and entertainment industry….
College Students Living In Confinement Describe How Yale’s Prison Education Initiative Outdoes The Highly Touted California Model
There are several hundred Valley State Prison (VSP) residents in California attending in-person college classes and pursuing…
California Dreamin: Juggling Purpose, Transformation, and Life without the Possibility of Parole
To begin my journey with Davis Vanguard, I would like you to know who I am, how…
Dear Aljazeera: Thank You for the Periscope
Press, be it Africa, Syria, Ukraine, Iran, Lebanon, Israel, or Gaza, were it not for…
Reporting Live from the Archive: Cartoons, Slavery, and the Lessons of Crack Cocaine
I owe my byline to the OG cartoon character Space Ghost—he was Batman cool before Batman—and he…
The Insurgent Futurity of Carceral Literacy Activism: Assessing the California Model, Re-imagining the Audiosphere, and Innovating a Culture of Forensics
Less than a decade ago, Brant Choate, then the Superintendent of the Office of Correctional Education charged…
Revisiting Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Golden Gulag: Examining the Praxis of Carceral Historicization
I first got my hands on the book Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing…
Commentary: California’s Racial Justice Act Needs a Law Clinic Champion – Who Will Stand in the Gap?
It’s been nearly half a decade since the California legislature enacted the California Racial Justice Act (CRJA),…
California’s Forgotten Youth: The Dangerous Few Seek the Right of Return
When film producer Scott Budnick traveled to High Desert State Prison with actor and poet Richard Cabral…