Author: Susan Burton
I visited the Federal Correctional Institution in Aliceville, Alabama in July. Miss Alice Johnson had recently been released from there after Donald Trump commuted her sentence, and the women there seemed really really hopeful. But for me, I’m just now able to talk about the trip because it was an extremely hard trip for me.
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While I was in Arkansas I visited the men’s side of the Wrightsville-Hawkins Unit, where they also have a Think Legacy program. My experience there was profound in ways that I had never imagined. In my book, “Becoming Ms. Burton,” I wrote about being raped at the age of 14 on my way home from
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My interest in visiting Arkansas came after a woman named Colleen wrote to me about her experience in prison and during reentry. I was saddened by the difficulties she faced during her reentry. Colleen had been released but was incarcerated again when she couldn’t find a job. That was six years ago, and she hasn’t
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Earlier this month, I visited over 400 women at Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women in North Carolina. Some of the women had already read my book. Several of them explained that they could have written the same book because they’d had nearly the same experiences prior to incarceration that I had had. Hearing this made
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I recently visited two prisons in Louisiana, where I had an opportunity to shift the conversation around victimhood. At these prisons, Elayn Hunt Correctional Facility and the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women, my presentation to the women was rolled into a National Crime Victims’ Rights Week event called “Expand the Circle, Reach All Victims.” I
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Paul Grondahl (director of New York Writers Institute), Susan Burton and Dr. Alice Green, executive director of the Center for Law and Justice I recently returned from Albany where I visited with a group of 20 women who were in a drug rehab program at Albany County Correctional Facility, along with Paul Grondahl of New
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This blog posting is part of an ongoing series following our founder Susan Burton as she tours prisons, jails and re-entry programs across America with her book, “Becoming Ms. Burton.” I recently returned from Chicago where I visited with the boys of the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center. I was joined by Paul Pearson, a law
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This blog posting is part of an ongoing series following our founder Susan Burton as she tours prisons, jails and re-entry programs across America with her book, “Becoming Ms. Burton.” I spent my weekend visiting with over 200 women at Denver County Jail. The experience there was very moving like it has been at all
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This blog posting is part of an ongoing series following our founder Susan Burton as she tours prisons, jails and re-entry programs across America with her book, “Becoming Ms. Burton.” Last week I had the honor of visiting Hawaii and meeting with all five justices of the Hawaii Supreme Court to discuss ways to reduce
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Susan Burton, founder of A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project, has embarked on a cross country tour to promote special edition of “Becoming Ms. Burton” Susan Burton is touring prisons, jails and re-entry programs across America with her book, “Becoming Ms. Burton.” She will be posting her story on Facebook and at becomingmsburton.com and
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