by Editor | 30/04/26 | Blog
‘The friendship I can’t easily explain’ I am friends with a man most people would never want to acknowledge exists. On hearing of his crimes most would turn away from any sort of contact with such a person. I didn’t. Choosing to be his friend is something I question...
by Editor | 28/01/26 | Blog
For those of you unable to tune into Joesph Patri Brown’s recent book launch, you can now watch it back in full. Here is a shareable link to view the recording:...
by Editor | 07/01/26 | Blog
Thoroughly enjoyed attending this lecture by the legendary Human Rights lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith. Clive cut his teeth working in Mississippi and has recently been kept busy getting folk out of Guantanamo. There are good people in this world, let’s not allow...
by Editor | 16/12/25 | Blog
This wonderful poem was submitted to HumanS Remain by Violet Newborn and is published with her permission THE POEM TO DEATH ROW “Come on.” That’s what the woman whispered, gesturing to come with me. when she stepped into the cells of Death Row— not to condemn, not to...
by Editor | 26/11/25 | Blog
Most people that talk to me about my empathy for Death Row prisoners start at the same place; they have a pre-formed picture of the sort of folk that end up there and presume they are monsters and ghouls. It’s an institutionalised viewpoint that is rooted in the...
by Editor | 13/11/25 | Blog
A few years ago a group of talented writers and drama students from Death Row, MS came together to perform the play, ‘Death of a Salesman’ by Arthur Miller. They had an audience of about 50 people in the prison gym. ‘Scalawag’ magazine...
