Advocating for the Bench Players

From L-R: Riverside House Facility Director, Candido Tejada, Me, Desmond Meade, Riverside House CEO, Cleveland Bell

Those of you who have been following my essays on Medium know about the work I did teaching creative writing in one of our state prisons here in South Florida through Exchange for Change, and I hope that my articles adequately expressed the profound impact that weekly experience of spending time on the inside had on me. Through that experience, as well as my own journey as a crime victim in our criminal justice system, I’ve become…