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Jason Goudlock
Jun 16, 20203 min read
Should the U.S. Adopt a New Flag?
After Adolf Hitler’s murderous military force was defeated in 1945, the infamous red, white, and black swastika-bearing German flag was...
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Nov 9, 20196 min read
Strategic Thoughts on How to Unionize Exploited Prisoners
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) president Mary Kay Henry recently stated in a USA Today opinion-editorial that her union’s...
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Sep 7, 20192 min read
Looking for Justice from the Subway Food Chain
In a desperate attempt to generate support and undo my complicated, wrongful conviction for robbing a Subway sandwich shop in 1993 in...
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Sep 20, 20182 min read
Just Do It Like Kaepernick: Free Jason Goudlock
Two years since first being interviewed for the forthcoming film documentary Invisible Chess: The Jason Goudlock Story, I’m pleased to...
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Oct 15, 20172 min read
Ready to Leave the U.S.
After being physically assaulted on numerous occassions by crooked correctional officers over the course of my nearly 24 years of being...
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Jun 14, 20173 min read
Random Questions From a Prisoner in Solitary Confinement
1. Why does the United States embrace people and corporations that willingly and knowingly profited from Adolph Hitler’s killing of six...
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May 12, 20172 min read
Longing for Companionship With a Woman Like Cheryl
Over a decade ago, while incarcerated at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown (Ohio’s “Supermax”), I watched the film Antwone...
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Mar 29, 20174 min read
Mike Tyson’s Undisputed Truth: The Latest Great Inspirational Literary Gem
After spending the past six months of my over 23-year excessive and unjust imprisonment (for aggravated robbery and felonious assault)...
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Jan 11, 201725 min read
A Dialogue on Isolation, Race, and Justice
Jason Goudlock and William Nichols Jason Goudlock, 41, an African American inmate held in Ohio’s Ross Correctional Institution, is the...
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Aug 10, 20163 min read
Still ‘All In’ for Justice: An Open Letter to the Ohio Parole Board
August 10, 2016 Ohio Parole Board 770 W. Broad Street Columbus, OH 43222 Dear Ohio Parole Board: Having served nearly 23 years as a...
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Apr 17, 20166 min read
Penning a Novel as a Novice in Isolation
As an African-American male who grew up in the 1980’s in the inner city of Cleveland, Ohio, I never imagined I’d one day be incarcerated...
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Jan 29, 20162 min read
Do Black Lives Matter to Ohio’s Parole Board
I have been in prison since 1994. That year, shortly before I turned 19, I was convicted of armed robbery and felonious assault. At my...
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Dec 8, 20152 min read
Lights, Camera … and Freedom?
Sometimes when I look out my narrow cell window at the nearby Jeep auto plant as its workers load the vehicles onto a delivery train, I...
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Sep 28, 20152 min read
In Search of Justice
Recently, I mailed a copy of my essay “Black Lives Matter: ODRC and Ohio Attorney General Michael DeWine Swindle and Inmate” to newly...
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Aug 17, 20152 min read
Five Things I’d Like to Witness Besides LeBron’s Title Chase
In 2014 I made international headlines with a letter to the Ohio Parole Board. It was a light-hearted comment near the end that got the...
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Jun 26, 20157 min read
Black Lives Matter: ODRC and Ohio Attorney General Michael DeWine Swindle An Inmate
“If the Attorney General, as well as the ODRC, upheld justice after learning I was assaulted, I would probably be a free man today.” In...
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Dec 3, 20143 min read
Letter to Brittney Griner
Dear Ms. Griner, My name is Jason Goudlock, and I’m the prisoner who recently told the Ohio Parole Board I wanted to be released from my...
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Dec 3, 20142 min read
Letter to LeBron James
Dear Mr. James, My name is Jason Goudlock. I’m a 39-year-old African-American prisoner who recently made international headlines when I...
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Nov 14, 20144 min read
Parole-Seeking LeBron Fan Releases Book
November 14, 2014 Ohio inmate Jason Goudlock, a 39-year-old native of Cleveland, who has served nearly 21 years as a first time offender...
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Oct 31, 20145 min read
Ohio Parole Board Tyranny Continues
Unfortunately, for the time being, WNBA superstar Brittney Griner’s wish for me to be kept in prison has come true. On October 28, 2014,...
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