On October 15, 2014, my fifth Parole Board hearing concluded with the six-member Parole Board hearing panel voting to continue my...

See Media Coverage of this Article. After serving nearly 21 years for robbery and assault, in a recent letter sent to the Ohio Parole...

Jason Goudlock, #284-561 Toledo Correctional Institution 2001 E. Central Avenue Toledo, OH 43608 FreeJasonGoudlock.org September 26,...

The news website Huffington Post recently published a story by writer William Nichols (1) that focuses on my more than 20 years of...

With just four months to go before my upcoming fifth Parole Board hearing, it appears I’ll be attending my hearing from segregation,...

The following imagined conversation takes place in May of 2014 at the Harlem headquarters of the Organization of Afro-American Unity,...

As an 18-year-old in 1993, I was arrested, a first-time offender convicted of aggravated robbery and felonious assault. I never imagined...

Wrongfully convicted, Abu-Jamal set out to exonerate himself. Three decades later, his determination and award-winning journalism, as...

To the best of my knowledge, not since the mid-1990’s Senate Bill 182 proposal for reforming the Parole Board, which was introduced by...

On August 18, 2006, while I was incarcerated in the C-Block Special Management Unit at the Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP) in Youngstown,...

Synopsis “Paroled: The Ex-Con Experience” is a documentary that will chronicle and intimately capture the day-to-day post-release...

The following work of poetry, The Birth of Proof: May 19, 1925, was written during my confinement at the Ohio State Penitentiary while I...

The following work of poetry is a poem that I wrote upon becoming acquainted with men such as Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Bomani Shakur, and...

As a 38-year-old prisoner who has been incarcerated in the state of Ohio for nearly 20 years, I’ve witnessed hundreds of prisoners,...

The following passage is an excerpt from Jason’s novel, “Brother of the Struggle,” an in-your-face literary gem, inspired by true events,...

My name is Jason Goudlock (pronounced Good•lock), and I’m a 41-year-old incarcerated African-American who has been imprisoned in Ohio as...

The following dialogue, inspired by an existing injustice, is a fictional conversation between a present day 39-year-old Malcolm X and an...

In 1993, as an undisciplined eighteen-year-old African-American living in the projects on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio, I fell for...