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Commentary on Assistant State Public Defender’s Letter to Parole Board

jamesgouldlock

Aug 5, 20142 min read

Commentary on Assistant State Public Defender’s Letter to Parole Board

“What the Parole Board is now doing to me is nothing less than an act of torture.” On June 19, 2014, Ohio Assistant State Public Defender...

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jamesgouldlock

Aug 4, 20143 min read

Soldiering On: A Struggle for Freedom and a Call to Action By Ohio Old-Law Prisoner Jason Goudlock

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

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Spotlighting the Egregious Injustice of Marissa Alexander: A Fictional Conversation Between Malcolm

jamesgouldlock

Jun 20, 20146 min read

Spotlighting the Egregious Injustice of Marissa Alexander: A Fictional Conversation Between Malcolm

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

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jamesgouldlock

Jun 13, 20145 min read

Is Rehab Possible in Our Prisons? (Huffington Post)

The following is the full text of an article written by Professor William Nichols, originally published at the Huffington Post: Jason...

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jamesgouldlock

May 19, 20143 min read

Live from Skid Row: A Harrowing Account and Plea for Assistance From an Impoverished Ohio Old-Law Pr

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

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jamesgouldlock

Mar 2, 20146 min read

Ohio’s Mumia Abu-Jamal

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

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jamesgouldlock

Feb 27, 20143 min read

Letter from Correctional Institution Inspection Committee

Commentary by Jason: I received the following reply letter from the Ohio Legislative Correctional Institution Inspection Committee...

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Fighting the Repression of the Ohio Parole Board on Behalf of Old-Law Inmates

jamesgouldlock

Jan 26, 20142 min read

Fighting the Repression of the Ohio Parole Board on Behalf of Old-Law Inmates

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...

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jamesgouldlock

Jan 5, 20143 min read

Ariel Castro’s Suicide and the ODRC Status Quo by Sean Swain

Ariel Castro may save lives. It’s still too early to tell if anyone officially scrutinizing the Ohio Department of Retribution and...

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jamesgouldlock

Dec 16, 20139 min read

Unveiling the Shadowy Past of Ohio Parole Board Member Marc Houk: A Story of Injustice

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

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jamesgouldlock

Nov 26, 20133 min read

Paroled: The Ex-Con Experience (A Documentary Proposal)

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

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jamesgouldlock

Nov 21, 20133 min read

Letter from Kenneth R. Spiert – February 25, 2013

The following is a letter that was sent to me by the Ohio Assistant State Public Defender, Kenneth R. Spiert, which I received as a reply...

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jamesgouldlock

Nov 14, 20133 min read

Call and Post Article: Thousands of Ohio Inmates Languish Away in Prison

The following article, Thousands of Ohio Inmates Languish Away in Prison, was recently published by the Cleveland Call and Post, which...

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jamesgouldlock

Nov 14, 20131 min read

The Birth of Proof: May 19, 1925

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

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jamesgouldlock

Nov 8, 20132 min read

Lucasville State of Mind

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

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jamesgouldlock

Sep 23, 20131 min read

Ohio Old-Law Prisoner Files $250,000 Federal Lawsuit Against Prison Warden and Officer for Alleged B

On May 31, 2013, stemming from an incident that occurred April 12, 2013 at the Mansfield Correctional Institution located in Mansfield,...

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jamesgouldlock

Sep 23, 20132 min read

The Tears of Clowns

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,...

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jamesgouldlock

Sep 21, 20132 min read

Excerpt from “Brother of the Struggle”

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

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jamesgouldlock

Sep 4, 20132 min read

Letter From Senator Smith – September 25, 2012

The following reply letter was sent to me September 25, 2013 from Ohio Senator Shirley Smith, whom I’d written to for the second time a...

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jamesgouldlock

Sep 4, 20132 min read

Letter from Senator Smith – June 5, 2012

The following reply letter was sent to me June 5, 2012 from Ohio Senator Shirley Smith, whom I’d wirtten to several months earlier...

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