Fernando Rivas, Author at Minutes Before Six

Federal Prison in Crisis

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has chosen to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic not with…

Dozens of inmates here, many walker and wheelchair bound, suffering from diabetes, including a man with…

On January 22, 2021, I was infected with COVID-19 for the second time. This has been…

Are we even human beings anymore, or are we just a bunch of numbers in human…

To paraphrase the late Che Guevara: “One doesn’t wait for the right conditions for revolution. The…

When I look back through the years, being a black man, I can’t help but think…

Written and Illustrated by Chris Dankovich The first time I ever personally talked to a heavily…

The following commentary was written by John Ramirez based on Billy Tracy’s Months Before Six series,…

By Fernando Rivas Time in prison is something to be got through, something to survive –…

By James Kunkel Climbing down from the fire engine-red, King Cab dually something you’ve wanted…