Chris Dankovich (MI), Author at Minutes Before Six

I Somehow Swallowed the Night: Prison Picassos, Big-House Hemingways, and the Prison Creative Arts Project

By Chris Dankovich In a modest hall covered in snow on the main campus of the…

By Vernon Robinson (This piece originally ran on Decarcerate PA and is being shared with the permission of…

By Timothy Pauley “One´s scared and the other´s glad of it,” Johnny declared in disgust as…

February 23, 2018 UPDATE: Many thanks to all of you for supporting Thomas and his family (and…

By Lauren O’Dell In 2009, I was awarded the Sunshine Scholarship, which would cover books and…

By Kenneth M. Key Recently I watched a program on the Public Broadcast Station about how…

By Isaac Sweet As a teenager, I envisioned graduating from high school, pursuing a career as…

By Steve Bartholomew Big Chuck plucked with great deliberation his final wooden tile and, placing it…

By Rosendo Rodriguez III “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering…

By Steve Bartholomew For most of us, it’s embarrassingly easy to get swept away by the…