The Humanization Blog
Ultimately, both a primary goal and strategy of The Humanization Project is to highlight for the world the individual, complex, diverse human beings impacted by imprisonment, both past and ongoing. By sharing their strengths and successes, hopes and visions, skills and hobbies, even mistakes and fears, they can be relatable to anyone. Stereotypes will be replaced with human compassion.
Here we present a deep dive into some of the people you’ll be glad to know better, people who are important to their communities and families, people who are far more than their worst day. In various and sundry formats to reach diverse audiences we offer summaries, full written interviews, video interviews with retuning citizens, and more.
More Than My Conviction ~ Marlon Johnson
Dear Reader, My name is Marlon Johnson, and I’m so much more than my conviction. I’m a father, a son, and I’m a brother. But
More Than My Conviction – Rydell Keith Pettaway
I am a member of society, just like anyone else. Only now I have become a victim of the institutional branding that stigmatizes human beings
More Than My Conviction ~ Jahlil Wiley
Stupid as can be, something I swore I would never do, but I went and did it anyway. A few robberies back to back because,
More Than My Conviction ~ Joshua Coleman
I’ve never been perfect; not even close. Always a work in progress, that’s for sure. But I was finally getting ahead, success built on my
More Than My Conviction ~ Justice a.k.a Harry A. Traynham
“Sticks & Stones May Break Me, But Your Labels… Can Socially Kill Me!” As you read this, I sit in prison, convicted of first degree