Creating a business culture in which all are welcome is the goal of entrepreneurs who understand that staff who have disabilities can...

Many will immediately think of the basics - housing, food, transportation, a job, help with psychological and medical problems, stigma,...

Are you a bit superstitious about the date, Friday the 13th? It appears some people are , and it’s even been given a name ,...

I survived thirty years as a female prison doctor in a male prison, controlled by a male militaristic hierarchy. I watched how the...

Webster’s dictionary describes retirement as withdraw, retreat, give up. I have never done that, nor did I want to start that in my 60’s,...

There are all different ways to be a volunteer, but few as gratifying as serving the underserved or forgotten like the incarcerated. At...

April 15th is World Art Day and as a prison doctor who did 30 years behind bars, I couldn’t help but think of the artistic talent and...

I never thought about the death penalty, until I was asked to write for the drugs to execute ‘Bud’ Thompson in 1989. I had only been a...

When someone leaves prison there have always been hurdles to overcome to re-enter society successfully. That individual needs shelter,...

As a medical doctor who worked in a prison for 30 years I saw doctors and the police/custody world at their best and their worst. Both...

I was a prison doctor for 30 years and battled a different virus at the start of my career in 1987. It was HIV, and killed many young...

President John F. Kennedy in 1959 said, “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis’. One brush stroke stands for...

I was a prison doctor for 30 years and battled a different virus at the start of my career in 1987. It was HIV, and killed many young men...

Everyone experiences trauma in life and heals or doesn’t heal in different ways. On Friday the 13th in 1989 I experienced significant...

Back in 1987 when I was a young, naïve, blonde female I had no idea what was expected of me when the National Health Service Corps placed...

There are certainly more than seven ways to increase compassion in any individual, but I would like to share the seven ways that I saw...

I spent 30 years behind bars as a prison doctor and found that the trajectory of individuals ending up in prison for the most part...

I spent 30 years in a prison as a medical doctor and watched many inmates return to the prison for a variety of reasons. It didn’t take...

1. It can help inmates become aware of their thoughts and emotions 2. It can help inmates not immediately react to their thoughts and...

Prison life involves a whole range of novel stressors and other conditions of life different from life outside. The World Health...