MY PRIVILEGE, MY HONOR, MY MISSION
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Vanessa Nelson-Sloane
- May 5
- 2 min
IS 7,000 years 'ENOUGH TIME?'
Early yesterday morning, amid an unexpected rainy and blustery day, Dave, former lifer Jeff DePue and I left Sacramento about 6 am,...
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Vanessa Nelson-Sloane
- Mar 4
- 3 min
HARDIN IS DECIDED
At mid-morning today the Cal Supreme handed down the much awaited decision regarding In RE: Hardin. And frankly, it was not good news. ...
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Vanessa Nelson-Sloane
- Jan 5
- 2 min
this is why
Dave and I just returned from our weekly group at CMF--it's now after 7 pm, yet another long day. But I wanted to share an email that...
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Vanessa Nelson-Sloane
- Oct 29, 2023
- 3 min
guess who's coming to dinner? or at least to the rise program a cmf
As part of my usual attendance at the BPH’s monthly Executive Board meeting this month, I was able to sit in on several training sessions...
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Vanessa Nelson-Sloane
- Oct 2, 2023
- 4 min
THE BIG PALOOZA
What is a Palooza, you ask? Well, so did we. And while we can’t find a definition anywhere in any dictionary, it seems to be a shortened...
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Vanessa Nelson-Sloane
- Aug 1, 2023
- 4 min
do you know the way to 'tea-ha-choppy?'
While it was never a conscious decision to try and visit all of the state prisons in California, since I started doing this work, oh, so...
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Vanessa Nelson-Sloane
- May 29, 2023
- 7 min
being transparent about transparency
There’s lots of chatter recently about ‘transparency’ from the BPH, the intent being to ‘prove’ that the board has some nefarious intent...
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David Sloane
- May 29, 2023
- 7 min
Image or impression management
One of the newer phrases we’re seeing in parole denials is allegations of ‘image (sometimes called impression) management,’ implying the...
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David Sloane
- May 28, 2023
- 4 min
Destructive Entitlement
(One of the Principles used in our curricula) The news is filled these days with talk of ‘entitlement’ and ‘privilege,’ usually paired...
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Vanessa Nelson-Sloane
- May 15, 2023
- 2 min
On the road to.....
We’re on the road again, headed Tuesday to CCWF in Chowchilla—one of two women’s prisons in California. We’ve been invited to...
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Vanessa Nelson-Sloane
- Apr 11, 2023
- 2 min
an indescribable feeling
Being a prisoner advocate is not for the faint of heart--there are many frustrations, disappointments, controversies and heart-rending...
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David Sloane
- Apr 7, 2023
- 3 min
Program Recipients
Hello everyone, David here reaching out with one of the several testimonials we've received. In his own words, this is Eric Martin....
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Vanessa Nelson-Sloane
- Feb 1, 2023
- 2 min
COME JOIN THE PARTY!
We’ve said for many years that when someone receives a life in prison sentence, the only people more lost as in what to do next, what to...
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David Sloane
- Dec 13, 2022
- 3 min
Supporting Mental Health in California's prisons.
After many years of providing workshops, programs and information to lifers, Life Support Alliance, like the rest of lifer-world, was...
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Vanessa Nelson-Sloane
- Nov 2, 2022
- 3 min
A WEEK IN THE LIFE
The last couple of weeks have been especially busy—travel, workshops, correspondence homework to review, never-ending letters, calls and...
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David Sloane
- Oct 16, 2022
- 3 min
new Program Debut!
Hello everyone, David here. Just a quick report on just one of the things we've been doing lately. In the course of all that we do, we...
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David Sloane
- Oct 8, 2022
- 4 min
Meet Abel R.
Meet Abel.
"Dear Life Support Alliance..."
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Vanessa Nelson-Sloane
- Oct 7, 2022
- 5 min
LOCKED UP! FOR REAL!!
When I talk with people about what we do, going into prisons to work with the men and women who are ‘residents’ there, I frequently am...
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