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Missouri Dept. of Corrections & The Missouri Taxpayer

December 3, 2018 by Anthony Williams

Missouri Inmates Attend Rehabilitative Classes
Missouri Inmates Attend Rehabilitative Classes

Warehousing inmates is a serious problem particularly in the state of Missouri. The general public must come to grips with this fact and understand that it does not do our society any good warehousing men and women for many years while neglecting to provide the essential instruction and life skills needed for prisoners to successfully transition back into the community after they’ve been released on probation or parole.

The reality is that there is a lack of rehabilitative and educational programming inside of the jails and prisons spread throughout our state. Sadly, the administrators of the Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) and many Missouri law makers cannot stomach fixing the problem so they go to great lengths to conceal the deficiency from the public. This is so because the MDOC administrators and politicians satisfied with the way things are know that the one thing that can upset their failing penological policies is an outcry from tax paying citizens who have a vested interest in pressing for sweeping reforms of our criminal justice system. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: MDOC Tagged With: Advocacy, Anthony Williams, Bridget Williams, Criminal Justice Reform, Education, Fighting For The Rights Of The Prisoners, Freed Anthony Williams, Freedom Blog, G.E.D., ICVC, Law Makers, MDOC, Missouri Department of Corrections, Missouri Prisoner Advocacy Consulting, Missouri Tax Payer, MODOC, MoLeg, MOPAC, Programs, Recidivism, ReEntry, Reform, Rehabilitation, Warehousing

FREEDOM, RE-ENTRY & LIFE POST-EXONERATION

October 27, 2016 by Anthony Williams

Ex-Offenders Struggle To Defy The Odds & Overcome 

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Anthony and his son, Anthony Robinson, advocating for juveniles at the M0. Legislature in 2016

I wrote this to express how blessed my life has been since my release and to share some of the struggles I have had as well re-entering society after a wrongful conviction.   In writing this I don’t mean to dwell on the past – I have no regrets.  I am looking forward and forging forward!  This has been my mission from day one of my release.

Re-entry has not come without difficulty for me as it doesn’t for most ex-prisoners reentering our society.  I learned quickly, as most ex-offenders and exonerees do the difficulty of recapturing a life after an extended period of incarceration.  It’s so because everything in our society is based off of your past and for an ex-prisoner of any sort this is a major barrier.  

Everyone wants to know where have you been living the last year, two years, five years….  How long have you been on your job?  How many years of school have you completed?  How long have you been paying on your credit cards? Questions like these that follow you every where you go in this society tend to hold a lot of ex-prisoners back who have good intentions.  Many of these barriers have hindered me although I have maintained full-time employment for the past two years.

The question is, how do we expect ex-prisoners to get a fresh start and have the opportunity to integrate into our society having to overcome such crippling hurdles to finding housing, employment, etc.? [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Anthony Williams Tagged With: Advocacy, Anthony Robinson, Anthony Williams, Bridget Hollis, Bukowsky Law Firm, Candace Williams, Cassandra Gould, Ebony Miller, EndJLWOP, Faith Voices of Jefferson City, Freed Anthony Williams, Freedom, Freedom Blog, Jennifer Bukowsky, Law Clerk, Missouri Prisoner Advocacy Consulting, MoLeg, MOPAC, Post-exoneration, Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church, Re-entry, Struggle, Survival, Wrongly Convicted

CORIZON: Missouri’s Failed Choice For Prison Health Care

October 11, 2016 by Anthony Williams

Corizon Man PicIn the Late 1980 Missouri decided to contract its prison health care services to a for-profit prison health provider.  At the time the health care provider the Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) contracted with was named Correctional Medical Services (CMS).  CMS was licensed in approximately 39 states.

For many years CMS provided inadequate healthcare to Missouri prisoners.  As a result, many of the “contracts” the state and MDOC had entered into with CMS to provide prisoners health care in our state were canceled, particularly, due to a rising number of inmate deaths, Civil Rights law  suits and settlements.  To combat the loss of profits and business, CMS joined forces with another failed prison health care provider that was called Prison Heal Services (PHS).  The two companies combined their health care contracts and started over under a new name, “CORIZON”. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: MODOC Tagged With: 8th Amendment, CORIZON, Cruel & Unusual Punishment, Freedom Blog, Gary Sonnenburg, Healthcare, John Malady, MDOC, MoLeg, MOPAC, Southeast Correctional Center, State of Missouri

The MODOC ‘DOG PROGRAM’ SAVED MY LIFE

October 7, 2016 by Anthony Williams

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Norman Brown at the South Central Correctional Center in Licking, Missouri

Never in a million years would I have dreamed I’d see dogs (yeah dogs) “man’s best friend” running around the prison yard at the South Central Correctional Center in Licking, Missouri.  And even more, I’d have never in my wildest dreams seen myself taking on the responsibility of caring for dogs in prison, but I have for quite a while now!  Daily, trainers like myself walk, train and rehabilitate dogs and I must say, it is one of the most “therapeutic” programs I’ve had the privilege to be involved with during my 25 year incarceration in the Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC).

I am proud to announce that so far I have loved back to life 20 plus stray and shelter dogs!!!  These puppies and dogs entered this prison broken, beaten, scared, matted, malnourished, unsocialized and desperately needing a helping hand as do many young men and women who get trapped inside of our judicial system.
Strays and shelter dogs really have it hard. They’ve been abandoned, rejected, lonely and simply can not understand why they are treated so poorly or why their families can no longer care for them. Through it all, there is that glimmer of “love me” in their eyes. That small glimmer of “let me love you” in their eyes. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: MODOC Tagged With: Dog Program, EndJLWOP, Freedom Blog, MDOC, MoLeg, No Child Is Born Bad, Norman Brown, Redemption, Rehabilitation, South Central Correctional Center, Tell Your Story

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Fighting for the Rights of the Prisoners

Fighting for the Rights of the Prisoners

Anthony Williams was sentenced to Life in Prison at 14 for a crime he didn't commit. Now he fights for the rights of those who society has forgotten.   … Read More

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