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Sue Ellen Allen

Sue Ellen Allen

Racism and Blood!

Imagine you’ve been in a terrible accident. Rushed to the ER, you’re awaiting a blood transfusion. Weakly, you grasp the nurse’s arm…

Jul 8, 2016

Jul 8, 2016

Sue Ellen Allen

My Turn: Reinventing the criminal-justice system

Jun 27, 2016

Jun 27, 2016

Sue Ellen Allen

The Big Red Truck

Last week I was in DC for the White House hosted summit, The United State of Women, to participate on a panel member for Second Chance…

Jun 26, 2016

Jun 26, 2016

Sue Ellen Allen

Whoever Nel is, I follow the blog religiously, even though I have no time to read extra stuff.

“But I’m a guy; why should I care?” Well, consider this: Mom doesn’t make as much as Dad. Dad dies; Mom’s a widow. Even though she now gets…

Apr 12, 2016

Apr 12, 2016

Sue Ellen Allen

Why Are We The Incarceration Nation?

How many of you watched 60 Minutes last Sunday on prisons, German prisons to be exact? If you didn’t please watch it here…

Apr 5, 2016

Apr 5, 2016

Sue Ellen Allen

Prison Reform 2016: Netherlands Jails May Close As Dutch Crime Rate Falls

http://www.ibtimes.com/prison-reform-2016-netherlands-jails-may-close-dutch-crime-rate-falls-2340613

Mar 22, 2016

Mar 22, 2016

Sue Ellen Allen

Prison Red Letter Day

May 2006, Prison Red Letter Day: My roommate Joyce is leaving tomorrow. She’s going home. There’s been a countdown of months, weeks, days…

Mar 20, 2016

Mar 20, 2016

Sue Ellen Allen

Locked Out and Silenced: Women in Prison & Our Lawmakers

It’s Women’s History Month and no conversation would be complete without discussing the history of violence against women. If you’d asked…

Mar 6, 2016

Mar 6, 2016

Sue Ellen Allen

As a “nice white lady,” I’m going to give you the straight skinny.

Those White and Colored water fountains and restrooms were everywhere, but I never gave them a thought. After all, I was young and white…

Mar 2, 2016

As a “nice white lady,” I’m going to give you the straight skinny.

Mar 2, 2016

Sue Ellen Allen

I Want To Vote

I can’t vote. I have voted since I was eighteen but now I’m an ex-prisoner and I cannot vote. Disenfranchisement exists in many forms in…

Feb 26, 2016

Feb 26, 2016

Sue Ellen Allen

Sue Ellen Allen

I don’t look like a prison expert but I am. I lived behind the wires for seven years. I’m also an author, speaker and activist.

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