Posts by Eli Steenlage
Justified Anger – Hateful Condemnation, or a Loving Call to Wholeness?
As an employee of Justified Anger, an initiative of Nehemiah, I cannot tell you how many times we have heard pushback, concern, or flat-out disagreement with the use of the term “anger” in our name. “You’ve got to get rid of anger.” “Maybe change it to justified action.” “Anger is the wrong way to go.”…
Read MoreCOVID Pandemic Response Nonprofit Grant Program
These are highlights from the COVID Pandemic Response Nonprofit Grant Program. Please connect to the Department of Administration website for full details and to access the application. https://doa.wi.gov/Pages/COVIDNonprofitGrant.aspxApplications due by 2:00PM CST, Monday, November 9, 2020 ===== Competitive Basis – Grants are awarded on a competitive basis – this is not a first-come, first-served program. It’s worth…
Read MoreDispatches From Prison – Phone Interview 4 — COVID Outbreak
Rebecca Barber, Reentry Housing Coordinator, talks with a listener in Waupun Correctional during this current situation with Covid… This is what it is to be inside RIGHT NOW. “allow me to fill you in on what’s going on around here. B, we’ve been locked down for about two weeks now (since October 16th), due to…
Read More“The Language of the Unheard” – A History Professor’s Honest Account of Racial Justice Past and Present
Hi Professor Kantrowitz I took your history 176 class first semester and it honestly was one of the most thought provoking classes I’ve ever taken. Your class definitely opened me to many experiences and perspectives I had never seen before. I feel like you did a really good job allowing us as students to take…
Read MoreNehemiah Conversations – Prison Conditions Update During COVID-19 Crisis-New Infections
Nehemiah’s Reentry Team provides commentary on some recent news coming out of Wisconsin prisons about new infections. The team brings their own experience and contacts within the prisons to expose the reality of what is happening.
Read MoreDispatches From Prison – Phone Interview 3
Nehemiah Reentry staff member, Rebecca Barber, gets an update from a currently incarcerated individual in a Wisconsin prison about the conditions as cases of COVID-19 spread through the prisons.
Read MoreDispatches From Prison – Part III: Does an inmate have to die before they react accordingly?
Sent Thursday, March 28, 2020 (Edited to protect identities) This ___ is real! Rumor has it that the virus is in four prisons and growing. They said it’s in (4 prison locations) and has corona and the Nora virus. Yet the government has not reacted except to take our visits, recreation, school and place people…
Read MoreDispatches From Prison – Phone Interview 2
In this revealing interview, Nehemiah Reentry staff member Rebecca Barber, talks with a currently incarcerated individual in a Wisconsin prison about the conditions in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis.
Read MoreDispatches From Prison – Phone Interview I
Nehemiah Reentry staff member, Rebecca Barber, interviews a currently incarcerated individual in a Wisconsin prison about the conditions in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis.
Read MoreDispatches From Prison – Part II
Sent Thursday, March 26, 2020 (Identity not included for their protection) “I’m currently serving my seventh year on a nonviolent drug offense in my first incarceration. I was sent to [a maximum-security prison in WI] on an override from Madison due to the significant accomplishments and conduct that I have maintained during my incarceration. I have been…
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