Changing Hearts Behind Bars - Alternative Violence Project
"Violence isn't only physical. Sometimes it begins with how we see one another."
For more than twenty years, Rita Sloan has walked through prison gates—not as a correctional officer, counselor, or clinician—but as a volunteer committed to one simple belief: every person has the capacity to change.
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From Life Sentence to Life of Purpose
"The opposite of addition isn't sobriety. Sobriety is the tool. The opposite of addiction is connection." - David Nyberg
At twenty years old, David Nyberg was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a murder. Forty-four years later, he walked out a different man.
In this powerful episode of Pri…
Compassion Under Lock and Key: A Prison Nurse's Story
Guest: Pam Johnson
"I never wanted to know what they did. I only wanted to know how to care for them." - Pam Johnson
For nearly twenty-five years, Pam Johnson cared for patients inside Nevada's prison system. What began as a job she never expected to take became a career defined by compassion, inte…
The Music of Humanity
Episode 6: The Music of Humanity
"Sometimes a guitar can reach places punishment never will."
What happens when you hand a guitar to someone the world has already written off?
For more than a decade, musician and songwriter Dale Poune walked through prison gates carrying guitars instead of judgment…
Echoes of Nevada State Prison
"I'm a believer that something is there" - Joe Kinsley
For nearly 30 years, Joe Kinsley worked inside Nevada’s prison system, beginning his career in 1985 at the old Nevada State Prison in Carson City. What started as a practical decision for steady work and a pension became a decades-long career …
Become a Square
“If you don’t want to come back to prison, you have to become a square” – Steve Suwe
In this episode of Prison Unlocked, Dr. Karen Gedney sits down with Steve Suwe, a longtime Nevada Department of Corrections employee whose career began in recreation and eventually took him into casework, classific…
Do No Harm
What does “do no harm” mean when the person in front of you is incarcerated for a serious crime?
In this episode of Prison Unlocked, Dr. Karen Gedney sits down with former prison nurse Forest Fasig, whose unusual career took him from emergency nursing and flight medicine to law enforcement, aviatio…
The Truth Between the Lines
“We have this moment to recreate who we are.” – Shaun Griffin
Nevada Poet Laureate Shaun Griffin has spent decades walking into prisons with an unusual expectation: if you enter his writing workshop, you are there to do the work.
No grades. No good-time credit. No easy praise.
Through the Razor Wir…
22 Years in Solitary – The Torture of Being Alone
“I was not born to hurt or kill, yet it became my way” – Frank DePalma
At just 18 years old, Frank De Palma entered the Nevada prison system after an impulsive attempt to avenge the killing of his beloved dog. No one was injured in the incident. He received a ten-year sentence and entered prison be…
The Gate Opens, but the Barrier's Remain
“Your past has consequences, but it does not have to decide your future” – Jacquin Webb
After spending 20 years incarcerated, Jacquin Webb walked out of prison knowing that freedom would mean much more than simply making it through the gate.
In this episode of Prison Unlocked, Dr. Karen Gedney sits…
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