by Heather Laskin | Dec 28, 2017 | Awesome, Featured
Locked up for a crime you didn’t commit. It sounds like the plot of a book or movie. But when Melissa’s brother, Rick, was wrongfully arrested and imprisoned, it became their reality. Suddenly, they were thrown into a nightmarish world that was terrifying...
by Heather Laskin | Jun 23, 2017 | Awesome, Inspiration
Many of our readers will recall a story we shared recently about six inmates in Polk County Georgia who saved a deputy’s life when he collapsed during a work detail. The six men were working to clean up a cemetery before Father’s Day on a hot Georgia day...
by Heather Laskin | Jul 9, 2016 | Inspiration
Content via VICE A group of inmates in Texas was caught on video breaking out of their cell to save a guard’s life while they were still shackled, ABC affiliate WFAA reports. Eight prisoners—some of whom were arrested for violent crimes—were locked up in a...