The state of Colorado and the Colorado Department of Corrections (DoC), with a population of 32,000 within its jails, prisons and immigration detention facilities, announced their COVID-19 plan. In this edition of Insight, Out, Dante Owens shares what inmates like himself have been told by the DoC about the changes taking place in the prison […]
Photo by Eduardo Sánchez on Unsplash There has been a lapse in posts from Insight, Out due to Dante’s transfer from Sterling Prison to the maximum prison, Colorado State Penitentiary. This was his punishment for getting caught with a cell phone, something that happens to inmates in every prison in this country and even in […]
Since the launch of Insight, Out, the lead voice of this series, Dante Owens, has been sharing his thoughts, feelings, and experiences of a man who came to prison as a teenager, having committed a crime that resulted in a life sentence. For the past 21 years he’s been on a journey of self-discovery of […]
This article by Dante Owens is a response to the New York Times article that came out over the summer, “Nipsey Hussle Was Hailed as a Peacemaker by the LAPD. He Was Also Their Focus in an Investigation.” As a former gang member Dante relates to the experience that no matter how you change and […]
To be challenged about the sincerity of your shift in thinking — replacing negative old ways with the new way of positive thinking — is deeply emotional. My past ways versus how I deal with situations today seem to be in question, as if I’m not allowed to change. Life is hard once you start […]
This new Insight Out blog is authored by Dante Owens, who is currently serving a life sentence at Sterling Correctional Facility in Colorado. He’s been in the prison system since 1998. Insight Out is a platform for Dante to share his personal stories, reflections from years ago to the present, and the programs taking place […]
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – Clusterf#@k to the Poor House – Goofus and Gallant Who could present our current state of presidential affairs other than Jon Stewart, or to use Highlights magazine characters in reference to president-elect Barack Obama’s take on our state of affairs versus the childish, cat-with-a-ball-of-yarn antics of George Dumb-Ya […]
Manifest Hope Gallery at Andenken UPDATE (8/27/08): For those of you who registered for Unconventional ’08 and received your confirmation emails, and then went to Andenken today to retrieve your hard tickets, they may have told you that they had run out. We rang their publicist and she confirmed that although the hard tickets are […]
Cinemocracy rocks – Monday, August 25 – Red Rocks During last year’s Starz Denver Film Festival, a panel discussion focusing on one of the more politically oriented documentaries led to the 2008 Democratic National Convention and the potential for showing films during the DNC that had a political bent. Denver Film Society took that idea […]
Pink Spiders Offer to Help Inject Some Rock ‘n’ Roll Into McCain’s Campaign Word on the street is McCain is taking a little R&R time over the next few days as the Dems get ready to rock Obama all the way to the White House this week. Good thing too, since he was really starting […]
