Sublime

They were about to summon a Black Maria and have the obviously homosexual protestors dragged off. But Anthony Fauci wouldn’t let them. He wanted to hear what ACT UP had to say. He told the police to ask five or six of the protest leaders to come in, to meet with him in a conference room.

I submit to you that the preeminent question in this case as you reach a decision about how best to satisfy the dual aims of this court is the same question that I asked Judge Neff to consider in Larry’s federal sentencing: How much is a little girl worth? How much is a young woman worth?

Stevenson, who is known for going into jails and prisons and spending hours upon hours sitting with defendants, hearing their stories, affirming their humanity, and offering them dignity.

He needs a world with a robust countervailing understanding of personhood and contribution and community in it, human values that are alive and operational outside the logic of the market and its insistent clock. He needs it, and so do the rest of us.

I met Eddie from Belgium in a local cafe. Seated at the next table, he encouraged me to visit the prison for women. Surprised, “Why are you hanging around prisons?” “I went there this morning to see a girl from Denmark. She got romantically involved with a local guy. She is here seven months, has over-stayed her visa. A large fine is the penalty, o

It is always painful for me, as it is for most prison chaplains, to see a man or a woman attacked so directly in the courtroom, all in an effort to pile as many collateral accusations on the defendant as possible, the implication being that he or she is intrinsically evil. It is difficult because we have come to know and love the person, perhaps ha

What person who does what this woman does has not been there? How I admire them and cherish them. I see them each day, serving in a variety of ways, dealing with the heartbreaking realities of the poor: frustration; violent transference; physical and mental sickness; rejection; police harassment; loneliness; hunger for food, friendship, and purpose