Love Beyond Walls
Demetrius Davenport is a Christian hip-hop artist known as DD-11 and the author of Love Beyond Walls. His first song, "OMG," shares the faith and healing he found after prison.
Topic
Criminal Justice
Recovery inside and after the justice system — re-entry, probation, jail-based programming, and the people bridging those worlds with programs that meet people where they are.
12 stories
Are You Willing to Go to Any Lengths?
Etta Mae Lopez, five feet tall and determined, walked up to a police officer outside Sacramento Jail and slapped him. She had a plan: jail time meant she could finally quit smoking. Her unconventional…
Stories Restoring Hope: Malerie Lockhart
Malerie Lockhart sits across from men in Maine's reentry center, helping them imagine life after incarceration. Once, she sold everything for a one-way ticket to Florida with two hundred dollars and a…
Maine Voices of Recovery – Rachelle Bell
Rachelle Bell sits across from incarcerated people in Maine's reentry centers, telling them the truth: the only difference between them and her is that she never got caught. Ten years sober after a de…
Maine Voices of Recovery Issue #22
Becky Peasley has been a nurse in Maine for 25 years. She serves on the board of the Coastal Recovery Community Center, speaks in jails, and pushes for faster access to treatment.
Christopher Poulos
Christopher Poulos is an attorney and the executive director of the Washington Statewide Reentry Council. He works on prison reform and reentry, and he is part of a mountain rescue team.
Accessing Recovery Supports
Bruce Noddin sat in a prison ministry meeting when he noticed the same faces returning to the system again and again. That observation sparked a statewide network connecting corrections staff, nonprof…
Probation Officers
Alicia Smith sits across from a person on probation and asks about their hobbies, their family, what matters to them. She's a probation officer, which most people assume means enforcing rules. But Smi…
Braided Services
Rhonda Decontie watched her father weave traditional singing and prayer into 12 step meetings, teaching her how culture and recovery belong together. Now, as clerk of the Penobscot Nation Healing to W…
Recovery’s elder stateswoman celebrates four sober decades
At 90, Joan Giles has been part of Maine's recovery community for 41 years, sober since 1978. Over those years she ran a 12-step bookstore and helped run meetings in a prison.
Paradigm Windows
A young man approached the Paradigm Windows job fair table and whispered a question to Lark Pitts: would his incarceration history disqualify him? She leaned in and told him there was no need to whisp…
Amanda Lapointe
Amanda Lapointe thought vulnerability was weakness. In recovery, she learned it was the opposite. Now a sober single mom reunited with her daughter and family, she speaks at jails and treatment center…