'Freedom' tagged posts

The Price Of Freedom

LightGramsFebruary 16, 2023Volume 27, Number 6 When something is too expensive, we sometimes say that it cost “an arm and a leg”. If you were incarcerated, would you be willing to pay a kidney and bone marrow to reduce the amount of time you’re required to serve? A bill has been submitted in the Massachusetts…

Declaring Our Independence

LightGrams July 4, 2019 Volume 23, Number 2 It was on this day 243 years ago that representatives of the 13 colonies of the New World gathered at the State House of Pennsylvania. Two days earlier a resolution was unanimously passed to declare that these colonies were breaking away from the British Empire. On July…

Unwilling To Learn

LightGrams December 13, 2018 Volume 22, Number 44 You’ve heard about recidivism – the sad fact that many who spend time in jails or prisons will be returned to incarceration after spending time in the free world? Thomas Lee Williams of Philadelphia takes that concept to a whole new level. Williams was released from jail…