by Arielle Emmett Tameca Cole, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, spent 26 years at Julia Tutwiler Women’s Prison (Wetumpka, AL) for a drug deal gone bad. She was 21 years old at the time and won’t disclose further details except to say that someone was killed. Today, at age 51, she’s an artist whose work… Read More
by Arielle Emmett As I wrote in my last post, Edwin McMillan spent 21 years in California prisons for crimes of robbery, kidnapping and carjacking which he committed at gunpoint at the age of 19. The kidnapping/carjack incident in Oxnard, CA lasted about 15 minutes. McMillan and his cousin Josh stole a sports car in… Read More
When Prisoners Educate Themselves, Success becomes Reality by Arielle Emmett At age 19 Ed McMillan was an out-of-control kid who loved his mother and hated the Navy. At Christmastime in 1997, he went AWOL, driving in a buddy’s car from Virginia back to Oxnard, CA to stage a surprise visit. Barred at the door by… Read More