Randy Chavez explains how three critical years in his life have lead him to some promises.
Prison
Looking Back When Your Neck Doesn’t Agree
John Rodriguez shares some boyhood memories where he felt stuck.
Is He Useless, or Can He Change?
Leo Cruz is facing the future, and he is not sure where, who, or how he will be able to change.
Counting Down Backward on the Ladder to Manhood
17-year-old Anthony Cortez looks back on the ways he thought he was becoming a man.
Dad’s Last Day
Jackie Sanchez faces her father’s alcoholism.
My Prison Part II
Tyanni Gomez revisits the theme of prison and pain. Is there a chance for release?
My Uncle’s DUI
Alejandra Ruiz is concerned for her father in the face of an uncles DUI.
He’s Never Coming Back
Counting the years back shows the track to the border of familial seperation
I am the Fetus of an Affair
Elia Espinosa confronts herself about the man who provided the other half of her genetic material.
Who Signs Up For Gladiator School?
Former private prison worker blows the whistle on abuse
Why I Couldn’t Leave
POPS the Club recognizes and celebrates our students’ talents, ideas and points of view, and we create a community that does not allow stigma or suffering to silence us.
How Texas Shut Down A Prison
Texas saved $2 billion for taxpayers by cutting prison spending while making the state safer.
I Have Always been Searching for a Father
“The ability for students to express feelings about their circumstances that POPS provides is perhaps one of the most powerful educational tools for self-awareness in existence.” —Robert Barton, California’s Inspector General
He Thought Prison was Rough. Then he Got Out.
Let’s break the stigma of criminal records. Everyone deserves a second chance.
Our History
Dannie Maddox gives us a count down to take us back step by step to her birth
Walked in Blind
What do you do when anxiety can attack at any moment?