We Care For Our Pets Better Than Our Incarcerated Citizens

For the past two decades our founder, Ivan Kilgore, has been confined in these cages on an average of 160 hours a week out of the 168 hours that make up a week. He's gone years without touching or being touched by another human being (except when the guards put handcuffs on him to escort …

PRISON SLAVE MOVEMENT–AN ABOLITIONIST CRITIQUE

Not Worker, But Chattel Ivan Kilgore Whereas the positionality of the worker (whether a factory worker demanding a monetary wage, an immigrant, or a white woman demanding a social wage) gestures toward the reconfiguration of civil society, the positionality of the Black subject (whether a prison-slave or a prison-slave-in-waiting) gestures toward the disconfiguration of civil …

Information On How To Effectively Recruit Skilled Volunteers For Your Non-Profit Organization

After close to 10 years of lecturing visiting groups of college students who toured the prisons I have been warehoused in and found the United Black Family Scholarship Foundation, I knew that because of my incarceration I would have to develop a strategic plan to recruit top-level volunteers and potential employees for our organization. One …

Wrongfully Convicted Murderer Develops & Implements Successful Student Volunteer Program

For the past ten weeks, the United Black Family Scholarship Foundation (UBFSF) sought to accomplish something no one would ever think possible. Sitting in a prison cell in Northern California, our founder, Ivan Kilgore, and his team of advisors and board of directors would spend the better part of the last year developing a number …

Oklahoman imprisoned in California Seeks to Give Back locally from his Prison Cell.

UBFSF Vice-Chairman Reginald Hines (left) with staff at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School on Oklahoma City It is often said that to inspire, one need not be a superhero but merely someone who helps in crisis. On Monday, October 26, 2020, United Black Family Scholarship Foundation's Vice-Chair Reginald Hines presented the Martin Luther King …

Writing For Social Justice: An Intimate Conversation On the Impact of Mass Incarceration & Criminal Justice Reform

We're exited to announce we've received our first round of essays for a new project and achieve we're building: The Social Justice Autobiography Project which is an online forum dedicated to providing a platform for prisoners across the United States to provide us with first hand accounts of their experiences on the inside, which are …

Make Cell Phones Legal In Prison

“People don’t understand… Saying ‘What are you doing giving inmates phones in the facility?'” said Union County Sheriff David Taylor. “They [inmates] purchase the phones for a $100.” Sheriff Taylor says his office no longer runs the jail but has been worked to bring this CellMate Mobile service to its inmates through a company called …

Salesforce has built a deep bench of executive talent via acquisition

When Salesforce acquired Quip in 2016 for $750 million, it gained CEO and co-founder Bret Taylor as part of the deal. Taylor has since risen quickly through the ranks of the software giant to become president and COO, second in command behind CEO Marc Benioff. Taylor’s experience shows that startup founders can sometimes play a …

How Prison Has Effected My Family & Community

By Ivan Kilgore —May 2019 (The following is an excerpt from my latest book Domestic Genocide: The Institutionalization of Society.) I begin by informing you that institutions affect people in both positive and negative ways. Arguably, the positive aspect of prisons in American society has been said to remove presumably criminal elements from the community. …

The Power of Labels: Murder & Society

By Ivan Kilgore I’ve been looking at this for quite some time: the power of labels! Recently, I was speaking with one of the comrades who, up until Senate Bill 1437 was passed in California, had been serving a sentence of life without the possibility of parole after being convicted in a first-degree murder case. …