When businesses contract or close, their employees experience occupational loss. This is happening more frequently during COVID-19. In addition, employees suffer occupational loss when businesses shift to automation.
One instrument of control in prison is the tool of uncertainty. Correctional uncertainty brings out the paranoia in prisoners. Prisoners already live in a world where it’s hard to differentiate between shadows and substance.
My name is Marjorie (Angell) Van Hoy, a long-time member of Bulls Head-Oswego Meeting, despite my physical distance from it. For 37 years my husband Jim and I lived in Detroit, MI, where we both completed our schooling and raised 2 boys. For many years Jim and I were very active in our Detroit neighborhood. Our experiences in combating some very pernicious racism led me to write this article.
