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June 25, 2025: Guest Meeting Coordinator: Edward D. Sargent | Journalist & Publisher Today's Topic: UAM Participants' Book Reviews of . ....

UAM Participant - Summer 2025 A Mirror, a Map, and a Movement C rime Is Just Dumb's author, Tony Jackson, doesn’t just tell his story;...

UAM Participant - Summer 2025 Real Solutions to Youth Violence in Today's Society. C rime Is Just Dumb offers a blunt, no-nonsense...

UAM Participant - Summer 2025 This book? It didn’t just speak to me, it called to me. And not like some trendy self-help fluff. C rime Is...

UAM Participant - Summer 2025 What I took away from "Crime Is Dumb" is that one bad decision can ruin your life. A single moment of poor...

Pediatrics (AAP) Roberts BK, Nofi CP, Cornell E, et al. Trends and Disparities in Firearm Deaths Among Children. Pediatrics....

Deserve To Be Free   by Tony Jackson Stressed and depressed In this wretched land called Prison Is this God's plan or cards dealt from...

13 th Amendment The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished slavery.   Abnormal Deviating from what is normal...

Afterword    Helping Tony Jackson Become an Author Mr. Tony Jackson was locked up when he wrote the initial early draft of this book....

No matter how terrible we think we are; how bad we believe we have been; or how low we have fallen, we can clean out our minds and begin...

As you know by now, I entered prison when I was a teenager, and stayed there for 25 long, long years. In Crime Is Just Dumb, I have...

Every human being will eventually die. Death is a fact of life. It cannot be avoided. Everyone knows that. Generally speaking, death...

Community: A place where people live together within certain geographic boundaries; the residents share common interests. When their...

Solitary Confinement   Let me introduce you to “ The Hole ”— the   place prison guards put you if you break the rules or don’t follow...

They’ll give you a number, and take away your name .  The next time you listen to songs that encourage you to "act dumb“ or "wild out," I...

Now, I’ll teach you more about Texas State Reformatory, America ’s largest maximum security state prison . I want you to have a crystal...

A Cautionary Tale I told you this earlier and I’ll tell you again: If you’re planning on committing a crime, you are about to commit the...

It was one of the largest and most violent prisons in America. I was arrested and locked up on August 25, 1994. I was set free on August...

I did some very dumb things when I was a teenager growing up in Texas. I prided myself on being “a bad boy.” I went looking for trouble...

Here's the News!   Once upon a time . . . MOST AMERICAN YOUNGSTERS WHO GOT INTO TROUBLE WENT LOOKING FOR TROUBLE. Nowadays, gun violence,...