Jason Goudlock
Should the U.S. Adopt a New Flag?
After Adolf Hitler’s murderous military force was defeated in 1945, the infamous red, white, and black swastika-bearing German flag was...
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jamesgouldlock
- Nov 9, 2019
- 6 min
Strategic Thoughts on How to Unionize Exploited Prisoners
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) president Mary Kay Henry recently stated in a USA Today opinion-editorial that her union’s...
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jamesgouldlock
- Sep 7, 2019
- 2 min
Looking for Justice from the Subway Food Chain
In a desperate attempt to generate support and undo my complicated, wrongful conviction for robbing a Subway sandwich shop in 1993 in...
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jamesgouldlock
- Sep 20, 2018
- 2 min
Just Do It Like Kaepernick: Free Jason Goudlock
Two years since first being interviewed for the forthcoming film documentary Invisible Chess: The Jason Goudlock Story, I’m pleased to...
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jamesgouldlock
- Oct 15, 2017
- 2 min
Ready to Leave the U.S.
After being physically assaulted on numerous occassions by crooked correctional officers over the course of my nearly 24 years of being...
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jamesgouldlock
- Jun 14, 2017
- 3 min
Random Questions From a Prisoner in Solitary Confinement
1. Why does the United States embrace people and corporations that willingly and knowingly profited from Adolph Hitler’s killing of six...
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jamesgouldlock
- May 12, 2017
- 2 min
Longing for Companionship With a Woman Like Cheryl
Over a decade ago, while incarcerated at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown (Ohio’s “Supermax”), I watched the film Antwone...
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jamesgouldlock
- Mar 29, 2017
- 4 min
Mike Tyson’s Undisputed Truth: The Latest Great Inspirational Literary Gem
After spending the past six months of my over 23-year excessive and unjust imprisonment (for aggravated robbery and felonious assault)...
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jamesgouldlock
- Jan 11, 2017
- 25 min
A Dialogue on Isolation, Race, and Justice
Jason Goudlock and William Nichols Jason Goudlock, 41, an African American inmate held in Ohio’s Ross Correctional Institution, is the...
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jamesgouldlock
- Aug 10, 2016
- 3 min
Still ‘All In’ for Justice: An Open Letter to the Ohio Parole Board
August 10, 2016 Ohio Parole Board 770 W. Broad Street Columbus, OH 43222 Dear Ohio Parole Board: Having served nearly 23 years as a...
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jamesgouldlock
- Apr 17, 2016
- 6 min
Penning a Novel as a Novice in Isolation
As an African-American male who grew up in the 1980’s in the inner city of Cleveland, Ohio, I never imagined I’d one day be incarcerated...
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jamesgouldlock
- Jan 29, 2016
- 2 min
Do Black Lives Matter to Ohio’s Parole Board
I have been in prison since 1994. That year, shortly before I turned 19, I was convicted of armed robbery and felonious assault. At my...
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jamesgouldlock
- Dec 8, 2015
- 2 min
Lights, Camera … and Freedom?
Sometimes when I look out my narrow cell window at the nearby Jeep auto plant as its workers load the vehicles onto a delivery train, I...
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jamesgouldlock
- Oct 9, 2015
- 2 min
Don’t Be Like Mike, Be Like Janelle Monae
“If you are a black celebrity or black athlete who has been uninvolved in the Black Lives Matter movement but know you should be, reverse...
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jamesgouldlock
- Sep 28, 2015
- 2 min
In Search of Justice
Recently, I mailed a copy of my essay “Black Lives Matter: ODRC and Ohio Attorney General Michael DeWine Swindle and Inmate” to newly...
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jamesgouldlock
- Aug 17, 2015
- 2 min
Five Things I’d Like to Witness Besides LeBron’s Title Chase
In 2014 I made international headlines with a letter to the Ohio Parole Board. It was a light-hearted comment near the end that got the...
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jamesgouldlock
- Jun 26, 2015
- 7 min
Black Lives Matter: ODRC and Ohio Attorney General Michael DeWine Swindle An Inmate
“If the Attorney General, as well as the ODRC, upheld justice after learning I was assaulted, I would probably be a free man today.” In...
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jamesgouldlock
- Dec 3, 2014
- 3 min
Letter to Brittney Griner
Dear Ms. Griner, My name is Jason Goudlock, and I’m the prisoner who recently told the Ohio Parole Board I wanted to be released from my...
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jamesgouldlock
- Dec 3, 2014
- 2 min
Letter to LeBron James
Dear Mr. James, My name is Jason Goudlock. I’m a 39-year-old African-American prisoner who recently made international headlines when I...
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jamesgouldlock
- Nov 14, 2014
- 4 min
Parole-Seeking LeBron Fan Releases Book
November 14, 2014 Ohio inmate Jason Goudlock, a 39-year-old native of Cleveland, who has served nearly 21 years as a first time offender...
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