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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...
Jason Goudlock
Jun 16, 20203 min read
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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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Nov 9, 20196 min read
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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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Sep 7, 20192 min read
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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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Sep 20, 20182 min read
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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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Oct 15, 20172 min read
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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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Jun 14, 20173 min read
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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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May 12, 20172 min read
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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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Mar 29, 20174 min read
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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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Jan 11, 201725 min read
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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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Aug 10, 20163 min read
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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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Apr 17, 20166 min read
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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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Jan 29, 20162 min read
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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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Dec 8, 20152 min read
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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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Sep 28, 20152 min read
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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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Aug 17, 20152 min read
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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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Jun 26, 20157 min read
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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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Dec 3, 20143 min read
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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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Dec 3, 20142 min read
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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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Nov 14, 20144 min read
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Ohio Parole Board Tyranny Continues
Unfortunately, for the time being, WNBA superstar Brittney Griner’s wish for me to be kept in prison has come true. On October 28, 2014,...
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Oct 31, 20145 min read
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