As a knitter, a weaver, and an anthropologist, H. Morgan Hicks has created a life by design. He owns the bustling yarn shop, "All Points Yarn," in Des Moines, Washington. 

We knew that 2025 was going to be a year of significant change because of the election of a convicted felon to the presidency, but history sometimes takes a winding path and that’s where we are now, as we prepare for Congressional hearings next week on Cabinet appointees and the inauguration of Trump on January 20th, where, on his first day in office, Trump has promised at least 100 presidential orders as well as the deportation of an untold number of “illegal immigrants” who have lives, families, and homes in The Land of the Free.

Jerome Gold’s earlier book, Paranoia and Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2009), captures his experience of working with juvenile offenders. Ten years later, his book Children in Prison offers greater context, shedding light on the children whose lives have been stunted, short circuited, and hardwired to fail.