Volume 2
Issue 2
Volume 2, Issue 2 of the Northwestern Insider was published in November 2025.
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To Our NPEP Community
This issue of the Northwestern Insider is devoted to family, and the pages that follow are filled with stories that are powerful, generous, and deeply moving.
By Jennifer Lackey
Behind The Cover
By Ariel Bueno and Hugo Ocon, the artists behind the Vol. 2, Issue 2 cover
Foreign Language
Decoding the language my father had been speaking all along.
By Scot Miller
Damn, You Have a Daddy?!
Promises, verbal spars, a higher power—and an understanding that love will conquer all.
By Donnell Green
The Path of Suffering
An obituary to Stateville, the prison designed to break us.
By Anthony Ehlers
At Odds With Transfers
A commentary on the move from Stateville Correctional Center in 2024.
Story by Fly Miller
A Well of Hope A World Apart
Honoring Michael Broadway’s legacy through a well that brings clean water—and renewed life—to Mailao, Chad.
by Leon Fields & Brandon Wyatt
The Youth Left Behind
Illinois’ Youthful Parole Law offers second chances—unless you were convicted before 2019.
By Elbonie Burnside & Margaret DeFrancisco
Language of the Law
Facing a lifetime in prison, Paul Forbes turned to the law library to rewrite his narrative.
By Paul Forbes