Over the past 28 years I have seen that people in prison tend to get some type of clock or timepiece tattoo. I decided to create a timepiece that was an actual clock to represent my experience and outlook on my sentences/time.

I want to tell you a story. It certainly is a story about the power of relationships. It just may be a story of redemption. It definitely is a story of the unexpected. But I want you, the reader, to decide if this is a story of us and them, or a story about us.

Year after year the carnival visited the same towns, and kids who didn’t have funds to get in knew they could always rely on “Crazy Dave” to get their tickets. “It’s called the amusement business and amusement means fun,” he said.

Sunlight filled the room. It was bright and cheerful, much like Mary herself. Dressed in fashionable business attire, most would find it difficult to believe that Mary was once homeless and addicted to hard street drugs.

Dougie Abner, a peer recovery coach for Project Rebound, spent 23 years of his life in prison. With six months left of his more than two decades in prison, he started a weekly publication called Rumor Has It while inside the prison.

Jaclyn Gillispie and Amy Davis, both 43, share a lot of similarities. Together, they realized their potential and began climbing up from the darkest points of their lives hand in hand.

For a woman, life on the streets offers no glamor or beauty. Surviving outside amongst the elements takes grit, strength, and a special kind of resilient spirit that many of the unhoused women in Wheeling possess.

Jennah Miller had a history of pulling together the pieces of her life to create beauty.

In our street medicine program, Project HOPE long recognized that there were three times as many males experiencing homelessness as there were females. Or so it seemed.

Every morning for 13 months, Lauren Kotz peered down from her prison bunk into her newborn baby’s crib. Twenty-two days into her detention, she gave birth to her daughter.

Heard it on the Mountain is a recurring space for local organizations to provide updates on what they've been up to, any upcoming plans/projects, and resources/items they may need!

Photography is a way to translate empathy into static images, giving one a better sense of someone’s life and perception.

When someone says that their recovery story is centered around a rat, you might logically conclude they are about to tell you about how they got busted and ended up in jail, going into withdrawal, and entering a recovery program to start a new way of life because of a “rat.” However, that is not Chad Wayt's rat story.

Trash might not be what most people think about when recalling COVID-19’s unwelcome arrival in Wheeling. But for Trash Talkers, a project of local non-profit HoH-Share, Inc., it took a pandemic and piles of garbage for them to find their purpose.