For decades there has been a silent war being waged against poor & disenfranchised in America and the war is called Mass incarceration. Before the war on drugs and after the same war. The population...
The New Jim Crow
I know what its like
To wear the Scarlet letter “S”
And to be branded
By four letters on my chest
L(Leper)
I(Institutionalized)
F(Felon)
E for everywhere I go
I know what its...
Love and Support
By Charles Pullen
I think people often under estimate the power of “Love and Support” I know I did. I’m maybe young, but my time behind these walls have taught me a whole...
Conscientious Objector
Today
I object
With the force of all my conscience
And consciousness
On the second Sunday
This month of May
Because I love my mother everyday
In each and every way
Thirty-one years...
Physical visitation to video visitation
For the past few year’s there has been a buzz about prison(s) detention centers & jails in many state adopting a new way for visitation which is...
“Now..you understand…”
By Demond A. Jackson
“Caught on tape, 57 year old African American man shot and killed by South Carolina Police Office.” ” South Carolina Officer...
Paving the way…
by Demond A. Jackson
On March 31, 2015 President Obama pardon 22 inmates majority of them were convicted of drug offenses. This phenomenal news, yet what stood out above all things...
I really dislike to sound like a broken record or one of redundance to a particular situation.Police brutality & Racism in America.I would love to write about ISIS and the recernt bombing that killed...
“La Familia”
by
Jose Estevane
“La Familia” is Spanish for “The Family”, when it comes to being incarcerated I don’t know what or where I would be if it wasn’t...
Stigmatized; we R, as they sleep on us. We’ll just King Solomon them. By staying awake as much as we can to build a new nation.
The Cure:
Without repeating recidivism their corporation will collapse....