incarceration

The Tears I Cry

By DWS Look in my eyes & you’ll see the tears I cry As I lie back on my bed The vivid memories of my family & I flow through…

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Smile

By GD I was still a juvenile and convicted as a child Though sentenced as an adult But still I smile… I think about my reality and realize just how…

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Surrounded/Rodeado

By LV Surrounded by concrete walls. Surrounded by an immense feeling of solitude. Surrounded by concrete walls that don’t distance me from reality. Surrounded by one-thousand-and-one dreams – that are…

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Me and Jim Crow

By PJ Twenty years in ADX.* I’m asked, a lot, one question: How long have you been here? First, let me tell you something I know: (Feared, is the unknown;)…

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Jim Crow

By JS A Nation divided by frustration. From racism, slipknots in a noose Resulting in Asphyxiation. Just from looking…at a woman that’s Caucasian. I now know that liberty for all…

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