youth incarceration

Me and My Teddy Bear

I have a teddy bear in my cell.
I don’t feel lonely.
He makes me feel like a boy.
I hug and kiss my soft plush teddy bear before I go to sleep.

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Welcome to the Fort

By RW Let me tell you about a place I know Filled with broken dreams and lost hope A place if visited within your dreams Would turn nightmarish by thoughts…

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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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My Struggle

By AF They lock us in these cages And throw away the key Say it ain’t no hope for me I was only sixteen When they gave me eighteen Man…

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