Month: January 2014

  • To Whom it May Concern

    To Whom it May Concern,[1] By: C. Fausto Cabrera February 10, 2013 Imagine the worst thing that could happen to you, painfully gruesome deaths aside. What’s the worst thing that could happen to you that you’d survive? Take a second to contemplate what’s important to you. Let’s outline a few tragic situations that may be…

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  • Seasons Change by C. Fausto Cabrera

    Seasons Change By: C. Fausto Cabrera February 10, 2013   I bite into a ripe piece of fruit Filling me with purpose, A blinding succulence answering my wonder. The juices of ecstasy run down my chin And drip into the void of a empty heart. I am invincible

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  • Art by C. Fausto Cabrera

    Art by C. Fausto Cabrera February 10, 2013            

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  • To Youth Behind the Walls by Jeffery Lamar Young

    To Youth Behind the Walls By: Jeffery Lamar Young February 10, 2013   The time spent locked-up can seem like frozen time. Many incarcerated people misuse their time by kicking back, watching television, playing dominoes or spades, or gossiping and trash talking. To them, time doesn’t matter much because they are behind brick walls and…

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  • People Come into Your Life for A Reason A Season Or a Lifetime by Unknown Prisoner

    People Come into Your Life for A Reason A Season Or a Lifetime By: Unknown Prisoner February 10, 2013 When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.

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  • Thinking About Tomorrow With the Decisions We Make Today by Mujaddid Muhammad

    Thinking About Tomorrow With the Decisions We Make Today By: Mujaddid Muhammad February 10, 2013    Greetings Comrades, My name is Mujaddid R. Muhammad (aka Marvelous Muhammad), and I am coming to you live from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. I have already tread the paths and made the mistakes that some of you are making…

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  • Ask Yourself: “Is It Worth It?” by Mike Buntruck

    Ask Yourself: “Is It Worth It?” By: Mike Buntruck February 10, 2013 Hello! My name is Mike Buntruck. I’m an inmate serving a life sentence in Stillwater prison for the murder of my mother. That was 18 years ago and now, at 36 years old, I have just as much time served inside as I had…

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  • Transforming Through AVP by Ruben Diaz

    Transforming Through AVP Ruben Diaz February 10, 2013 My name is Rube’n Diaz, I’d like to tell you a little bit about myself. I was twenty (20) years old when I was arrested for murder in the 1st degree. But my story isn’t like very many I was born and raised in the state of Maryland. I…

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  • My Message To You by Maurece Graham

    My Message To You By: Maurece Graham January 25, 2013 Dear Young One: Hope has a name, and I’ve found that it’s name is ‘You’. Why do I know this? Because I’ve been in prison for almost 15 years and I had to find to hope to survive. Let me explain to you what I…

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  • What Do You Really Want? by Aaron Watkins

    What Do You Really Want? By: Aaron Watkins January 8, 2013 Why is it you do what you do? Do you want to be tough? Do you want to show your friend that you’re cool? What happens the day you go to jail; are your friends still there? You can run around, be tough and show…

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  • Defining and Finding Freedom by Trevor Brown

    Defining and Finding Freedom By: Trevor Brown January 8, 2013 Hello Young Brothers and Sisters, My name is Trevor Anthony Brown, OID#203814, and I am an inmate at the Rush City correctional facility. As of today, I have been incarcerated for exactly 14 years, 5 days, and 19 hours after being charged and convicted of aiding…

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  • Show our Youth we Care by Resurrecting the Village by Jeffery Lamar Young

    Show our Youth we Care by Resurrecting the Village By: Jeffery Lamar Young MSRNews; March 21, 2012   It was an August afternoon and the sun was blazing. I was a penniless seven-year-old, and I decided I was going to have an ice cream by any means necessary. I strolled down to the corner store on…

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  • Rough Around the Edges by Michael W. Ustaszewksi

    Rough Around the Edges By: Michael W. Ustaszewksi November 2012 Michael W. Ustaszewksi was born in Toledo, Ohio in June 1959.  His parents divorced when he was four, and he then spent most of his childhood shuttling between his father’s home, foster homes, and state institutions.  In 1977, just before his eighteenth birthday, Michael was released…

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