Category: Writings by Prisoners

  • Letter from David Gilbert

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  • Letter from Jeffery Lamar Young

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  • Letter from Maurece Graham

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  • Reply from Delbert Orr Africa of MOVE 9

    “LONG LIVE FREEDOM’S STRUGGLE! LONG STAND PHIL AFRICA’S REVOLUTIONARY EXAMPLE! ON THE MOVE!” Delbert sent us several tributes to Phil Africa, including a poem written by a fellow insider. LONG LIVE PHIL AFRICA!!           

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  • Response Letter from Debbie Africa of the MOVE 9

    This is a response letter from a MOVE letter writting event. Our letters are appreciated!  

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  • Restore the Justice by Fong Lee

    Restore the Justice By: Fong Lee December 22, 2014 Bur the body, Skin. Eye. The world of the dark flower. Let the good heart lift – a thousand stemless Irises. Fluttering. __________________________________ OID# 217805 970 Pickett St N Bayport, Minnesota 55003

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  • Walled by C Fausto Cabrera

    Walled By: C Fausto Cabrera I drag a calloused finger along a smooth white washed wall in the prison yard. Glistening oil-based paint covers gritty crushed rock compressed into heavy cinder blocks surrounded By crusted mortar reinforced with rods of re-bar, black iron ore molten bright orange, shaped and cooled. There is an age one…

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  • Education not Incarceration by Barry Dodd

    Education not Incarceration By: Barry Dodd March17, 2014 A little bit about myself. I come, from a single parent home, and my father died of a drug overdose two weeks before I was born, so it was a challenge for my mother to raise my twin sister and me. We grew up in the Twin…

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  • An Unremarkable Nan Named Hideyoshi by Trevor Brown

    An Unremarkable Nan Named Hideyoshi By: Trevor Brown I would like to take a few moments of your time to share with you a rather remarkable story about a seemingly unremarkable man named Hideyoshi who was born almost five hundred years ago in 15th century feudal Japan. At first glance Hideyoshi didn’t look like much,…

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  • Yes to New Positive and Healthy Influences in Your Life by Trevor Brown

    Yes to New Positive and Healthy Influences in Your Life By: Trevor Brown Statistically, one in every ten children across the united states has a parent who is currently incarcerated on parole or on probation. So chances are that you could in fact be one of these children. However, while you may be a representative…

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  • What Happens When the Bull Elephants are Taken Away? by Toby Earl Johnson

    What Happens When the Bull Elephants are Taken Away? By: Toby Earl Johnson There is a story about a nature preserve in Africa: In this particular preserve, all the male adult elephants were taken away.  As a result, the juvenile elephants were rampaging, killing rhinoceroses and threatening farmers. A couple of them were so dangerous…

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  • Introducing Myself by Jamie Rohr

    Introducing Myself By: Jamie Rohr My name is Jamie Rohr. I am currently serving time for Sales of Meth. They sentenced me to 135 months in prison. I got a lil story I think some might like to hear. I grew up with a mother who would do anything to insure I was happy as…

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  • Sister by Fong Lee

    Sister Fong Lee 03/27/14   I brush your head with the palms Of my cursed hands, Gave you a pack of Winter Fresh gum Telling you to be good As I smoke my way out of your life. That was when I yelled at you for

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