Being lazy is not an idle endeavor. Commitment is mandatory. Effort and firm intent toward achieving this desirous goal demand a willingness to forego distractions such as ambition and fortitude. It is imperative that strenuous labor—actual work or exercise be...
Letters from Inside
Inmate Lives Matter by Esmael Villasana (Texas)
The incarcerated are not the only ones in prison. Our families, our friends, and victims are also doing a prison sentences. We learn to forgive and ask for forgiveness.
Rage by Denver (Michigan)
A hundred years ago, medical science believed the human brain was fully developed at eight years old. Everything changed with the invention of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). MRIs allow doctors to study the human brain in living beings. Up to now, data has been collected during autopsies.
Tough Love by Brian Fuller (Texas)
I don’t know where they put them. I know anger is not the most intelligent of emotions, yet, I’m still glad to have it. Perhaps it keeps me alive? It seems a futile waste of precious time to spend it arguing with them
Michigan’s Hidden Death Penalty: Death by Incarceration. by Honest Abe (Michigan)
Historically, less than 25 percent of all convicted prisoners serving LWOP in Michigan died in prison. That is until 1980. Michigan went from being only one of 11 states that prohibited the death penalty to being only 1 of 5 states that hold 80 percent of all prisoners serving LWOP in the United States.
The Real Resurrection By Travis John Wolfkill (Iowa)
They must still believe in Santa and his reindeer When they say prisons are now more humane Our pain is plain here, decades of isolation The degradation of a nation divided, The mainstream of Joe Biden and his Royal Highness. In the meantime, the other side is...
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