Photo by Boudewijn Huysmans on Unsplash There are many ideas of what it is like to be incarcerated. I have often heard people say they would not be able to cope if they were ever "Put Away," and to be honest, I, too, thought as much before my lock up. But come to find...
*CHARLES WALTER WEBER JR.* DOC #772708/C-D01 Clallam Bay Corrections Center 1830 Eagle Crest Way Clallam Bay, WA. 98326 My Family and Friends, Thank you to Jules at the Critical Resistance-Portland I have this mission to join and see to the end. The last piece "Defund...
BY: Jeremy in Louisiana Have you ever spoke with someone, heard their voice, and immediately knew that they were a part of you? The words they said, the tears they shed, every syllable could have been you when you were eleven, talking to your 30 year old self over the...
This morning (3-24-21) at Twins Rivers Unit in Washington state, an incarcerated individual approached C.U.S Collins with a complaint about the imposition of a new DOC policy that required incarcerated individuals to cohort. This man asked why is it that we are being...
Monroe Corrections Complex - Twin Rivers Unit December 25, 2020 6:30a.m Christmas in prison is depressing. One can only imagine that it's a depressing place in general. Due to covid we have not seen our families or friends in over seven months. We have lost many...
In our youth obsessed culture, Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Black Women Over 50 by photographer Micheal Cunningham and novelist Connie Briscoe is an inspiring treasure. This book of photo-essays contains portraits of celebrities andnon-celebrities alike, who overcame...
I've been a longtime doormat — I'm the youngest of nine. If someone tells me I'm being untruthful I can show them my scars. It would help me greatly to write appropriately, but I would rather my pieces be a place where I can bleed my abstractions. I've been abused by...
We couldn't be happier for our friend Shawn Ali, just released after 22 years in prison.
Dear Potential Adopter, I want to thank you for taking this first step. For most of my life I believed what the media and television wanted me to believe. Everyone convicted by the courts is a criminal and should be thrown in prison. The keys should be tossed into a...
Stand Still. Each day we must strive to combat the currents we dive beneath, breathing through entropy in which our souls atrophy. Tides of compromise, competing desires through all ills repeating, please born of the iron bounds of loving debts as hounds harrying us...