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My adolescence was marked by an inability to express my thoughts and emotions. I floundered with how to speak my mind and these unsaid things turned into hungry rats gnawing on my nerves. Communicating as a shy teenager is hard [...]
2017 marks a tragic year in North Carolina prisons. Five Correctional Officers (COs) were murdered by inmates who believed they had nothing left to lose. In one incident, a CO was bludgeoned to death in front of a group of prisoners. [...]
BY LYLE MAY The sound echoed around the cell block, crashing against the concrete wall with the force of each angry blow. A few guys yelled out, “Hey man, why the noise?" I say the blows were angry because there's no [...]