daily life in prison

Prison Writers Staff2020-07-04T08:26:57-04:00Reform & Reentry|

A Prisoner’s Top 10 Ways To Improve Prison

1. Start looking at results. When prisoners are released and are successful and do not come back, see what is the same amongst them. Do not just write it as a statistic and stare at it. Act on it. Utilize the [...]

By Tracy Lee Kendall

Prison Writers Staff2020-04-25T11:10:08-04:00Going to Prison, Lifers & Solitary|

What Is It Like To Get Life in Prison?

I spent the first few years of my natural life sentence muttering incoherently to myself and chewing my fingernails to bleeding nubs while I contemplated the most painless methods of suicide for American prisoners. How’s a 23-year old kid supposed to [...]

By Leonard Andre Scovens Jr.

Prison Writers Staff2020-08-25T13:58:23-04:00Daily Survival|

Texas Prisoners Take a Poll on Life in Prison

QUESTIONS: I polled 30 fellow prisoners with these 2 questions: a. “What’s the best thing that’s happened in prison?” b. “What’s the worst thing that’s happened in prison?”

By Tracy Lee Kendall