" ...he allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over to give birth to [...]
A reality of walking through the gates of prison is there’s a possibility you may never leave. Anyone entering those gates has to be careful; you don’t want to pick up something you didn't come with. This warning relates to [...]
In prison, there are a lot of vulnerable people. Many of them probably should not be in a prison setting. It's been estimated that at least 30% of those who are incarcerated have some sort of mental or emotional disability. I [...]
BY JASON WALKER Courtesy of Jason Walker While this Texas prison, Clements Unit, has well over one-thousand documented mentally ill prisoners, its not considered a psych unit at all. In fact it has one small ward that has a [...]
BY SIDNEY P. MARTIN It was a hot June afternoon at Lawrenceville Correctional Center in Lawrenceville, Virginia. Everybody was going to the yard for recreation. It was around 2:30 p.m. Now at Lawrenceville there are six different buildings that house inmates [...]
BY LES EARL RAYMOND One of the best ways to insure that you can make a bad situation in here worse is to become a "rock kicker." A rock kicker is someone that does nothing all day except hang out on [...]