My First Day In Prison As A Teenager: Part 2
Courtesy: Jermon Clark PART TWO: BY JERMON CLARK Read Part One of "My First Day In Prison As A Teenager" Everyone in the group began to ask the guard, “What unit am I going to?” He answered some [...]
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Incarcerated at 8: Growing Up Behind Bars
Growing up, I never had my mother or father in my life. I never met my father and because my mother was using drugs while she was pregnant with me, I was taken away from her as an infant, never to [...]
A Teenager’s First Day in Prison
Courtesy: Jermon Clark Walking into Receiving and Discharging for the first time, I felt what seemed to be a million butterflies bouncing off the inside of my stomach. Here I was, an 18-year-old first-time offender carrying a 50-year [...]
The Hurricane: Juvenile’s First Day In Prison
First days are sitting in an inflatable life-raft in the ocean while the winds whip around you in a hurricane. Giant waves crash violently around you, and the winds and currents own you. Paddle if it calms the current in your [...]
Juveniles Tried As Adults: Becoming A Man In Prison
My first visitor in prison was my dad. Looking back at the picture I have from that day, I realize that I must have smelled just awful. It was my second day in at Thumb Correctional Facility's Youthful Side, Michigan's prison [...]
How They Overmedicate Kids in Adult Prisons
We might have been crazy, and they certainly said that about us, though they said that about all the youth. Every child who came to prison was at least regularly seen by the psychiatrists, which really is a good thing. If [...]
Learning How to Fight in Juvie
When I was thirteen years old I was arrested for distribution of a simulated controlled substance or in laymen's terms; fake dope. I had attempted to manufacture speed using a recipe I had found online. I of course lacked many of [...]
How My College-Educated Cellmate Changed My Life
BY RICHARD TAYLOR Only the strong survive. Those were the words I was told in 1999 when I was sentenced to 20 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. I was only 17 years old, charged with 5 counts of [...]