I Spent 20 Years on Death Row
When I sat on death row for 20 years my favorite game to play was the “what if…?” This is an exercise that most people engage in, but none more so than prisoners. No inmate feels like they belong in prison. [...]
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The Alternatives To Violence Project Changed My Life Forever
One day I looked into the activity room in the unit where I live and I saw inmates participating in some kind of class. First thing I thought was that it was just “another” prison program, won’t do me any good [...]
Is It No Wonder Prisons are Having a Hard Time Hiring Prison Guards?
Gilbert Paliotta, Department of CorrectionsAfter almost 20 years of being in maximum, I’ve come to notice the types of individuals that choose to work in places like this. It’s the unmotivated, lazy types. It’s the failed at other career choices type. [...]
Just Read This. Okay?
Just read this, okay? What does whatever I, or any other prisoner, have to say matter? We’ve “committed the crime, now do the time.” Yes, I mean that’s what I may be thinking too, if our situations were reversed.
The Two Most Memorable Men I Got to Know in Prison
By: Frederick Paine, Contributing Writer By: Frederick Paine When I first started to write this article, it was almost an easy choice because the most memorable person I got to know in prison is O.J. Simpson. We first met when I [...]