by Angel Garza, CSP-Corcoran … [Read more...] about Welcome to the Implementation of the New California Model
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Poem: Second Chance by Darryl Ray Easter
by Darryl Ray Easter, Kern Valley State Prison Shackles on my feet,Held to stand for long ago criminal plans,Blind to living without no sense of direction,Wrong by first impression,Held to jurisdiction discretion,Gavel weighed down by judicial leverage.Awoken from this daydream by confinements,Torments of so much time loss to life,Clocks broken now my hope re-opened,What … [Read more...] about Poem: Second Chance by Darryl Ray Easter
Poem: Still We Try by Greg Y. Shiga
by Greg Y. Shiga, CSP-Corcoran Still we trySome may notice and cryis it the first timewe have been for some timemore to it and more to dopicking up those to include toocultural conflicts but for libertyhaving been on the road with none feeuntil the day we are all freedjustice earning every deed … [Read more...] about Poem: Still We Try by Greg Y. Shiga
Poem: Genuine Freedom by Keith Soanes
by Keith Soanes, Suwannee Correctional Institution All of Us or None,we want freedom,i.e., the power to determinethe destiny of our own community;and we are not talking for fun.Some say “vote,” some say “run”to keep the plutocracy in place,blocking everything, now, even the sun.Just like on the plantation,trying to catch up to massers,who got 400-year headstarts,in a race, … [Read more...] about Poem: Genuine Freedom by Keith Soanes
Black Radical Feminisms
by Ghostwrite Mike, Carceral Studies Journalism Guild, Valley State Prison The 1971 essay that opens volume three, issue number four of The Black Scholar, titled “The Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves,” presented a monumental offering penned by Angela Y. Davis while on trial and housed at the Marin County jail. Articulating the continuity between her own jailed … [Read more...] about Black Radical Feminisms
