Visits
For all prisoners at Central Prison, death row and general population, visitation is non-contact. We squint through cloudy,…
August 3, 2025For all prisoners at Central Prison, death row and general population, visitation is non-contact. We squint through cloudy,…
August 3, 2025Day 1 I pride myself on living in a clean space, and that’s easier to accomplish when I’m…
July 27, 2025“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” – Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (1952) This year,…
July 20, 2025Drug use, one of the biggest enslavers inside prison, has destroyed many men. It has tortured them. Unleashed their demons. And…
July 13, 2025You don’t miss something until you no longer have it. At my prior prison, I failed to take…
July 6, 2025“Hunter, report to the Canteen,” announced my housing unit loudspeaker. Puzzled, because shopping ended yesterday, I reported. My…
June 29, 2025PleaReginald J. Manning Forget me.Leave me.Know me no more. Permit me the grace of a chapter closed.Grant me…
June 22, 2025One of my oldest memories is of when I was a toddler, in some long-forgotten apartment, in some…
June 15, 2025The world was a different place when I began my federal incarceration back in 2013. Now that I…
June 7, 2025Officers are outside the door yelling, “Uncover your window” over and over. I don’t respond. I am sitting…
June 1, 2025