Edgar Pitts (TX)

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Poetry by Edgar Pitts

Grandma By: Edgar “G Bam Xango” Pitts My Grandma came to me in my dream; in…

by Edgar Pitts (CO)

Colorado / Edgar Pitts (TX) / Essays / Federal Prison

Kill or Be Killed

To protect the identity of certain individuals, names/details herein have been omitted/changed. The reporting officer’s incident…

by Edgar Pitts

Colorado / Edgar Pitts (TX) / Essays / Federal Prison

Waking Up on the Wrong Side of the Bed in the ADX Control Unit

By Edgar “G.Bam Shango” Pitts I wake up every morning in an ADX cell on a…

by Edgar Pitts (CO)

Colorado / Edgar Pitts (TX) / Essays / Everyday Life / Federal Prison / Violence

Man Down: A prisoner’s struggle for survival in the Bureau of Prisons’ Special Management Unit (from 2009 to 2011)

Twelve hundred beds needed to be filled at the United States Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. That…

by Edgar Pitts (CO)