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Essays / Everyday Life / Lifers/Long Term Sentences / Mwandishi Mitchell (PA) / Pennsylvania / Violence

A Vicious Assault

By Mwandishi Mitchell Being incarcerated in a maximum-security penitentiary is a very dangerous thing. One is surrounded by…

October 11, 2013

Death Row / Essays / Texas / Thomas Bartlett Whitaker (TX)

Remodeling the House that Closure Built

By Thomas Bartlett Whitaker On 29 January, Texas very nearly killed Kimberly McCarthy. This would have been the…

October 4, 2013

Arthur Longworth (WA) / Essays

Legitimizing Death: The Effect of the Anti-Death Penalty Campaign on Long-Term Sentencing

By Arthur Longworth In 1972 the US Supreme Court struck down capital punishment in a case called Furman…

September 27, 2013

Death Row / Essays / Executions / Florida / Jeff C (WA) / Jeremiah Bourgeois (WA) / Lifers/Long Term Sentences / Washington State / William Van Poyck (FL)

Set Me Free

The Right Way To Say Goodbye By Jeff C. I. “I saw a man who seemed mad simply…

September 20, 2013

Essays / Everyday Life / Lifers/Long Term Sentences / Pennsylvania / Terrell Carter (PA)

To Catch A Shadow

By Terrell Carter I would awaken to blackness. It would be the middle of the night. Like dragonflies,…

September 13, 2013

Death Row / Education / Essays / Texas / Thomas Bartlett Whitaker (TX)

Thoughts on Education Part 2

“Belike He Is Grown Into Some Sickness by Being Oversolitary…” By Thomas Bartlett Whitaker I’ve found that the…

September 6, 2013

Arnold Prieto Jr (TX) / Christi Buchanan (VA) / Essays / Jeff C (WA) / Mwandishi Mitchell (PA)

Thoughts on Education Part 1

He who opens a school door closes a prison – Victor Hugo “Real courage is when you know…

August 30, 2013

Essays / Everyday Life / Lifers/Long Term Sentences / Santonio Murff (TX) / Texas

Tolerance…to a Point Part 2

By Santonio Murff Part 1 can be read here I woke under attack! The ungodly odor was a…

August 23, 2013

Essays / Fiction / Lifers/Long Term Sentences / Timothy Pauley (WA) / Washington State

The Kite Box

By Timothy Pauley  “But I didn’t do anything!” Mo protested. The two guards remained stone faced as one…

August 16, 2013

Death Row / Essays / Florida / Memoir / Michael Lambrix (FL)

Alcatraz of the South Part III: Shaking the Bush, Boss

By Michael Lambrix (Part I can be read HERE and Part II can be read HERE) There should be…

August 9, 2013