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Tiny General
"We ate into our stack of chips with all this, bro. We need to make some money. I'm going to need your help." More
A King of Infinite Space
"Power comes from influence over life, over movement, which the immovable do not do except with fear and shadows to drive those things away from them." More
Parole Reform
"Prisoners must have a mode in which they can challenge the state’s actions in parole decisions. Any system that cannot be held accountable is an unjust system." More
Rogers Park: Area 52
"Mankind waited our whole history for something amazing like this to happen, then it does, and in my own back yard no less, and it may as well have… More
Murderers’ Ball
"The Murderers' Ball is what we call the annual fall Lifer's Club banquet. It's mostly said in jest and among ourselves, Lifers that is. It's dark humor shared by… More
A Short Play
"They can lock my body up but they can't cage my mind. I'm still free. Just cause you're locked up don't mean you can't be free." More
Mass Incarceration: The Shame of a Nation
"This new criminal injustice system is doing exactly what it was designed to do; exactly what Jim Crow and slavery did before it." More
Lexie’s Books
"It is the essence of transformation, the protean nature of our imagination and expressions that compel us to write, to rant and rave and strive to be heard." More