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And I Was Small
Clarence Rice # 63456Box CWaupun, Wisconsin 53963AND I WAS SMALLNeon sign blinking: GOLDBAR. GOLDBAR. On/off. On/off. On/off. I stood watching. Thinking. Almost hypnotized. Off/on Off/on Off/on GOLDBAR GOLDBAR GOLDBAR. … More
An Unsure Home Coming
What is it? Twenty-three? Yeah. Twenty-three years sence he had last been home, sence he last walked a free man.He walked slowly with faltering steps. He looked for a… More
Corrections in the 70’s–Only the Names Have Changed
Michael HoganBox B - 28259 Non-Fiction EntryArizona State PrisonFlorence, Arizona 85232It is a common misconception that crime today goes unpunished even if an individual is convicted. The general public… More
Night Music
Night MusicTonight in Cellblock Threesomeone is playing Mozart.Sweeter than tangerines the music risesabove the sound of all four showersby the guard stationIt is summer at the end of a… More
The Connection
I.In the center of Union Square a statue of the City’s Founding Father stood eternally poised as though on the brink of an invisable fronteir, dwarfed among crags of… More
Soliloquy In A Cell
Nothing seems to be anything but a total miscarriage lost in the stigma of pronouncing due process. ‘Branded’ Sank’s scars depress a prisoner of society.“A good man can be… More
A Philosophy of Corrections
At no time in my memory, and especially at no time within the limits of my professional career, have crime and corrections been the subjects of intelligent as well… More
The Technological Revolution
The 20th century will be remembered in the annals of history as the “Technological Revolution”. Industrial-Capitalism which seen in it’s birth in the 19th century in England, and spread… More
Lend Us Your Ears Tax-Payers
Beloved Readers:Peering about this functionally effective concentration camp of Humanity, at the gigantic evils perpetrated against us/you as a people, A tax-paying people, by the designers of Penal Habitations… More
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