Things You Can Learn In Prison (But Don’t Have To) by Gene Anderson

Life in Prison, Mental Health

The title can mean at least two things. One is that even if you go to prison it doesn’t mean that you will learn anything. The other is that you can (and should) learn many things that prison can teach you without having to go to prison. It’s this last point that is...

Imagine Dying Waiting To Be Free by Larry R. Carter

Freedom Dreams, Life in Prison, Mental Health

Prison is a kicking. They kick you, and they kick you, and they kick you. If you die behind these walls, they kick you again to make sure you are dead. It is a figurative kicking, but it is a kicking all the same.  In 1997, at the age of 44, I was convicted of...

Paintings by Theodora Moss

Creativity

The Bible states “Your gift will place you in front of great Kings and Queens” Pov. 18:16         First, let me start with a brief history of myself. I’ve been incarcerated for 32 years and I’m an artist who can work with...

What is Forty-Five Years of Your Life Worth? by Michael Edgerton

Family, Memories

Every day I wake up with a sore and aching back. Bones that feel every bit of eighty years old, and I wonder, how in the world did the Michigan Department of Corrections figure out how to make a mattress made of lava rocks? After 25 years of sleeping on these beds one...

Before Prison by August M. Williams

Family, Memories, Mental Health

My name is August M. Williams, and I’m giving you, the reader, brief insight on me as a young person. I was born in a middle class homestead, and was blessed enough to experience more joyful moments than sad ones. Both of my parents were in the house until I was five...