An intimate first person non-fiction storytelling experience about incarceration in the United States.
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This is the second post in this series on gangs.
Each post is written by someone who is in a gang, was in a gang or could have been in a gang but chose not to. Each author is incarcerated. This series was put together by Felicia an inmate at Ohio’s massive women’s prison known as “The Farm.” Officially, it is ORW or the Ohio Reformatory for Women.
Continue reading “Gangs On The Inside (Pt.2) by Felicia (OH) & Robert (MD)”
The table is clean and smooth, a wooden tabletop bolted to a steel frame that’s bolted to the linoleum floor of the day room. There are ten of them. Guys make food, play cards, work on crafts or sit at these tables watching one of two giant televisions. Tonight the table is my “office”, so I tell the guys, and this is how it is every night.
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This is the first post in a series about gangs.
It’s written by people that are in gangs, were in gangs, or could have been in gangs but chose not to be. Each of the authors in the series is incarcerated.
Continue reading “Gangs: On The Inside (PT.1) by Felicia & Matt (OH)”
I’ll never forget the first time I realized that someone in my world of incarceration was being put to death and the way I felt.
By Christopher Monihan
When I was at close security, which is Ohio’s penitentiary level one half stage removed from Maximum, there was a palpable sense of awareness amongst us prisoners whenever there was an execution.
Continue reading “The Barbarity Of The Death Penalty (Pt.1)”
Daughter,
This path you have taken
I can’t understand.
Did I fail as a parent?
Why did you let go of my hand?