112 Days – Prison to President Bidens Sister 112 days ago I was sitting inside a prison cell wondering if all the work I did up to that point meant anything. I finally feel like I can talk about it. All the long hours studying. The tears falling from my body in angst as …
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It is you who judges me? Lo, it was you whom pulled the trigger of the gun who’s bullet did graze my field Small child, knees bent into my chest wondering what it was I did that wronged thee Thou who judgeth me You have not seen what I have survived The trenches I have …
I See You… by Rory Andes I was recently told by a staff member of himself, “It doesn’t take anything to be a decent person.” These are words to live by. In all of the hardships of prison in general, and during Covid specifically, there are the occasional staff members within the prison who really …
Interacting Face to Face (you know, that thing we did before the 2000’s) There is something about sitting across from someone and making eye contact without anything in-between us. It makes me feel seen. The human eye is beautiful but takes on a whole new meaning when it is seen in person. Through a …
An Increase In Contempt… In the Covid Isolation Unit of the prison I’m currently housed in, they are bringing people in everyday who’ve tested positive. With the increase in population comes a higher incident of needs by the elderly, ill and uninformed. All of us were uprooted and shoved into this unfamiliar situation. For some …
Monosodium Glutamate… I recently saw a fascinating, myth-busting program on the history of Monosodium Glutamate, or MSG, the highly contested food additive that has been publicly scorned for decades. It was truly eye opening in its origin and bad press. So what is MSG? In 1908, an Asian chemist was trying to capture the specific …
Medical Information… What would you do if your private medical information went to a total stranger? What if your lab results were mailed to the guy who lives two doors down from you? What if your radiological report was dropped off to the lady at the checkout of your grocery store? What if the medications …
Occasional Abuses and Routine Deliberate Indifference It’s real hard to stay diverted from the “Us vs. Them” dichotomy that comes with convict thinking when we suffer occasional abuses and routine deliberate indifference from those in charge of our daily needs. In the course of this Covid mismanagement, we were stripped of all our regular comforts …
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Watching Them Grow… By Rory Andes Growth and change aren’t mandated in prison, but it should be… There’s a strange thing about seeing anyone after a decade, but in prison, it’s far beyond just watching them grow. I recently ran into a kid, a man now, named Robbie who I met in county jail ten …
If you were taken from this planet or over 10 years into space and then suddenly returned, what sort of changes do you think there would be? I wasn’t taken by aliens but I was in prison for over 10 years (may as well be the same thing, prison feels like you’re on another planet …
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