Conventional Wisdom Would Have One Believe.

At The Risk Of Quoting Mephistopheles I Repeat: Welcome To Hell. A Hell Erected And Maintained By Human-governments, And Blessed By Black Robed Judges. A Hell That Allows You To See Your Loved Ones, But Not To Touch Them. A Hell Situated In America's Boondocks, Hundreds Of Miles Away From Most Families. A White, Rural Hell, Where Most Of The Captives Are Black And Urban. It Is An American Way Of Death.

Prison Is A Second-by-second Assault On The Soul, A Day-to-day Degradation Of The Self, An Oppressive Steel And Brick Umbrella That Transforms Seconds Into Hours And Hours Into Days.

I Have Learned Not To Do Predictions. It's Not Helpful, Psychologically. I Don't Sit And Fret About Things.

Very Few People In Prison Have Voices That Go Beyond The Wall. It's My Job To Do The Work For Them Because They Have No One.

The United States Is Fast Becoming One Of The Biggest Open-air Prisons On Earth