No matter how strictly-guarded a prison, the soul remains free. Some people may assume that people behind bars stop thinking, stop expressing themselves, and stop dreaming. Nothing could be further from the truth. In prisons all around the country, there are men and women continuing to live their […]
I was talking to a buddy while we were waiting for chapel a couple of days ago. We got on the subject how chapel service and NA meetings make you feel somewhat human again. Interacting with other people on a personal level, shaking hands calling each other by […]
To have a heart that wears a frown maybe disturbing and frowned upon but only the individual that heart belongs to has the choice to make that heart smile. this particular heart has been through more physical abuse that only hearts that are alike will understand. It hardens […]
I’m currently in the Recovery while incarcerated program here at ISO. For our progression work we go through the 12 steps of NA program pretty thoroughly. I’m in the process of working through step 7, we humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings. One of the questions was,”How […]
CHRIST lived HIS life as a sacrifice. HE is a Living Sacrifice. That is the Lesson We have to learn, if We don’t learn anything else: SACRIFICE. Sacrifice = letting go of that which you hold dear, in order to fulfill the Promise of something Greater. It’s setting […]
COVID-19 has really changed things up for everyone! Including those who are incarcerated. Obviously not to the degree of being out in the world but it has affected us. It has been about 8 months since I have had a visit and it definitely changes things up. I […]
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PRISON MEDIA NETWORK GROUP September 1st 2020, The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution shifted slavery from plantations to slave oppressors from oppressors to prisons to now congressional state capitalist which gave birth to the 1994 crime Bill to mass incarceration, Sham Legal Process is now in […]
I’m doing time in prison in Lebanon Ohio it’s very hard when your family leaves you behind with out telling you why like they did me.I just don’t understand maybe it’s all the year’s I have to do who nose I pray to God one day to get […]
Thugs…Criminals… Professional Anarchists. These are some of the words people in power use to describe those who are rebelling against the criminal injustice system and destroying stuff. This may seem reasonable — a call to protect people and property — but the truth is the powerful tactically call […]
English 1131 “Living Large” * Macro – (Greek/ Macros, Large). * Biotic – (Greek/ Biotikos, Relating to life, or specific life conditions). * Macrobiotics – A method professing promotion of longevity, chiefly by means of diet consisting mainly of whole grains, vegetables and fish” — Webster’s New College […]
Well, it is over. The two parties have ran their conventions and it appears the republic brand wins again. Why can’t the brand calling itself the BIG TENT win. Is the dems a just a big party or is it a demoncratic party? We may never know now. […]
Our Culture is Freedom, Freedome is the Way of Peace,the Way of ISLAM, the Way of Mathematics and the Way to Divinity.With Justice and Equality this is our True Way of Life so We must have Freedom.Free-da-dome from what though? Negative Thoughts and Evil Suggestions. Everything begin as […]
LAUGH NOW . CRY LATER when you read that above what is your first thought? how does it make you feel when you sit in just repeat it afew times ! pretty harsh huh? well the whole point of that is to help you YESYOU !! open up […]
My name is Yohannes W. Wilder I’m married to Chaila and have a son Richard who have been my life line through my incarcerated life . I’m a foreign national from Ethiopia I’ve been in this country since the 70’s I joined the army in1989 I did four […]
The Black Lives Matter movement has gained so much momentum this past year with the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor,Tamir Rice and Ahmaud Arbery by the hands of police officers that have sworn to protect and serve. I would like to take a moment to call attention […]
In November 2018, something amazing happened in the criminal justice movement. Florida restored voting rights to felons (excluding murderers and felony sex offenders, but I’ll take it) who have completed all the terms of sentence including parole or probation. So who lead the movement for this landmark change? […]
This day has seemed to be longer than yesterday but it is still 24 hours. Today has just been one of those days…boaring What sucks though is with this covid-19 mail is real slow. And I pass time writing letters, but no one is getting mail from me […]
When we go into what is good and what is evil it can turn into a personal opinionated topic, even though to get a solid resolve we must remain objective and understanding to differences. Many things have become “demonic” in fact the very word ‘demonic’ has in itself. […]
In Matthew 16:5-12 we see a warning from Jesus to His disciples (including us) to be ware of the leavening of the Pharisees. This includes what we are taught in today’s Churches. After all a little leavening will leaven the whole loaf (First Corinthians 5:6 and Galatians 5:9). […]
Life has a junction, over and over a repeating lunacy without adieu simple in nature, yet subtle chaotic and sad, yet utopian too Words run amuck with random thoughts as always, they ring loud, and simply true a damp spirit, with a purple hue Ruthless characters with evil […]
We’re not promised tomorrow, barely promised today; Yet the future’s shaped by every Thought, Action, & Word We say. The Present Moment is all We have so Our Destinies are right now, Time’s relative to Perception, what We choose to do, & how. Our decisions are the #1 […]
At these trying times perserverence is “Mandatory” stay Strong; Safe & Positive. Lucky Mitchell DOC #691-862
You have to go case by case to determine the beginning of the madness behind these walls. For some, there is no end. PnP didn’t help any. And how “they” are handling it here is not making things any better. Before you judge or I go any further, […]
I sat in a book club one day and the topic of politics came up. It was a month or so before the presidential election and Donald Trump was running for president. Everyone assumed that he would struggle to make it in the office because he was not […]
Never in a million years would I have thought I would be spending my 44th b-day incarcerated! It’s been almost 2 years already and I still wake up most mornings in a state of disbelief. I look around and can’t believe I’m here. That’s the way thing about […]
I remember when Sammy Sosa the superstar ,major league baseball player and Michael Jackson the worldwide pop icon bleached there skin, we all looked at them as if they were mentally unstable, and ashamed of there dark, melenated skin. But after witnessing the unjustifiable murders of unarmed, blackmen…and […]
I have an ongoing list of bad things that have been in my mouth. First place goes to a lovely experience I had at age fifteen. There I was comfortably ensconced in the hammock on Great-Aunt Maime’s back porch. Her son, Rube, a true tobacco chewing good old […]
This is to parents, husbands, wives, children, exes, anyone who has messed up. There isn’t a person reading this that hasn’t made a mistake throughout the course of their life. If you feel you haven’t well just keep on living. But for those of us who have said […]
poetry: The strangest fruit u ever seen is ripped with pain, forbidden fruit of knowledge only a few can obtain, that’s why the evil in men want to abolish me, yet my higher self of righteousness acknowledge me. I’m trying to find the land filled with milk and […]
