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"This is me spending my youth in prison for a crime I did young. I came to prison 21 with 50 years for agg. robbery never in life has I had to deal with anything covid-19 it's a very hard struggle everything is scary and you don't no what you may…

Jennifer Toon is a journalist from East Texas. While incarcerated, Toon wrote for the state prison newspaper, The Echo, for over ten years, and as a freelance writer, she has published work with The Texas Observer, The Marshall Project, and the…

Kirsten Ricketts is an activist who runs an organization that helps individuals who have been recently released from prison. Kirsten herself is formerly incarcerated and understands the reentry process firsthand. Her husband is also currently…

"This is a letter to bring forth the awareness of the awful conditions of T.D.C.J. inmates have to currently endure."

"Discrimination by TDCJ in reference to how (restrictive housing/ad seg 'offenders') are treated and closed off from family and education."

"Life experiences as a tortured human in prolong isolation/ AdSeg/Restricted Housing/Sheltered Housing- all the same with different names."

Series of poems
Spoken Word
Lyrical

"To work in a kitchen in prison is a worst nightmare."

"Note: Ingles is not my first language, so you'll find a bunch of mistakes but I would appreciate is someone could correct my work or just put it out like that."

"I wrote this while under medical lockdown due to the corona-virus epidemic after hearing the struggles many people 'outside the walls' were having with the whole being quarantined in their houses. I felt the world got a small idea of what it's like…