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"A sound description of my experience with COVID-19 and K-2 while incarcerated"

A letter, photograph, and seven bars of soap and a cotton mask.

"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 with 27 years of system involvement. She 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,…

Kirsten Ricketts is an incarcerated rights advocate with a loved one on the inside. As a formerly incarcerated person herself, she deeply understands the abuse and injustices that incarcerated people face on the inside and in the free world. Using…

"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."