Gabriel Roberson, February 9th, 2013

I was watching a cooking show the other day and they were making steak, looked real good. Then I realized I couldn’t remember what steak tastes like. That made me really think about it and I realized there’s all kinds of stuff I can’t remember the taste of. Pork chops, ribs, real fish, lots of…

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Margaret Ryan, June 10th, 2013

I must learn to accept myself just as I am so I may move forward with life… but how. My friend got out and is bumming off a friend’s family. She refuses to get a job and do anything for herself. As I look back over my own life I can see how I also…

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Sean Poulton, February 14th, 2013

40 years old! I can’t believe I’m forty years old! I never even dreamed of being 40. I mean when I was a kid, I couldn’t wait to be 13 so I’d finally be a teenager. As if this age magically made me more mature. If anything it made me less mature! But then I…

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Tommy Sanders, May 17th and June 29, 2012

May 17th, 2012 … Just ate in the cell. Managed to get to store and got my hot pot, and a couple of pints, one for celly and one for me. Amazing how ice cream can turn the day around. Made it to law library, and wrote sis. Did my prayer and scripture reading. Stotts…

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Norman Theriot, December 19th, 2012

Upon having a conversation about religion with another inmate I thought of a few things, in looking back I can now see that my mindset has changed in the last ten years. I have been told that God loves us no matter what we have done. How can a loving god subject his followers to…

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Brian Paladino, December 18th, 2012

As I enter my 13th year incarcerated I continue to flash back to vivid memories of periods of my life. The little things that most people don’t even recognize or consider such as the smell of the fresh summer early morning air filling my lungs as I open my eyes and I remember upon my…

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Paul Shamonsky, December 4th, 2012

It was just after lunch time, and Paul was on his way back to the dorm. There was only one thing on his mind. A nice cup of coffee. With one creamer and two equals. Just the way he liked it. There was only one problem though. Paul didn’t have any coffee. In fact, he…

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Michael Santiesteban, January 1st, 2013

… So the year ended and here at the infant-like moments/ days of 2013 I find myself grateful for my blessings. My children are loved and strong and yes lazy but that seems the norm these days. They’ve not written me in god knows how long. Yet I am blessed for them. Then there is…

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Anonymous, 2012

I was arrested December 13th, 1993. Even though it’s been 19 years, the holidays are still rough. This year there is another element of drama thrown into the mix. A friend I had known since she was about 10 years old, a girl I used to babysit, a friend who was with me the day…

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Sean Poulton, November 19th, 2012

A lot has happened since I last wrote. I’ve been working diligently on my fantasy fiction novel but it’s discouraging not having access to a typewriter or word-processor. I still find it hard to believe you can buy tv’s, radios, video games and other crap but you can’t buy or possess something that can be…

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