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Dead Time – Michael Carmichael
‘Dead-Time’ July 17, 2016 On November 10, 1998 my world was transformed when I was charged with first degree murder. In my opinion I was over charged, but whether I ‘m guilty or innocent isn’t the topic. I’ve been incarcerated since the age of nineteen. The first 29 months was in county jail on a school wing, and that time was…
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FREE or FREE-DOM – Vernon Watts
Hello World! Once again I will like to thank everyone who supports us at PRISONER’S EXCHANGE & for giving our voices a chance to be heard. This piece FREE or FREEDOM is targeting the American Prison System & how it has become the new warehouse and plantation for Black Men. Not to say Black Men…
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Restoring Humanity’s Infrastructure- Dwaine Coleman
As I sit here in this box, I see solutions as clear as problems, but as long as the Union Bosses and the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) enforce their oppressive collective bargaining agreement that protects bad cops and corrections officers, the problems will persist. If you believe Hannity, O’Reilly and other Fox and Friends…
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5/31/16 9:00 am – Tobias Garrett
On the above date and approximate time, I was laying extremely comfortably across my bed with my eyes shut, pondering in the solitude of my thoughts. I was actually laying there wrecking my poor little brain, desperately trying to come up with a logical explanation that would rationalize why so many individuals (who have spent…
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Ignorance of the Law is No Excuse
Statistics say the 1 in 3 African-Americans will go to jail or prison, and that translates to roughly one-third of the African-American male population being on some form of probation at any given time. This keeps a significant number of fathers, brothers and providers tethered to the criminal justice system because although you are free,…
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Ignorance of the Law is no Excuse – Terry Stop
IGNORANCE OF THE LAW IS NO EXCUSE During the 2015 Oscar telecast, Chicago rapper Common and R & B singer John Legend won the Oscar for the song Glory, from the movie Selma. In a speech given by John Legend, he talked about this country’s incarceration problem. What stuck out is that he said there are…
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To: Lashawn Ford, State Representative
Dear State Representative Ford: First I would like to thank you for standing up and putting a stop to solitary confinement. Everything you have said about solitary is true; it breaks you down mind, body and soul. One has to have an exceptionally strong mind to survive solitary confinement with their sanity intact, but ultimately…
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Hear Our Cry – Vernon Watts
Hello World! To every movement, organization, and coalition: can you hear our cry? Or are our tears so frozen their liquid is hard to identify? frozen within the sound of rhetoric “if one is in prison he or she must be the crime” / this is not just a rhyme this is a rhythm being repeated since the…
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Mr or Ms Activist…Re: Prison Reform
May peace find you as you read this letter. For almost 30 years, I have been a prisoner in the Illinois prison system Most of my time was spent in the Maximum security prisons IE: Stateville, Pontiac and Menard. Currently, I am in a level 2 (medium) security prison and I am the Founder of…
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Ignorance of the Law is no Excuse
IGNORANCE OF THE LAW IS NO EXCUSE Imagine that you have applied for a job that pays upwards of 40k a year with the prospects of earning as much as 45k, but on your way to your first day of work you get stopped for a minor traffic offense. The cop runs your name…