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28 days from Nirvana
4 year old nephew travels across the state to visit, but is denied by prison staff
A bag of rags please, governor
A deaf person would probably welcome it
A person cannot become who they need to be by remaining who they are!!
A view from the bottom
A.D.C. The beast
All I have
Beginning of a change
Being of light: Meditation and transcendence inside administrative segregation
Bigotry at Jameson Annex
Breaking the cycle
Bring it on
Cell restriction for writing a phone kite in blue ink
Comments on medical services in California prisons
Deficient medical treatment at CMC west
Do not agree justice systems
Early personal impressions of prison & the legal system
Empty room Buddhist group
Enjoy your spoiled salad
Essay on poor food served at the South Dakota State Penitentiary and its effects
Essay on the need for education and job training for prisoners to help keep them from returning to prison
Expired donut refund, your fired!
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