11/July/2019 NO TITLE Greetings and Shalom to all who read this essay! My name is unimportant, but most people call me Malachi (in Hebrew it means "my messenger"), and in a way I am a messenger. I have been in the North Carolina prison system since March 1985, although I was sentenced to life (with parole) and two consecutive ten year sentences in October 1984. In the thirty-five years
inclined that other prisoners -- no matter how misguided or even brutal -- are not the true enemy or the true oppressors. It is the prison-industrial complex that holds our freedom and our safety in escrow. By: Malik Malachi Mohammad (m)
Essay by: Malik Muhammad The excessive and disproportionate use of imprisonment over the last several decades also means that these problems will not only be large but concentrated primarily in certain communities whose residents were selectively targeted for criminal justice system intervention. Our society is about to absorb the consequences not only of the "rage to punish" that was so fully indulged in the last quarter of the 20th century but also of the "malign neglect"...
