This life is about many things and this road we’ve chosen, this road in life is about acceptance. Accepting who you are, within the limitations of a hard old world. It is realizing that some times things in this heavy old world can squeeze you, and crush you, and drive you down into the dirt. But to survive, to keep going you have to lighten your load, you have to cast things aside that no longer matter, things that wear you down or weigh heavy on you. You need to find courage and embrace it, to keep going on. And sometimes you find it in … [Read more...] about There Is No Roadmap or Road Work
“CALINCARCERATION”
N.S.A. blames China while they steal your conversation Global Tel-Link servers reigning king of exploitation And, if you speak out on these things, there’s CALINCARCERATION It’s a nether world unique to western civilization While fingers point to the East we’re living’ in the lock-up nation The 1% keeps minimizing CALINCARCERATION C.C.P.O.A. perfecting no touch torture caging Security spin are drugs the sin what is the war they’re waging Last call SHU law Divided we fall This is CALINCARCERATION This is CALINCARCERATION Buried my … [Read more...] about “CALINCARCERATION”
MODERN PRISON RESISTANCE FIGURING OUT “THE MAN”
Two hundred and twenty five (225) years of American corrections has afforded the great oppressor, the prison industrial complex, a vast education in how to suppress free speech and quell prison insurrection and resistance. The disciplinary regulations, which are pretty much cookie-cutter consistent from state to state, are designed to make it near impossible to organize in prison or to engage in acts of civil disobedience as a method of shedding light on prison abuse and systemic failure: failure which diminishes public safety and promote the … [Read more...] about MODERN PRISON RESISTANCE FIGURING OUT “THE MAN”
Belly of the Beast
My life becomes a living hell, a means of madness in a cell; thoughts racing through my mind as I’m sitting through the sands of time. Life is but a long lost dream that passes by as you scream little left in which to cling but hope for what the morrow may bring. Hate, resentment, bitterness thrives through this mass of change cup lives pent up rage given false hope in some for of jailhouse dope battles buzzers, shots ring out, that’s part of what this life’s about we are but choices for the feast in the belly of the beast. Written by R.N. … [Read more...] about Belly of the Beast
As Is Was
San Quentin, the end of the line in California Justice System. Bastille by the bay, as it was known by us old con’s. Stone upon stone was laid by the sweat of the convict’s over one hundred and forty years ago, it stands today as it did then, a desolate, dreary, stagnate, maze of misery to torture those misguided souls who blundered into it’s desolation. The graveyard of broken lives and rusting dreams, the poor man’s Castle, build at the end of the Worlds to rectify society’s failures. As I stand looking out through the steel bars, I again … [Read more...] about As Is Was
THERE ARE NO PRISONS
Darwin breaks stealthily outside my narrow, vertical window, A dark turquoise betraying light, towards the horizon,’ Redundant orange prison lights, sweep across the landscape, Like luminous pearls cast asunder, Give the impression of a grandeur city. Uniform concertina razor wire atop chain link fences And concert walls. Haunting abandoned guard towers, Down secured by electric fences, Remind me it is not. Even in my forty decade With an underlying ugliness, a memory. On cue, a bird flies overhead Flapping sailing majestically towards the … [Read more...] about THERE ARE NO PRISONS
“Awaiting Exoneration”
When it comes to recognizing faults, No one ever see’s their own! Perhaps they’re to busy trying to Rationalize their history of doing wrong! Many sit in Judgment of others “Hoping To erase all signs of their Humanity; But Hatred and Preconceived-Notions permeate The Views and hearts of most in Society! The so-called Educated people make Uneducated-decision all the time; It’s evident in the Criminal Justice System on both sides of Crime; Under the guise of a fair trial, The “Accused” are paraded into court. While the judge, D.A> jury … [Read more...] about “Awaiting Exoneration”
A Living rainbow
fallow me, you will see, you can be, as happy, as anybody, you can’t complain, of your endless pain, of cloudy ways, rainy day’s will turn to colorful plains, over a hill I see, a truth behind, that darkness I see, a truth behind, that darkness I see, that is meant for me, a hard truth hit’s me, to know, what a fool I’ve been, to think a world of sin, would let me be happy again, to be lied to once again, and start from this end. Amador By ALEX GUTIERREZ AV1523 … [Read more...] about A Living rainbow
YOUR HONOR
Your honor, I am an attorney And my clients is the earth She has been always mistreated And neglected from her birth. And I am pleading her case In this court, today, your honor One of her lungs can’t be cured And we are looking for a donor Otherwise she could be dead By next summer or spring And you and I will not be able To cut flowers or to sing. AS you can see she’s very fragile She’s not that strong anymore She can’t live like that much longer Though she still answers the door. So ‘m asking you, your honor, For some wise justice on her … [Read more...] about YOUR HONOR
Letter to Kid CAT by Ashley Fehrmann
Dear Kid CAT, Thank you so much for your generous gift of $617.50 from the San Quentin Kid CAT program in support of Social Advocates for Youth’s programming. On behalf of the homeless and disconnected youth of Sonoma County, we express our deep gratitude for your outstanding level of support! Our youth have taught us that programs and services make the most impact when they are accessible, appropriate and flexible. Your gift of unrestricted funding will allow us to continue this critical work and serve our vulnerable youth when they need … [Read more...] about Letter to Kid CAT by Ashley Fehrmann