I saw a shadow pass by the night
Struck a mirror out, there was nothing in sight
Thought of doubt filled my own mind
A ghost just passed by, I could not deny
Goose bumps popped up on my skin
Afraid of ghost that I had just seen
My heart was pounding, as it never has been
The same shadow passed by my cell yet again
I looked out the bars but the emptiness remained
I am certain the ghost was playing with my brain
In my confusion, I was going insane.
Back and forth, the shadow did not fail
Maybe there was a curse on my cell
Maybe a spirit had some back from hell
A chill in my bones, I was not feeling well
Suddenly a pigeon appeared at my door
He was pecking at something that lies on the floor
Then if Flew away just like before
Damn the pigeon…! I almost crapped on the floor.
By Noodles/Pham J93364
Folsom State Prison
P.O. Box 715071-Bldg: 5 Bed: 30
Repreas, CA 95671
“No one – not even the government itself – has ever been able to specify with any certainty the precise number of federal crimes defined … in the 27,000 or so pages of the U.S. Code.” In the 1980s, lawyers at the Department of Justice estimated that the criminal code contained 3,000 crimes. Today, the Heritage Foundation estimates the federal laws currently enumerate nearly 5,000 crimes, a number that grows every year.
Holly Harris, Executive Director of the U.S. Justice Action Network, told Foreign Affairs Magazine in “The Prisoner Dilemma” March /April 2017 www.ForeignAffairs.com
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