SOUTH DAKOTA CELL BLOCK SENDS SOME LOVE 

Dear Editor: 

I love your newspaper. It always has good articles and info in it. The facility I’m in here in South Dakota has COVID-19 restrictions and the library is closed, so there’s no way to get literature right now. It’s been like this for a while and when I receive new issues of your newspaper, I let everyone read it. The whole cell-block is fans of San Quentin News. Keep up the good work. 

Peace and love,

—Lyle Holton 

PCJ-South Dakota 

Hey, Lyle! Thanks to you and all the fellas at PCJ for the love. Hope you guys are all staying well and keeping healthy. Keep your heads up! 

MULE CREEK SHU RESIDENT REACHES OUT 

Dear Editor: 

Hello and God bless. My name is Morgan, and I really love reading your newspaper. I am doing a SHU-term here at Mule Creek. I know you send 600 newspapers each month to the Mule Creek library, but I can’t just go there and get one because I am in Ad-Seg. I have put in several requests to the law library, with no response. Please send me your paper! I beg you to please send me your paper. My family will also subscribe if we can. Thanks a lot. 

—Morgan A. 

Mule Creek State Prison 

We’re adding you to our mailing list, Morgan! You should start getting the paper soon. Your family can go to sanquentinnews.com to read our paper, donate, and get their own copy. Thanks for reading the SQNews! 

MINNESOTA 

POETRY SUBMISSION 

“A Speck of Sand” 

I am a single minuscule grain of sand 

Dying of thirst in a desert of over 3 million other significant specks. 

Entire beaches of silica swallowed 

Whole by America’s international monstrosity called 

Prison 

Reformatory 

Secure Detention Facility 

Penitentiary 

House of Corrections 

Land of the Lost 

The infinite granite walls a hard shell 

Clamping down, locking us in 

We see behind the concrete curtain 

Watching in horror as 

The great and terrible 

Administrative wizards wind & grind 

The inner machinations of the System 

Spineless, heartless, cold-blooded as an oyster 

My burden: To try to fix the broken by 

Writing grievances, kites, letters, fiction, appeals, essays and 

Poems 

(like this one) 

I’m only one speck of sand, creating a little friction 

a minor irritation to the Goliath leviathan 

but maybe someday I’ll be a Pearl. 

—Matthew Feeney 

Moose Lake, MN 

Thank you for sharing your work with us, Matthew!