So many of us caught in this beast's belly truly have been held on and on and on and on... and after coming in when I was 20 here I am 67 and still in here. We desperately need folks like you to shout out for us. Like the father of the son put down in Valdosta Georgia State Prison wrote...the staff are unconcerned with what's right. I'm on the top bunk in a 3 person cell at 67 and with cancer. I've been in 46 years. On the middle bunk is a 73 year old who's been in 30 some ye

I think I have felt anxious and afraid my entire life. As a child I was terrified of my parents and throughout adulthood I have been afraid.

The cell always feels smaller at night. Not because the walls move—though sometimes it seems like they do—but because the mind has nowhere left to run. The noise dies down, the voices fade, and what’s left is you… and everything you’ve ever tried not to think about. I was sitting on the lower bunk in a three-man cell, elbows on my knees, staring at nothing in particular, when a strange thought crossed my mind. I had just read something light, almost silly—a post about some od

“OH NO! I couldn't have messed up my password again!” Tongue between my teeth I cautiously pecked in one single letter and number at a...