Geriatrics in a Cage

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 years and has a defibrillator in his old chest. On the bottom shelf is a 61 year old who is physically handicapped. He's been in 20 some years. This system has a chance each year to release us to have our final years on a porch in a rocking chair tossing pebbles halfheartedly at the neighborhood kids stealing the watermelons from the garden. It's through your voice and the voices of the father and others that there's any hope at all. They've kept so many of us so long we have nobody left in our family tree to speak for us. With my nose to the ground I prostrate myself before you and this father and the others who are unwilling to be quiet about this evil prison system in Georgia and also the nation. It's an industrial machine that's evolved into a means to many ends...but none of those goals are the correction of offenders in a way that will help them live as the better person I know I myself would like to be. I'm going to put the links to a few of my books I've written from this prison cell on a contraband cell phone. I've self published on Amazon kdp. After several books about living almost half a century incarcerated I realized from the lack of sales people don't like to read about or think about this system which represents them. So I have written about other topics such as cupcake 🧁 decorating with your kids and responsibilities of parental role modeling. I would sincerely appreciate anyone who has the chance to click the link and check out the books. This is the only way I have to support myself in here. But I'm truly writing much more to tell you thank you. To hug the Dad of the son killed in Valdosta Georgia State Prison. To thank each person in the comments who are supportive of this work you are doing. Sorry this is so long.

I write as James Dollar btw