by Lacino Hamilton Stark statistics have come to light showing that Black Americans are disproportionately contracting and dying from COVID-19. However, the focus on why this is may be less racial than it is economic? Furthermore, when Whites and Blacks are convinced that their basic health and economic interests are the same they may find […]
by Lacino Hamilton at Macomb Correctional Facility The last few years I have written many articles attempting to diagnose the deep malaise within the American criminal justice system. In particular, the human costs of high walls, razor wire, locked doors, grossly restricted mobility, punishment-violence, and execution–prison’s defining characteristics. I have also attempted to expose and […]
By: Mr. Jermaine Glenn, incarcerated in MDOC Kinross Correctional Facility Never in my wildest nightmares have I imagined or experienced anything like the Covid-19 pandemic. It takes us back to the influenza pandemic in 1918 when we lost 50 – 100 million people globally and roughly 675,000 lives nationally. That was over a 100 years […]
Written by Vincent Sherrill incarcerated in WADOC, Monroe Correctional Complex This is not a CORONATIONfor some old dusty ass monarchremnant of an oppressive pastand no College team will be CrownedNCAA Tournament Champions. This is more like a CORONACHa dedication poem or psalma platinum songsung by angelic cherubimas families place gold coinstoll for the boatmanfor those […]
Can we really visualize freedom with a limited point of view?When it’s normal to feel free in condition imposed on you.When did freedom become a clause, a cause for a certain sect, race or class?Something bestowed, a privilege or a formal accommodation? Freedom isn’t convenience,A mutual acclimation between persons or groups,Nor is it a means […]
Until mass incarceration, over-policing, police brutality and the many other issues associated with police officials are permanently resolved those who maintain these injustices should not be celebrated. They’ve obviously failed. There’s no problem with the celebration of professions that contribute to the benefit of our society as a whole. When thinking about those who serve […]