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How Do We Define Life?
How you doing, this is Mr. Eddie Treadwell calling from Alger Correctional Facility here in Michigan, and I would like to speak about how we define life. For one, we—as humans—we always find the need… Full Transcript
Rotten Food and Harassment
Hi, my name is Krystal Clark, inmate number 435064. I’m in WHV, the Valley of Death. It’s so much right now. I’m going through a lot, I’m sick, so I gotta take my time a… Full Transcript
Just A No Name
Alright, this is Steven Nicholson from Jackson, Michigan Cotton Correctional Facility. Been a long time, a little while since I’ve been on here. Now I’m back. This poem is called “Just a No Name.” Honing… Full Transcript
Divine Lessons
This is Bilal Abdul Salaam-Bey, also known as Charlie Hughes, at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility at Hutchinson, Kansas. This piece is called “Divine Lessons: Part One.” Success is having a deep sense of peace and… Full Transcript
Haiku and Lockdowns
Real. Realness eats raw meat, does not waver nor trips on the currents. He has the staying power of the sun. Realness walks only in his own shoes. Today. Today I died. I died yesterday… Full Transcript
Intelligence Rules The World
Hello today. My name is Eddie Treadwell. I’m a prisoner here in Alger Correctional Facility, a Michigan prison. And I would like to talk about today how intelligence rules the world and ignorance bears its… Full Transcript
Paying Tribute to Women
Yeah, well, hello, this is Mr. Eddie Treadwell calling from Alger Correctional Facility here in Michigan. My prison number is 205017. And I would like to express some of my thoughts as well as inform… Full Transcript
Sorry For The Disappointment
I am Izell Robinson, Minnesota inmate number 210006. Today I wanted to do a original, authentic piece that I wrote, called “Sorry for the Disappointment and Shame.” It’s more of like a poetic, kind of… Full Transcript
Come Get Me
My name is Jamil. I’m at IDC, Indiana Department of Corrections. And this is call “To My Tribe.” Over the last two weeks, I’ve been going through a range of level of anxiety, stuff I… Full Transcript
When The Empire Calls
The Workers’ Summit of the Americas is organized to counteract the Summit of the Americas organized by the US Department of State in Los Angeles, California. Our conference is a place where the countries that… Full Transcript
Reconstruction Destruction
This is Mr. Nicholson again from Cotton Correctional Facility in Jackson, MI I just want to say before I start this poem, this is already getting ready to start off for the Juneteenth coming up… Full Transcript
With A Heavy Heart
Hello, I am Izell Robinson, Minnesota inmate number 210006. Today, I come to you all with, you know, a heavy heart because of everything that I’ve witnessed going on out there with the recent mass… Full Transcript
What I Had To Overcome
This is Mr. Eddie Treadwell in Michigan Correctional Facility in Michigan, and I’m a prison reform activist. And I would like to discuss or express what I had to overcome and what I had to… Full Transcript
Tragic Static
Hey guys, this is Steve Nicholson, 492918 from Cotton Correctional Facility in Jackson, MI, and I just wanted to say that all of our prayers go out to the families of the children in Texas… Full Transcript
Variety Blues
Alright, this is Steven Nicholson in Cotton Correctional Facility from Jackson, MI, 492918. I just wanted to go on the record. We are one prison out of three in Michigan right now that is trying… Full Transcript
The Real RAP Program
My inmate number is ND7568, and I’m calling up from SCI Chester. This is Kenjuan Congo, Jr., reporting from the belly of the beast. Here at SCI Chester, we have the Real RAP Program founded… Full Transcript
Discovering Forgiveness
Yes, hello, this is Mr. Eddie Treadwell, a prisoner in a Michigan correctional facility, Alger Correctional Facility that is. And I’m a prison reform activist who’s been working towards trying to create some form of… Full Transcript
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I am Izell Robinson, Minnesota inmate number 210006. As we all know, this month is mental health awareness month. All of you who listen to my commentaries know that lately I’ve had a struggle with… Full Transcript
Michigan Tough On Crime pt. 2
Prisoners here in Michigan – moreso, it’s not all, you know it’s never all, it’s always a few, some, or many – but I’ve ran across a few men in prison who were ready to… Full Transcript
Yeah, this is Peter Kamal Mukuria. Excuse my voice, I’m slightly losing my voice, but yeah, this is comrade Peter Mukuria, AKA, comrade Pitt Panther. So, I’m calling here from Jessup Correctional Institution in the… Full Transcript