Hey, this is Peter Mukuria, also known as comrade Pitt. I recently got transferred here in the state of Maryland at Jessup Correctional Institution, came from Virginia DOC, Red Onion State Prison where I was…

This is Steven Nicholson. I’m at Cotton Correctional Facility in Jackson, MI. And this poem is called “The Two Poem Poem.” At the end of each line, the word is pre-created with the rest of…

Hey, the title of this piece is called FAMM. F-A-M-M. This is Kenjuan Congo, Jr. Inmate number ND7568. Calling from the belly of the beast. Mandatory minimum sentences are a major topic as it relates…

I went to the hospital. I was swollen all over the place. Both of my ears and stuff is affected. I’m trying to tell the hospital like what is going on about this black mold…

Hi, this is Jamil Pirant calling out of the Indiana Department of Corrections. And the title of this is called, “Support Khalfani.” It was like, probably like 2015 and I heard this big voice, he…

Hi, my name is Robert Neibler and the name of my piece is, “My Material.” It beats. I breathe. I rise. As I search this world for meaning and my shining light still I rewind…

Bryant Arroyo, calling from SCI Coal Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Title of piece is, “New York People’s Forum.” Caged in the throes of the Eastern Anthracite region at SCI Coal Township, geographically located in Northumberland…

“Another Life, Another Loss.” They came to America to escape from inter-ethnic wars in the DRC, the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Central Africa. Like many refugees of war, they thought that America was the…

Alright, my name is Steven Nicholson here at Cotton Correctional Facility in Jackson, MI. The name of this poem is “20,000 Days.” Sometimes I feel like a miserable, minuscule, pitiful, little fool. 20,000 days on…

Hi, my name is Krystal Clark from in WHV, the valley of death. We need all our recorders, we need to get out to get somebody to get out- This is sadness. They blocked some…