The following is a selection from a forthcoming collection of writing by people incarcerated in Mississippi. It...
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Louis Bourgeois, hails from Slidell, Louisiana. He used to teach poetry at the University of Mississippi. But,...
What difference does it make for someone in prison to have the chance to learn how to...
To whom it may concern, I’m writing this email in response to a story you guys published....
Time Passing I have gone through my span of Life. I was given birth from my mother’s...
For the past several months, The Local Voice and VOX Press have presented excerpts from an upcoming...
I’ve named these personally seasoned specialty prison food items Dick Biscuits or Dick Cornbread. For years, while...
The subject for this paper has been on my mind for some time now. I hope I...
You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet, you may even throw me into a...
Mississippi State Penitentiary, perhaps better known as Parchman Farm, is Mississippi’s oldest prison and the only maximum...