Frank De Palma
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I’m a 22-year solitary survivor. I’m painfully aware of those still suffering in solitary— losing their minds, dying. It’s my mission to abolish this torture.
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I was 36 when I went into solitary and my cell didn’t have a mirror. I left that cell at the age of 58. When I saw my face in a mirror, I cried to see how I had aged. And something else, I look into my eyes and I feel the dark emptiness that I became part of. Its so frightening.
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And I Thankyou for acknowledging me and therefore so many others throughout our nations prisons who are wasting away in solitary confinement . Solitary confinement torments ones mind and will and it goes on to slowly rob one of hope. It is truly a torture beyond words.
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A friend of mine recently asked me why , in my bio did I admit to becoming mentally while in solitary confinement ? And didn’t it embarrass me? I explained that the truth far exceeded any bruise to my ego and foolish pride, that the truth remains, that in solitary confinement +1
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@phyllispowell1
@wflower2001
Im sorry to hear about your son but here’s something to embrace…There are over 80,000 moms in the U.S. who have sons in solitary confinement in almost every state. There are so nany truths about our prison system that society doesnt know for they have been lied to for decades.
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Since my release from prison, I have met, both directly and indirectly, people that have grown to like, care for me and seek to help me with my struggles and through them I am coming to realize that it is in love and friendships that those like myself have true hope. HOPE!
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In solitary confinement, the aloneness becomes so unbearable that even a bug crawling on the floor became so connected to me because it was alive, another living thing. That it was a bug didn’t matter as it was alive. That’s all that mattered. It was alive, until it died.
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@planetcommunism
Its no longer a desire of mine to seek revenge as I freed myself from hatred. What I want to do is to help anyone listen to me about the torture that is from solitary confinement. It is a torture that has no words to describe but I try. Always I will try to show its ugly truth.
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Hey everyone, just to let you know, ive been working on writing my experiences in prison over 43yrs. Its been difficult to relive but it is an honest accounting. Its in the final stages. When its ready to come out, ill let everyone know.
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In solitary confinement, the process of developed psychosis begins and is borne of severe sensory deprivation. The 5 senses are the antenna of the mind and body and to affect even one of the five senses can cause a change in a person. Prison assaults all senses on a daily basis.
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The prison chaplain told me how when he came to say goodbye to me, that I wasn’t even aware he was there and how back in his office he wept like a baby because I had deteriorated so much and I would soon be dead and he’d miss his friend Frank. I had someone to cry for me.
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Dostoevsky said about the question, ‘what is hell?’ “I maintain that it is the suffering inability to love.”
That is so very true. What drove me from this reality we all share into an emptiness that became my peace, was the crushing pain of not having anyone to love or to love me
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I have been out of prison for three & a half yrs, now ,and in this time, I have experienced more than I can recall, my entire life before prison. It’s been a ride thus far, and a scary one at that. However, in these three and a half yrs, I have met and developed real, and what
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I used to watch prisoners go into solitary confinement, never thinking of its aftermath on a human being.Even when I heard how one or another of them killed the selves did I think about solitary. Not until it became my turn……
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To become simply, another statistic. But I owe it to the 80,000 * prisoners languishing in solitary confinement throughout the US in its prisons. It has become my reason , my purpose in this life to tell all of you who will listen to the truth, the horror that is solitary.
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@kim78652
It breaks my heart now, today as every day that I think about those who are now in solitary all over the U.S. Heartbreaking because I know what true hell solitary confinement is. I have some serious issues out here but I’ve learned how to hide myself because i cant find words.
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Hello everyone, I wanted to tell all of you that “Solitary Watch”, has published an article I wrote about solitary confinement. I hope you’ll look it up and read it, and I’d welcome all your feedback and I’ll answer any questions I’m able to that you may have. Take care all.
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It’s not enough that we’re born human as it’s in the way we should treat one another that makes us human.
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During the 80’s while at NSP I met and came to know a man, most called POPs. I grew to both like and respect the man. Yes folks, there are good men and women in prison. More than you might let yourselves think. Pops never turned off his cell light. He slept on the floor
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After about 10 or 12yrs in total solitary I could no longer endure my aloneness, I would stare into the darkness of the cell and I began to see levels of empty darkness which grew darker. Darker than any night. It was complete emptiness. My mind too began to empty. I became empty
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This seem to reflect the overall attitude of elected representatives all over the United States. I personally think its passed time to ramp up our efforts to abolish solitary completely
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As I told one prison guard who belittled and berated me, “if I’m not what you say I am, then you’re not who you think you are.” He was confused by that. Didn’t surprise me none
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Can’t stop my thoughts. Wont shut off. The truth about solitary confinement is not only scientifically proven to cause mental illness. The staff as well as mental health know it’s torture.Why won’t the law makers end it? Are people capable of such prolonged indifference????
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I'd like to thank all of you who follow me on twitter . I joined twitter in 2021 sometime but never got on it, until around three months ago when on the advice of a close friend , i began to tweet. my life`s experiences and how at the age of eighteen, I was sent to prison for a
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@alison_guernsey
Thankyou. You’re very kind. Prisons as they are embody strong negativity that affects both prisoners and guards. Tensions and stress are always high. The natural animus that exists between guards and prisoners festers and its only time before both sides clash.
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Out of the Jail and into the Capitol via
@YouTube
Hello everyone, I was recently invited to speak on a webinar, about S.C.. I come in at 12:50 so you can slide the bar to my piece. Thankyou.
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Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do!
#MyTwitterAnniversary
Well, I do and I was setting up a twitter account which I did then left it untouched until I believe, until two months ago.I’ve been tweeting my expression of Solitary confinement.
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I just want to thank all of you who follow me and I’m truly touched by the beautiful replies many of you send. Your words are filled with an understanding that really touches me.I was asked why I didn’t give up. I said I live for the hope and promise of love. Thankyou all…
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True story…while in prison,someone died violently. They offered me deals for a guilty plea. It went to 20 years for manslaughter, out in less than five yrs. I “murdered no one!” I refused to deal so theyfiled for the death penalty. and for that they tried to kill me. CJS SO SAD
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“FINALLY!” SB307 passed unanimously. SB307 limits the use of solitary confinement to no longer than 15 days and it was just signed into law by Nevada’s governor, Joe Lombardo, which in itself is heartening. Though it is a victory, I maintain that solitary confinement “must” end.
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Let’s keep it real. Ex-cons are considered lost causes, low life’s and the dregs of society. Society as a whole, perceives convicts as lost caused and viewed negatively. That’s a simple fact of human mentality and which I personally understand, yet wholeheartedly disagree with
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Michelle Blanco, i met him when he first came in to prison. He was polite, soft spoken, and rather pleasant in personality. After years in solitary, he is loud, hate filled and one of the most violent prisoners in the Nevada prison system. The system created him!
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great deal of thought and of trauma for one to make that decision. I just wanted to help pops to be remembered. He is worth remembering . Good night all.
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Somebody told me that not nearly as many people as I may think, “know about prisons or what teally goes on in them, nor about solitary confinement.” I found out that there are so many who don’t know anything about what I and you know. We live it and so automatically think, others
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Isnt it evident that our societies overall attitude about America’s incarcerated is to punish more?! Politicians and courts know crime causes fear and the savvy politicians know that fear brings votes. The real mind blower is that so much of what goes on in prison is unknown.
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I have learned through introspection that hunans have a need to connect with others and absent that, we’ll connect with anything. I had nothing to connect with so I connected with myself. I came to realize many truths.Another truth I found.if you give up hope you begin to die.
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Hello everyone, sorry I’ve been gone so long, but things, life out here kind of got chaotic for me and I made some bad choices that ultimately resulted in my being arrested and put in jail and because of my arrest, and the fact that I’m on lifetime parole, I was placed on a no
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Hello everyone, I’ve been gone a moment but sometimes my life can get overtaxed if you will, but here I am. You know, I’m involved with a lot of heavyweights who are focused intensely on abolishing solitary confinement in all prisons and my dear friend and ghost writer. 1
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Im living in my new place and still I find homeless people hanging around. I do what I can but its not nearly enough, I know. Many are dope sick, others mentally ill, others bad luck. It hurts my heart to see their suffering as I was homeless for a time. So many things are wrong.
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to tell the whole truth and not simply those parts that fit for either side. How I feel deeply obligated by right and wrong to tell the truth as it unfolded in my life. I survived 37 attempts against my life, with knives, only to be reduced to a broken shell of a human being.
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Though I truly appreciate how our advocates fight to end the torturous practice of solitary confinement, I become frustrated and irritated at how we have certain tomes of the month day and year in which we focus upon the serious issues at hand that deal with the CJS. It has to be
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Have any of you ever truly and wholly, lost hope? As life’s events kept unfolding in my life, I began to lose touch with the world I had once lived in. A life, traded for a mere subsistence. The hope of ever getting out of prison, the hope of ever having someone to love, and
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Last thing I want to do is to come off as being vain for I’m anything but vain, but I have gained enough self confidence to say to this, that after my book is published, which I’m told will give me credibility, I shall prove myself to be a force to reckon with because I m
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After 22yrs away from other humans, then to be thrust back amongst a whole bunch of humans was almost more than I could bear. Everyone felt like a potential threat and I was ready and serious minded. I slowly overcame that panic within but next I saw how people acted
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I did become mentally ill. That the truth of the horrors that are of about and are about the destructive force of solitary confinement are greater than any embarrassment of my ego and foolish pride and that in order to bring about true understanding of its torturous nature I had
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deeply touched me and I humbly thank all of you for your, kindness, empathy and support. Sometimes I wonder will ever solitary confinement be abolished forever? I feel discouraged then you awesome people say positive things to me which just revitalizes me. Thankyou, Frank.
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Solitary Confinement is Torture - The effects of Isolation in the hole |... via
@YouTube
watch this video and give your feedback.
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An every day fight we cannot relent on our goals to irradiate solitary confinement in all its forms and there are many stated forms of punishment but they’re all the same. Our challenge is to make people understand the horrors of solitary confinement in its totality. Fight on!!!!
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I’ve heard people question how solitary confinement affects some people more than others and in different ways? What everyone needs to know is that everyone who does solitary confinement time “will” have its imprint upon them forever. There are several factors at play.
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One reason alone why solitary confinement should be completely abolished is because in solitary, suicide becomes a rational thought!
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@UnlockTheBoxNow
@BridgetKConley
And that’s what encourages me to keep speaking about the true danger of solitary confinement. I personally feel indebted to all of you who fight without a day off to end the practice of solitary confinement which is a ,for now a legal way of instilling a serious psychosis .
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Here’s what’s happening in Nevada.
Those who are homeless and poor are being arrested and jailed, simply because they are homeless and poor. So now being poor and homeless is a “crime?!” Where does it end? Perhaps when only the rich and affluent are left!
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It was a brand new thick bath towel when I stuck it in the window to block out the light. Light hurt my eyes. That towel stayed in that window for 20yrs. When I was being taken from solitary confinement a guard pulled the towel from the window. Half the towel fell as dust.
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What I have been questioning as well as pondering, is, why hasn’t our country’s lawmakers criminalizes the use of solitary confinement in all prisons as well as within the juvenile criminal justice system? After all the studies done, it’s clear that SC is torture. Why then?
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I want to commend Connecticuts governor, mr Ned Lamont for the actions he taking against the length of time an individual may spend in isolation. I won’t be content until solitary is abolished throughout the US but it ...
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You may find this interesting. I come in at number nine.
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There was a guard named, Steve Barnes . He was considered a hater by convicts.He had no problem making your life miserable . Imagine my shock when many years later I discovered how Barnes saw what sone guards were doing to me. Turns out that was too much and he called the ACLU.
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@NYCAIC
@RAPPcampaign
Once a person is placed in solitary confinement, all 5 senses are assaulted on a daily, unending basis and it’s been proven that to affect one of our senses can cause a change in the thinking and actions of a human. So, all 5 senses? It leaves its scars on everyone, “forever!”
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Hello everyone, here is the last segment of several segments that will air at a later date. My interview was with Thomas on Thomas Freeme podcast and You Tube. Check it out and pls feel free to share!
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he ate a bunch of his nut meds then ate a bunch of Ajax and bars of state soap and choked to death. It sickens me how we must do battle with fellow humans over the issue of solitary confinement. You dont need studies to prove that solitary confinement prolonged brings about
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deal with and suffered, but I’m not comparing hurts , and sufferings, I’m merely articulating how prison can and does impact the psyche of all who serve yrs in prison. The longer, usually the worse it scars us. The programs prisons offer need serious revisions. A major overhaul.
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Top 10 Prisoners Forgotten In Isolation via
@YouTube
. This interestingly enough, was sent to me by I don’t know, but I come in at number nine
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Man. Just had some rough breaks in life. I came to understand because in my own way on another level, I had been contemplating my sunset. And it is a deeply personal and private matter. Those who choose their sunset don’t deserve to be judged as weak and or as cowards. It takes a
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Here’s something I’ve never told anyone, not even my, most trusted confidant, Mary B.
Every morning that I awoke in prison, I would say to myself…” though today I may die, I will know that I have given my all in my struggle to survive and overcome. That’s all I had to híleme
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@keribla
@solitarywatch
Prison administrators and prison guards néed to learn, that people are sent to prison, as punishment for their actions, they’re not sent to prison “for” punishment
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It is said that in every heart a story is told and that in every tear a lesson is learn. The question for me is did my story and tears begin to take me to my final path and destination. Were the lessons of my tears enough to make me face a hard truth? We must face what we refuse
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On the length of sentences courts give out for ‘case plead outs’ An original charge Carrie’s 10yrs but after the DA adds more charges, the possible sentence now Carrie’s 40yrs. Its called stacking charges. Its purpose is to force a chargee to plead out. It saves the state money.
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The future of our children, our sons and daughter’s, our futures rests solely upon our willingness to face the truths of our perceived realities .
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After 16yrs in that empty solitary confinement cell, i had broken free from the hell i was in. Ive no memory from 2008 until sometime in 2013. Nothing more to think, nothing more to say, so I slipped away to where emptiness became my peace and nothingness my only embrace.
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Hello everyone, forgive my absence as I’ve been deeply involved in the final edits of my book which I promise you, will be out before the new year and will be available for pre order. I’m dumb to technology so you’ll have to go to Mary Buser to get the real info. Keep faith!!!
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In my life I have experienced much of the ugliness that I believe is borne of evil itself. The fear I felt slowly turned to bitterness, then to resentment, next to anger, which gave way to hate, only to become a consuming rage that finally erupted in violence. Hatred is a poison
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Prisons are filled with the forgotten…solitary continent is filled with the forgotten of the forgotten
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These environments destroy minds forever in ways very few are able to understand and part of me is so glad of this fact for I order to really grasp it emotionally apart from intellectually means you were a victim of solitary. So few realize the depth of the inhumane treatment .
To place any child into solitary confinement for any reason is an act of depravity. It is a punishment that will in time develope into a psychosis and it’s torturous infliction is life lasting. I know as I spent 22years and thirty six days in an empty cell.
#stop
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Solitary confinement is without question a punishment with such devastating psychological affects that it’s torture is immeasurable. Those who impose and inflict its use are in truth guilty of crimes against humanity
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News update. It’s official. My book, “NEVER TO SURRENDER “ will be available on Amazon. Things are slowed up due to the holidays but, soon people. Soon. And merry Christmas to everyone and if I’m being politically incorrect in saying, merry Christmas, we’ll, I’m not a politician
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that we’re born human, it’s how we treat each other that makes us human. How can we, who share the same feelings though all our stories be different, be enemies and hate each other and harm each other. Humanity is powerful yet fragile and must be nurtured.
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@cellsecrets
Prisons themselves leave scars that last for life, but solitary confinement wounds so deeply that they never completely heal and we feel unwhole, incomplete.
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What happens to people in solitary confinement | Laura Rovner via
@YouTube
watch this video and please give your opinions
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@NYCAIC
@RAPPcampaign
How tragic is Kalief’s story. And there are more stories like his. The criminal justice system failed me back in 1974 and sent me to a max prison for a property crime. I only had to serve two yrs but I ended up spending 43 yrs in prison with 22 yrs in solitary confinement.
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Since my release from prison after 43 years straight, I’ve had many experiences, many of which I should have experienced as a child growing up but didn’t because at the old age of 18 I was sent to a max prison for ten years for a property crime. I didn’t get to grow up like
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In my observations, our technological growth has far exceeded our spiritual growth and that causes me grave concern.
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Saturday Night CELLBLOCK: Running across America in 100 days via
@YouTube
Why isn’t this young man’s endeavor in the name of criminal justice reform, receiving national attention? Because he’s doing it for “felons.”
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Speaking on behalf of 122,000 prisoners still rotting away in solitary confinement. My hell in solitary confinement and the suffering of “my” peers emboldens me o charge on in all our goals…to reveal the harsh truths about our U.S. prison systems. The truth “will “ shock you!
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In the struggle to end the practice of solitary confinement completely, countless studies have been conducted and has shown repeatedly to assault the five human senses and disrupts one’s mental,psychological and emotional well-being and ultimately, prolonged, for years, destroys
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I hear you brother!!!
To the men and women who are trapped in captivity enduring the punishment of a retributive system, and to the men and women released from captivity who bear the scars from the lashes of inhumanity left on their souls during the years of isolation, we say: Hang On!
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In solitary who killed themselves. I’ve watched sound, strong and clear minds become forever broken to this reality we all share. Even in victory I could never feel excitement as too many minds and lives have been lost to this TORTURE called, solitary confinement. 4
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citizens of society. We paid and many of us overpay our debts according to the law, yet we’re never truly embraced and accepted back into free society because we “broke the law.” Where does the punishment end and the revenge begin? Is there ever any real forgivenes? A big questin
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To act without moral honor and integrity, is to make ourselves guilty of a moral crime which only God has the ability to forgive,
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In Texas as well as Nevada, prisoners are going on hunger strikes to protest the declining quality of food such as rotten, moldy food and solitary confinement. What many don’t realise is that prior to the protests, kites galore go in but are ignored. It escalates. Always does.
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And last for this days posts, during my testimony before Nevada’s Senate Judiciary Committee in regard to SB187, that if we came together, just once to start and spoke the truths that only those who have worked and lived inside know, we could make real and lasting changes.
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I recently tweeted about, “rehabilitation,”and how in prison, the only true, rehabilitation is within the individuals who grow tired of their lifestyles and change from within, but that’s not as easy as it sounds for in prisons, their operations alone make it hard for one a
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that exist. Our society is lost in fear and desperation and they cling to the fomises they make which is wholly self servicing. Parents, hear my pleas, your sons and daughters are not always lying to you about their claims. Prisons create criminal activity
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Greetings my friends. Please know that my absence isn’t any reflection of my passion for real prison reform. I’ve just been busy staying afloat and finishing up my book although it’s Mary Buser who deserves all the praise as she has gone far and beyond any hopes or expectations
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towards each other and there was almost no social respect that we learn to give everyone. That was gone. I felt like humanity had severely been lost and that our end might be from a missle strike but not before we lost all our humanity. I’ve learned that it’s not enough that #
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NYSCOBA should investigate the Colorado prison system as they have done away with solitary confinement and replaced it with programs that actually work. Violence is down and solitary no longer exists in Colorado. Seriously, Colorado has sucussfully done away with solitary.
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To place any child into solitary confinement for any reason is an act of depravity. It is a punishment that will in time develope into a psychosis and it’s torturous infliction is life lasting. I know as I spent 22years and thirty six days in an empty cell.
#stop
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