Inside Voices

Mel- “Nanita” Nan- “Hi Weesh - whatchya been?” Mel- “Missin you” Nan- “I Miss you More than Everything in the whole World” Mel- “Aww,...

I find that the more ugliness I am surrounded by, the more attentive I am to beauty. I am torn. I am (payching) out to avoid transferring...

Oh rats…     In the country we don’t have field mice, we have “field rats.” My husband, Kenny, is a good ole’ country boy, barn raised in...

If you’re going to live in this house around my girls, things are going to be done my way. You can’t eat, what makes you think you can...

…The place I am at, I am forced to be on a “routine.” Individuality is not permitted. For the most part. Each day I do something...

I was fortunate to receive some of my most memorable do’s and don’ts from the woman who raised me, my great aunt R.I.P. -Come in the...

Rotten eggs or destiny? I tried to resign myself to never having my own child to hold. I had lost so much, too much, over and over the...

Don’t stop till you hear ten! That’s what your grandma said about booking up a car. I don’t get it. Of course you don’t – you’re growing...

“Time, time, time… Linear time, doing time, time-out time, quiet time, prayer time Time for chow, rec, legal mail, 9 o’clock call outs…...

Put the call-out in on Friday for Monday even if it is not your responsibility. Clean your ears; you cannot save the world so stop...

The streets are full of angry silent men., women and children. I am happy to be a part of this movement. The men are happy they have not...

The moment I was told that I was being charged with ngg. Balt. I knew I was innocent but not completely blameless. Life has no way of...

Last to receive our rights. Yet, we have always been the first to stand up and fight. We Naturally embrace and shape any persons aims and...

Being told how to live What to eat and How to respond to a situation. Are factors that prisoners deal with. Prisoner of what...

Cleveland Police Department Officer shot kid with play gun. The T.V. is my playground. A shopping center of sorts. So when, I see...

Born and breed to procreate and Submit to my husband, also Know as the head of my family. In my mind just as much my jailor as the prison...

Something so huge, life altering, so scary slowed down into what felt like it was being rewound by an outside source. In my mind I wasn’t...

2-13-15 Ileana T. Walker #T10331 Biography About Me: My name is Ileana T. Walker. I’m a 40 year old African American. I was born and...

State Pen is a bad reality show where reality sucks is too many women in one room is where unstable is the norm and being sane is...

Twenty-six Years is long and painful is training and preparation, growing learning teaching and being taught is being hungry eating...