The Trouble With Prison Is Prison Itself

 In the first week of the "Incarceration's Witnesses: American Prison

 Writing" online course I found this letter. It was written by

 Kenneth E.Hartman from inside the

 California prison system. 

It is written so simply yet so deeply. The writer was

 not only able to look at his own experience, but he was 

also able to perceive the suffering of others around him, 

and I believethat what makes this so extraordinary is that

 people are always able to realize the suffering 

of their equals, but they might not be as sensitive to 

the suffering of people who belong to 

different social, economical and educational backgrounds. 

I have seen the inside of prisons in my work,

 and I was able to imagine everything he said

in this article. Those are people who were given

 no chances, and they have become those 

unrescuable persons who in some moments

 made me wary and reluctant.  

 

You can find the full text here 

This is a part of The Other Death Penalty Project that I

 will get back to in order to read more.