by Prison Story Project | Jan 12, 2019 | Writing
I Was Trying To Describe You…(compilation of responses about lovers based on a prompt give to women incarcerated at Northwest Arkansas Community Correction Center) “I was trying to describe you to someone recently… How it felt to be with a man like...
by Prison Story Project | Jan 12, 2019 | Writing
These writings were from eight women incarcerated at NWACC in 2016. The prison does not allow us to use their real names. They chose the following pseudonyms: “Jake”, “Sunnie”, “Tink”, “Hope Cobain”,...
by Prison Story Project | Jan 12, 2019 | Writing
Twenty men at RLWCC participated in a two-day storytelling/creative writing intensive in 2016. The prison would not allow us to publish their names They Say you Can’t They say you can’t be who you really are. You have to leave that at the door. They want...
by Prison Story Project | May 18, 2018 | Writing
When my mother hated me, she’d call the whole family And tell them what I had done this time. She’d call my in-laws and tell them not to let me See my kids. When my mother hated me, she’d disappear. I would walk the streets and knock on every door....
by Prison Story Project | May 18, 2018 | Writing
In the middle of nowhere The river runs through the deep woods The grass is greener than I have ever seen A pond in the middle of five acres Where the horses and dogs drink together Chickens run free in the yard in front of A four bedroom, white house with a large...
by Prison Story Project | May 18, 2018 | Writing
Concrete walls, Concrete floors, Frosted plastic window panels. Half a picnic table against the wall. These walls are white, but if you step into the halls There’s more scenery than you could imagine. At one end of the concrete hall there is a calendar painted....
