Sentences with phrase «written by an inmate»

I obtained access to a September 5 letter (the hurricane made its second landfall near Beaumont on August 30), written by an inmate in the Special Housing Unit of USP Beaumont to his mother.

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«Impropriety in the Texas prison system goes unnoticed by museum visitors, making contemporary inmate battles for human rights seem unwarranted,» she reportedly wrote.

And yet, here I was standing in a maximum security prison talking to a male inmate about how profoundly he'd been impacted by the writing of Ann Voskamp.»

The suit was originally filed by the Legal Aid Society, and was eventually joined by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who wrote in a scathing report that there was a «culture of violence» against inmates in the city jails.

«In such case death by suffocation would occur in a paralyzed inmate fully aware of the progressive suffocation and potassium - induced sensation of burning,» the researchers write.

That last point brought home by the passionate, energizing way she spoke about her work with the Prison Project, which brings writing and Commedia dell» Arte performance to prisons, and where, as Piven put it, inmates are starving for this new way of interacting with others and of expressing themselves.

The organization PEN America runs a Prison Writing Program where mentors critique inmates» writing bWriting Program where mentors critique inmates» writing bwriting by mail.