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- Collection: Sheltering Justice: Stories from the Intersection of COVID-19 and Mass Incarceration
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We Saw It Coming
"Re: The routine of inmates from one wing of a prison unit that's been under lockdown for over 3-months and how they're coping."
Untitled testimony on TDCJ health conditions
"General account of lack of common sense on part of the TDCJ system and its employees and health care staff."
Uncaring People Inside
"A letter telling how uncaring people at Price Daniel Unit don't care about inmate's lives."
Tortured Human
"Life experiences as a tortured human in prolong isolation/ AdSeg/Restricted Housing/Sheltered Housing- all the same with different names."
Texas Department of Criminal Failure
"A condensed overview of how and why the Texas Prison System continues to fail."
Texas Ad-Seg / Covid-19 / Seg Lives Matter
"Discrimination by TDCJ in reference to how (restrictive housing/ad seg 'offenders') are treated and closed off from family and education."
Social Distancing is a Joke
"Workers must violate social distancing in the kitchen then return to wings all over the prison. Covid-19 prevention is a joke at Allred Unit."
Series of Poems
#1: The Broken System
#2: The Least
#3: "It's Like"
#4: The Way Forward
#5: Change
#6: A Day in Prison
Series of poems
Spoken Word
Lyrical
Spoken Word
Lyrical
Our Pandemic
"The pandemic has changed a lot of things but won't change human nature."
Oppression of TDCJ Prison
"How we are being oppressed daily in Prison!"
Now You Know World
"I wrote this while under medical lockdown due to the corona-virus epidemic after hearing the struggles many people 'outside the walls' were having with the whole being quarantined in their houses. I felt the world got a small idea of what it's like…
Letter from Lily Archuleta
A letter from Lily Archuleta to Texas After Violence Project and the Inside Books Project Archive. Lily describes her experience contracting Covid-19 in a Texas prison, dealing with isolation during her illness, and lack of of visitation with her…
Kitchen, or Hell?
"To work in a kitchen in prison is a worst nightmare."
"Note: Ingles is not my first language, so you'll find a bunch of mistakes but I would appreciate is someone could correct my work or just put it out like that."
"Note: Ingles is not my first language, so you'll find a bunch of mistakes but I would appreciate is someone could correct my work or just put it out like that."
Innocence Lost
"True story of my life's consequences."
Effects Covid Caused
"My perspective and experience in prison during the pandemic"
Covid-19 in Lockhart Private Prison
"Covid-19: A prisoner's perspective"
Covid and K-2 Pandemic
"A sound description of my experience with COVID-19 and K-2 while incarcerated"
Covid 19 Runs Wild on the Stiles Unit
"Exposé about some of the conditions that allowed Covid 19 to spread so thoroughly/personal battle with Covid 19"
Coping With Covid-19
picture and poem from Larry Harris