Tag Archives: jail

Excerpt from Jeff Ragsdale’s “All I Need is Plutonium”

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Jeff Ragsdale

A refreshingly insensitive look at being drunk, high, gun-toting, and arrested. Continue reading →

Posted in Literature, Memoir | Tagged adderall, all i need is plutonium, breast feeding in jail, brett easton ellis, drinking, drugs, drunks, excerpt, FBI, jail, james dean, jeff ragsdale, lonely, staying away from brett easton ellis | Leave a comment

Prisons In America: Incarceration as Political Philosophy

Posted on October 23, 2015 by Sean Beaudoin and Meg Worden

In the second installment of this 2-part series, Sean Beaudoin and Meg Worden discuss the prison system in America, looking at the Prison Industrial Complex as a highly intentional system of control, as well as a rarely-examined political philosophy. Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir, Philosophy, Politics | Tagged America, DNA, incarceration, injustice, jail, justice, MDMA, Meg Worden, penal system, Prison Industrial Complex, prison population, prison system, sentence, sentencing guidelines, solitary confinement | Leave a comment

Sunday Light and Word – Nothing was a Prize

Posted on June 21, 2015 by Hank Cherry

Searching the angles of chance Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bartenders, Bridge, Cop Car, could be anywhere, Garbage truck, guitar, Hank Cherry Photography, jail, Jimmy, passenger window, photopoems, prize, Rain, Running out of chances, Story, tapped kegs, Wide collared shirts | Leave a comment

Sunday Light and Word – Creeping Spiritual Bullshit Keeps Saving My Ass

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Hank Cherry

Searching the angles of chance Continue reading →

Posted in Sunday Light and Word | Tagged addiction, Atlanta, Bad Liver, Baltimore, basements, Buddha, dogs, Half Way House, Health problems, jail, Kicking and screaming, New Orleans, New Year, partners, Spirituality | 1 Comment

In The Drunk Tank

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Brandon Claycomb

Brandon Claycomb spends the night in a Kentucky jail so that you don’t have to. Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir | Tagged brandon claycomb, cops, Drunk Tank, jail, jail cell, kentucky, police, suspended license, ticket | Leave a comment

Sunday Light and Word – Bars on All Our Windows

Posted on June 22, 2014 by Hank Cherry

“Searching the angles of chance” Continue reading →

Posted in Sunday Light and Word | Tagged bars, Blonde hair, carved up tree, confinement, Corruption of youth, drugs, Freedom, Jaguar, jail, Louisiana, mud, New Orleans, Probation, shoes, Short timer, Sunday Light and Word, Sunday Sermon, Tent city | Leave a comment

Something Happened

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Michael A. Gonzales

Back in Hagerstown, Md, Michael Gonzales finds something like the African-American Last Picture Show waiting for him… Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir | Tagged crack, family, Hagerstown Md, jail, The Last Picture Show | 2 Comments