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![[audio:http://livesinfocus.org/files/audio/prison/arts2009/bianca.mp3|titles=Bianca on family & prison] (Link to mp3)](https://prison.livesinfocus.org/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Arts Competition Audio: Bianca on Family & Prison")
Arts Competition Audio: Bianca on Family & Prison
Posted on January 12, 2009 | No Comments[audio:http://livesinfocus.org/files/audio/prison/arts2009/bianca.mp3|titles=Bianca on family & prison] (Link to mp3) -
![“15 Years to Life – Self-Portrait” captures the emotional experience of the discovery when I realized that the best years of my life would be lost floundering in the belly of the beast. But my deeply felt pain and sense […]](https://cdn.nycitynewsservice.com/blogs.dir/133/files/2008/12/papa1-115x115.jpg "Arts Competition Painting: \"15 Years to Life\"")
Arts Competition Painting: "15 Years to Life"
Posted on December 22, 2008 | No Comments“15 Years to Life – Self-Portrait” captures the emotional experience of the discovery when I realized that the best years of my life would be lost floundering in the belly of the beast. But my deeply felt pain and sense […] -
Arts Competition Poem: Incarceration
Posted on December 15, 2008 | No Commentsi desperately want freedom. i perspire to cool myself off from the heat of being imprisoned by mental bars and walls. the correctional officers are clocks and the keys on their waists go tic…toc…tic…toc as they walk down D-block. “Who […] -
Arts Competition Drawing: Lost Souls
Posted on December 15, 2008 | No CommentsMy art work shows a girl writing about missing her dad who is in jail. The words show what she is feeling about her father: click to view full drawing -
Arts Competition Poem: Penal Patterns
Posted on December 8, 2008 | No CommentsPenal Patterns He moves from home to jail and home again Connected to God’s pendulum. He blames the world And especially the man. He swings at random. He enters lives. Several babies don’t know him. He borrows starts. His mother […] -
Arts Competition Essay: Thoughts Nowadays
Posted on December 8, 2008 | No CommentsAs I sit and think I only seem to be doing one thing and that is going in circles. I am a lost dog with no destiny. I find this way of life dull or unclear. I am unable to […] -
Arts Competition Poem: Incarcerated
Posted on December 8, 2008 | No CommentsThe first time I got locked up I knew it was a plan, I knew who was and who wasn’t ma manz, I’m incarcerated, I go to court sit down and my moms is waiting, Now I’m locked up living […] -
Arts competition submissions to be posted this week
Posted on December 8, 2008 | No CommentsPeople who have an incarcerated family member naturally cycle through a range of difficult emotions as the years slowly pass. Some express their sadness, anxiety and fear or hope for the future through art, music or poetry. To honor that […] -
2008 Family Life Behind Bars Arts Competition Entry Form
Posted on August 2, 2008 | No CommentsClick here to complete: 2008 Arts Competition