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  The Fire Inside
 Issue 16 - December 2000

< Dedication
 
< Reality in the SHU
 
< $350,000 Award to Sherrie Chapman
 
< Victory in the Battle Against the Board of Prison Terms
 
< Legal Corner: Close the SHU!
 
< Editorial: Cruel and Inhuman: Shut the SHU Down!
 
< Legislative Hearings: Speaking Truth to Power
 
< Legislative Hearings: Women Prisoners Tell It Like It Is
 
< Legislative Hearings: Battered Women Speak
 
< Haiku from Writers Workshop
 
< Battered Women Get Parole Release
 
< Prison
 
< Theresa Cruz Denied Parole
 
< New organization to help women prisoners
 
< Sara Jane Olson - Targeted by the Los Angeles Police
 
       

Haiku from Writers Workshop

by Patricia Coyne, FCI Dublin


Slave lines of ants march
through the key hole of my door
I'm more free than they.

~~~~

The pink sun turns our
Prison into Hallmark
Disney-like pastels.

~~~~

Inmates thirst for love
They drink it in each other
Like sugar water.


Last updated August 19, 2003 11:33 AM


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