it makes you question religion. it makes you question politics. it makes you question anything you ever believed in. prison life can be especially hard for inmates like 24-year-old romeo hardin. my original conviction i came to prison at 15 years old for felony murder. and my sentence is life without possibility of parole. so, if i don t get any justice through the penal system, then i will die right here in this prison, probably in this cage. when he is not exercising, hardin spends his time writing poetry. poetry is one of the things that helps me cope with my confinement. it s like you can escape through your words, maybe no one hears them but you have them. i used to be a banger but now i
anamosa is a state penitentiary that houses hundreds of violent inmates. like most prisons, it s a place where faith is often in short supply. there is nothing in here. the best thing to do is to try to keep your mind as focused as possible so you don t every time you come in here, it takes a piece of you. i don t want it to take a piece of me where i don t have who i am anymore. it makes you question religion. it makes you question politics. it makes you question anything you ever believed in. prison life can be especially hard for inmates like 24-year-old romeo hardin. my original conviction i came to prison at 15 years old for felony murder. and my sentence is life without possibility of parole. so, if i don t get any justice through the penal system, then i will die right here in this
prison, probably in this cage. when he is not exercising, hardin spends his time writing poetry. poetry is one of the things that helps me cope with my confinement. it s like you can escape through your words, maybe no one hears them but you have them. i used to be a banger but now i talk to the enemy in isolation, where walls become memories, memories become pain. pain becomes thunder soaked in the grief let it rain. life is death yet livable and continual. i was resenting, photographic reflections of lost times and psyche and imagination, ejaculating with passions of all kind. bound by concrete and steel. totally detached, i lost my that s called concrete and steel. in an effort to give inmates
place where faith is often in short supply. there is nothing in here. the best thing to do is to try to keep your mind as focused as possible so you don t every time you come in here, it takes a piece of you. i don t want it to take a piece of me where i don t have who i am anymore. it makes you question religion. it makes you question politics. it makes you question anything you ever believed in. prison life can be especially hard for inmates like 24-year-old romeo hardin. my original conviction, i came to prison at 15 years old for felony murder. and my sentence is life without possibility of parole. so if i don t get any justice through the penal system, then i will die right here in this prison, probably in this cage. when he s not exercising, hardin spends his time writing poetry. poetry is one of the things that helps me cope with my confinement. it s like you can escape through
i don t want it to take a piece of me where i don t have who i am anymore. it makes you question religion. it makes you question politics. it makes you question anything you ever believed in. prison life can be especially hard for inmates like 24-year-old romeo hardin. my original conviction i came to prison at 15 years old for felony murder. and my sentence is life without possibility of parole. so, if i don t get any justice through the penal system, then i will die right here in this prison, probably in this cage. when he is not exercising, hardin spends his time writing poetry. poetry is one of the things that helps me cope with my confinement. it s like you can escape through your words, maybe no one hears them but you have them. i used to be a banger but now i talk to the enemy in isolation, where walls become memories,