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The price of active pursuit of justice and human dignity is high
Danny Cherry Perdleton Correctional Facility 4490 West Reformatory Road Pendleton, IN 46064 July 8, 2020 Dear Editors, The price of active pursuit of justice and human dignity is high: The same 'enormously black offender' that...
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37 by Danny Cherry 37 by Danny Cherry pg. 1 My thirty-seventh birthday – February 18, 2020 – had been quite memorable; All things considered. The goddess Audrey Hepburn and I had eaten "Breakfast at...
Revolutionaries' waltz
Revolutionaries' Waltz by Danny Cherry pg. 1 I had grown weary of the square-dancing with Pendleton's bigots and sycophants -- my feet were yearning to dance the Waltz of Revolution; The steps of positive change....
Immortality becomes him
Immortality Becomes Him by Danny Cherry pg.1 The crown of prison reform could only be worn by an activist who's mind and body were able to bear its awful grace; I determined to be the...
Beautiful enemies
Beautiful Enemies by Danny Cherry pg. 1 I finally understood how sane women could have loved men like Christopher Columbus and Adolf Hitler; I had strong physical attractions to a few of Pendleton's tyrants. The...
The queer language-bender binding purgatory
The Queer Language-Bender Binding Purgatory by Danny Cherry pg. 1 The Queer Language-Bender Binding Purgatory by Danny Cherry pg. 1 I had recently been sending correspondences to various secretaries - of Education, of Health and...
An erudite's antirecidivism medications
An Erudite's Antirecidivism Medications by Danny Cherry As the virulence of recidivism continued to run rampant through the Indiana Department of Correction, I did not cease from combating it with cultural medicines; I refused to...
They spilled my tea
They Spilled My Tea By Danny Cherry I leaned over the side of Pendleton Infirmary’s hard, funky bed puking my guts out; those incompetent drecks did not have a clue what was wrong with me....
The unbreakable queen
The Unbreakable Queen by Danny Cherry I walked Pendleton's camp like Naomi Campbell; I was born to supermodel. The state's hideous brown onesie, and its innumerable haters, could not discourage me; I was over. Pendleton...
Concentration camp
Concentration Camp by Danny Cherry I imagined the inhumanity that Anne Frank witnessed and endured, as we chronic care prisoners were being herded through Pendleton's cafeteria to receive flu shots. Indescribable fear paralyzed me; medical...
Every member of the human
Danny Cherry IN 2-13-19 Dear APWA Editors, Every member of the human race is entitled to dignity and equality. That being said, I am not an "incarcerated [writer]," I am a writer who is incarcerated....
Advanced recidivism conditioning
Advanced Recidivism Conditioning by Danny Cherry I had been torn from my sleep again by the continuous music that had blared from multiple offender's tablets, since they had been introduced into the Indiana State Reformatory...
A cesspool full of drecks
A Cesspool Full of Drecks by Danny Cherry As I lay there in excruciating agony caused by the severe infection that had resulted from my untreated burns, I tried very hard not to cry. My...
The Indiana state recidivist conditioning center
The Indiana State Recidivist Conditioning Center by Danny Cherry I had been cast into the Dark Age where all that was missing was a fagot upon which to burn my faggot ass to a crisp...
Haters and hypocrisy
Haters and Hypocrisy by Danny Cherry The terror I felt when I rose and saw that my mail had been placed on my door’s port was so potent that it quickened me from my somnambulistic...
A Pollyanna in the penitentiary
A Pollyana in the Penitentiary by Danny Cherry As I sat reading Executive Regional Director Michael Osburn's response, I just shook my head and chuckled. I was way beyond the point of disgust given all...Loading...
