Lockdown Day 6 (June 16, 2007)
In life you learn from experience. The vicissitudes of life prepare and propel us into manhood. However, in prison there are no life experiences. Everything is structured and routine. If one does not take the time for self development, he is doomed.
Imagine this conundrum, a boy comes to prison at the age of 17. Stays in prison until he is 40 and then is paroled and still is at the age of 17. Physically he is 40 but mentally he is still 17. He still desires the things he did as a child. From the clothes he desires, to the music to the women! I had one homie tell me when he get out, he is going to spring break! I almost died laughing inside because he was serious...
The only way to solve this problem is self development. The state can put all the school classes inside the prison it wants. Until the individual takes time for self development, he can not progress. Most guys go to school only for bragging rights. They do not attempt to retain the knowledge they are taught. As Dante said: "There is not knowledge without retention".
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this is your cousin T
haddeus and man i really didnt know that your perception of prison was so deep. That is somewhere that i dont want to end up. Cuz you said there is knowledge without retention and i truly believe in that. I finally paid the price and learned from as well the negative things that can affect your future. Im tryin to get on the right track. just believe me . Love cuz,
ps your daughter looked great going to school. and I finally enrolled myself back into school. i'm really thinking vaguely about becoming a lab rat in any situation that america has set up for us.
My nephew,
Continue to education yourself.
Frances
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