Something’s In The Air
by The AVA
Prison is a hustler’s paradise where only the strong survive. It’s full of buyers and sellers and everyone is a con-artist.
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Prison Letters
Life Inside
by The AVA
Editor, On October 24, 2011, I was taken out on a medical transport to San Joaquin hospital and the following took place. We were transported with a set of leg irons and a chain around the waist that goes in between your legs and then is hooked by what they call the block box which [...]
Awesome Wordology
by The AVA
Dear AVA, I don’t know what all the fuss is about. “Awesome” is the most phenomenally iconic word ever. Actually I buried and mourned it long ago, interred it with a host of other cheapened, diluted, inflated, and perverted superlatives, though not without some serious regret and resentment. I’m a word guy and I will [...]
Dreaming Of Kryptonite
by The AVA
Editor, In watching across the lobby of the local clinic I see two little girls and a boy playing at a table with Plato and all the accessories that go along with it. There are great big smiles on their faces. I know those smiles, although I don’t know the children in front of me, [...]
Free Sub, The Hard Way
by The AVA
Dear AVA, Were I asked at any point in my life where I saw myself at the age of 51, the answer would invariably have been: Dead. Not from any romantic notion about leaving a good-looking corpse (that ship has sailed) or being just too good for this earth (ha!) or the awareness that the [...]
Mutual Combat, Not Murder
by The AVA
Editor: Please sir help me by posting my cry for help in the AVA for a few weeks to come as my life is in the hands of this county’s judicial system and Linda Thompson. Thank you kindly. I am writing in regards to what the Mendocino County Sheriffs office has told you (I imagine). [...]
Where’s My Meds, Mitch?
by The AVA
Dear Mr. Anderson, Greetings from San Quentin where I am serving four months for parole violation. I am humbly and respectfully asking for a free subscription to your newspaper which I have been a fan of and read for 20 years. Thank you kindly. A brief comment on Michael Johnson’s encounter with the on-site manager [...]
Welcome To Hell
by The AVA
Dear Editor, Tehachapi State Prison. Thanks so much for the subscription the last eight months. It’s really helped keep me in touch with the outside world and my mind off my daily struggles behind bars. If you can find it in your hearts to renew my subscription it would be greatly appreciated. You will never [...]
Hope For The Addicted
by The AVA
Editor, I’m writing to say thank you for all you’ve done for me and the others who benefit from your terrific newspaper. I’m also writing as a rebuttal of the piece you carried on Frances Seymour who is a very nice and caring person because I know her and I also fight the disease of [...]
Life With The Lifers
by The AVA
AVA, This is Tony B., still at San Quentin Hotel, Resort and Spa (SQHRS), live with the lifers, still having a great time. I am so glad I’m here. It’s Friday night and I still haven’t recieved a single copy of your great paper. So I’m a little bit depressed. I know it’s not your [...]
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