‘Everyday Feels Like a Battle’: Serving Time Away From Home
By Deanno
I wanted to talk a bit more about my day-to-day experience in regards to where I’m at mentally due to my situation.
About Time dedicates many of its pages to publishing the letters of people in prison, as well as from their family and friends.
This is the centrepiece of the paper: a platform for people to share their experiences and learn from each other.
I wanted to talk a bit more about my day-to-day experience in regards to where I’m at mentally due to my situation.
I want to change my ways and always be there for her, like she has done for me.
Just thought I would send in two photos of what I have been up to during my time in prison.
Finding information relating to Commonwealth Parole or people able to provide correct advice has proven challenging since I was sentenced.
I am writing as I saw my partner’s article and it inspired me. This is probably my millionth time in prison, and time stands still.
How do we escape the trap of feeling worse rather than better?
We want top quality proteins, supplements and items for our health. But we can’t buy what we want, need and like.
For me writing is a powerful tool that helps with my mental health.
It’s a huge safety issue. The steps are metal with no grip tape on the step, so if you slip you could injure yourself.
I wanted to write about the lockdowns we have been subjected to and how it’s not getting any better.
I write to extend feedback – re: your monthly paper. I must say that it was with more than the usual measuring spoon of interest that most here @ MRC welcomed its arrival.
12 months into being remanded in custody. I’m still yet to be sentenced – hence I can’t see the end at all.
Why would anybody want to come back to the system and add to that statistic?

We have an active veterans’ affairs type meeting here every month and an outside group called “Buddy Up” that sends two of their volunteers in.

I’m only 23 years old but I feel like I’m 43. Being in prison definitely preserves your body but makes your mind and soul feel so much older if you know what I mean.

I’ve been in prison for 14 years now, and lockdowns have always been a feature of prison life, but I have also noticed that over the years they have gotten worse and worse.

Has anybody purchased a watch recently or in the past and wondered what happens when the battery dies?

My name is Greg, I am 60 years old and I have spent almost 48 years in various institutions and prisons.

We will all have our freedom one day, so until then keep your head up, you got this and take it one day at a time.

My name is Maude. I am a young Jabbir Jabbir woman – I was born in Broome, Western Australia.

I’ve now been in for over a year – it’s my first (and last) time in. I still haven’t been sentenced but my lawyer has told me I’ll be doing a “substantial” sentence.

If you feel like you’ve lost everything and have nothing to look forward to, it is very important that you don’t lose hope for your life.


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