The following are responses from a prompt, "Cell Living," which was chosen from taking ideas from the men in H-Unit and choosing one from a hat.

I'm not in a cell yet*, but cell living is to me

an everyday challenge with the mind,

to be able to control your mind

with the stuff you can't control

Occupy the mind

 -S.L.

 

*"Not in a cell yet" refers to the fact that the writer is in jail waiting to go to prison, where you get your own cell.

Cell living sucks, I hate it!

Listening to fake war stories

Eating crappy food

talking to family on the phone

getting letters without writing letters

watching the same movies over and over

Doing the same shit every day

Boring

Getting tattoos

thinking about life

Hearing the radio

roasting on fools

trying not to sleep all day

eating

canteen

waiting to hear a good song all day

I want to go home

or to prison

-A.C.

Living in a cell sucks because you don't have your own bed from the streets, your own sink or toilet. All you have now is bunk with a small mattress and a chrome sink and toilet between a bunch of us. I guess we just have to make the best out of it though.

-R.B.