The State of Missouri also punishes the families and friends of the inmates. Read the letter from Patricia Prewitt showing how they do it. Letter from Patricia Prewitt to Bryan Goeke, Missouri DOC Zone Director
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have every moment of your day controlled by an instituion? Read the Interoffice Memorandum for Housing Unit 8: Housing Unit 8 offender council meeting of January 23, 2002
Prisoners in the United States have found that when they are seeking justice in the federal court system, they are treated no better than the slave of the nineteenth century:
In 1853 abolitionist William Goodell searingly observed that the slave becomes "'a person' whenever he is to to punished! . . . He is under the control of law, though unprotected by law, and can know law only as an enemy, and not as a friend." American Slave Code, 309. See Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860 by Thomas D. Morris (1996).
