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A Dialogue of the Deaf
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Education vs. Incarceration
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before Six Failing Grade: Basic Education at StatevilleBy Joseph DoleWith all of the talk about prison reform and a refocus on rehabilitation over the past...
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The Symptoms of Our Illness
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before Six We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of...
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Nothing Is As Simple As It Seems
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Welcome To Prison
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Hunger Games
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before Six By Jeremiah BourgeoisMy hands were cuffed tightly behind my back, hurting my wrists. The shackles were also biting into my ankles. Five minutes...
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Desensitized
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before Six Desensitized (Part 1)By Michael "Yasir" Belt“We are in the real world in which we can´t change the changed.” – Robert DayAnother one bites the dust....
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Standing Resolute Against the Atonal Banshee of Emerging Egomania
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Thomas Bartlett WhitakerIt's not completely accurate to say that authors write the articles or essays that bear their bylines. In a very real way,...
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He’s Not a Joke Anymore: The Rise of Trump and Why He Must Fall.
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Rosendo Rodriguez III“Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing and life does not.” Neil GaimanWhat...
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In the Shadow of Death
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To Be Useful
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Isaac SweetThe vacuum cleaner started making a loud, obnoxious noise. It smelled like something was burning. Frustrated, Mom shut it off and...
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I'm Telling You So, Again
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LWOP After Death
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixBy Donald Ray YoungYes, I would like to see Prop 62, the Justice that Works Act,passed this 08 November 2016. Prop 62 will eradicate...
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Indefinite Dicipline
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Still Life, with Contraband
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The Biggest Loser
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixA story by Timothy PauleyPony Morrow was a big lump of goo. In fact, he´d picked up his nickname way back in juvenile detention because even as a...
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The Riving
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All Our Times Have Come
Please make a donation to support Minutes Before SixDear Readers, On behalf of all of us at Minutes Before Six, I would like to express our gratitude for your support and contributions. Those of you...
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Control
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