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Sitting Year After Year

Me in the Arkansas prison system

by Lamar Moore December 17, 2021December 21, 2021

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Sitting Year After Year

by Lamar Moore, Prison Journalism Project
December 17, 2021

<h1>Sitting Year After Year</h1>
<p class="byline">by Lamar Moore, Prison Journalism Project <br />December 17, 2021</p>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://prisonjournalismproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/LamarMoore.MeART_.121321-1024x790.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-12360" /></figure>
<p>This art refers to me in the Arkansas prison system. I have 14 years left before I am free. </p>
<p>My prison has programs such as a substance abuse treatment program, a reentry progam called Think Legacy and a leadership program called Principles and Applications for Life (P.A.L.). The first two will not enroll me due to the long time I have left to serve. I wanted to go to vocational school at other prisons, but I was denied for that, too, because of the length of my time. </p>
<p>Me and a lot of the other long-time inmates have to just sit year after year doing nothing that will actually benefit our rehabilitation. Arkansas prison system classes are only open to short-term inmates, which I feel is unjust to guys who really want to join them. </p>


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This art refers to me in the Arkansas prison system. I have 14 years left before I am free.

My prison has programs such as a substance abuse treatment program, a reentry progam called Think Legacy and a leadership program called Principles and Applications for Life (P.A.L.). The first two will not enroll me due to the long time I have left to serve. I wanted to go to vocational school at other prisons, but I was denied for that, too, because of the length of my time.

Me and a lot of the other long-time inmates have to just sit year after year doing nothing that will actually benefit our rehabilitation. Arkansas prison system classes are only open to short-term inmates, which I feel is unjust to guys who really want to join them.

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Lamar Moore

Lamar "Shone" Moore is an artist and writer, who believes in the need for criminal justice and prison reform. He is incarcerated in Arkansas.

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