Howls From Ironwood
Since the summer of 2023, Jinx has been facilitating education and reentry preparation through social-emotional learning, creating art, and empathy projects for small groups inside the walls of Ironwood State Prison as part of the Howler Project's 'Way of Stains' program. These are some of the Howls we have heard and choose to celebrate.
Ostracized, expelled, overlooked and rejected.
Shunned, discarded, neglected and excluded.
These are metaphoric words that are synonymous with the feelings of an inmate serving an L.W.O.P.
Can a sentence of life without the possibility of parole really be deemed justifiable and does it hold any merit? A more suitable question to ask would be, “What is considered to be justice, and by what standard is it being applied?” Justice is defined as the principle of moral rightness and fairness. Any reasonable person can see that the ideology of justice does not apply to a sentence of L.W.O.P. nor is it applicable to the psychological ramifications that a sentence of this caliber unleashes on those [subjected] to such punishment.
L.W.O.P. is dehumanizing, degrading, and humiliating. It will leave a person feeling depressed, worthless, and abandoned. The mortifying feeling of emptiness can set a path of destruction for anyone entering a diabolical system of drugs, violence, and prison politics. L.W.O.P. is broken, it is malicious, and is by any means not justifiable.
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"Save Me" -Israel Gomez
My name is Isaac Morquecho,
I was born and raised in Mexico. As a teenager looking for a better future, I went against the advice of my parents and other relatives. I decided to quit school and migrate to the U.S.
Finding myself alone, without proper guidance and support from my family, and not knowing how to deal with my fears, insecurities, and past traumas, I began gravitating toward negative influences, leading me to the wrong path. By the age of 18, I had already developed addictions to alcohol and drugs. Soon, I became a member of one of the many criminal and violent gangs established in the city of Boyle Heights on the East Side of Los Angeles.
In 2005, I was arrested for a murder I had committed three years earlier. I was convicted and sentenced to serve a 40-years to life in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. During my criminal career, I was involved in organized crime, drug selling, violence, prison politics, and murder.
Like many other convicts in the CDCR system, I had to go through a complex and lengthy process of change.
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"Herencia Azteca" -Isaac Morquecho
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