Constantly writing these letters re-inforces your inner consciousness to solidify your internal change beyond mere words. Your focus is no longer your immediate isolation, therefore your thinking is not controlled.

Knowing you are from your history and culture gives you self pride and respect. But you must take this to another level in reaching to the outside with a positive mission.

This is the power to survive these hell holes, because your ability to know who you are as a people and your ability in thinking outside the walls take away these barbarians' control over your existence and your mind.

Like I said, many of these individuals I have seen give up or/and break themselves knew their history and were very politically conscious and had many applicable valid ideas to revitalize our communities. Their biggest problems was they never took the conversation and ideas outside of the isolated areas. They made absolutely no attempt to make contact with the outside. Soon they became bored with hearing only themselves, and those around them began to view them as good conversationalists with no actions behind their words. Their thinking stayed contained within the isolated walls and soon isolation consumed them.

The pointers I have shared with those reading this document have worked for me well, have kept me focused and, most importantly, they have kept me real and above prison.

Paul Redd
California

Focus on Surviving! Not Dying!

Yes! Some prison officials are in prisons, doing some very wrong things to people. But we must not! respond with actions! that will open avenues for these same prison officials, to have justified reasons to escalate their wrongs directed at us, to a level of critical wrong doing, and fatal wrong doing. That's what they want to do. Therefore, they are constantly! applying constant effort! to create Attica type situations. So they can kill people on a massive level. And say, it was done in response to the wrongs of the people.

Diplomacy! Is a means of survival; it doesn't mean you're scared.

Survival! Should be our main focus.

Yes!

Some of us are done very bad here. Very, very, bad. But focus on surviving these wrongs. By means of your intelligence, discipline, and your diplomacy. This is not the 50's, it is not the 60's, the 70's nor the 80's. We are almost at the thousands. We are within the age of diplomacy and litigation. Therefore! we are obligated to our efforts! to survive. It's not being a coward! It's not living in fear! It's survival.

Yes!

We have to accept things we don't like. Even certain amounts of disrespect will have to be tolerated. Each individual has to judge for themselves, what is acceptable. And what is not! acceptable. Let your wisdom, your discipline and your intelligence, guide your actions and responds. Not! your anger, your hostility, or your dislikeful feelings, for the wrong things they do to you.

Yes!

Many of us are being done wrong. Some! are being done worse! than others. But always focus on your main objective. And your main objective whenever in situations as this should be survival! For those that cannot get out. Your victory can be survival today! With hopes of getting to better prison environments tomorrow. Or surviving this