Amateur that I was, I harvested a slice of skin worthy of grafting. When my mother discovered my wound, she provided the few tips needed to qualify me for authorized use of a razor by a minor. I used my new license to shave every day for almost 30 years, until I met York CI where the warden considers all tools of hair removal to be weapons — aside from factory-reject electric razors and Nair bottled in The act of shaving was never a nuisance or a preference for me; it was automatic.
For Prisoners Masculine Beauty Brings Power - VICE
The visitors centre at Port Phillip Prison is sterile. The walls are hung with crude signs illustrating the difference between modest and immodest clothing. The passive aggressive demands of the prison officers heighten the tension. Everyone is weathered down by procedure.
10 former inmates describe their experiences of being in a women's prison
In North Korea, No. Here, a North Korean prison camp survivor walks us through her difficult journey in a North Korean prison and shares how God stayed with her through so much brutality. Her story is difficult to read but also important as we pray fervently and specifically with these secret believers in North Korea. Every morning at 8 a. When I stand up, I must keep my head down.
For my own part I had not the slightest interest in fighting as first it was not my country and second I always believed, perhaps naively, in the power of peaceful protest. I just wanted to be there to help document what was happening. As night fell, many of the protesters, frustrated by years of police brutality and corruption, began to rip up paving stones to arm themselves against the armed security forces who were using live ammunition in a brutal attempt to clear the Square.