Communication

26Jul07

A true moment of panic: you are in the bathroom, and someone has just knocked on the door.
What do you say?
Really, anything at all would work. A noise, a grunt, any word. They just want to know if someone is in there, and all you have to do is signal “yes, someone is in here”. [...]

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More Pride, Less Prejudice

25Jul07

A few weekends ago, Larisa, Wayne, and I went to Lime Cay for a much needed break. The beach, which I’ll describe in more detail in a later post, is really gorgeous–white sand, green lime trees, crystal sparkling blue water. It’s all but deserted during the week, but on weekends the well-to-do of Kingston pour [...]

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Tags: Class, Culture, fuckery, Jamaica, pride

Behind These Prison Walls, Pt. 2

19Jul07

Photo by Wayne&Wax
Outside Ft. Augusta Adult Correctional Centre, the climate is almost beautiful enough to make you forget that you are outside a prison. Located just outside of Kingston in the neighboring parish of St. Catherine, the oceanside fortress was originally built by the English in the 1740s to serve as Kingston’s main defense [...]

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Behind These Prison Walls, Pt. 1

09Jul07

I’ve neglected this blog for a long time, but now I will use it to talk about my very interesting summer job: prison rehabilitation in Kingston, Jamaica.
The group I’m working with, Students Expressing Truth (SET), operates in three different institutions around Kingston, and they’re all drastically different from each other. I’ll try to describe all [...]

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Tags: Jamaica, jamaican prison, prison, tower street