{"id":2449,"date":"2025-07-07T19:36:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T23:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/aclr-online\/perspectives\/another-day-locked-away\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T19:39:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T23:39:27","slug":"another-day-locked-away","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/aclr-online\/perspectives\/another-day-locked-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Day Locked Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>As I collected bands<br \/>\nI unknowingly had an agency of fans<br \/>\nTracking and taking snapshots of me<br \/>\nFilling their lives full of glee<br \/>\nWhy does our government watch our demise<br \/>\nTheir pockets are filled by stealing our lives<br \/>\nThey could have intervened and sent me to rehab<br \/>\nInstead they waited<br \/>\nThen suited up to grab<br \/>\nTen years they gave<br \/>\nBut forever their slave<br \/>\nKeep your head up they say<br \/>\nAnother day locked away<br \/>\nReading books to pass the time<br \/>\nNo funding available to reprogram the mind<br \/>\nKeep your head up they say<br \/>\nAnother day locked away<br \/>\nLocked in a cell for 23 hours<br \/>\nLet out for 1 hour to shower<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sober now and ask myself how<br \/>\nThey watched me throw my life away<br \/>\nKeep your head up they say<br \/>\nAnother day locked away<br \/>\nStaying strong with my daughter to thank<br \/>\nShe filled my heart with her love tank<br \/>\nThe scars they left will never fade<br \/>\nMost days I am still afraid<br \/>\nThe PTSD is here to stay<br \/>\nKeep your head up they say<br \/>\nFor even after our release is yet<br \/>\nAnother day locked away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/07\/ANOTHER-DAY-LOCKED-AWAY-FINAL.pdf\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I collected bands I unknowingly had an agency of fans Tracking and taking snapshots of me Filling their lives full of glee Why does our government watch our demise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15439,"featured_media":0,"parent":1671,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-2449","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2449\/revisions\/2453"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}