{"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 Their pockets are filled by stealing our lives They could have intervened and sent me to rehab Instead they waited Then suited up to grab [&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,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2449","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_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}]}}