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Rikers Story Bot
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Collaborative coding & storytelling proj from & xpmethod.plaintext.in linking CU Stdts and Incarcerated Yng Ppl to learn coding & tell Stories
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No love when you’re behind walls #sixwordmemoir
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We never have time to talk to our people #phonesonallnight
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You got people that depend on you, so you cant give up
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The nightmare rehappens incarceration in a cell. When we'll come out, we will never tell.
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I’m going to college when I get out of here #itdoesntendhere
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our program worked on the first ty!!
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Where's the millions?
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F*** I woke up in the morning like damn I got to wash my clothes this morning.
If i had a millions dollars it would be a dream come true..
My choice isn’t yours think again #sixwordmemoir
Red alarms everyday lock down in the cell is an issue #dontknowwhatibeenthru
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SMH I can’t believe I’m in jail #mamawasright
That movie candycandy has a alesson behind it. "A family can be built anywhere
turnning people into data
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Does Our Past Determine & Deprive Our Future...?
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Every Saturday I walk in here knowing I'll get to leave in just a few hours. Could my temporary presence be painful?
Write, draw everything God shows you #sixwordmemoir
#Justbecauseimblack don’t mean I’m broke.
Friends will eventually turn into enemies #sixwordmemoir
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Looking at 15 years for my first offense #imnotacriminal
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I’m defined by more than my choices #nostatiscslivehere
slashings and fights get you known #browniepoints
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We read some bell hooks together w the Columbia group-- wonder if we should be reading it w the young ppl @ Rikers too?
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All the textbooks remind me of my middle school and early high school days.
I wanna go home right now! #notnowbutrightnow
Quietly MIA in the war on the way our 3rd world democracy [I'm not sure if this is what's actually written...-Zainab]
Today we woke up before the chicken cawed. We walked to our usual tables to eat our cardboard bread with processed Jelly.
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Humans occupy these cells #nostatisticslivehere
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I sat in chairs just like this when I was in high school.
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I’m brilliant #youasmartintelligentblackman
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We made community agreements and then found things we had in common: younger siblings, beach city origins... then we built a neighborhood.
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Same crime, different sentences #ineedtobetreatedequally
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Salute me or shoot me
She always told me jail isn’t a fun place #mommawasright
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Department of Corrections or Department of Courption?
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Ideally, this bot wouldn't exist because Rikers wouldn't exist. #Rikersisnthome
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