Stanley Wooley Jr. is a prolific poet and song-writer incarcerated at Winfield Correctional Facility. His spoken word poem, “Ignorant to the Law” explores the injustices that incarcerated folks experience at the hands of criminal law and its executors. Click here to listen to or read “Ignorant to the Law.”

In the first installment of Notes from a Jailhouse Lawyer, Terry Antalek from Ellsworth Correctional Facility explains the injustice of placing a fixed time limit for filing a federal habeas corpus petition. “Many newly convicted individuals are not even aware that habeas corpus remedies exist,” he writes. “Many attorneys never inform their convicted clients of these remedies. Often it's too late when the prisoner learns of these remedies.”