Prison Poet
✍Prison Poet✍ By Dominic Brogsdale To my youngstas, and adolescents, watch ya homies! To the innocent people in prison, STAY STRONG ! Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm. (Proverbs 13:20) Over his four decades in prison, Phillips turned to art to occupy his heart and mind, painting watercolors in his cell with supplies purchased by selling handmade greeting cards to other inmates (“After 45 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment, an Artist Sells His Paintings To Get By” by Sarah Rose Sharp. Retrieved from Hyperallergic) Dominic first went to a juvenile correctional facility at 14 years of age after being arrested for armed robbery. But after he entered an adult prison at 16, he says that correctional officers allowed other prisoners to enter his cell and sexually assault him. “I had to endure gang members trying to rape me, like actually breaking into my prison cell—the cell that I was supposed to be protected in