This book is an anthology of poems written by residents in jails and prisons in United States. Originally these poems were written by inmates for inmates, but the values of these poems are also for the free-people who decide about their life independently from the State. These poems have been written in cells of concrete and steel, by people who learned how to express their emotions perhaps for the first time. Jails and Prisons do transform men and women into men and women better than what they were before entering them. For the inmates that submerge themselves to the penance of putting their inside-feelings on paper, life in jail changes them. What these poets write is worthy of our reading. Intense and suffered poetry touches the receiving reader no less than the confessing writer. This treasure of the poetry of a special kind of human beings in captivity is truly capable of speaking to the people who walk freely in society.