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Essay from Al Cunningham on California's Death Row "Underneath My Bed--A Monster Waits"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

I received this essay from Al Cunningham a few months ago. After reading the article in today's NY Times about an impending execution to take place at San Quentin this Wednesday, I thought this would be the time to post it. Other writing by Al Cunningham is on the Real Cost of Prisons website (www.realcostofprisons.org) and then to the section "Writing from Prison." Al Cunningham Box E-22600 San Quentin, CA 94974 January 1, 2000 Underneath My Bed-A Monster Waits It is not uncommon that children often tend to believe that a monster lives underneath their bed. For me, the latest transformation in my present existence is something which is an everyday belief in the face of the reality which confronts me. Equally terrifying and destructive in my present state of mind is the fact that for me, this monster really does exist, because just five floors below me is the chamber where that monster lives...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 25, 2010 (boomark / email).