The prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane
 Is the ultimate expression of injustice
 and inhumanity in the society at large.
 Those of us on the outside do not like
 to think of wardens and guards as our surrogates, yet they are.
 And they are intimately locked in a deadly embrace
 with their human captives behind prison walls.
 By extension, so are we.
 The terrible double meaning is thus imparted
 to the original question of human ethics
 "I my brother's keeper?"

 The second of [bad word]  1980
 Began three days of misery
 scene of retaliation
 Epitomizing violence, horror, and vindication
 Thieves, murderers, and rapists
 Inundated their prison like homicidal sadists
 Convict and guards alike would pay the price
 To them the electric chair would look like paradise
 Only degradation, torture, and cremation would suffice

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 sea of agony rolled in like [bad word] of the tide
 The more fortunate escaped the insanity through suicide
 The screams of the dying would haunt the living to the grave
 Survivors of the riot relive the nightmare every day
 The last act of defiance

 With a never-ending appetite
 Barbiturates set them off like dynamite
 Eradicating informants
 Acetylene torches dealt the punishment
 Melted from skin to bone
 The fire silenced their screams to moans
 Smoke filled the air from bodies set aflame
 Begging for mercy, but their words were spoken in vain
 They weren't allowed to perish until they cherished all the pain

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 Guards they had taken hostage
 Were to blame for pushing them over the edge
 Their [bad word] would be their demise
 Like sharks in a frenzy they lashed out at their prize
 When the madness had ended
 The gore was too intense to [bad word] 
 No one explained the real reason why
 For [bad word] of a few, so many should die
 They knew of the flaws, but still insist the cause was justified

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