Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 9

This is part of a portfolio of work that appeared in Poetry’s December 2020 issue and is excerpted from Carving Out Rights from Inside the Prison Industrial Complex (Hat & Beard Press, 2020), a collection of poems and essays about human rights accompanied by foam block prints of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by artists at Stateville Prison, edited by Tara Betts, Aaron Hughes, and Sarah Ross. Find the rest of the portfolio here.