Christopher J Scarver

The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison Christopher J Scarver

Its tone is heated, in contrast to his prior publications. He says it is because the environment has a way of influencing the poet's pen particularly in prison. It reflects some of the irritating aspects of incarceration and it reflects the ways that Americans, from time to time, reveal that there is, at least, two unequal forms of justice. One for the rich and privileged and the other for the poor. As well as the one within the prison system which caters to Christen prisoners but violates the rights of prisoners of other faiths. The bottom line of it is that poverty is the common pathway to prison. Once there, opportunistic forces attempt to further take what little these people have and give it to the more privileged.