Incarcerated
Teens in the system reflect on what it feels like to be incarcerated.
![the word "black" surrounded by black paint covering the image](https://www.teenbubbler.org/sites/www.teenbubbler.org/files/images/header/black.jpg)
I just wrote the word black, and then covered my paper in black, because I felt like I was in the dark, yeah, felt depressed, shit. I felt shitty cause you couldn’t do nothin’ now, I was locked up. Police, police yank ya, so, mm hmm.
![Bloodshot Illustration bloodshot eye](https://www.teenbubbler.org/sites/www.teenbubbler.org/files/creations/images/bloodshot.jpg)
I got a bloodshot eye here, cause I guess whenever I get angry my eyes get bloodshot. I kinda got some what like the red coming into my eye, cause I guess like when I get mad I kinda, like the anger I guess takes over a little part of me, I kinda lose myself to the anger, so, I guess that’s what I got.
![Juvenile Reception Center illustration of juvenile reception center](https://www.teenbubbler.org/sites/www.teenbubbler.org/files/creations/images/jrc2_0.jpg)
I drew JRC [juvenile reception center], because it be depressin, and I hate sittin’, that’s all (love me).
![Spaceship Jail drawing of spaceship jail](https://www.teenbubbler.org/sites/www.teenbubbler.org/files/creations/images/spaceshipjail.jpg)
I don’t know what I drew, I just drew it.
I guess this is like, they got like a spaceship jail
This is like a robot spaceship but it’s a jail
Then it’s like you look out the window, you see the stars and the moon
And then the sun is a mass of linkadinkin guys, a nuclear furnace
This is a box to freedom
And if you open a box, I guess there’ll be a passage out
Then this the Jewish star, and just like a circle, just a circle
That’s about it
![](https://www.teenbubbler.org/sites/www.teenbubbler.org/files/images/list-icon/notfree_0.jpg)
You know I’m angry cause I’m not free. And the green line, is for like, the police, you know they only want me for the money, cause you know, we a dollar sign. And the fire on the words, is like my anger and stuff, and ah, yeah.