“Immigrants in our own land”- Jimmy Santiago

After reading this poem made me realize that people done a lot of stuff to go to jail but come out a better person after it may not be as scary or as how people discribe it. Although many people will arguee that jail is still a bad place no matter if they come out a new person. First, in the poem he says that “at the gates we are giving news papers, our old cloths are taken away” and i think he means that people get treated differently. second, he says “ some will die and others will go on living with out a soul, a future, or a reason to live” and i think he means that ur old self dies and u become a new person or u stay the same but have no where to go.However, Despite the other people stuck in jail with them make it harder and more violent and just make person sound more scary then it already dose. Third, Jimmy learns how to read and write english in person and people find peace with in them self. Aditionly, some of the best poems are created in jail no just in a office. In conclusion, they shouldn’t aways look at the bad part of it and not make it sound scary with out know what’s goes down inside them.