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While locked away in Alcatraz and other federal prisons during the 1930s and 1940s, Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson lived in near-total isolation.

In solitary confinement, with nothing but time and memory, he began writing poetry by hand.

The poems weren’t about power or crime.
They were about loneliness, race, regret, and lost time.

Bumpy Johnson never intended them to be read. They weren’t written for fame or legacy. They were written to survive the silence.

After his death in 1968 at age 62, historians uncovered these writings—not as literature, but as evidence that even the hardest men carried deep, private pain.

Some stories don’t shout.
They whisper from a cell.

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