Enrique Bautista describes the highs and lows of celebrating Christmas while incarcerated Christmas was my favorite holiday growing up. It was natural for me, as a little kid who still believed in Santa Claus, to feel “the Christmas spirit.” The merriment ...
8 Dec 2021 - Enrique Bautista
Enrique Bautista describes enduring the hole Sometimes truth and reality are complete strangers, and not to each other, but to those of us who haven’t bothered to look or haven’t been met with the truth yet. But I’ve been in the trenches. I’ve seen it. I’ ...
4 Aug 2021 - Enrique Bautista
Everybody celebrates in a different way Enrique Bautista is an incarcerated person at Snake River Correctional Institution in Eastern Oregon. He is a periodic contributor to Street Roots. Dec. 22. It is the day after my birthday. I am now 35 years old. I ...
22 Feb 2019 - Enrique Bautista
She ‘surpasses in importance even the harshest of mistreatments and living conditions in prison,’ Enrique says Enrique is an inmate at Oregon State Penitentiary who enjoys writing, drawing, reading and learning about history, religion and places. He says ...
13 Oct 2017 - Enrique Bautista