Introducing Rapheal Mitchell

Opening up a can of good worms!

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Salutations! My name is Rapheal Mitchell. I was born on November 9th, 1982; making me a Scorpio and 35 years old. I have been incarcerated for the last 16 years. I left society in 2001;where if you had a flip phone you were really doing well. I consider myself to be a compassionate funny intellectual. Prison has not jaded me, but refined the quality of man I am. I stay connected to current events, and would love to engage in many topics. From our President Donald Trump(yes I said “our”)or politics in general. Maybe on being a black openly gay male in prison, where gay is not in style. Maybe on this fact, if we took all the people confined to the prison system, it would make the fourth largest city in America. So tap into my mental, humor, and insight. To get in touch with me you may go…

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