Border Clashes: Roxie & Maurice & Jamal

Jackson, Michigan, 1987, and the place is Jackson Prison, then the largest walled prison in the world. Destiny brings two people, Roxie McFadden and Maurice Wilkerson, together from different American subcultures with lethal results. The Michigan State Police have completed their investigation and we know what happened and ostensibly who is to blame. The Michigan Department of Corrections assigns a Warden from another prison to conduct an administrative investigation on how such a tragedy could happen. After his administrative investigation is done and submitted, the Warden is plagued by the question of why Maurice did what he did. To find the answer the Warden meets with Maurice Wilkerson and another prisoner, Jamal-X, and in the process discovers that Maurice may have been a convenient scapegoat for all their sins. You decide! This is a non-fiction short story (8,870 words) about violence, sex, and deadly race relations in America.