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- Title
- Last chance agreement
- Author
- Arterberry, Richard W.
- Date
- 2019-01
- Pages
- 9 pages
- Text (O)
- "LAST CHANCE AGREEMENT" I started thinking about my mental health during my first year on Death Row in 1976. The prisoners within earshot seemed to be holding up well. No moaning, screaming cliches' associated with a mental breakdown. I thought everyone was okay. I was wrong. We were under extreme stress. Of course we knew this. We had no clue what stress was doing to us. Since we had limited access to other human beings there was no way to compare what was in our minds to th...
- PID
- apw:12357755
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-10-28T20:32:02.587Z
- Title
- Meeting with the new warden
- Author
- Arterberry, Richard W.
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (O)
- "Meeting With The New Warden" About ten days after I sent the accompanying letter (Redacted Letter To The Warden), our New Warden summoned me on the institution loudspeaker system. Of course everyone thought I was going to the hole due to the odd nature of the announcement. Just Prior to this meeting, another mentally ill prisoner, in crisis, was placed in the hole. He did not make it to a cell, crisis or otherwise. He hung himself in a recreation cage, in full View of staff and pri...
- PID
- apw:12357396
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-10-28T20:19:47.098Z
- Title
- My first week of relative freedom: Release from Ohio's death row
- Author
- Arterberry, Richard W.
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Text (O)
- "MY FIRST WEEK OF RELATIVE FREEDOM" "RELEASE FROM OHIO�S DEATH ROW" Soon alter my release from Death Row I went to L-5 Cell. Block, at the infamous Southern Ohio Correctional. Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, 80 cells, 160 men, two per cell, twice the number of prisoners the facility was built to accommodate, safely. The State does not concerning itself with, "safely". L- 5 was mostly maintenance workers. I knew a few people there from the free world, members of the...
- PID
- apw:12358275
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T18:55:04.514Z
- Title
- Ohio prison legends
- Author
- Arterberry, Richard W.
- Pages
- 10 pages
- Text (O)
- "OHIO PEISON LEGENDS" A legend Is either a person, story or both. There are few prison legends now. The computer has fact checked and time has faded them out of existence. Stories about the "old days" are met with disbelief and derision. The rest were beat down. Those few prisoners who stand out, stand for something, those who rebel, use their minds to fight in the court of law or public opinion, or inconvenience, are obliterated. Their friends are crushed for good measure...
- PID
- apw:12358264
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T18:54:45.457Z
- Title
- Redacted letter to the warden
- Author
- Arterberry, Richard W.
- Date
- 2017-03
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Text (O)
- "REDACTED LETTER TO THE WARDEN" (Death In A Faith Based Prison) March 12,2017 Dear Warden: I am housed in 0-Dorm and was acquainted with Mr.A ____ _“. Below are some of my thoughts and observations concerning his death. I am in no way a ring leader. There is no "ring" to lead or organization to influence or lead. I am just attempting to make sense of what just happened absent any acknowledgment or input from M“_ staff. I have not yet shared this letter with any staff or pr...
- PID
- apw:12357390
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-10-28T20:19:32.017Z
- Title
- They don't like to talk about that
- Author
- Arterberry, Richard W.
- Date
- 2019-01
- Pages
- 8 pages
- Text (O)
- "They Don't Like To Talk About That" I was content living out the rest of my 20—to—life sentence. VI have 44 years of it already complete, how much more can there be? I no longer attend my futile parole hearings. I have come to terms. Then they killed Louie. A prisoner, person, who lived in the bed across from mine. I didn't know him very well. He was somewhat irritating. Early in the morning someone woke us up and said that they killed Louie. Louie had a bad reaction when...
- PID
- apw:12357765
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-10-28T20:32:23.396Z
- Title
- Thump therapy
- Author
- Arterberry, Richard W.
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (O)
- "Thump Therapy" When I returned to the county jail from court after receiving the Death Penalty a guard asked if I needed a cigarette? No, I said, I'm Good. He said maybe I should start. I was saving smoking for when things got real bad. Guards, not yet elevated to the status of Correctional Officer (C/O), were called HACKS (Hillbilly Asshole Carrying Keys) or Turnkey, self explanatory or Roller (for the police cars the real cops rolled in) or 6-5 (never understood that one) or...
- PID
- apw:12357400
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-10-28T20:19:58.012Z