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- Title
- Assaulting Dave
- Author
- Barrett, Jacob
- Pages
- 9 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Jacob Barrett 3405 Deer Park Dr. S.E. Salem Oregon 97310 Assaulting Dave [I]n the History of humankind every act of destruction meets its response, sooner or later, in an act of creation. Eduardo Galeano Uruguayan journalist, Writer, and novelist I arrived at the Oregon State Correctional Institution (OSCI) on December 12, 1995. I was 20 years old. I was walked through the intake process in robot fashion. Ushered into a side room with 10 other prisoners it is small and cramped with all of us ...
- PID
- apw:12362252
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:27:15.314Z
- Title
- Factories of fiction
- Author
- Barrett, Jacob
- Pages
- 7 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Jacob Barrett 3405 Deer Park Dr. S.E. Salem Oregon 97310 Factories of Fiction A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. Raymond Chandler (1888-1947) O Pioneer! Pt. 2, ch. 4 (1913) Prisons are factories of fiction. Stories are told and retold with every version getting more graphic, more violent, more brutal and more menacing. Every story carries with it some hidden message from the storyteller to the audience at immediate hand. Some mythmakers salt their own stories before the n...
- PID
- apw:12362065
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:23:49.625Z
- Title
- Gangs in prison
- Author
- Barrett, Jacob
- Pages
- 15 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Jacob Barrett 3405 Deer Park Dr. S.E. Salem Oregon 97310 Gangs in Prison When I first entered the Oregon prison system there were no organized street or prison gangs. There were a few gangs around: Bloods and Crips, Norteño's and Sureño's, Nation of Islam Muslims, Skinheads, and various white power groups, but none of these were in conflict with each other and they weren't organized by any stretch of the imagination. Unlike in California prisons where Hispanic gangs like the No...
- PID
- apw:12363319
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:46:08.279Z
- Title
- Oregon then
- Author
- Barrett, Jacob
- Pages
- 9 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Jacob Barrett 3405 Deer Park Dr. S.E. Salem Oregon 97310 Oregon Then Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Ralf Waldo Emerson (1803-1939) The Dance of Life, ch. 7 (1923). When Oregon enacted its Constitution in 1859 it enshrined in its articles the belief that "[l]aws for the punishment of crime shall be founded upon principles of reformation, and not of vindictive justice."1 In 1963, the Oregon Supreme Court explained what this constitutional provision meant, stating: Ref...
- PID
- apw:12362055
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:23:37.799Z
- Title
- Prison culture
- Author
- Barrett, Jacob
- Pages
- 8 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Jacob Barrett 3405 Deer Park Dr. S.E. Salem Oregon 97310 Prison Culture Erving Goffman1 defines a complete institution as "[a] basic social arrangement in modern society in that the individual tends to sleep, play, and work in different places, with different co-participants, under different authorities, and without an over-all plan. In addition, the central feature of total institutions is they involve breakdown of the barriers ordinarily separating these three spheres of life.2 Prison,...
- PID
- apw:12362139
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:25:12.442Z
- Title
- Shit as a weapon
- Author
- Barrett, Jacob
- Pages
- 7 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Jacob Barrett 3405 Deer Park Dr. S.E. Salem, Oregon 97310 Shit as a Weapon Human feces is an ever-present weapon in IMU. It is the nuclear weapon of solitary. A weapon people generally know is a constant threat but aren't willing to use themselves. But for some it is their weapon of choice. They smear shit in the showerhead, on cuff ports, or sling it on pieces of state issued soap. There is the ever present threat of being shit bombed. Shit bombs are carefully mixed concoctions of shit ...
- PID
- apw:12363290
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:45:35.149Z
- Title
- Solitary
- Author
- Barrett, Jacob
- Pages
- 14 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Jacob Barrett 3405 Deer Park Dr. S.E. Salem, Oregon 97310 Solitary My experience with solitary confinement began the moment I was booked into county jail and isolated but it wouldn't be until I assaulted Dave that the journey through hell really began. I'm not sure how I would describe my experience in solitary. While I have heard some prisoners describe it as a living death I don't think that articulates the experience because death is a finality, a release from life in which ...
- PID
- apw:12362401
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:29:46.656Z
- Title
- Thunder dome
- Author
- Barrett, Jacob
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Jacob Barrett 3405 Deer Park Dr. S.E. Salem Oregon 97310 Thunder Dome On April 15, 1996, after spending 4 months in DSU for assaulting Dave, I was moved to the Oregon State Penitentiary's Intensive Management Unit (IMU). The IMU was Oregon's first venture into the "supermax" solitary confinement craze, which became the norm in the U.S. penological practice in the 1990's. Prisoners immediately dubbed it "the Thunder Dome". The Thunder Dome is a non-descript t...
- PID
- apw:12362416
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:30:03.882Z
- Title
- Time to feed the animals
- Author
- Barrett, Jacob
- Pages
- 13 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Jacob Barrett 3405 Deer Park Dr. S.E. Salem Oregon 97310 Time to Feed the Animals "Time to feed the animals!" a guard barks as the pod door opens. I hear that at least twice a day when the officers bring our meals. It's a reminder of exactly how they look at me. I am an animal in a cage. I start to internalize the belief that this is my existence. If they see me as an animal I must be. The food is stacked in neat rows on large open metal racks. Each tray is a light yellow plast...
- PID
- apw:12363305
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:45:51.845Z
- Title
- Volunteering to die
- Author
- Barrett, Jacob
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Jacob Barrett 3405 Deer Park Dr. S.E. Salem Oregon 97310 Volunteering to Die In 1996, a drama is playing out over the death penalty as I lay there on my bunk in IMU. Two men are preparing to die within months of each other: Douglas Franklin Wright and Harry Charles Moore. Both are volunteering to be executed and both wanted to make a public spectacle of it before the needle puts their lights out for good. I have front row seats to the shit show the state and these two condemned felons are abo...
- PID
- apw:12363298
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:45:44.113Z
- Title
- Wild Bill
- Author
- Barrett, Jacob
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Jacob Barrett 3405 Deer Park Dr. S.E. Salem Oregon 97310 Wild Bill One of the more unusual characters in the Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP) Intensive Management Unit (IMU) was a man known simply as "Wild Bill". He was a child molester who was in his late 60's but walked and talked as if he were in his late 90's. He was a notorious door kicker and denizen of A-Pod who spent his time annoying and talking shit to other prisoners. He would never leave IMU A-pod willingly. It ...
- PID
- apw:12363284
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:45:29.279Z
- Title
- Youth and prison culture
- Author
- Barrett, Jacob
- Pages
- 16 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Jacob Barrett 3405 Deer Park Dr. S.E. Salem Oregon 97310 Youth and Prison Culture In 1994 I walked into the system a teen and spent the next several decades being raised by the system. For the next decade the men I shared my space with and the guards that watched over me would become the systems version of foster parents. While my immaturity was written on my face and in my behavior in the systems eyes I was an adult because I met the definition of an "adult" based on a hard line dr...
- PID
- apw:12362148
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:25:22.771Z