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Title
As she lay
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
As She Lay 9/2/19 "It is with tremendous sadness and under unfortunate circumstances in which this writing arises. However, the deceased no longer have a voice; so I will speak out of respect for the young lady that recently passed away from a drug overdose. At the very moment I sat writing my last essay, there was a young lady in distress. Fighting for the very breath which would become her last before the age of thirty. Right here inside this physical prison. Worse, she was in the ment...
PID
apw:12359024
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:14:11.847Z
Title
End the suffering
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Date
2018-12-28
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
12/28/18 End The Suffering “The prison population continues to rise at an alarming rate. And sadly, many of those entering the system for the first time, and repeat offenses alike, suffer from mental illness. Some cases more severe than others; but they are all suffering nonetheless. In reality, sometimes some of the crimes committed are by those with mental illnesses. Unfortunately there is not much help for them out there, and definitely not within the jails or prisons. So when they commit ...
PID
apw:12356585
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:12:56.701Z
Title
How could I forget?
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
How Could I Forget? The other day I had to tell my mother to dry her eyes, to please stop crying as I read her the letter I wrote to the Governor begging for my freedom after serving fifteen years of a twenty-two year sentence for second-degree murder, and a felony hit-and-run. All for something that I honestly did not mean to do. Something that should never have been labelled murder. But it was. And for this, I received a total sentence of thirty years with eight suspended to serve out in a ...
PID
apw:12362429
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:30:17.49Z
Title
In 2017 Harold Clarke
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
8 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[No Title] 1 In 2017, Harold Clarke, the Director of the Department of Corrections for the state of Virginia, appeared on the Charlottesville news station stating that the institutions in this state were five hundred officers short than what is necessary to maintain order within the prisons. Five hundred officers! That is a farcical amount! It makes one curious to know the reason for such a shortage. Is there a quandary within Virginia's Department of Corrections? There must be something...
PID
apw:12355252
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T19:52:24.725Z
Title
My name is Chanell Burnette
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
My name is Chanell Burnette To whom it may concern: My name is Chanell Burnette and I am currently an offender at Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women. I write to you in regards to the inadequate medical care that we women are receiving here at this institution. l have been housed at this facility since 2006 and am aware of the class action lawsuit filed against this facility and, and to date have seen no improvements in the quality of care that we have been receiving. For some of us, this ...
PID
apw:12353447
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T19:50:20.278Z
Title
No response for the unresponsive
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
No Response for the Unresponsive "Why do people use drugs?" Maybe the inescapable pain of reality. Maybe past hurts or regrets. Maybe reasons unknown to anyone but themselves. Could be a combination; a myriad of things. We have each had our ups and downs. Our own trials and tribulations. Our own experiences; be they good or bad, we've all had them. That is part of being human. That is part of life, for which there is no escape. Or, maybe there is. Not any one of us can escape t...
PID
apw:12358658
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:04:43.788Z
Title
The agony of defeat
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Date
2020-08-27
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"The Agony of Defeat" 8/27/20 How many have ever had feelings of despondency? Defenselessness? Vulnerability? Well, these feelings are not at all uncommon amongst prisoners. We are all too familiar with them, unfortunately. These feelings have solidified into a harsh reality for those of us within these concrete prison walls. However great our needs may be, we are brushed aside and our needs made microscopic, or even invisible altogether. We no longer matter as all we have become is...
PID
apw:12363087
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:41:56.364Z
Title
The call for reformation
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"The Call for Reformation" I have experienced firsthand, the need for criminal justice and prison reform within the state of Virginia during the fifteen years of my incarceration. Were I to list the many complaints of offenses done to us, the number would be too great. And yet they call us "the offenders." What of the offenses we suffer at the hands of this so-called justice system? Is it really justice? Or just-us? Just us, against them? And I speak not presently in the t...
PID
apw:12361530
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:04:25.487Z
Title
The monster in the closet
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Date
2020-05-14
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The Monster In the Closet 5/14/20 How many women have had to be afraid and hide from the monster in the closet? Who is this monster, you ask? None other than these domestic abuser. I, myself, was once afraid of the monster cowering from a coward. Domestic violence affects lives at a staggering rate. Some women become survivors, yet sadly too many become just another victim labeled a violent offender and given a state identification number with seven digits and the stigma of a criminal. Regard...
PID
apw:12361968
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:22:07.321Z
Title
The red, unfortunate, and blue
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Date
2020-07-24
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The Red, Unfortunate, and Blue 7/24/20 "Today my Eighth Amendment rights were violated by a healthcare provider here in prison. I am unable to utilize the word professional because her conduct was anything but that. The word provider is inappropriate as well, as her actions were cruel and unusual. The two operative words - heath, and care, are combined for a reason. However, Nurse Practitioner Cason had no regard for my health, and not a care for what I feel on a daily basis. I suffer fr...
PID
apw:12362670
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:34:27.64Z
Title
The red, unfortunate, and blue: Part II
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Date
2020-09-07
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The Red, Unfortunate, and Blue: Part II 9/7/20 For those of you who read my essay "The Red, Unfortunate, and Blue," thank you so much! This essay will be part two of such, in which I will report the results of a survey I conducted here at the prison about the medical care that we receive: The Red Team vs. The Blue Team. I will begin by listing the comments that a few women made. All chose to remain anonymous except one person, Mrs. Andrea, a patient of the Blue Team who stated: &quo...
PID
apw:12363093
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:42:02.938Z
Title
When all hope is lost
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Date
2019-05-23
Pages
8 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"When All Hope is Lost" 5/23/19 "What happens when people lose hope? Whether we're free, or whether we're bound by the heavy physical chains of incarceration, what happens? And how do they gain it back? Although I may not have the answer to that question, I do know that it is possible. When I look around at some of these women, my heart breaks for them! They have lost hope. They are simply existing in a state of perpetual hopelessness and it's so sad. They are no...
PID
apw:12357984
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:39:31.325Z
Title
When the old style isn't working
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
8 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"When the Old Style Isn't Working" 2/15/19 As the saying goes "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". But what if it is? Then what do you do? That tells me that if the old style isn't working, find a new one. What I have found is that the Department of Corrections prefers a "quick fix" as opposed to finding a real solution. Why is that? So many outcomes would be different if they would simply try a new approach. Many lives could be saved. Many woul...
PID
apw:12356662
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:38:00.998Z
Title
Where is the money?
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
8 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[No Title] (Where is the money?) "In the state of Virginia, and prisons nationwide, Keefe Commissary Network has become the leading most profitable industry supplying not only food items, but hygiene products as well. In recent years, our privilege of purchasing items from authorized outside vendors has been eliminated and items supposedly similar are now provided by Keefe. I feel that this was another stratagem to keep the wealth within the prison retail market. The articles offered by ...
PID
apw:12355317
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T19:55:56.086Z
Title
Why do good?
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
“Why Do Good?” "During this thirteen year span of incarceration here, I have never seen so much time wasted! Card games, meaningless relationships, no motivation to work or to take advantage of all the free education provided, are only some of the concerns that should be addressed instead of placing the focus on so many trivial elements. Why such a lack of motivation; and what can be done to change the mind-set of the prison population? These questions can produce no simple answers. This...
PID
apw:12356561
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:12:08.747Z
Title
Will we ever see a neurodemocracy?
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"Will We Ever See A Neurodemocracy?" "Finally it is being speculated why blameworthiness could be the wrong question to ask when a crime is committed. Finally they have arrived where the judicial system should have been too many years ago. How is one to be held accountable for their actions if the biology of their brain has been altered by some circumstance? The answer lies in a forward moving brain-compatible legal system. This is defined as a Neurodemocracy. This is a fresh a...
PID
apw:12359715
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:31:32.66Z