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Title: 16 years since inception.
Author: Martinez, Brandon
Date: 2010-08-25
Date: 2010-08-25, 2010-08-25
Pages: 3 pages
State: California
Text (TR): 1 Brandon Martinez Word Count: 1,253 August 25, 2010 (NO TITLE) 16 years since inception. Been locked down in the department of correction entered the prison gate. Had no idea what would be my fate. Slangin the rocks from the triple beam. Was just a young buck having fun. Didnt realize what the cost of packing a gun. As I heard the iron gates rattle. Prepared for every twist and turn of the battle. For a life sentence surely I was doomed living in obscurity in a cocoon. Would I lose my mind. ...
PID: apw:176
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T17:52:37.443Z

Title: 2014 legislative will prove whether policy makers have gotten smart on crime
Author: Marshall, Ronald
Date: 2014-03-19
Date: 2014-03-19, 2014-03-19
Pages: 2 pages
State: Louisiana
Topics: recidivism, mandatory sentencing, minimum sentencing
Text (FT): 2014 Legislative Session Will Prove Whether Policy Makers Have Gotten Smart on Crime By Roland Marshall Only time will reveal whether the 2014 Legislative Session will mark a sincere effort by Louisiana's lawmakers to reform sentencing laws so that offenders can have a meaningful opportunity to get off the count. At the behest of the Jindal administration, four organizations joined in a collective effort to analyze criminal justice data/ statistics and offer options to assist Louisiana l...
PID: apw:12341353
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T14:32:57.658Z

Title: 2nd class citizens assert 1st Amendment rights
Author: Arroyo, Bryant
Date: 2015-10-31
Date: 2015-10-31, 2015-10-31
Pages: 2 pages
State: Pennsylvania
Topics: Tom Corebett, Victim Crimes Act, HB2533, SB508, first amendment
Text (TR_WF): 2nd Class Citizens Assert 1st Amendment Rights Col. Writ. 11/14/14 Copyright Bryant Arroyo In the dead of the night Gov. Tom Corbett huddled with the choir of the legislature and the rest of his cronies (FOP) whom introduced an invidious, unconstitutional 'Chilling Effect' tantamount to a 'civil choke hold.' Gov. Corbett signed both HB2533 & SB508 on Oct. 3, 2014, which is legally unprecedented and has far-reaching implications that specifically targets and impacts for...
PID: apw:12341601
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-29T21:47:08.573Z

Title: A brief summary of the demise of the Colorado Dept. of Corrections and poor drug offender reform
Author: Darris, Stephan
Date: 2014-04-28
Date: 2014-04-28, 2014-04-28
Pages: 6 pages
State: Colorado
Text (FT): A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE DEMISE OF THE COLORADO DEPT . OF CORRECTIONS AND POOR DRUG OFFENDER REFORM by: Stephan Darris While incarcerated in the state of Colorado I think it' s fair to say that your past dictates your future . I am not a lifer or a violent offe nder. I am a repeat drug offender that has witnessed some of the most vile atrocity ' s that the system can deliver. I think that most people in this institution live under propaganda, false hope, and make believe promises. It ...
PID: apw:288
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:25:24.791Z

Title: A person cannot become who they need to be by remaining who they are!!
Author: Purkey, Wesley I.
Date: 2014-03-18
Date: 2014-03-18, 2014-03-18
Pages: 2 pages
State: Indiana
Topics: life lessons
Text (FT): --"A PERSON CANNOT BECOME WHO THEY NEED TO BE BY REMAINING WHO THEY ARE!!" By Wesley I. Purkey, Federal Death Row. My great Aunt Ga-ga who adopted me when I was kid, who didn't weigh a buckfiVe soak and wet, inundated me with an assemblage of words of wisdom, which has left an indelibte imprint on me. These "golden sayings" were generally flaunted when she was trying to school me on the importance of obtaining and continuing my education, and the need for learning fro...
PID: apw:12341395
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T15:04:38.45Z

Title: A practical approach to prison reform
Author: Whitlock, Mick
Date: 2010-02-23
Date: 2010-02-23, 2010-02-23
Pages: 9 pages
State: Indiana
Topics: Reform
Text (TR_WF): A Practical Approach to Prison Reform As we progress further into the twenty-first century, one thing is clear: serious changes need to be made to the American prison system. America has become a society with the highest incarceration rate of any nation in the world. And with well over two million men and women in America's prisons, there are more people incarcerated in the United States than any other country. In an age of record budget deficits and massive national debt, it would appea...
PID: apw:304
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:23:43.457Z

Title: A renaissance
Author: Whetzel, Stephen
Date: 2010-07-20
Date: 2010-07-20, 2010-07-20
Pages: 12 pages
State: Indiana
Topics: pen pals, psychiatric aid, confessional, personal story
Text (FT): A Renaissance by Stephen Whetzel Page 1 of 12 It started with a visit to the psychologist. Behind the ominous, gray, concrete wall surrounding the Indiana State Reformatory, not many areas existed where one could go to in order to escape the late summer heat. That old maximum-security prison, a place born of a harsher time, was never known for comforts. Therefore, whether or not I felt the need for a counseling session with Eric, my psychologist and substance abuse counselor, I looked forward...
PID: apw:12341322
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T12:48:43.808Z

Title: A vision for the future
Author: Whitlock, Mick
Date: 2010-08-25
Date: 2010-08-25, 2010-08-25
Pages: 7 pages
State: Indiana
Topics: Reform
Text (TR_WF): A Vision For the Future By Mick Whitlock As the steel door slammed shut behind me, I realized that a new chapter in my life was about to begin. And though the uncertainties about my life and my future seemed enormous, deep in my heart I knew that I would be going to prison. My feelings of helplessness were overwhelming. What the future held for my young family was unclear. As my mind drifted between memories of the past and thoughts of what might have been, feelings of helplessness began to c...
PID: apw:310
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:24:34.525Z

Title: An appeal to families of incarcerated loved ones
Author: Marshall, Ronald
Pages: 3 pages
State: Louisiana
Topics: appeal to families to help incarcerated individuals take measures to leave prison
Text (FT): - Seventeen years ago, I arrived in Angola. I was assigned bed 43, next to an aging, frail prisoner who had been incarcerated longer than the 23 years I had been living. One day he said to me, "Youngsta, if you have family, don't waste their time and resources on bullshit. Doing time in prison is not for any one." Basically, he was telling me to use my family for one purpose: to assist in my struggles to regain freedom. In order to do so, I had to educate myself to educate my f...
PID: apw:12341415
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T15:27:16.835Z

Title: Anger is
Author: Martinez, Brandon
Date: 2010-08-17
Date: 2010-08-17, 2010-08-17
Pages: 2 pages
State: California
Text (TR): NO TITLE Brandon Martinez, California Aug 17, 10 Anger is such a vicious lil seed that can wreck havoc in any given situation. If you allow it to spring fourth. Theyll come a point of no return. In the heat of the moment theyll be no turning back. With your mind in a stage of rage. It often becomes too difficult to process anything by that viciousness. Lord have mercy. One episode, one scenario will be all it will take. The such tragic atrocities that will have become as a result of anger. Th...
PID: apw:178
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T17:53:01.726Z

Title: As I write this short first hand account…
Author: Perry, Daniel
Date: 2014-05-13
Date: 2014-05-13, 2014-05-13
Pages: 8 pages
State: Oregon
Topics: rehabilitation, prison industrial complex, methadone, Hurricane Sandy
Text (TR): Daniel Perry [No Title] Dear Readers As I write this short first hand account, I have a black eye, on the left side of my face. Its 10:30pm, the lights are out and lockdown is quit. US prisoners call lockdown The Hole, because its like someone dugg a hole and pushed you in. now try to think of sitting at the bottom of a hole for 6 months (180 days). I have been in the hole for 3 days due to a fist fight. Once I go to the hearing I will find out my fate. The max punishment is $200.00 fine, 180...
PID: apw:12341592
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-29T21:43:06.892Z

Title: Beyond reform
Author: Bogen, Rik
Date: 2010-02-22
Date: 2010-02-22, 2010-02-22
Pages: 8 pages
State: Oregon
Topics: music, reform, recidivism
Text (TR_WF): Rik Bogen BEYOND REFORM After the tsunami of arrest, jail, conviction and sentencing receded leaving behind the tangled sea-weed of my life I began to imagine that prison might be a new beginning, an opportunity to radically change, an educational experience. It most certainly is nut not in anyway that which I expected. The first discovery was the magnitude of the resistance to change inherent to the system. Example: The property rule said "one guitar-one harmonica..." so not being ...
PID: apw:12341604
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-29T21:48:40.25Z

Title: Bill HB-2386
Author: Balmer, Christopher
Date: 2015-02-01
Date: 2015-02-01, 2015-02-01
Pages: 1 page
State: Pennsylvania
Text (FT): Bill HB-2386 by Christopher Balmer GX-5754, SCI Forest In the summer 20 14 Correctional Forum, Bill HB-2386 (submitted by Rep. T .. Stephens, R.-Montgomery County). was printed for people to see. Happily the Prison Society opposes such a Bill. Rep. T . Stephens attempted to have a bill passed that would garnish at/east 25% of wages prisoners make working in prison, and 75% of all deposits made to an inmate's personal account. Apparently, Rep. T. Stephens doesn' t understand prison e...
PID: apw:12341433
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T15:55:52.72Z

Title: Charles Handlin, a human being?
Author: Buehl, Roger
Date: 2014-11-21
Date: 2014-11-21, 2014-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Pennsylvania
Text (FT): Charles Handlin, A Human Being? by Roger Buehl (10/03/14) Chuck was a large, overly-gregarious man, in his mid-forties. I didn't like Chuck very much. We met on the day of my transfer to SCI-Frackville, following my arrival on the block. He was housed in the adjoining cell, and our cells shared a vent. Within minutes of my arrival on the block, Chuck call ed me through our vent and immediately asked way too many questions. Later, I learned that Chuck was in prison for sex crimes against ...
PID: apw:12341431
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T15:49:12.558Z

Title: Choices and alternatives
Author: Glenn, Tracy
Date: 2014-06-23
Date: 2014-06-23, 2014-06-23
Pages: 3 pages
State: Pennsylvania
Topics: personal choices
Text (FT): * CHOICES & ALTERNATIVES By Hr. Tracy Glenn * June 22, 2014 There are many alternatives to the choices I've made of the past. Easily, I made them living the way I lived in another lane that was taught to me. So free, yet so far from reality, it tends to make me sick to my stomach today as I sit & write now. An understanding now that I have where before I make a choice there has to be a moment or some time before I make the choice which leads to the action that could be a fatal on...
PID: apw:12341464
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T16:36:36.967Z

Title: Classified ad: Willing to kill for $22.50
Author: Fisher, Shawn
Date: 2013-10-09
Date: 2013-10-09, 2013-10-09
Pages: 2 pages
State: Massachusetts
Text (FT): C L A S S I F I E D Willing to kill for $22. 50 Americans have always had a personal affinity for those who have made the sacrafice to defend our freedoms. Everyday we pass by veterans without a second glance, except for those who bare the wounds of their past with scars and missing limbs. Evidence that they continue to fight long after they have left the battlefield. It was not until the Gulf War that we got to witness first hand the the battle these heros face when the conditions at the Wal...
PID: apw:264
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:30:48.654Z

Title: Combating the circumstances and nature of recidivism
Author: Marshall, Ronald
Pages: 2 pages
State: Louisiana
Topics: a deep desire to make changes is the most effective way to avoid recidivism
Text (FT): Co1nba~ing ~he CiruuJns~anues and Na~ure of Reuid-vis...~-- W hat is recidivism? smoothly into society and combat recidivism. Their goal is balanced between protecting society and reengaging in criminal finding viable solutions to deter released offenders offending despite having from continued criminal behavior. Their strategies been punished for a include sophisticated risk assessments, meticulous previous offense. reentry planning, and post-release supervision careIn an age of mass incarfu...
PID: apw:12341350
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T14:20:43.608Z

Title: Commutation
Author: Fisher, Shawn
Date: 2013-10-09
Date: 2013-10-09, 2013-10-09
Pages: 3 pages
State: Massachusetts
Text (FT): COMMUTATION An epidemic is slowly taking root throughout the United States prison system. As of 2010, State and federal prisons house more than 26,000 inmates 65+ years old and nearly five times that number 55 and up. 1 The boom is a direct result of the "get tough on crime legislation from the SO's and 90's. These policies have generally caused the nation's inmate prison population to jump from 330,000 in ~980 to over a million by 1995; a tripling of the population repres...
PID: apw:270
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:32:41.304Z

Title: Convict criminology: an Afrikan-centered critique
Author: Amen, Asar Imhotep
Date: 2014-12-04
Date: 2014-12-04, 2014-12-04
Pages: 9 pages
State: California
Topics: slavery, social control, Prison Industrial Complex, profits, socialization, western culture, European culture/nations vs. non-European nations, colonization, role of individualism and individual moral sensibility in justifying a culture of inequality, psychoanalysis, status quo, socially constructed criminal type/criminal profile, the need to focus on society and not on individuals, social reconstruction, parallels between exploitation of social scientists and colonizers
Text (TR_WF): Convict Criminology: An Afrikan-Centered Critique A people already invisible can be easily made to disappear as this is the primary function of ghettos and prisons in Amerika . INTRODUCTION: The United States is predicated upon permanent disparities and inequities in life expectancy, mortality rates, education gaps, incarceration, economic solvency, and counter development burdened upon Afrikans domestically and internationally. Founded in enslavement, these disparities were facilitated by m...
PID: apw:283
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:20:56.586Z

Title: Department of Corrections? -Or- Department of Control?
Author: Balmer, Christopher
Date: 2014-12-24
Date: 2014-12-24, 2014-12-24
Pages: 3 pages
State: Pennsylvania
Text (FT): . DepadllleDt of co..Jrectioaas? - o .. Depanaaent ol Control? by Christopher Balmer One of the main focuses involving the Pennsylvania prison system is solitary confinement, which will always be an issue debated amongst human rights advocates and even some mental health experts. Reality has proven itselftime and time again that solitary confinement has permanent psychiatric effects, especially when used long term. People suffer constantly in isolation. But why? An illogical individual would ...
PID: apw:12341438
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T16:04:02.226Z

Title: Do not read this argument
Author: Warrington, Robert W.
Date: 2008-11
Date: 2008-11, 2008-11
Pages: 3 pages
State: Delaware
Topics: Reform
Text (FT): Do Not Read This Argument By Robert W. Warrington First printed in the Isthmus, November I December 2008 Human beings do not always do what they are told. In fact, many people do whatever they want unless the consequences outweigh the incentives. This is why breaking a law must result in undesirable consequences. In the past, civilized societies enforced their laws and sought to deter crime by providing consequences that would seem brutal today. Offenders could be publicly whipped, put in sto...
PID: apw:295
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:27:02.757Z

Title: Food for thought
Author: Jacobs, B. G.
Date: 2010-08-10
Date: 2010-08-10, 2010-08-10
Pages: 17 pages
State: New York
Text (TR): 1 Word Count: 2347 B.G. Jacobs New York Food For Thought Lying on an uncomfortable, two-inch vinyl mattress, in a stifling prison cell, I was at peace for the first time in a long time. Eyes closed, my mind was centered on one thought: what can I use for an ersatz flour to make dough? (Pastelios were in my immediate future.) I was finally away from the stress and madness of prison and safely locked away in my thoughts of food. Cooking is a way for me to both relieve stress and express myself....
PID: apw:181
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T17:53:21.317Z

Title: For members of the mobile society to possess any care or concern…
Author: Cooper, Gary
Date: 2014-04-16
Date: 2014-04-16, 2014-04-16
Pages: 6 pages
State: Maryland
Topics: general discussion of debilitating effects of prison, esp. incorproation of CO's into culture of abuse, belittling prisoners.
Text (TR): Gary Jonathan Cooper Maryland No Title For members of the mobile society to possess any care or concern for the treatment of the modernday prisoner existing within the penal systems across the country. They first must understand the secret society of the modernday prisons and all of its clandestine factors and agenda?s. In how and why they work and why do they exist. As well as people must understand that the care or desire to want to transform the design of the united states penal systems. D...
PID: apw:12341542
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-29T21:20:27.879Z

Title: Freedom through space and suffering
Author: Jones, Arlando
Date: 2010-07-28
Date: 2010-07-28, 2010-07-28
Pages: 3 pages
State: Maryland
Topics: Reflections
Text (FT): FREEDOM THROUGH SPACE . AND SUFFERING By: Arlando "Tray" Jones The most dreadful fate that could befall any man is to be imprisoned. For freedom, through space, is essential to the human spirit. Of all the animals God. created, none requires more space than man. Hell, we tell elephants to get out the jungle because it ain't enough space there for them and us. We, man, need the jun.g le, too, for resort and recreation. Where you see man exploring the heavenly space or the depth ...
PID: apw:308
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:24:14.141Z

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