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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: 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 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: 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: Celldweller journal: Actions speak louder than words - entry 8
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Levert III "Sekou" Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 310 Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari date: 8-8-13 Celldweller Journal: "Actions, Speak Louder Than Words" "Black August Essay's" (Entry Eight) We can't afford, to underestimate the importance and value of building our future generations, 'school' systems. Inorder to prepare our young children, for tomarrow's challenges. Many of those young children are being 'pushed', 'enticed&apo...
PID: apw:249
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:17:57.555Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Fractured mirror of society pt. 2 - entry 11
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Levert III "Sekou" Brookshire "Publish" Arizona Word Count: 293 Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari date: 8-11-13 Celldweller Journal: "Fractured Mirror of Society" pt. II "Black August Essay's" (Entry Eleven) Whatever choice I made, however I decided to 'rob', obviously - turned-out, to be not smart enough, not organized enough and not clever enough. Like those 'suit & tie' wearing robbers, in executive offices, and politicians that...
PID: apw:252
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:18:48.716Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Fractured mirror of society pt. 3, entry 12
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Levert III "S‚kou" Brookshire "Publish" Arizona Word Count: 297 Author: Sekou Family Askari date: 8-12-13 Celldweller Journal: "Fractured Mirror of Society" pt. III "Black August Essay's" (Entry Twelve) 'Cronies', 'Crime partners' or 'Comrades' whatever we call them, they 'Facilitate', 'coordinate', and 'Aid' us whenever we need them too. Those that offer me help in my caper's, or tho...
PID: apw:253
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:19:04.689Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Fractured mirror of society pt. 4 - entry 13
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Levert III "Sekou" Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 307 Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari date: 8-6-13 Celldweller Journal: "Fractured Mirror of Society" pt. IV "Black August Essay's" (Entry Thirteen) Whenever they are complicit; then criminal geniuses like Bernie Madoff, are allowed to 'Yank" billions upon billions of loaves, from millions of working-poor citizens and tax-payers, and the genral public's window seals, for decades & decades. 'P...
PID: apw:254
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:28:48.026Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Fractured mirror of society pt. 6 - entry 15
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Celldweller Journal: "Fractured mirror of society" (Publish) Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari VI date: 8-15-13 "Black August" (Entry fifteen) After being captured and convicted, Essay's I've been engaged in the adventure's of trying to understand how this world really truly works, every since -- being enrolled into California's Institutions of 'higher education'. Where my re-educational' journey first began at. We can all get an education at a ...
PID: apw:256
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:29:12.423Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Fractured mirror of society pt. 7 - entry 16
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Levert III (Sekou) Brookshire Arizona Celldweller journal: Fractured mirror of society pt. 7 - entry 16 This degeneration, that I describe to you, Eventually leads us to their social garbage disposal system, They Have created for disposing of their 'expendable', 'non-contributing', 'non-voting', 'non-tax-paying' citizen's. Converting us into 'Livestock', 'cattle' herds, charging the taxpayers, 40k a head, for our upkeep and main...
PID: apw:257
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:29:25.379Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Fractured mirror of society pt. 8 - entry 17
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Celldweller Journal; "Fractured mirror of society" 'Publish' Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari date: 8-17-13 "Black August" (Entry seventeen) Each and every one of us, cell dweller's has a personal and unique story to tell. In light of everything that I've said here in, my translation or interpretation of the black male's experience. Here inside these pages, I only attempt to lay-out the heart of the problems, and my understanding of the answers. There wi...
PID: apw:258
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:29:40.352Z

Title: Celldweller journal: I lost it all but found myself - entry 7
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Levert III "Sekou" Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 267 Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari date: 8-7-13 Celldweller Journal: "I Lost it all, but Found Myself" "Black August Essay's" (Entry Seven) Nobody sets-out, 'planning' to fail at what they do, yet we often set-out 'failing' to plan what we do? The consequences for that, can singlehandedly cost us our lives, or freedom, and all of our possessions, even those we lack. What I've learned is, ...
PID: apw:248
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:17:30.299Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Man cannot live by words alone - entry 1
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): 1 Levert III “Sekou” Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 171 Celldweller Journal: “Man Cannot Live by Words Alone” “Black August Essay’s” (Entry One) I pick-up this ink-pen & paper, I become truly ‘free’, nothing limit’s me, restrict’s me or contains me. I rule this ‘dominion’. It can take me anywhere my mind will guide-it, it’s the one place that I become the true ‘master of my fate’ and the ‘captain of my destiny’. No matter the status assigned to me by the status quo. When, I am depositing ...
PID: apw:242
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:16:25.345Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Power of words - entry 3
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Being a 'Celldweller University' alumni has been from, the 'beginning' and always will be a constructive, positive, alternative to the usual 'corrossive'; negative mindset, that permeates the prison environment. For years I walked these yards and looked at all these faces, contorted, twisted and full of anger. Everyday men, fighting and rioting, causing harm to each other, conflicting and competing for mere crumbs out of desperation. Prisoners 'sinking'...
PID: apw:244
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:16:50.181Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Swimming against the current - entry 5
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): We often 'think' we can control our future, even when we are swimming 'upstream' against the current. But, whenever we 'clear' our heads, detox our body's, get our 'thinking' back in-order, we start to 'float' along with current of life, effortlessly. 'Black August' gives me time to remind myself, about, my own personal power to gain balance again, re-gain physical, mental and emotional health again. Through fasting it makes me,...
PID: apw:246
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:28:32.689Z

Title: Celldweller journal: The royal game - entry 9
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Levert III "Sekou" Brookshire "Publish" Arizona Word Count: 347 Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari date: 8-9-13 Celldweller Journal: "The Royal Game" "Black August Essay's" (Entry Nine) Whenever I'm asked, what are my plans for the future, or more specifically, what are my plans for when I get released from prison? My answer is always's strange for the person asking the question. Because they pause, and look at me puzzeled. "When I tell them...
PID: apw:250
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:18:13.869Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Tools helping underground society inc - T.H.U.G.S inc movement pt. 1 - entry 18
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): 1 Levert III “Sekou” Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 258 Celldweller Journal: “Tools Helping Underground Society Inc – T.H.U.G.S Inc Movement Pt. I” “Black August Essay’s” (Entry Eighteen) It has alway’s been a vision of mine, to take everything I’ve learning about social ‘resistance’, and ‘revolutionary’ theory, and pass-it-on. Spreading what was passed-on to me, by those who came before-me. I, know of many young black men, who haven’t been introduced to George Jackson or Jonathan Jackson. Se...
PID: apw:259
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:29:51.707Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Tools helping underground society inc - T.H.U.G.S inc movement pt. 2 - entry 19
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): 1 Levert III “Sekou” Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 275 Celldweller Journal: “Tools Helping Underground Society Inc – T.H.U.G.S Inc Movement Pt. II” “Black August Essay’s” (Entry Nineteen) The “consumer marketing machines” are relentless, once they’ve created a product, merchandise, or service they begin bombarding consumer’s with elaborate programing that makes them excited to buy. It is through this same formula, that (Tools Helping Under Ground Society Inc.) was created. Designing the ba...
PID: apw:260
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:30:04.206Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Tools helping underground society inc - T.H.U.G.S inc movement pt. 3 - entry 20
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Levert III "Sekou" Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 297 Celldweller Journal: Tools Helping Underground Society Inc – T.H.U.G.S Inc Movement Pt. III" "Black August Essay's" (Entry Twenty) Once we got the youth to come around and make a committment to a revolutionary beliefsystem, pursuading them to 'recruit' other youth into our belief system. Then, we were able to effectively harnest other peoples willingness to volunteer their time, resources and action ...
PID: apw:261
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:30:19.161Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Tools helping underground society inc - T.H.U.G.S inc movement pt. 4 - entry 21
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Levert III "Sekou" Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 297 Celldweller Journal: "Tools Helping Underground Society Inc - T.H.U.G.S Inc Movement Pt. IV" "Black August Essay's" (Entry Twenty One) Anyone 'alive' can see the phenomenon of 'street gangs', 'thugs', cropping up throughout the country, all-over, in practically every city, large and small. The role of these thugs and street gang's in our societys expanding poor communiti...
PID: apw:262
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:30:31.601Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Use time or it uses you - entry 4
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Whether I was here. Dwelling in this 'cell' or outside dwelling in the 'ghetto,' the same amount of time [illegible] passed me by, 10 1/2 years, would've elapsed regardless. Regardless of our wherebout's, 'time' is all the same. Think about it, if I did nothing to better myself or improve myself, out there in society, for these past 10 1/2 years? If staying alive, is all I did? Yet while I'm here, I obtained (two) college degrees, became physically...
PID: apw:245
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:17:04.902Z

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