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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 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: If the walls could talk
Author: Brethorst, Denisha
Date: 2013
Date: 2013, 2013
Pages: 10 pages
State: Illinois
Text (FT): IF THE WALLS COULD TALK Words impact our lives. Some words impacting my life are change, strength, perception, fear, anger, and love. Because of these words I am surviving. It is very difficult and lonely at times. I find positive in all of my challenges and try to overcome them. Don't get me wrong, it is hard to find the positive in a lot of situations. My friends always comment on how strong I am, and how God gives you what you can handle. I should be Hercules, however I am not. I just...
PID: apw:290
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:25:51.995Z

Title: Inspiration
Author: W., Diana
Date: 2010-02-24
Date: 2010-02-24, 2010-02-24
Pages: 7 pages
State: Alaska
Text (TR): 1 Word Count: 2,079 Diana Waggy, Alaska INSPIRATION Everyone talked quietly among themselves as we waited for her to arrive. Two hundred women were seated in the gym, with a dozen guards stationed around the perimeter of the room. Long gray curtains partitioned off part of the room, and behind them the old creaky bleachers and various cabinets, athletic gear, and other detritus usually found in the prison’s gymnasium. I knew this because I was in charge of getting everything moved and cleaned...
PID: apw:211
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:14:07.028Z

Title: Left behind
Author: West, Chastity
Date: 2009-12-16
Date: 2009-12-16, 2009-12-16
Pages: 16 pages
State: Connecticut
Topics: Memoir
Text (FT): - Chasity C. West Left Behind "Everybody lock up!" The guard barked over the intercom. "Get in your cells, now! " " Oh God, what now?" One of the girls asked, picking up her plastic bowl and gathering her belongings beneath her arm. "There's a code purple," someone announced as she stepped through the door that had been electronically unlocked by the fumbling guard at the control panel, "Somebody hung up in building two." Building two hos...
PID: apw:289
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:25:37.994Z

Title: Post-release programs and gender variant people
Author: Royal, Valjean
Date: 2010-08-26
Date: 2010-08-26, 2010-08-26
Pages: 7 pages
State: Indiana
Topics: Memoir
Text (FT): /r • section three. . . problems with post-release programs Post-Release Programs and Gender Variant People Ms. Valjean Royal · On Tuesday, January 20th, 2004 President Bush called for the funding of programs to deal with some 600,000 inmates who will be released from prison this year-without work, without a home, without help. "America," he said, "is the land of second chances", and he added that, "when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a be...
PID: apw:307
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:23:59.706Z

Title: Survivor testimony: Finding light in a dark place
Author: Royal, Valjean
Date: 2008
Date: 2008, 2008, 2009-07-14
Pages: 2 pages
State: Indiana
Topics: experience as a survivor of rape
Text (TR_WF): Survivor Testimony Finding Light in a Dark Place By Valjean Royal, Indiana I was just seventeen (17) when I was arrested for Female Impersonation and Prostitution. I was placed in the county jail for adults and gang-raped. As a male to female transgender (pre-op), the juvenile detention center would not allow me entry there, stating their concern for the effect of exposure to my alternative lifestyle on the other boys I would have to be housed with. As I entered the cell block at the county j...
PID: apw:12341539
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-29T21:18:37.2Z

Title: The letter
Author: Whetzel, Stephen
Date: 2010-07-20
Date: 2010-07-20, 2010-07-20
Pages: 6 pages
State: Indiana
Topics: familial abuse, sibling dynamics, outside contact
Text (FT): The Letter by Stephen Whetzel Last summer, I received a letter from Misty, my little sister-my first contact with anyone from home since coming to prison, my first letter ever from anyone in my family. For eleven lonely years. years when I felt forgotten, I had written and sent countless letters and cards to my parents, hoping to fan some imagined glowing cinder of compassion. We were never close, never. In fact, the term family should be used loosely when referring to us collectively. I neve...
PID: apw:12341356
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T14:35:32.125Z

Title: You'll be OK
Author: Whetzel, Stephen
Date: 2010-07-20
Date: 2010-07-20, 2010-07-20
Pages: 14 pages
State: Indiana
Topics: rape, refirmatory, racial dynamics
Text (FT): You'll Be OK by Stephen Whetzel The van sliced through the dense morning fog like a jet through vapor. It was dark, the mood somber, as ten of us, two guards and eight prisoners rode in a terrible silence. Icy air . streaming in from a slightly opened window numbed my face. I shivered with cold, uncertainty, and dread. My heart, fueled by fear and anger and adrenaline, raced like that speeding van down the highway. l didn't know where we were headed, but I knew that by the end of th...
PID: apw:12341370
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T14:48:15.102Z

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