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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

Title: Celldweller journal: We all are followers of something - entry 6
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: 274 Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari date: 8-6-13 Celldweller Journal: "We All, are Followers of Something" "Black August Essay's" (Entry Six) Words, make 'books' what they are; 'book's' make library's and library's make school's and university's, or celldweller univeristy's. Each of these, make us more informed and more educated. Some follow 'fashion', ma...
PID: apw:247
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:17:18.213Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Words alone aren't enough- entry 2
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: 347 Date: 8-2-13 Celldweller Journal: "Words Alone Aren't Enough" "Black August Essay's" (Entry Two) We all have the power to change our own attitudes whether in prison or the streets. Regardless, if we are 'ghettodwellers', or 'celldweller's'. Before, any of us can start to consider changing our ways, changing our behaviors and attitudes we have to start by changing our thinking...
PID: apw:243
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:16:38.035Z

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

Title: Frozen in time
Author: Cramer, John T.
Date: 2014-03-31
Date: 2014-03-31, 2014-03-31
Pages: 2 pages
State: Pennsylvania
Text (TR): John T. Cramer Pennsylvania Frozen in Time I have been away for 18 years, out of touch of society & life, all of its happiness & sadness. Highs & lows. I went to prison in 1996 and in my mind it is still 96. There was no internet, no cell phones, cars didn't park themselves. The world that we know was safe from terrorists and 9/11 was unthinkable. My child was a child, not a mother of 2 herself. Everyone is still alive and young. In two years my freezer door will open, how do...
PID: apw:12341552
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-29T21:24:44.153Z

Title: Get off the count!
Author: Marshall, Ronald
Date: 2013-09-03
Date: 2013-09-03, 2013-09-03
Pages: 3 pages
State: Louisiana
Topics: encourages others to do what they can to minimize their time in prison--parole or reversing conviction
Text (FT): e ~ ount Get Off the Count! In the Department of Corrections (DOC), the head count is the most sensitive and important aspect of the entire prison ordeal. Wherever an offender is located during count time, the offender does best to be located on a correctional officer's count. An offender could likely talk himself out of a disciplinary report for a number of rule infractions, except messing up the count. When the head count is messed up, everything stops: offender traffic, movement, phon...
PID: apw:12341346
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T14:05:06.472Z

Title: Hello folks
Author: Carr, James
Date: 2010-04-10
Date: 2010-04-10, 2010-04-10
Pages: 1 page
State: Nevada
Text (TR): 4-8-10 -P. 1.- James Carr, NV HELLO FOLKS, I SAW YOUR ADVERTISEMENT IN THE ARA NEWSLETTER THAT I GET IN THE MAIL. TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH I AM SURPRISED THIS ADMINISTRATION DOESN’T CONFISCATE THE NEWSLETTER? I AM A FIFTY FIVE YEARS OF AGE, HALF BLACK, ONE QUARTER INDIAN, OR NATIVE AMERICAN, ONE QUARTER WHITE INMATE AT ELY, NEVADA. IT IS A SMALL MINING TOWN IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE. THE PRISON SETS AT AN ELEVATION OF ABOUT 6800’ ABOVE SEA LEVEL, SO IT SNOWS A BIT FROM EARLY OCTOBER ...
PID: apw:173
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T17:51:59.013Z

Title: House of cards
Author: Ridenour, William
Date: 2014-04-14
Date: 2014-04-14, 2014-04-14
Pages: 1 page
State: Ohio
Topics: Drexell Greene, ORDC, US Attorney General
Text (FT): HOUSE OF CARDS by William Ridenour April of 2014, The Sizzler newsletter published the article "Justice for All," in which Mr. Drexell Greene ' s experiences with the parole board were a featured topic . The sister of Mr. Greene sent a copy of that article and her cover letter to Ohio Senator Bill Seitz, requesting that he investigate her brother's recent parole hearing. Senator Seitz contacted the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction ("ODRC") and req...
PID: apw:12341456
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T16:32:16.984Z

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