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- Title
- A colossal disparity in the Florida prison system
- Author
- Moody, Jesse Jr.
- Date
- 2018-01-16
- Pages
- 7 pages
- Text (O)
- A Colossal Disparity In The Florida Prison System By AKA Kingsta January 16, 2018 I understand I was sentenced to serve time in the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) even though I was wrongfully convicted. However, a prison sentence subjecting me to cruel and unusual punishment and unequal treatment violates both federal and state constitutions and Florida state law. At the very moment I stepped off the large bus (blue bird) at the reception and medical center of Lake Butler Correction...
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- apw:12353486
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T23:40:20.169Z
- Title
- A day in my life
- Author
- Murray, B.C.
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (O)
- A DAY IN MY LIFE Awakened by the brilliance of 6:00AM lights, I arise, grab my toiletries and walk down the long, stale white corridor toward the restroom. First, I must wade through a bevy of inmates blocking my path while vehemently discussing lat night's televised basketball game. These men do so without any consideration for those still trying to sleep or pass through. I step across the threshold and into a room with two rows of sinks where all sorts of men — white, black, Mexican, t...
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- apw:12353162
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T10:57:52.741Z
- Title
- A man died today
- Author
- Key, Kenneth M.
- Pages
- 8 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- A Man Died Today By Kenneth M. Key It was about 12:00pm when I saw the EMTs run pass my cell house window to the adjacent cell house. The sound over the radio said, a man was down code 3 medical emergency. It would be less than a minute and a half and the E.M.Ts' would be walking back past. The word would come down he didn't make it. I would learn later in that day that it was a Friend of mine, whom we will simply call my Friend. They said my Friend had died of a heart attack, and a...
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- apw:12353542
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-27T00:38:09.74Z
- Title
- A modernized dungeon
- Author
- Moody, Jesse Jr.
- Date
- 2017-12-28
- Pages
- 14 pages
- Text (O)
- A Modernized Dungeon By Jesse Moody AKA Kingsta December 28, 2017 Visualize this... After hearing and seeing all of the different and shocking news about America’s archaic penal system via the various media outlets, you decide to seek out a more sensorial experience to help you grasp the plight of the incarcerated. Searching the internet, you unexpectedly discover a nonprofit organization hosting an experiment offering substantial compensation for those willing to participate in a control gro...
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- apw:12354034
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-27T14:37:14.087Z
- Title
- A plea for attention to an injustice
- Author
- Navarro, Robert R.
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (O)
- A Plea for Attention to an Injustice — Robert Navarro Where do I even begin and what do I say? Let me begin with some general questions and observations about ourjustice system today and how it works: Justice is defined as: 1) Just conduct, 2) Fairness, 3) Exercise of authority in the maintenance of right, 4) Judicial proceedings, 5) Magistrate, Judge. 1-3: uprightness, righteousness, decency, correctness, fair playing, lawfulness, equity Yet when you look at my conviction one will wonder whe...
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- apw:12353138
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T10:57:29.365Z
- Title
- A torturous van ride
- Author
- Moody, Jesse Jr.
- Date
- 2018-01-04
- Pages
- 10 pages
- Text (O)
- A Torturous Van Ride By Jesse Moody JR AKA Kingsta January 4, 2018 Imagine this... On this day you arise from your slumber and go through your normal routine. You make your bed, drape yourself in clothing, use the bathroom, brush your teeth, and eat breakfast. After saying your farewells to your family, you finish preparing for work. Then, as soon as you walk out of the door, police officers unexpectedly approach you with menacing scowls. Once they are upon you, they aggressively grab you by ...
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- apw:12354176
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-27T17:01:59.834Z
- Title
- A word to the fish
- Author
- Vanderford, Anna
- Pages
- 1 page
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- Anna MI Vanderford OK A Word to the Fish I don't know why they call new arrivals "fish", perhaps because you feel like a fish out of water, when you arrive in prison. My mom was an old Jewish lady, old by even the standard of other parents. She was really old enough to be my grandmother when she and her retired husband adopted me. She used to say ,"You can't put an old head on: young shoulders." I'm not sure that I ever knew what that meant nor cared. Howeve...
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- apw:12352970
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-25T19:49:28.89Z
- Title
- Actually innocent
- Author
- Taylor, Albert G.
- Pages
- 9 pages
- Text (O)
- Albert Taylor- 1 Eastham Unit Lovelady, Tx 75851 "NO TEARS IN THE WRITER, NO TEARS IN THE READER" Robert Frost ACTUALLY INNOCENT Like all other jailhouse lawyers ["writ writers" in prison slang]; I have wished to be able to help someone who is actually innocent, and who was being treated unjustly. When I finally did get the opportunity; it was not a Criminal Law case, as I had expected it would be, but instead, it was a Family Law case, and no one could be more innocent th...
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- apw:12353618
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-27T01:07:27.797Z
- Title
- Actually innocent
- Author
- Dedekiah
- Pages
- 12 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Actually Innocent On December 31, 1998, I was arrested and held in custody at the Seminole County Jail in Sanford, Florida pending criminal charges after an incident which allegedly occurred on December 28, 1998. Subsequently, the state of Florida, through its Assistant State Attorney, filed information with the clerk of the court in the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit on February 2, 1999. Then an arraignment was held on February 4, 1999, and I pleaded not guilty to the charge of robbery. And on ...
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- apw:12353994
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-27T14:35:28.102Z
- Title
- Addicted to violence
- Author
- Richter, Robert
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- March 25, 2018 Robert Johan Richter Title: Addicted To Violence Prison is a great place to witness all kinds of addictions, and how far they drive their victims. Prisoners sell their meals for cigarettes, and their bodies for drugs. The most common addiction doesn't involve drugs, porn, or anything you can buy or sell. Many people, both prisoners and guards, are addicted to violence. There is a big difference, however; the guards almost never face any kind of punishment. Why do people li...
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- apw:12353267
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T11:00:33.778Z
- Title
- Age, nothing but an IDOC #
- Author
- Morgan, Jon R
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (O)
- Jon R Morgan IL Age, Nothing But An !DOC# I've been imprisoned since age 14 in 1995. Being a murderer, I've earned it. I'm serving 58yrs and 17yrs at the rate of 50% for good behavior, for a total of 37 1/2yrs, which will make me 52 before my release. And that's a blessing, since the maximum may have been 60yrs and 20yrs--perhaps if l had been a hardened adult, a career criminal, maybe a gang member, drug dealer, or addict. I thank God the judge used his discretion to cons...
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- apw:12352987
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-25T21:46:55.533Z
- Title
- All doing time
- Author
- Monde, Luke
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (O)
- Running head: TIME 1 All Doing Time Given an opportunity to describe himself during an interview, an Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (ODRC) resident, adamantly declared, “I ain’t a snitch. I don’t fuck wit boys. And I don’t break under pressure” (Mr. Prisoner, 2016, personal interview). When asked during this interview was he the proverbial “inmate” or “convict”, he answered, “Pm a prisoner — there’s a difference” (Mr. Prisoner, 20 l 6, personal interview). Apparently these ...
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- apw:12353252
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T11:00:17.697Z
- Title
- Aloha
- Author
- Nobody
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Aloha Aloha, This is my first submission to the A.P.W.A. project. I haven't actually earned any professional degree or anything like that yet. However I have had some of my works published in various locations and have even received State and national recognition. I have had a fair amount of formal and informal study, training and actual experience in various communications fields. So you may say I have achieved the level of amateur or freelancer. But enough about me. Let's get down...
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- apw:12353364
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T18:57:25.41Z
- Title
- America's criminal justice system: rehabilitztion or criminalization?
- Author
- Pirkel, Daniel
- Date
- 2018-05-13
- Pages
- 12 pages
- Text (O)
- To: APWA From: Daniel Pirkel 5/13/18 America's Criminal Justice System: Rehabilitation or Criminalization? The US, prison system attempts to prevent people from committing crimes by utilizing the jurisprudential theories of incapacitation, retribution, rehabilitation, and deterrence as the primary goals of incarceration. The manner in which judges, prosecutors, wardens, and other criminal justice experts view the application of these theories of jurisprudence significantly affects the le...
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- apw:12353981
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-27T14:35:11.473Z
- Title
- At what point- freedom?
- Author
- Boivin, Matthew
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- At What Point- Freedom? There is no doubt whatever the most prevalent thought on my mind is freedom. Not a day goes by that I don't long for the chance to use my skills to give back when I once took so much. There are even times when I still cry from the karmic pain of the life I lost for the life I took. All my mistakes led me to the root of my folly: I did not understand the meaning of freedom. Certainly, I had a rudimentary knowledge of the concept of freedom from a young age, but it ...
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- apw:12353340
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T18:56:59.83Z
- Title
- Attainted in Anokkka
- Author
- Thomas, Isiah M.
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Text (O)
- Attainted In AnoKKKa Written by: Isaiah M. Thomas "Thomas, phone!" yelled the detention deputy into the over-crowded bullpin. I quickly rose "from the uncomfortable chair thinking, “it's about time”. I'd been shacked-up in this filthy holding cell for what felt like eternity. My back ached from sitting on metal chairs and laying on the concrete floor for such long periods of time. I had no idea what time what it was, the evening was a blur; I'd went to sleep, woke...
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- apw:12353426
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T19:49:57.07Z
- Title
- Because God cares
- Author
- Nolaw97
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (O)
- Because God Cares By: Frederick Mason #S5487—O56 USP Tucson, PO Box 24550 Tucson, AZ 85734 Sometimes God has to find people to show His love for others. We'd like to think that a bright light from Heaven, with an angel, would float down from above, and personally help those in need. W Uh... nope. Here's a news flash— it comes through us. In order to show God's love, there must be people to care about people. So many of us like to say we love God or Christ, yet when God puts a p...
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- apw:12353122
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T10:57:14.104Z
- Title
- Benevolence
- Author
- Cunningham, Travis
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- "Benevolence" As I sit here contemplating what I would like to share with the masses, I'm left reflecting on years past. Some ask how I've been able to sustain my mental stability in such dismay times. As one must imagine life in captivity and the bellicosity this environment brings can cause a person to feel indifferent from humanity and civility. Prison tends to remove those simply human attributes and instead replace them with an abysmal, diabolic, malicious nature, ess...
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- apw:12353053
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-25T21:47:57.78Z
- Title
- Beyond the wall
- Author
- Cannon, Robert, Jr.
- Pages
- 3 pages
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- ***-Beyond The Wall--*** How do I say it? How do I spit out on paper what I want known to a special someone beyond the wall? Never can simple words, funny little marks on paper, tell of the loneliness, the doubt, the bitterness and frustration; companions of everyone in this gray world; A world away from the world. No one can knew, no one who has not been a blue-clad, faceless, numbered nothing. I can't tell then, but I can try. I can try because when this human meat-grinder spits me bac...
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- apw:12353110
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T10:57:01.517Z
- Title
- Book review: Orange is the new black
- Author
- Smith, Zachary
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (O)
- BOOK REVIEW: ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK I recently read "Orange Is The New Black" by Piper Kerman. I didn't get why it was a #1 New York Times best-seller. Maybe it was Piper's honesty that moved people on the outside who have never experienced the hell of being trapped in a situation with no power or control over what happens to them from day to day. I did find Piper's author photo intriguing, like the Mona Lisa. I can't read her expression, but it's familiar ...
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- apw:12353011
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-25T21:47:18.544Z
- Title
- Breaking the cycle
- Author
- Moser, Ryan M.
- Date
- 2016
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (O)
- Breaking the Cycle By Ryan M. Moser Originally published in the Spring 2016 Beacon Re-Entry Newsletter Florida's high recidivism creates a costly burden on taxpayers and is overwhelming the criminal justice system at an unprecedented rate. Statistics vary, but out of the 100,000 men and women incarcerated in the Florida Department of Corrections, approximately 75% will come back as a re- offender in their lifetime. Official records show that 35% of inmates released will return to prison w...
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- apw:12353062
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-25T21:48:06.77Z
- Title
- Brief Autobiography
- Author
- Moody, Jesse Jr.
- Date
- 2017-12-05
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (O)
- Brief Autobiography December 05, 2017 Jesse Moody #XO2438 5400 Bayline Drive Panama City F.L. 32404 My young undeveloped mind did not understand the consequences of my actions and I made a few critical mistakes as a juvenile that drastically altered the course of my life. I sat through four criminal jury trials, lost three, and was sentenced as an adult to serve approximately 18 years in the Florida Department of Corrections even though the offenses occurred when I was 17 years old. I should ...
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- apw:12353005
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-25T21:47:13.148Z
- Title
- Broken
- Author
- Lawson-Wilson, James
- Date
- 2018-06-01
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Broken? 6-1-18 Some people claim that our criminal justice system is horribly broken, and to most Americans that probably deserves a nod of recognition for the appearance of truth it presents to our general public. Lets look at it from that perspective for a minute. Most prisons in the United States are extremely unsafe places to both live and work. The facilities for the most part are out dated and in disrepair, due to lack of funding by the state and Federal government. Training for the off...
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- apw:12353292
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T11:01:03.001Z
- Title
- Can you imagine?
- Author
- Thompson, Michael Meeko
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Text (O)
- By: Michael "Meeko" Thompson Can You Imagine?? Can you imagine being thrown into a prison that is considered the worlds largest walled prison, which is called Jackson prison, located in Jackson, Michigan. Where each cell block is facing each other and whenever you look out your cell, you are facing 100 to 200 eye's staring back at you, even when you sit on your cell toilet. Imagine living in a house where 95% of the individuals living within this home have some serious mental i...
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- apw:12353377
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T19:49:03.237Z