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- Title
- 666
- Author
- Radford, Frederick L. Sr.
- Date
- 2016-07-11
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- (666) Essay by, Frederick Radford 7/11/2016 One reason I chose to title this essay “666”, is because I’m thirty six years old and 36 = 3 / 6’s = 666. Even though I am a peace maker, I’ve been battling the beast for so long that it has literally put me in beast mode! Like I said, I’m thirty six years old, on this day and I thank God that death hasn’t conquered me yet. From my understanding, I feel like “life” is designed to-program-all of us into pawns. We live in a system that is designed to ...
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- apw:12355950
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-23T17:58:18.397Z
- Title
- A Pollyanna in the penitentiary
- Author
- Cherry, Danny W.
- Pages
- 7 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- A Pollyana in the Penitentiary by Danny Cherry As I sat reading Executive Regional Director Michael Osburn's response, I just shook my head and chuckled. I was way beyond the point of disgust given all that had happened up until that point. Writing the commissioner had always proven itself to be an exercise in futility, however, my conscious reasoning would never allow me to rest unless I dissented from the recidivistic conditioning of the Indiana State Reformatory. Initially, I became d...
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- apw:12356553
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-24T16:11:52.048Z
- Title
- A black man trapped
- Author
- Atkins, Richard Jr.
- Date
- 2018-09-06
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- "A Black Man Trapped" The life some of us live, is the cause for our paranoia, pain and stress. Our parents think that we're insane and that we're not capable of learning life. life is the key to success, but with success there's a serious price, which perhaps many men don't want. I represent for the life that made me a problem child and the soldiers on the streets who are trying to survive the jungle that goes on in the ghettos/or jungle. They don't believe...
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- fly: : ;Piz2m2;”i:/ /ff???/75, ii)’/1? "’Ff@‘35lL/M’ ’ 5g/}m/mlzaf 47, 30/8 <' if ,_;15 ,0) 5013;;/M V///£7 C :7//1/é‘?/77/‘W .,-. Qf3,.;‘3/Zy / . Y _ _ ‘, A *~"E.M/"/ ft’//' ~ '1' WT" C7 ‘«:.’- an 9,. -* r. 4...: er’ 4’ ' 1? pr ii A /3/1676/, The life some of us live, is the cause for our paranoia, pain and stress. Our parents think that we're insane and that we're not capable of learning life. Life is the key to success, but with succ...
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- apw:12356198
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T17:13:00.909Z
- Title
- A cesspool full of drecks
- Author
- Cherry, Danny W.
- Pages
- 10 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- A Cesspool Full of Drecks by Danny Cherry As I lay there in excruciating agony caused by the severe infection that had resulted from my untreated burns, I tried very hard not to cry. My salted tears only exacerbated the wounds on the left side of my face. The pain was crippling; it paralyzed me. My wounds bled profusely and oozed puss incessantly. My sheet and blanket were ruined -- stained with the essence of my tortured being. I wondered how much more that my body could bear before it yield...
- PID
- apw:12356723
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T18:32:42.239Z
- Title
- A description of who I am
- Author
- Caraballo, Pedro R.
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (O)
- A Description of Who I Am: I have been in prison since 1999. I was 20 years old when I committed my crime. I had never been in any kind of trouble with the law and yet I was sentenced to die in prison in spite of mine being a non—homicide conviction and a first offense. My crime was that I participated in a kidnapping at the urging of the 47 year old man who befriended me at summer camp when I was a child and had been the lone parental figure in my life since bringing me to the United States ...
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- apw:12356262
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T17:14:54.935Z
- Title
- A future
- Author
- Cervantes, Mario
- Date
- 2019-01-11
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Mario Cervantes Jan. 11. 2019 A Future Can someone progress out from the shadow his past was built within? Solitary confinement. By: Mario Cervantes A Future Growing up in CYFD custody, (Children Youth and Families department.) is like growing up on a planet that Earth does not know of its existence. Then you're sent to Earth and expected to function correctly. Ending up in solitary confinement within the juvenile CYFD facilities is like a George Orwell book not written. I spent a lot of...
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- apw:12356444
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-24T14:52:20.689Z
- Title
- A healthy ambition
- Author
- McCreary, Howard Lewis, III
- Date
- 2019-01-27
- Pages
- 8 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- January 27, 2019 Time: 2:15 A.M By: Howard McCreary A Healthy Ambition [Part 1: Mentally Stimulation] I thank you all fore taking time out of your day to connect with my Diamond Thoughts on health. It brings me relief to know that people in society are concern or interested in the "condemn" and my salutation of the highest greeting goes to you all. What you all are embarking on is a three part dialogue on the three essential characteristics that make us human: mentality, physically,...
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- apw:12356653
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-24T16:37:46.419Z
- Title
- A little bit of sunshine
- Author
- Deaton, Keith A.
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- A Little Bit of Sunshine by Keith Allen Deaton The morning was absolutely beautiful. A thick snowfall began to cover the landscape. When I woke, I didn't think to look out the condensation covered window. The grayish (alpine blue) bars not being my first thought or interest in the morning. Only later after I brushed my teeth did someone exclaim "Hey, it's snowing." Today is Wednesday and it would be a good day! For the last several months, Wednesday is always a good day! R...
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- apw:12356354
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T17:22:20.935Z
- Title
- Advanced recidivism conditioning
- Author
- Cherry, Danny W.
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Advanced Recidivism Conditioning by Danny Cherry I had been torn from my sleep again by the continuous music that had blared from multiple offender's tablets, since they had been introduced into the Indiana State Reformatory - I was exhausted and sleep deprived. I would not have cared too much if the surrounding offenders had elected to blast symphonies, but they had chosen to broadcast toxic rap songs that promoted illegal drug distribution, illegal drug use, violence and sexual promisc...
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- apw:12356408
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-24T14:51:08.819Z
- Title
- After letting severe alochol and drug addiction
- Author
- LaKemper, Cobey
- Date
- 2018-09-04
- Pages
- 14 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- NO TITLE After battling severe alcohol and drug addiction for many years coupled with long-unaddressed emotional issues — and immediately following the abrupt, jarring conclusion of a relationship with my son's mother and disheartening separation of my sons and I — I lost all sense of belonging and subsequently killed three people. Despite investing absolutely no effort in being evasive as I travelled through several states committing the tragic, regretful crimes, I was the number-eight ...
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- apw:12356735
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T18:32:52.848Z
- Title
- Again do I find myself
- Author
- Dean, Tommy Lee
- Pages
- 11 pages
- Text (O)
- Again do I find myself looking for self—affirmation, being so down in the dumps as I presently feel. Thirsting for a boost to my self—worth; hungering for an increase in my self—esteem. It's hard to appease these needs, at times, through new choices, I try and want to make, concerning this new persona I seek. Do I fear my anima? With so much looking so wrong right now, with life kicking the crap out of me again, does my inner beast look to devour this kinder side of self? That inner beas...
- PID
- apw:12356728
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T18:32:46.561Z
- Title
- All I can think to write about is what it is like to be illiterate
- Author
- Soren, Jade
- Date
- 2019-01-07
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (TR_WF)
- January 7, 2019 APWA, All I can think to write about is what its like to be illiterate most of my life, to be abandoned by public defenders and to face a wrongful conviction on only hearsay when real evidence was not allowed. I can't imagine anyone interested in what it took to learn to read and write, the hell I lived through since December 20, 1990. Lets be honest, people are always too willing to believe the worst. I suppose it helps shape the world in their eyes. I still do not belie...
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- apw:12356052
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-23T18:50:09.021Z
- Title
- Alone
- Author
- Murray, B.C.
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (O)
- ALONE Alas, I am alone and destined to remain so. No longer can the burning, innate longing for love, companionship and re-affirmation of my worth reverberate inside my heart and mind. Is this due to years apart from others? Or is it because of my transgressions that I am left with no choice but to accept the exile society will impose that separates me even from those who ODCG felt affection from and for me? Once thrust back into the world from which I am now ten years removed, it would be fo...
- PID
- apw:12356135
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-23T19:24:33.952Z
- Title
- American prison: The largest sinkhole of taxpayer dollars in history
- Author
- Orr, Adam Gregory
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- American Prison: The Largest Sinkhole of Taxpayer Dollars in History A recent report called "Follow the Money of Mass Incarceration" says taxpayers spend approximately 182 billion dollars per year on incarceration. That is 182, followed by 9 zeros. Numbers that large are difficult to comprehend. I mean a lot of calculators don't have screens that wide! I'm not going to parse that report, (it's available on the internet at www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/money.html) inste...
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- apw:12356396
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-24T14:50:47.805Z
- Title
- An American epidemic
- Author
- Adams, Meagan
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- An American Epidemic Do you remember when you were naive enough to believe you were invincible? Now, imagine yourself as that kid and being told your whole life is being stripped from you before you've even had the opportunity to know what it feels like to live by your own rules. Are you there? Can you see it? Can you feel it? Good! Sadly and tragically this scenario is much more than an image cooked up by one's imagination. American is facing a tragedy of epic proportions; an epide...
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- apw:12356338
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T17:21:57.853Z
- Title
- Aramark is pimping the GDOC
- Author
- King Coe tha Great
- Date
- 2018-11
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Aramark is Pimping the GDOC Greetings World! I am Willie Coe; a GDOC's P.O.W.. I'm held captive within the gates of Hays State Prison in Trion, Ga.. This is an establishment for penal infractions and is owned & operated by the GDOC. But it's one flaw is it's food service dept.. It is inconsistent with state regulations and violates almost every health and sanitation, and nutrition guide to the T... Aramark Food Service, services Hays with meals and food service workers...
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- apw:12355935
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-23T17:57:55.301Z
- Title
- Artificially overcrowded
- Author
- Brownell, Charles Allen
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Artificially Overcrowded Many prison systems all around the United States have multiple prison facilities and some have large inmate populations. Many state systems have a problem with overcrowded prison and jail populations. How sick and twisted would it be to have a state that "intentionally" and consistently keep their prisons and jails overpopulated for their own corrupt agenda of opening more prisons so that the state can incarcerate more people for the sake of having more slav...
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- apw:12356516
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-24T16:10:29.44Z
- Title
- Avoid stress at all cost
- Author
- Atkins, Richard Jr.
- Date
- 2018-09-21
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- By: Richard Atkins, Jr. 9-21-18 California -Essay- “Avoid Stress At All Cost” First and foremost, you occupy most of your time with what you love. That can be family, kids, your girlfriend/or wife, a certain television show etc. That’s how you avoid dwelling on things that’s out of your control. For example: I lost many friends growing up in a gang, with the notorious crips, and I started to feel that God didn’t love me. So I ignored their funerals as if they was still with us. By missing the...
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- apw:12356218
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T17:13:35.37Z
- Title
- Before I think to write
- Author
- Paschal, Charles A. Jr.
- Date
- 2019-01-11
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- 1-11-2019 Before I think to write anything on this paper I pray that whomever's attention I'm getting by taking such chance to get your attention is doing alright! Whereas, my name is as previously stated above Charles Anthony Paschal Jr., and I'm currently serving my 17th year straight in the Georgia Department of Corrections off a 30 years total prison sentence! My reason and purpose for taking a chance to get whomever's attention I'm getting is to share an essay ab...
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- apw:12356362
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T17:22:34.807Z
- Title
- Before I think to write anything on this paper
- Author
- Paschal, Charles A. Jr.
- Date
- 2018-11-20
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- 11-20-2018 Before I think to write anything on this paper my name is Charles Anthony Paschal Jr., and I have been incarcerated 17 years straight off of a 30 year sentence, and the reason I'm currently taking a chance to get anyones' attention that can understand my unthought of words, "no matter what you're serving in life your only confines are the ones that you allow to be your confines!" Freedom is only a eight letter word, and if you allow others' judgements ...
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- apw:12356144
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-23T19:24:46.903Z
- Title
- Blind leading the blind
- Author
- Ernst, Aaron Anthony
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (O)
- Blind Leading the Blind A prison experience I will never forget happened one evening last July. I was making a call to my girlfriend Taemi that would no doubt end like all the others; with me hating myself and wondering why I called in the first place. That seemed to be our routine. Knowing how I would feel afterwards I would still line up each night and spend half of my forty-five minute rec time to receive a fifteen minute dose of verbal bashing. That seemed to be the routine of quite a few...
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- apw:12356084
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-23T19:23:10.835Z
- Title
- Born to a struggle
- Author
- Exile
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (TR_WF)
- Born to a Struggle By Exile I was born to a struggle, I cant place the blame on my brother or the so called blue eyed devil. I was the reason for my own demise, I didn't have the patience to hear the words of the wise. Their was a veil over my eyes and my ears were closed till this day. All I wanted to do was hang on corner with hard heads and pretender. No matter what you do, don’t live your life in the past, the future is where heart needs to be filled with laugh. You see I live on the...
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- apw:12356062
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-23T18:50:24.592Z
- Title
- Can you see the pain
- Author
- Exile
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (TR_WF)
- By Exile Can you see the pain or agony on my face. Behind these walls my life has been erase. A distant memory has become my place. Pain has been like sweat coming from my pores, which is repeated constantly in my soul. Day to day I face the anguish inside of these bars causing this separation of the man I become (cold). Can you see the pain, this never ending path I face. I just want somebody to know I exist in this place. Force to be by exile - inside this circus called prison where actors ...
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- apw:12356066
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-23T18:50:29.397Z
- Title
- Cause and effect
- Author
- Poree-Daniels, Tre'Lanzo A. L. Sr.
- Date
- 2018-10-21
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Essay 4 Archive Cause and Effect 10-21-2018 My name is Tre' Lanzo i've been incarcerated for 6 years now because of the evil choice of violence that I allowed to overcome me. This is my first essay for this article and my goal is bring awareness to my people and everyone else; about the importance of knowing the meaning of "cause" and "effect". How important it is to understand the meaning behind what we all do, say and also neglect. To give a solution to conflic...
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- apw:12356258
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T17:14:47.244Z