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Title
16 years since inception.
Author
Martinez, Brandon
Date
2010-08-25
Date
2010-08-25, 2010-08-25
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (TR)
1 Brandon Martinez Word Count: 1,253 August 25, 2010 (NO TITLE) 16 years since inception. Been locked down in the department of correction entered the prison gate. Had no idea what would be my fate. Slangin the rocks from the triple beam. Was just a young buck having fun. Didnt realize what the cost of packing a gun. As I heard the iron gates rattle. Prepared for every twist and turn of the battle. For a life sentence surely I was doomed living in obscurity in a cocoon. Would I lose my mind. ...
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apw:176
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T17:52:37.443Z
Title
1969
Author
Palmer, Mark
Date
2015-01-21
Pages
15 pages
State
North Dakota
Text (O)
1969 Nineteen Sixty Nine was the year that everything in my world changed. This was the year that I lost my innocence, my journey into adulthood, the most transformative year of my life; my trip down the “Rabbit Hole,” so to speak. For me, it was the most important year of my life. I was 16 and very seriously trying to be an adult. It wasn’t working out as well as I wanted it to. I was trying to do too much for my age, education and worldly experience. Innocence, once lost, can never be regai...
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apw:12345731
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T12:49:44.353Z
Title
1st amendment under siege
Author
Magnific, Roc
Date
2017-03-03
Pages
3 pages
Topics
Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (TR_WF)
"1st Amendment Under Siege" Recently last year (May,2016) Arkansas Department of Correction Czarina Wendy Kelly issued a rather fastidious policy that cited newspaper clippings would be banned from prisoner mail, classifying them as (wait for it - with bated breath) "contraband"!? According [ineligible] to ADC (Ay, Carumba! Arkansas Department of Corruption) policy, they are... concerned about drug smuggling but said vitiated policy does not affect newspapers sent directly...
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apw:12350565
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T14:09:39.949Z
Title
28 days from Nirvana
Author
Kayer, George
Pages
2 pages
State
Arizona
Text (O)
28 Days From Nirvana By George Kayer My condition is so rare, on the North American continent less than 3,400 people are stricken by it. The population of this continent: home to Canada, Mexico and the U.S.A. is estimated at half a billion people . Through government reports, we know it's found in only 36 areas in the United States. The mortality rate is 40% to 93% depending on a state's resources and its government's willingness to aggressively combat this rare condition. Rega...
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apw:12344093
Date Uploaded
2016-10-20T10:56:33.87Z
Title
2nd class citizens assert 1st Amendment rights
Author
Arroyo, Bryant
Date
2015-10-31
Date
2015-10-31, 2015-10-31
Pages
2 pages
State
Pennsylvania
Topics
Tom Corebett, Victim Crimes Act, HB2533, SB508, first amendment
Text (TR_WF)
2nd Class Citizens Assert 1st Amendment Rights Col. Writ. 11/14/14 Copyright Bryant Arroyo In the dead of the night Gov. Tom Corbett huddled with the choir of the legislature and the rest of his cronies (FOP) whom introduced an invidious, unconstitutional 'Chilling Effect' tantamount to a 'civil choke hold.' Gov. Corbett signed both HB2533 & SB508 on Oct. 3, 2014, which is legally unprecedented and has far-reaching implications that specifically targets and impacts for...
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apw:12341601
Date Uploaded
2015-09-29T21:47:08.573Z
Title
4 year old nephew travels across the state to visit, but is denied by prison staff
Author
Bell, Shane
Date
2017-08-25
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
4 year old nephew travels across the state to visit, but is denied by prison staff About a month or so ago I made arrangements with my family about when they would visit me. I was excited to meet my 4-year old nephew named Carter for the first time ever, as well as my 6 year old nephew Keegan. I needed to get my 4-year old nephew Carter on my visit list so my parents, who were traveling across the state of South Dakota to visit me with him could get in to see me. I contacted the Unit Coordina...
PID
apw:12350889
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T16:49:57.87Z
Title
452 words on incarceration
Author
Roberts, W.E.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
452 Words on Incarceration Prison is a poisoned environment. It leaves no one untouched. It seeps into the pores like mustard gas. It fouls the very air we breathe, polluting it with anger and hatred and bitterness. It creates unseen lesions on our souls, damages our being, eats away at our minds until we have no choice but to shut down all emotion or risk self-destruction. One cannot "care" for another in here, it is a weakness pounced upon by those who prey on misery, a liability ...
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apw:12349593
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T19:34:03.96Z
Title
4993 word essay
Author
Powers-Wali, Anthony
Pages
16 pages
Text (FT)
h i Cja^ 4993 W o r d Essay At the age of sixteen I was incarcerated for First Degree Murder and later sentenced to 77-years in prison. There seemed to be httle consideration of the affects it would have on a teenager to be housed with adults. Fortunately for me I was a fighter. There is a strange unwritten rule in prison that if somebody is willing to stick up for himself from day one then other prisoners will be willing to help him. If you don't stand up for yourself then you are left ...
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apw:12347577
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:26:46.677Z
Title
5 positive steps to reform prisons
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Date
2013-12-09
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (O)
12/14/13 Renowned prison reform activist Ken Hartman gives his insights into how we can reform our broken system. — The Good Men Project usstfaji ■ Home About Blog Editors’Picks Get Weekly Email Become a Premium Member Login December 14, 2013 & RELATIONSHIPS DADS & FAP/iiiJ ADVICE Sc CONPESS50NS ALL CATEGORIES Your Opinion Matters! opinion-central Please participate in a brief survey. Yeu are here: Home / Editors' Picks / 5 Pa sitivs Steps to Reform Prisons 5 Positive Steps to Re...
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apw:12344714
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T21:08:46.17Z
Title
7My voice through the prison walls
Author
Pendleton, Ricky
Pages
5 pages
Text (FT)
7My voice through the prison walls By: Inmate Ricky Vincent Pendleton II I think rehabilitation is a propaganda word used by the lawmakers to cover their motives Exploiting the inmates in a business venture. The whole prison industry is a "for profit" industry; from my reading is a billion dollars industry. How am I supposed to cope in here and seeing the corrupt acts of people...? I have to control the things in my life. Rehabilitation is on the individual prisoner, he/she has to d...
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apw:12347639
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:49:32.44Z
Title
8 accurate books to read about life in prison
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Date
2010-11-30
Pages
10 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Kenneth Hartman: 8 Accurate Books To Read About Life In Prison (PHO... Page 1 of 2 The Internet Newspaper — at your doorstep. Follow HuffPost on Facebook and Twitter. TO LIVING EN GQDD COMPANY — EZl.l-IZi'l*I".. F-ill-'6 K2-t:iCi=§T.A.lL‘3 ' '3F*"'5'E‘{‘5-W‘7‘E‘- “ - 'W!rI.-fx«i1.nx2 iI.a.;«e:'w.=-M This is the print preview: Backto normal view >> Kenneth Hartman Prison Writer Posted: November 30, 2010 07:28 AM 8 Accurate Books To Read A...
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apw:12344782
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T22:55:08.032Z
Title
A Minnesota experience: Qualitative analysis of Minnesota Department of Corrections policy
Author
Graham, Maurece LaVarne
Pages
14 pages
Text (O)
Minnesota Experience Qualitative Analysis of Minnesota Department of Corrections Policy Maurece Graham A Minnesota Experience {Excerpted from larger work} By Maurece L. Graham © October 11, 2017 Since this addendum is composed from the perspective of a correctional client versus that of a correctional official, little attention has been paid to traditional penal models. Instead, most of the focus is upon conveying the actual experience of incarceration itself, with as much objectivity as poss...
PID
apw:12351849
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T02:47:35.374Z
Title
A baby brings changes
Author
AMOM
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (TR)
Alberto Otiniano California A Baby Bring Changes The Milk This story remember me to the milk, when a loving mother bring to nourishing to your baby, and the parents take care of him, even before to birth when the mother go to the doctor, sometimes the parents not planning to have a baby, not can't afford to have a baby. The mother will to quit work when the baby is born, and the parents are upset, but the month pass and she feel the baby kicking! The father put his hands on your wife abd...
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apw:12342730
Date Uploaded
2016-10-15T02:19:47.037Z
Title
A bad year
Author
Arreygue, Michael
Date
2016-10-02
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Michael Arreyene S.V.S.P. California A Bad Year Any year in prison could be considered a bad year, but for me the past year has been a bad year. Although it is far from the worst because things could always be worse, for instance I probably could not be able to write these thoughts or even be around. By no means do I intend to be morbid, but as we all view the best/worse case scenario this is mine. My bad year began in August 2014 and it came out of nowhere and knocked me out like a suckerpun...
PID
apw:12347867
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:29.569Z
Title
A book review of Writing my wrongs: Life, death, and redemption in an American prison by Shaka Senghor
Author
Smith, Zachary
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
A Book Review of Writing My wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison by Shaka Senghor by Zachary A. Smith I read this book after another prisoner received it as a gift from his mother. The first thing that stood out to me was Shaka Senghor's (aka James White) claim that out of respect for the victims‘ family and their privacy, he changed the name of the man he killed. If Shaka truly wantefi to show respect for the man he killed, wouldn't he have honored it insteafi of...
PID
apw:12349922
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T21:58:41.431Z
Title
A boy who was lost, and grew up fast
Author
Carabajal, Ray Morin Fuentes
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Title: "A Boy Who Was Lost and Grew Up Fast (Faith in Believing; God is Waiting for Us)" From [Car BA] Hall: Never learned this world's education. Never knew English. He only spoke in Mexican and was given and gifted voice. He didn't know his purpose of why he was born and it took 35 years of street life to become known, to of why he was born. He was given the test of time and to perform every sinful act on this earth and only five sinful acts he was forbidden to do: 1. mu...
PID
apw:12352270
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T18:53:43.354Z
Title
A brief comment on prison reform in de-Christianized society
Author
Quintero, John
Date
2009-02-22
Pages
5 pages
State
Nevada
Text (O)
A Brief Comment on Prison Reform in De-Christianized Society St Thomas More once wrote a letter to console his daughter before his execution. He drew out a lengthy allergy of prison—like nature of life, and God-as- the-executioner, given the fact of certain pain of death. He argues that the degree of restriction while waiting for execution does not change the fact of the punishment at the end. The man in prison has limited physical freedom, but none the less enjoys the same freedom to meet hi...
PID
apw:12345823
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T15:52:55.611Z
Title
A brief deconstruction of America's leviathan
Author
Rippo, Michael
Pages
19 pages
State
Nevada
Text (O)
A Brief Deconstruction of America’s Leviathan INTRODUCTION Recently, I had cause to consider the following two—part question: The goals of criminal punishment include retribution (giving people what they deserve), deterrence (discouraging future crimes), and rehabilitation (improving behavior). What purpose, if any, has your time in prison served? Should any of these purposes be emphasized more? At first, its sophomoric quality invited a dismissive chuckle but a second reading encouraged a mo...
PID
apw:12345834
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T18:13:30.822Z
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...
PID
apw:12353486
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T23:40:20.169Z
Title
A concise history of the prisoners' rights movement: an epic struggle for human dignity
Author
Littek, Thomas
Date
2015-04-13
Pages
19 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Concise History of the Prisoners' Rights Movement: An Epic Struggle for Human Dignity Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it. Historian's maxim. After visiting Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary in 1842 Charles Dickens wrote, "The system is rigid, strict and hopeless...and I believe it to be cruel and wrong....I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the [mind] to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body." Eastern State ...
PID
apw:12347462
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:10:45.99Z
Title
A crime is anything
Author
Lazar, Steven
Pages
5 pages
Text (O)
Part One Do I agree with Freda Adler’s quote that “[ a] crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit”? In the context of our American democracy, Adler’s quote is pretty close to an exact definition of how an act that is perceived to be wrong is codified into a body of penal laws.1 An elected body of legislators, i.e. the “group in power”, determines what public wrongs should be deemed wrong enough to be labeled a crime and, as such, carry along with them punitive measures. When A...
PID
apw:12352592
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:37:04.415Z
Title
A day in life
Author
Hairgrove, Donald
Date
2016-04-04
Date
2016-04-04, 2016-04-04
Pages
5 pages
State
Alabama
Text (TR)
Donald D. Hairgrove Alabama A Day in Life Doing time in prison is more than a falling away of the days into months, months into years and years into decades. It's a period of a prisoner's life that disappears into the shadow land of never before known loneliness, dispair and anger. No man is ever prepared to do time in prison, no matter what his background. Once inside he will be in awe by the savagery of the inmates and astounded by the callous and brutal indifference of the prison...
PID
apw:12342163
Date Uploaded
2016-06-19T21:45:56.562Z
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...
PID
apw:12353162
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:57:52.741Z
Title
A day in the life of time
Author
Clemmons-Bey, Eric
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Day in the Life of Time My name is Eric. I was born and raised in St.Louis, but for the past 34 years I have been in prison in Missouri. I have been in the South East Correctional Center at Charleston, Missouri for seven years now. When I was 21, I was sentenced to 50 years without the possibility of parole for killing a young man who was trying to rob my younger brother. I did not have a prison record. Very few people have any idea what it is like to be incarcerated for decades. Here is wh...
PID
apw:12346733
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:48.789Z

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