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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...
PID
apw:12353542
Date Uploaded
2018-09-27T00:38:09.74Z
Title
A sporting chance
Author
Harper, Bednago
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Bednago Harper "A Sporting Chance" Much, much more than just sport and athletics to pass the time, after school activities like football, basketball, and baseball can go a long way in helping to instill responsibility, personal growth and many other life-shaping virtues in young people growing up in troubled areas of inner cities. When a young person knows better, that young person is more likely to do better. Let's just face it. A great many of our young people aren't bei...
PID
apw:12350715
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T15:41:32.966Z
Title
Age, nothing but an IDOC #
Author
Morgan, Jon R
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Jon R Morgan K60696 page 1 of 2 Shawnee C.C. 370 words 6665 State Route 146 E Vienna, IL. 62995 AGE, NOTHING BUT AN lDOC # BY K60696 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‘/zyrs, which will make me 52 before my release. And that's a blessing, since the maximum may have been 60yrs and 20yrs—-perhaps ifl had been a hardened adult, a career criminal, maybe...
PID
apw:12352987
Date Uploaded
2018-09-25T21:46:55.533Z
Title
An excerpt from my novel "neutral"
Author
Harper, Bednago
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Bednago Harper An excerpt from my novel "Neutral" The Journey Manifest Book I "Not that it really matters, but I find myself very, very, Very disturbed by many of the things that I have witnessed during this time. I hope and I pray that this will be the last time that I will ever be incarcerated. I've grown to suspect that my incarceration was preordained by my Higher Power as a sacrificial expenditure for me to gain the COSTLY knowledge of which to measure the PRICELESS v...
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apw:12349638
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T19:51:39.919Z
Title
Betrayal
Author
Harris, Larry "Rocky"
Pages
6 pages
State
Illinois
Text (O)
Betrayal By Larry “Rocky " Harris Everyday across America, the innocent are sent to prison. This is an ugly fact that most citizens of this great country do not want to deal with. It is not a topic that will come up over cocktails with friends. I The segment of the American population involved in this nightmare is usually the poor, specifically a poor man sold out by the public defender appointed to the criminal case. The case I write about falls into this category: a poor man raising his...
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apw:12345327
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T17:20:46.928Z
Title
First amendment under attack in Illinois' prisons: the price of dissent
Author
Peter, George, Jr.
Pages
11 pages
State
Illinois
Text (O)
FIRST AMENDMENT UNDER ATTACK IN ILLINOIS’ PRISONS: THE PRICE OF DISSENT Exercising one's first amendment rights is analogous to breathing; we only learn to appreciate it when our capacity to I do either is impinged upon. However, there are certain events which serve to heighten an individual's awareness to particular circumstances, and for those of us who are incarcerated, we quickly discover how tenuous our ability is to engage in first amendment activities that the average person ...
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apw:12345356
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T17:20:49.235Z
Title
For as long as I could remember, life has always provided me with not just unedited truth
Author
Scott, Jovon
Pages
3 pages
PID
apw:12353126
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:57:17.893Z
Title
Get out of our own way
Author
Freedom Sun
Pages
3 pages
State
Illinois
Text (O)
Get Out of Our Own Way by "F'K*E‘E:"C> mw sum ['m not trying to be an American Idol like Reuben Studdard, Or glorify the streets to prove I'm gully. ['m simply trying to cut into young brothers out there thuggin' in the hustle, And show'em there's something better for'em than them gutters. The struggle turns like the dice roll Ice cold: Cold nights, cold cells, cold cases by hot shells from cold pipes. Jail's revolving door is absurb b...
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apw:12345374
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T20:47:42.594Z
Title
Hidden in transparency
Author
Scott, Jovon
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
I have previous work filed Hidden in Transparency Written By: Jovon Scott Forever the Writer Prison creates a disdain of aptitude in the terms of adapting – a crucial aspect in regards to creating that balance to exist in an abnormal environment of controlled chaos. The up hill battle in efforts to sustain the conclusive elements in rehabilitation is at a high disadvantage, because there’s no pattern of reward for the individual subjected to the criminal state of mind since the adolescence of...
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apw:12353041
Date Uploaded
2018-09-25T21:47:45.713Z
Title
How long is it necessary
Author
Freedom Sun
Pages
5 pages
State
Illinois
Text (O)
Marvin Alexis #R—O7621 2600 N. Brinton Ave. Dixon, Il 61021 Pen: Freedom Sun APWA 198 College Hill Road Clinton, NY 13323-1218 How long is it necessary for a person to be incarcerated before they are considered rehabilitated? 5 years? 10 years? 15? 20? Does it depend on the nature of the offense? This is the essence of my essay. The structure of sentencing and incar- ceration is one which nee to be gutted, re-analyzed, then reapplied effectively. If the purpose of incarceration is applied &qu...
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apw:12345378
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T20:47:42.92Z
Title
I am a female incarcerated
Author
Tammy
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Dear APWA, I am a female incarcerated at Logan Correctional Center (LCC). I am detain on a unit that they refer to as housing unit that is full of asbestos, lead, and mold. There is even a raccoon that is crapping and peeing in the attic that staff will not capture. Upon starting out there were 3 raccoons. 2 were captures by a trap. Yet the one left has been in the attic over 6 months. Even though several has grieved it nothing has been done. Some ladies even took it upon themself to literarl...
PID
apw:12352489
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T19:45:37.962Z
Title
I am an African-American male
Author
Jones, A.L.
Pages
6 pages
State
Illinois
Text (O)
I am an African~American male convicted in trial for a non-violent drug conspiracy charge. Convicted from the testimony of co~conspirators who were proffered by the government to agree to law enforcement's version of alleged violations of federal laws, in exchange for a sentence reduction for supplying prosecution with uncorroborated JG 2/ hearsay testimony. I want to inform.enrwsommunrny about what I’ve witnessed in my experience being processed through the American criminal justice sys...
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apw:12345341
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T17:20:48.18Z
Title
I grew up in the slum society of Chicago
Author
Scott, Jovon
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
From: Soran "Forever the White" Scott I grew up in the slum society of Chicago, Illinois. My mother fell victim to crack cocaine and my father wasn't much of an influence that I followed. Rules are what create order out of chaos and I lacked the mental and constructural ability to ground me morally and socially. I never truly had any supportive family members except my older sister, Celeste Radcliffe, so I formed to the next thing that made me feel whole, the gang culture. Soci...
PID
apw:12352410
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T19:43:50.776Z
Title
I thought to myself
Author
Kucinsky, Charles
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
I thought to myself it must have been something I did or said but it was probably for nothing at all. Probably the fear factor - that those officers strong armed me, choked me and beat my body like their gun & badge wasnt threatening enough. Did they just want to intimidate me? I blamed myself and tryed to justify their actions. Did they justify themselves by saying I was a gang member; that I wasnt innocent? Is that what I might have deserved? If that was my punishment who decided the pu...
PID
apw:12352439
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T19:44:31.809Z
Title
I was born January 23rd, 1993
Author
Watson, Kevin
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE I was born January 23rd, 1993 in Chicago, Illinois on the southeast side to a crack addict and a alcoholic. I grew up in Chicago's 2nd worse neighborhood-Woodlawn. I was raised by my grandmother who if it wasn't for her genuity and concern I would have been in foster care and wouldn't have the benefit of knowing a 8th of my family. To be quite honest I don't know if it is a benefit of knowing my family because the majority of family members I know don't seem ...
PID
apw:12348123
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T20:07:50.211Z
Title
If the walls could talk
Author
Brethorst, Denisha
Date
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
Isolation causes one to fester in anger and resentment
Author
Scott, Jovon
Pages
3 pages
PID
apw:12353106
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:56:57.572Z
Title
Like father, like son?
Author
Winters, Romell
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Like Father, Like Son? My story is like a lot of others who grew up the way I did. I grew up in poverty in a single-parent home with four older sisters. My father went to prison when I was very young, so he wasn't in my life at all when I was growing up. Sometimes, I would get letters and birthday cards from him, but that was the extent of our relationship. When my mother lost her job, we moved from a bad neighborhood to a worse one where at the age of 9 I learned about gangs and soon af...
PID
apw:12350451
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T13:43:38.139Z
Title
Misplaced
Author
Moore, Joseph L.
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
As I lie in the bunk reading, I am torn away from the pages by the unmis- takable sound of gum shoes squeaking, property boxes bumping against the wall, and the thuds of fists crashing against bare skin. The occupants in the cell above mine are fighting. With my thumb between the pages of the book, I lay it on my chest and listen to the altercation. As the fight intensifies, I sit up and put my feet on the floor, and the book slides diagonally across my chest and onto the bed. I am staring up...
PID
apw:12350174
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T01:36:14.8Z
Title
My experience in prison has been brutal
Author
Foxx, Darnell
Pages
5 pages
State
Illinois
Text (TR)
Darnell Fox Illinios [No Title] My Experience in prison has been brutal on my Mental. Being away from my family is hard. My free will has been Stripped Away. I Am Not able to have sex, Eat properly, bath, guide my sibling, help my mother & Auntee. This Creates stress. I personally struggle Everyday because I would Rather be dead than live in my current conditions. Menard C.C. 10 [qal.?] East cell house. Two shower a week. Two Yard days A week. In the summer time It's gets extremely h...
PID
apw:12343348
Date Uploaded
2016-10-18T00:54:16.935Z
Title
My legal name is Robert West
Author
West, Robert
Pages
11 pages
State
Illinois
Text (TR)
Robert West Illinois No Title My legal name is Robert West and I'm an inmate in the United States of America and of the State of Illinois and presently I am incarcerated in the Illinois Department of Corrections ("IDOC") under their alphabetical numerical identification system as B-03903. I was sentenced to an aggregate 60 years @ 50% for armed robberies and I have been in continuous incarceration since August 19, 1991, and there was no violence in those cases or my background....
PID
apw:12343354
Date Uploaded
2016-10-18T00:54:17.697Z
Title
No place for kids
Author
Dostert, Mark
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
No Place for Kids by Mark Dostert Christopher L. was 16. Had the Chicago media deemed his alleged crime salacious enough, they would have printed his full name. They revealed the full names of other kids at the jail where I worked as a guard in the late 1990s. Despite being younger than 18, those children — facing charges like first-degree murder or aggravated vehicular hijacking or armed robbery with a firearm —— had been charged as adults, not juveniles. Christopher hadn't killed or ro...
PID
apw:12352691
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:32:04.824Z
Title
Our families are victims too!
Author
Winters, Romell
Pages
3 pages
State
Illinois
Text (TR_WF)
Our Families Are Victims Too! One way or another, our crime and eventually incarceration has made our families victims as well. Due to our actions, it has created all kinds of turmoil-emotional, psychological, financial. It may have come as a sudden shock, or it may have come as one more thing in a long series of dealing with us. Either way, our families has been through a lot, - shame and guilt because they sometimes don’t want to show their face around other people. They’re tired of being k...
PID
apw:12343366
Date Uploaded
2016-10-18T00:54:18.631Z
Title
Phantom souls
Author
Schultz, Gerard G., Jr.
Pages
5 pages
State
Illinois
Text (O)
PHANTOM SOULS By Gerard Gregory Schultz Jr _ Unable to be perceived by the outside world and sometimes unable to be perceived by our own selves. We are an estimated 2 rnillion, but thesound of a pin falling down onto the ground makes a much louder sound than 4 million teardrops that incessantly ‘ fall every second of every hour of every day for the fphantom souls” that are entombed in their purgatory state of existence inside correctional facilities across the United States. ‘ We are "ph...
PID
apw:12345368
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T20:47:42.037Z

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