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Pages
- Title
- 37
- Author
- Cherry, Danny W.
- Pages
- 7 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- 37 by Danny Cherry 37 by Danny Cherry pg. 1 My thirty-seventh birthday – February 18, 2020 – had been quite memorable; All things considered. The goddess Audrey Hepburn and I had eaten "Breakfast at Tiffany's" five days before. The pass I received on my birthday to the infirmary provided an opportunity for me to promote my work published in the Archive. The dentist entered urgent care just as I was exiting. "Did you enjoy reading the piece I gave you sir?" He had made...
- PID
- apw:12361313
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-02-03T15:59:07.805Z
- 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...
- PID
- apw:12356553
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-24T16:11:52.048Z
- 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
- 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...
- PID
- apw:12356408
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-24T14:51:08.819Z
- Title
- An erudite's antirecidivism medications
- Author
- Cherry, Danny W.
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- An Erudite's Antirecidivism Medications by Danny Cherry As the virulence of recidivism continued to run rampant through the Indiana Department of Correction, I did not cease from combating it with cultural medicines; I refused to allow myself to become infected. Although I was exceeding poor, I still made financial sacrifices in order to positively maintain my intellectual and emotional health. Pendleton's staff's refusal, for well over three months, to send money that I had tr...
- PID
- apw:12359685
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T19:30:49.881Z
- Title
- Beautiful enemies
- Author
- Cherry, Danny W.
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Beautiful Enemies by Danny Cherry pg. 1 I finally understood how sane women could have loved men like Christopher Columbus and Adolf Hitler; I had strong physical attractions to a few of Pendleton's tyrants. The equilibrium of love and lust I felt for them was a by-product of my loneliness -- great solace came whenever I saw or though of sexually clandestined escapes with those forbidden lovers. Cruel despots -- the most handsome men I had ever seen, consumed me in my moments of despair;...
- PID
- apw:12361147
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-02-03T15:55:10.528Z
- Title
- Beneath the surface (the somm program & the polygraph)
- Author
- Riley, C.T.
- Pages
- 3 pages
- State
- Indiana
- Text (O)
- Beneath the surface by C.T. Riley (The somm program & the Polygraph) I want to share some research with you on the polygraph exam for which my non-compliance in taking it was utilized to extend my incarceration. Initially I conceded to take a polygraph under the condition that; I would be given adequate time as to being informed beforehand that I may procure counsel to be present during the polygraph exam. But, as I stated earlier I was only given a 24 hour notice; which also violated due...
- PID
- apw:12345431
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-23T22:17:36.216Z
- Title
- Beneathe the surface again (human trafficking: the somm-scheme-scam-sex program)
- Author
- Riley, C.T.
- Pages
- 5 pages
- State
- Indiana
- Text (O)
- Beneath the Surface Again By C.T. Riley (Human Trafficking: The somm-scheme-scam-sex program) H-e-l-p! I am being held hostage at the New Castle Correctional Facility, in the middle of a cornfield camouflaged as woodlands. Despite my ongoing pursuit for post-conviction relief from 2014 up until this present I was still compelled under duress by New Castle Correctional Facility & somm personnel staff to temporarily participate in somm until I was able to resolve grievance contending that s...
- PID
- apw:12345435
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-23T22:17:36.687Z
- Title
- Concentration camp
- Author
- Cherry, Danny W.
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Concentration Camp by Danny Cherry I imagined the inhumanity that Anne Frank witnessed and endured, as we chronic care prisoners were being herded through Pendleton's cafeteria to receive flu shots. Indescribable fear paralyzed me; medical staff threw used syringes onto tables where we would be eating later; I had HIV, my blood alone was a deadly weapon. Rapid thoughts raced in my mind, as I pondered what infectious diseases flowed through the veins of the remaining multitude. I requeste...
- PID
- apw:12359695
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T19:31:03.818Z
- Title
- Enclosed is an "incident report"
- Author
- Mebane, J. Terrell
- Date
- 2018-12-13
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- [no title] 12/13/18 Enclosed is an "Incident Report" from the Federal Bureau of Prisons describing a homicide that I committed, in USP Terre Haute in 2016. What I wish to explain to you, are the factors that have been left unclarified, and what has succeeded since the ordeal. The Federal Bureau of Prisons has a totalitarian attitude towards its prisoners. Unfortunately for the prisoners, guards have been brainwashed and trained that they must never negotiate, or relent with their or...
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- apw:12356156
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-23T19:25:08.6Z
- Title
- Every member of the human
- Author
- Cherry, Danny W.
- Date
- 2019-02-13
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Danny Cherry IN 2-13-19 Dear APWA Editors, Every member of the human race is entitled to dignity and equality. That being said, I am not an "incarcerated [writer]," I am a writer who is incarcerated. To expound—without a doubt—would be an exercise in futility, especially to marginalized people suffering from delusions of superiority over members of the population whom have been disenfranchised by crime. Such prejudice against prisoners is unbecoming, degrading, but worst of all segr...
- PID
- apw:12356189
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T17:12:47.905Z
- Title
- Haters and hypocrisy
- Author
- Cherry, Danny W.
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Haters and Hypocrisy by Danny Cherry The terror I felt when I rose and saw that my mail had been placed on my door’s port was so potent that it quickened me from my somnambulistic trance. I was appalled by the fact that Sergeant Prater had done such an unethical thing. I was even more disgusted that our range detail or anyone who went to med line had not the decency to either have woken me or- at the very least- to have thrown my correspondences on my cell’s floor. Out of my naïveté, I had fo...
- PID
- apw:12356495
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-24T14:53:54.804Z
- Title
- Immortality becomes him
- Author
- Cherry, Danny W.
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Immortality Becomes Him by Danny Cherry pg.1 The crown of prison reform could only be worn by an activist who's mind and body were able to bear its awful grace; I determined to be the omniking of change. My neverending quest's path was riddled with debased politicians, partial judges, and detestable prison offenders - Heartless monsters above human relations. Pendleton's envious and jealous offenders were like venomous serpents constantly poisoning the body of its civilization....
- PID
- apw:12361143
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-02-03T15:55:03.413Z
- Title
- Inside the walls of an Indiana state prison
- Author
- Khaldun, Khalfani Malik
- Date
- 2013-11-04
- Date
- 2013-11-04, 2013-11-04
- Pages
- 4 pages
- State
- Indiana
- Topics
- suicide in prison
- Text (FT)
- INSIDE THE WALLS OF AN INDIANA STATE PRISON A Political Press Release by Khalfani Malik Khaldun " ...when the prison gates slam behind an inmate, he or she does not lose their human qualities; their minds do not become closed to ideas; their intellects do not cease to feed on a free and open interchange of opinions; their yearnings for self-respect do not end, nor are their quests for self-realization concluded..." (Thurgood Marshall) In 1987 I entered the Indiana Department of Corr...
- PID
- apw:12341335
- Date Uploaded
- 2015-09-27T13:29:04.135Z
- Title
- Political prisoner Khalfani Malik Khaldun puts the Indiana Department of Corrections and its system on trial
- Author
- Khaldun, Khalfani Malik
- Date
- 2013-11-04
- Date
- 2013-11-04, 2013-11-04
- Pages
- 5 pages
- State
- Indiana
- Topics
- call for reform
- Text (TR_WF)
- Political Prisoner Khalfani Malik Khaldun Puts the Indiana Department of Corrections -& Its System on Trial- [A Revolutionary Interview] "To Struggle in the United States is extremely dangerous. However, our very lives depend on an ongoing Conscious Movement for Liberation. The goal is development and brighter tomorrows for all people." This interview is being conducted by The Campaign to Free Khalfani Malik Khaldum Campaign: How long have you been in Indiana's prison plant...
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- apw:12341340
- Date Uploaded
- 2015-09-27T13:46:59.95Z
- Title
- Post-release programs and gender variant people
- Author
- Royal, Valjean
- Date
- 2010-08-26
- Date
- 2010-08-26, 2010-08-26
- Pages
- 7 pages
- State
- Indiana
- Topics
- Memoir
- Text (FT)
- /r • section three. . . problems with post-release programs Post-Release Programs and Gender Variant People Ms. Valjean Royal · On Tuesday, January 20th, 2004 President Bush called for the funding of programs to deal with some 600,000 inmates who will be released from prison this year-without work, without a home, without help. "America," he said, "is the land of second chances", and he added that, "when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a be...
- PID
- apw:307
- Date Uploaded
- 2015-09-16T18:23:59.706Z
- Title
- Revolutionaries' waltz
- Author
- Cherry, Danny W.
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Revolutionaries' Waltz by Danny Cherry pg. 1 I had grown weary of the square-dancing with Pendleton's bigots and sycophants -- my feet were yearning to dance the Waltz of Revolution; The steps of positive change. The garments of equality fit me perfectly, and my shoes of activism never wore down, even though I was always in motion. The Indiana Department of Correction's despots were powerful, yet dense and unorganized. If I continued to endure the hardships of their indescribab...
- PID
- apw:12361180
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-02-03T15:55:58.291Z
- Title
- Since the inauguration of President Trump
- Author
- Mebane, J. Terrell
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Since the inauguration of President Trump, the federal Bureau of Prisons has taken a hard-line approach to solitary confinement, perhaps motivated by Trump's hard-line rhetoric about criminals in the U.S.. Instead of building on President Obama's unprecedented ban on subjecting juveniles to solitary confinement in federal facilities, the Bureau of Prisons, decided to instead appoint a new Complex Warden named J.E. Krueger to U.S.P (United States Penitentiary Terre Haute, and actuall...
- PID
- apw:12350852
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T16:16:21.646Z
- Title
- Survivor testimony: Finding light in a dark place
- Author
- Royal, Valjean
- Date
- 2008
- Date
- 2008, 2008, 2009-07-14
- Pages
- 2 pages
- State
- Indiana
- Topics
- experience as a survivor of rape
- Text (TR_WF)
- Survivor Testimony Finding Light in a Dark Place By Valjean Royal, Indiana I was just seventeen (17) when I was arrested for Female Impersonation and Prostitution. I was placed in the county jail for adults and gang-raped. As a male to female transgender (pre-op), the juvenile detention center would not allow me entry there, stating their concern for the effect of exposure to my alternative lifestyle on the other boys I would have to be housed with. As I entered the cell block at the county j...
- PID
- apw:12341539
- Date Uploaded
- 2015-09-29T21:18:37.2Z
- Title
- The Indiana state recidivist conditioning center
- Author
- Cherry, Danny W.
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- The Indiana State Recidivist Conditioning Center by Danny Cherry I had been cast into the Dark Age where all that was missing was a fagot upon which to burn my faggot ass to a crisp for the sheer pleasure of the lower primates. I was a damn fool for ever even having thought that tyrannical philistines would permit a replica of priceless elegance into their abyss. I never truly believed that anyone from the Indianapolis Central Public Library's research department would actually oblige me...
- PID
- apw:12356302
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T17:20:57.83Z
- Title
- The price of active pursuit of justice and human dignity is high
- Author
- Cherry, Danny W.
- Date
- 2020-07-08
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Danny Cherry Perdleton Correctional Facility 4490 West Reformatory Road Pendleton, IN 46064 July 8, 2020 Dear Editors, The price of active pursuit of justice and human dignity is high: The same 'enormously black offender' that almost killed me in my cell June 19, 2020 when Officer Harper unsecured my door for him, split my head open with a sock full of combination locks today. When I returned from the law library, there were a great multitude of offenders - under the influence of al...
- PID
- apw:12362584
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:32:57.142Z
- Title
- The queer language-bender binding purgatory
- Author
- Cherry, Danny W.
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- The Queer Language-Bender Binding Purgatory by Danny Cherry pg. 1 The Queer Language-Bender Binding Purgatory by Danny Cherry pg. 1 I had recently been sending correspondences to various secretaries - of Education, of Health and Human Services, of Defense - in Washington informing them of the I.D.O.C's atrocities. I also elected to notify multiple environmental, and infectious disease specialists, mostly in the state of Indiana, about the prison's living conditions, lack of proper s...
- PID
- apw:12360943
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-02-03T15:48:56.234Z
- Title
- The unbreakable queen
- Author
- Cherry, Danny W.
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- The Unbreakable Queen by Danny Cherry I walked Pendleton's camp like Naomi Campbell; I was born to supermodel. The state's hideous brown onesie, and its innumerable haters, could not discourage me; I was over. Pendleton was abundant in miserable employees, and drug addicted prisoners; Those losers received no audience from me; Ever. Negative individuals did not even exist to me; I saw the world in technicolor; It was gorgeous. Pendleton's gays were far worse than straight boys ...
- PID
- apw:12359701
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T19:31:11.78Z
- Title
- They spilled my tea
- Author
- Cherry, Danny W.
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- They Spilled My Tea By Danny Cherry I leaned over the side of Pendleton Infirmary’s hard, funky bed puking my guts out; those incompetent drecks did not have a clue what was wrong with me. My arms resembled those of hardcore IV drugs users because of medical staff’s many attempts to draw blood from me; their miserable failure had my members covered in more tracks than Jesse Owen had ran throughout his career. Nurse Susan had my medical chart visible to the multitude of other offenders travers...
- PID
- apw:12359690
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T19:30:56.865Z