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A look in on the prison performing arts theater and poetry classes
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Author
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Jaynes, Bev
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3 pages
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I wish you could be witness to the enrichment and achievement, the intellectual stimulation, and the soulful creative expression going on during the Prison Performing Arts theater and "spoken word" poetry classes in WERDCE, the women's prison in Vandalia, MO and Thursdays and in the men's prison down the road in Bowling Green, MO, on Fridays. PPA is a non-profit organization based in St.Louis, MO, which provides opportunities for personal growth and character development t...
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apw:12347831
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Date Uploaded
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2017-11-02T19:42:28Z
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A lot has been written
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Author
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Dorotik, Jane
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5 pages
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State
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California
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A lot has been written Original Dorotik CA A lot has been written about the prison system lately -- why we as a nation incarcerate so many, why the bureauocratic and unweildy system is only expected to make minimal cuts to its 11 billion dollar budget while education and social supports are slashed to the very core, why California's prison system has the highest recidivism rate of any state in the nation? But little is written of the individual suffering that occurs in devastating ways o...
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apw:12344502
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Date Uploaded
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2016-10-21T15:41:58.187Z
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A voice from inside
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Author
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Rose, Amber
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Date
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43726
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5 pages
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September 18 - 2019 A Voice From Inside Human Kind The rich taking from the poor, a story as old as time. How do the rich get away with what they do? How do we allow these things to continue to happen? The love of money is the route of all evil, money changes people. It sounds crazy doesn't it? I mean, how do you make money off of broke? If it isn't there, it isn't there. You can't squeeze money out of nothing, zero, 0. Let me tell you... Pretend to be doing society a favo...
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apw:12359227
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Date Uploaded
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2020-06-18T19:19:11.593Z
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An American epidemic
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Author
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Adams, Meagan
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3 pages
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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
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Date Uploaded
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2019-05-28T17:21:57.853Z
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An artist behind bars
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Author
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Cosgrove, Kristine
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4 pages
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"An Artist Behind Bars" by Kristine Cosgrove Let me see if I can try to describe what it's like to be in prison. First, it's every horror story you can imagine if you happen to run up against someone suffering from borderline personality disorder and low self-esteem. I like to imagine I'm only here impersonating a fake prisoner because I'm trying out for the new Scorcese film - and I'm up against Jennifer Connelly, and she beat me out of the role in House of...
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apw:12363082
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Date Uploaded
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2021-06-10T15:41:51.733Z
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Bloom grown from a crack in the wall
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Author
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Jaynes, Bev
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Pages
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6 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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Bloom grown from a crack in the wall By Beverly Jaynes Reaching light from deceptive darkness, its seed mysteriously nurtured within, imposing walls cannot contain its growth. Breaking free unexpectantly, from bleak, stark surroundings, the bloom, the more beautiful. for its unlikely flourishing. A surprising sign of hope, graced by opportunity. The transformation of transformed individuals - the diseased, debilitated, disadvantaged, addicted, depressed, degraded, disgraced, disillusioned, di...
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apw:12347846
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Date Uploaded
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2017-11-02T19:42:28.91Z
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Choices
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Author
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Gatlin, Amanda Collette
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2 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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10-17-16 Cell-138/IPOD BCJC Choices I became like an animal being fed through a fence when I made that choice. Having to fight for my right to exist and never completely succeeding. I'm only a number in this maximum security hell. I wish this would end, but they wouldn't get their payday, would they? You see, that's the reason for this hopelessness, sadly, for all this madness, are we meat for the beast? If so, which one? This can't fix my problem. Or the problem for most ...
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apw:12349646
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-15T19:51:40.685Z
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Choices
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Author
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Huey, Taylor
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Pages
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8 pages
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Text (O)
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Taylor Huey-Choices There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you. Elie Wiesel said that “whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.” In the telling of my story, I am giving you my most vulnerable self. My name is Taylor. I am 36 years old and have been incarcerated for the past 17 years. How had I come to commit offenses that brought such a lengthy prison term? I courted danger. I courted danger because danger was one of the few things ...
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apw:12356626
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Date Uploaded
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2019-05-24T16:36:57.669Z
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Choosing to love
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Author
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Kirby-Watts, Courtney
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3 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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Choosing to love Betrayal and wounds. I was the one who betrayed and caused wounds. Not an easy thing to live with. How do you rebuild, recreate, begin again once you have caused so much destruction? is it even possible to repair broken relationships? I say yes, God says yes. I say yes because God said yes to me. I gave my nothingness to God who took it and made something. I hurt those closest to me. I betrayed them in the worst way possible. Yet God has brought us back together. My family ha...
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apw:12353178
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-26T10:58:08.793Z
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Title
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Come holy spirit and help
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Author
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Clement, Kathryn A.
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Date
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2019-03-14
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Pages
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5 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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[no title] 3-14-19 To A.P.W.A.: Come Holy Spirit and help me to write this experience in Nevada State for your purpose & glory. To help women in FMUCC, in Jesus name. Since I've been in FMUCC, Sept. 25, 2012, I am blown away how the legal system and Nevada State treat the women and their families. One thing is weird (women) been in FMUCC for false accusations; trump up charges; being thrown under the bus by the attorneys, DA, judges {bias}. I believe there's a scheme been going ...
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apw:12357721
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Date Uploaded
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2019-10-28T20:30:50.667Z
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Title
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Come holy spirit, I need
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Author
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Clement, Kathryn A.
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Pages
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10 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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NO TITLE Come Holy Spirit, I need you to help me. Wrote this for your purpose and Glory. To start off, I have been incarcerated now 7 years in FMWCC, Las Vegas, NV. This is my 1st time in a Correctional Center which it has been called to rehabilitate women from bad behavior till Ms. McClure died. Now its a place of control issue in my opinion. Since I've been in here, I've seen a lot of changes. I am considered a "child case" due to the attorneys, DA, Judges, were bias in ...
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apw:12356727
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Date Uploaded
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2019-05-28T18:32:45.75Z
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Title
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Convicted terrorist Kevin James speaks
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Author
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Ziegler-Wurtz, Nashay M.
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3 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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Nashay Wurtz Homework assignment: 5 Essay: 2 Ch. 9: terrorism Convicted terrorist Kevin James speaks in an interview bringing to light the issues that terrorism is present in modern day prisons. Authors of our text, Corrections in the 21st Century, Schmullger and Smykla reference the core issues are not only recruitment, but a danger that exists with the growing “gangs” or, better labeled, sophisticated social networks. These gangs are key to potentially planning terroristic acts within the f...
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PID
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apw:12357964
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Date Uploaded
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2019-10-28T20:38:48.831Z
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Title
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Corrections is generally considered the
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Author
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Ziegler-Wurtz, Nashay M.
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Pages
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11 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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Corrections is generally considered the final stage in the criminal justice process. After a crime has been discovered, reported and the defendant convicted through the court process, corrections takes control. Authors of the 8th edition Corrections in the 21st Century, Smallenger and Smykla define corrections as...management of individuals accused and convicted of crimes. The President of Commission of Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice States "Corrections is the part of the ...
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apw:12357735
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Date Uploaded
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2019-10-28T20:31:19.731Z
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Title
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Corrections: An exercise in futility
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Author
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Bingner, Alice G.
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Pages
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11 pages
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Topics
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Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
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Text (O)
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Alice Bingner 3744 Dexter Road Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Category: Personal Essay Word Count: 2,246 Corrections: an Exercise in Futility Currently, in the United States, it costs upwards of $50,000,000,000 plus a year to incarcerate more than 2,000,000 men, women and children. And the expense by no means stops there. While 10 percent of prisoners are menaces from whom the public needs protection, the rest would be better served - and so would society - if there were alternative sentencing for non-v...
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PID
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apw:12358330
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Date Uploaded
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2020-06-18T18:56:23.837Z
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Descriptions of sources of stress, and ways of copin
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Author
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Lawless, Arline
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Pages
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2 pages
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Text (O)
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Descriptions of sources of stress, and ways of coping. Where can I start about the sources of stress in here? There are so many forms of stress from the guards screaming at the top of their lungs to your family not being able to come to see you because they were 2 minutes late for the check in. That is complete bullshit if you ask me especially when your family drives 2 % hours to see you. In fact, there are a few women in here where their family members drive over 7 hours to come and see the...
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apw:12351574
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-16T23:56:41.124Z
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Title
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Employment
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Author
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Lawless, Arline
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2 pages
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EMPLOYMENT There are a few jobs that are available to the women here. The paying jobs are two librarians, two computer lab workers, 7 industry workers, then the cook, the baker is paid from each shift, and there are two shifts. Then there are nonpaid jobs which these people receive goodies like drink mix and what not. There are the rest of the kitchen workers that are not paid. I believe that there are 3 to 4 people in the kitchen who isn't paid. In addition, a floor crew does the floors...
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apw:12351700
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-17T01:19:42.759Z
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Title
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Explain how the development of rights
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Author
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Ziegler-Wurtz, Nashay M.
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Pages
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3 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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Nashay Wurtz SOC 447 - Correctional Systems Homework Assignment: 7 Ch. 11 Essay #1 Explain how the development of rights for female prisoners has differed from that of the rights of male prisoners. The Supreme law of our land is the United States Constitution. Authors of Corrections In the 21st Century, Frank Schmalleger and John Ortiz Smykla point out that the one question at the heart of any discussion of prisoners' rights is this: What does the Constitution have to say? Scholars have ...
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apw:12357968
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Date Uploaded
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2019-10-28T20:38:58.291Z
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Title
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Focus on your life
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Author
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Anderson, Jennifer
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4 pages
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Text (O)
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Focus on Your Life By jennifer Anderson sunset is such a beautiful and amazing thing to watch. I get lost in the magic of the stunning colors streaking across the sky. As it sets down past the razor-wire and I hear the guards shout to corral us all back inside for the night, I snap back to reality. The smile melts from my face as I remember where I am. I am in a Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas. Entering the tremendously loud unit, which houses two hundred twenty—five girls/women, a diverse...
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PID
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apw:12351618
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-17T00:31:44.296Z
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Title
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Hello, my name is Laura
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Author
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Purviance, Laura L.
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Pages
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4 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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Laura Purviance 11/6/2017 Hello, my name is Laura and I'm currently serving my 50-life sentence in the largest womens prison in the world, CCWF. When I commited my crime at 24 years old, I was totally ignorant to our justice system and the conditions of confinement people face in jail and prison. I have a terrible knack for learning things the hard way. I'm 29 now, and next year when I turn 30 I'll have both an elderly parole date and a youth offender parole date. Either way I ...
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apw:12352323
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Date Uploaded
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2018-06-15T18:54:51.874Z
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Title
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How long is long enough?
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Author
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Stermer, Linda Kay
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2 pages
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Text (O)
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HOW LONG IS LONG ENOUGH? By Linda Stermer The first year of prison, the most profound, but certainly not the most devastating changes begin. You've been torn from your family, children, friends and community. You realize that you've been taken from all you know and that it is yourfault. You become completely dependent on the people who care about you. More than ever before, you rely on them for all of your financial and emotional needs. You have to navigate your life in the new worl...
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PID
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apw:12353035
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-25T21:47:39.71Z
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