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Title
A day before my 18th birthday
Author
Marshall, Tandy
Date
2017-02-21
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
No Title A day before my 18th birthday I was arrested in Milwaukee WI for possession with intent to deliver. I was sentenced to 9 years under the Wisconsin Truth in Sentencing Act. The judge ordered me to do 3 years inside and 6 years on mandatory supervision. Most of the 3 years was spent at the Robert E. Ellsworth Correctional Center (R.E.E.C.C.). At REECC I obtained my HSED in 2002. To get into the Office Assistant college course through Gateway Tech, I had to steal a cookie. My being empl...
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apw:12347879
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:30.234Z
Title
A look in on the prison performing arts theater and poetry classes
Author
Jaynes, Bev
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
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...
PID
apw:12347831
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:28Z
Title
A lot has been written
Author
Dorotik, Jane
Pages
5 pages
State
California
Text (O)
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
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T15:41:58.187Z
Title
A professor once asked me
Author
Marshall, Tandy
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
No Title A professor once asked me if I believed in evolution or history repeating itself. I leaned towards history repeating itself, after all evolution just seems to be the same ole same ole with a few tweaks to make a thing modern. Take the U.S. history for instance, the slave trade and indentured servants are today called prisoners. When the Fore Fathers hammered out the Constitution in that hot sweaty room they had to compromise. The southern states wanted to count their slaves in the po...
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apw:12347996
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:54:58.715Z
Title
A voice from inside
Author
Rose, Amber
Date
43726
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
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
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:19:11.593Z
Title
A word to the fish
Author
Vanderford, Anna
Pages
1 page
Topics
Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O)
Anna MI Vanderford OK A Word to the Fish I don't know why they call new arrivals "fish", perhaps because you feel like a fish out of water, when you arrive in prison. My mom was an old Jewish lady, old by even the standard of other parents. She was really old enough to be my grandmother when she and her retired husband adopted me. She used to say ,"You can't put an old head on: young shoulders." I'm not sure that I ever knew what that meant nor cared. Howeve...
PID
apw:12352970
Date Uploaded
2018-09-25T19:49:28.89Z
Title
Addendum to #32392 commutation application: Sylvia Boykin
Author
Boykin, Sylvia
Pages
5 pages
State
Pennsylvania
Text (O)
Addendum to #32392 Commutation Application: Sylvia Boykin In my own Words, these are the detailed facts of my crime and how I was involved: On May 15, 1992 at around 1:30pm in Philadelphia, PA, I drove Aaron Jones and Antwan Blagman to the residence of Mrs. Pope for the purpose of collecting money owed for illegal drugs. We planned to peacefully collect the money. While inside the residence of Mrs. Pope, I asked her for the money and she told me she didn’t have it. I went back to the car to t...
PID
apw:12346101
Date Uploaded
2016-10-25T02:16:13.375Z
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...
PID
apw:12356338
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:21:57.853Z
Title
An artist behind bars
Author
Cosgrove, Kristine
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"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...
PID
apw:12363082
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:41:51.733Z
Title
Are you in charge?
Author
Kuhn-Brown, Erin
Pages
2 pages
PID
apw:12360532
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:37:20.319Z
Title
Are you properly trained?
Author
Chambers, Jessica
Date
2019-12-23
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
By: Jessica Chambers Are You Properly Trained? 12-23-19 At FM WCC NDOC Las Vegas, NV on 11-21-19 at approximately 6:35AM I was walking down the stairs in Unit E after just using the restroom, as c/o Logan entered Unit E, stood at the door and yelled my name "Chambers", and said to get properly dressed and grab my cup. I was escorted to the gym to give a U/A "urine analysis" and drank a 8oz cup of water. C/O Palasios was the officer to witness me giving a urine sample and a...
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apw:12360786
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:43:56.934Z
Title
As a black Muslim
Author
Rahmaan, Taryanne Abdullah
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Taryanne Rahmaan, "As a Black Muslim" Coffee Creek Correctional Facility As a Black muslim, in prison where I have three strikes... (one, I am Black, two. I am muslim, three. I am female) everyday is a struggle. As if it isn't enough to just take my freedom, they want to take my dreams, my hope, and my faith I may still have. They refuse to give me pork substitutes or anything resembling a Halal diet. They deny me the right to cover my hair outside of my cell, and each year ram...
PID
apw:12354688
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:31:35.186Z
Title
As of today July 31st 2017
Author
Pineda, April Dawn
Date
2017-07-31
Pages
11 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE By: April Dawn Pineda As of today July 31st 2017, I sit in my 10 by 4 concrete cell with a blue steel door, with no visability out a purposely fogged out window, (so we can't see the sky, for what reason I do not know) with a hatch for our meals in a maximum level 4 unit locked down for 23 hours a day to the beat of commercials, banging, clanging and screaming at all hours of the day. I'm at Elmwood Correctional facility in Milpitas California and have been in maximum level...
PID
apw:12350750
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T15:41:34.754Z
Title
As she lay
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
As She Lay 9/2/19 "It is with tremendous sadness and under unfortunate circumstances in which this writing arises. However, the deceased no longer have a voice; so I will speak out of respect for the young lady that recently passed away from a drug overdose. At the very moment I sat writing my last essay, there was a young lady in distress. Fighting for the very breath which would become her last before the age of thirty. Right here inside this physical prison. Worse, she was in the ment...
PID
apw:12359024
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:14:11.847Z
Title
Bloom grown from a crack in the wall
Author
Jaynes, Bev
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
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...
PID
apw:12347846
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:28.91Z
Title
Chances and choices
Author
Maynard, T. L.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Chances and Choices A memoir By Tabitha Lee Maynard The cinderblocks breathe and sweat, spin and jump, like they have a life of their own. The weight piles on as the volume raises. The screams of ignorance and suffering cannot drown out the noise in my head. The burns, bruises, and cuts do not cover the pain. The ringing of keys, a clink and bang; new sounds in the ocean of noise. Chow’s here, preceded by the nauseating smell of rotten food adding to the constant wet smell of mildew. On the e...
PID
apw:12359723
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:31:43.272Z
Title
Choices
Author
Gatlin, Amanda Collette
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
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 ...
PID
apw:12349646
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T19:51:40.685Z
Title
Choices
Author
Huey, Taylor
Pages
8 pages
Text (O)
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 ...
PID
apw:12356626
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:36:57.669Z
Title
Choosing to love
Author
Kirby-Watts, Courtney
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
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...
PID
apw:12353178
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:58:08.793Z
Title
Civil war
Author
Vanderford, Anna
Pages
1 page
Topics
Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O)
Anna M. Vanderford OK Civil War Did you know that we have been having a civil war for many years now, what was deemed as The War on Drugs. Not only was I on the wrong side of the war but I am a casualty of the war. I grew up with an alcoholic, pedophile for a father and a cult-blinded, religious mother. I was scared of everything, but if I was going to live in sin, I had narrowed it down to my childhood sin of sex. My boyfriend on the other hand, was into drugs. All those sayings about "...
PID
apw:12352964
Date Uploaded
2018-09-25T19:49:24.464Z
Title
Come holy spirit and help
Author
Clement, Kathryn A.
Date
2019-03-14
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[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 ...
PID
apw:12357721
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:30:50.667Z
Title
Come holy spirit, I need
Author
Clement, Kathryn A.
Pages
10 pages
Text (TR_WF)
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 ...
PID
apw:12356727
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T18:32:45.75Z
Title
Confussed
Author
James, Brittany
Date
2016
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Confussed Brittany James Boggle only there is no words, blank spaces unable to fill, empty an inside out, rung out and hung to dry, here but never fully aware, be in every moment, even if its only fractions, any part is worth hanging onto, my life in a closet, the door opens and you never come out, bleed out to know that your alive, without breath, thickness, you're un-able to catch-22. You never win, Russian roulette, how do you hit and miss, kiss of death, rise above this life, resurre...
PID
apw:12346674
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:42.835Z
Title
Constitutional right
Author
Chambers, Jessica
Date
2020-02-24
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Constitutional Right By Jessica Chambers 1-24-20 FMWCC NDOC Las Vegas, NV is in violation of my constitutional right to be free of cruel and unusual punishment by allowing me to sit in a dark cell for 14 hours a day for several days now. The facility has electricity so their is no excuse as to why my lite in my cell is off. Having no light is hazardous! I'm on top bed so I have to climb up and down a ladder to get off my bed. The way that this facility is ran is outrageous and rediculous...
PID
apw:12360936
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:48:43.707Z

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