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Title
A convicts prayer
Author
The Wordist WAM
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
A Convicts Prayer Oh God please hear this convicts plea And continue to lay your hands heavily upon me For shive and shank equals my rod and staff But if death should call, will you intercede on my behalf Will you touch my spirit and hold my soul Keep me program enrolled and eligible for parole Take me off the docket of any further days in court While at the same time keeping me secluded from the disciplinary reports Make my environment safe and friendly Whether at a level five state prison o...
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apw:12346668
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:32:37.031Z
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...
PID
apw:12347879
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:30.234Z
Title
A definition of freedom
Author
Burley, Keith
Date
2016-02-10
Date
2016-02-10, 2016-02-10
Pages
4 pages
State
Pennsylvania
Text (TR)
Keith Burley Pennsylvania A Definition of freedom One form of freedom is the ability to recognize the truth. For when someone has the ability to recognize the truth, he is free from an intellectual perspective, and a rational perspective. It is a form of "MENTAL ENSLAVEMENT" when someone knows the truth, yet does not recognize it. Consider someone with an addiction to cigarette's. He knows that they are poisonous in that they cause cancer and other ailments. However, if this pe...
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apw:12342369
Date Uploaded
2016-06-20T01:29:29.808Z
Title
A descent into wrongful convictions
Author
Adams, D. Marquise
Date
2015-01-10
Pages
8 pages
State
Kentucky
Text (O)
D. Marquise Adams Legal Aide Kentucky State Penitentiary 10 January 2015 A Descent into Wrongful Convictions Any professional whether in law, having a PHD, or the common layman has knowledge that the prison population is growing rapidly. Even greater is the amount of Americans that realize the spike in cases where convictions are based on faulty DNA evidence. Yes, the Nation is a World Leader in many things and incarceration tops the list, which are mostly due to wrongful convictions. I predi...
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apw:12345441
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T22:17:37.433Z
Title
A healthy ambition
Author
McCreary, Howard Lewis, III
Date
2019-01-27
Pages
8 pages
Text (TR_WF)
January 27, 2019 Time: 2:15 A.M By: Howard McCreary A Healthy Ambition [Part 1: Mentally Stimulation] I thank you all fore taking time out of your day to connect with my Diamond Thoughts on health. It brings me relief to know that people in society are concern or interested in the "condemn" and my salutation of the highest greeting goes to you all. What you all are embarking on is a three part dialogue on the three essential characteristics that make us human: mentality, physically,...
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apw:12356653
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:37:46.419Z
Title
A heartfelt thank-you
Author
Chatman-Bey, Tony
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
A HEARTFELT THANK-YOU I am an inmate presently housed at the Medium Security ECI-East Prison in Westover, Maryland. It is the largest prison in the state however, being located on the Eastern Shore it often feels like being in another country. I have been incarcerated for 30 years and in that time I have seen the health care providers go from very good to very bad, to what it is now “Mediocre”. As you can guess just about any inmate can give you some horror stories about the medical care in p...
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apw:12351349
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T19:43:02.764Z
Title
A message to the incarcerated Muslim
Author
Mujahid, Shakkir T.
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful By Shakkir Talib Muj ahid A Message to the Incarcerated Muslim I am sad today, for the Message I bring has been shouted through the halls and walls of these universities for years. “Say, You Believe in Allah and Stand firm on it.” .1 don’t know that many of you know what this actually means. It appears that you have let your life of anger, deceit, distrust, hate, greed and lust for power, control and fame make you b...
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apw:12351403
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T20:58:46.03Z
Title
A personal proposition
Author
Hicks, Gentric A.
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
A Personal Proposition (Lifer seeks to hock his life by asking to sign death penalty contract and to have an implant monitoring chip placed in him to regain freedom!) UPDATE REVISIONS: I originally wrote this proposition to the Governor of Iowa Terry Branstad in 1996, as a limited means of re—imp|ementing the highly debated Death Penalty issue. My name is Gentric (Abdullah) Hicks. I am a 72 year old African American inmate at Iowa State Penitentiary and have been incarcerated since May of 197...
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apw:12357864
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:35:34.378Z
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...
PID
apw:12347996
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:54:58.715Z
Title
A proposal: The death penalty
Author
Hicks, Gentric A.
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
A proposal: The Death Penalty Contract. Who: Incarcerated individuals serving a term of Life without the possibility of parole. Eligible applicants must have served a term of no less than 25 years. What: A Death Penalty "contract." This is essentially an agreement to return to the community under lifetime supervision. If another offense is committed (intentional homicide, kidnapping or sexual abuse) the Death Penalty shall be utilized after said individual is convicted in a Court of...
PID
apw:12357874
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:35:53.625Z
Title
A soup
Author
The Wordist WAM
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
A Soup In here is maybe more important than a new pair of state boots See it's viewed as being more than just a meal Because a certain amount of them could seal or break a deal Their legal tender and a tangible currency Far more that sustenance for when one is hungry They control how the population reacts Right next to nutty bars, honey buns, and cookie racks But yet and still Rhaman remains at the top No doubt that without which all the movement would stop Everyday with the passing of e...
PID
apw:12346656
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:32:35.15Z
Title
A white liberal male federal called me (Fitch) a racist
Author
Fitch, Lamont
Date
43476
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"A White Liberal Male Federal Called Me (Fitch) A Racist" I arrived from a kangaroo court to an awaiting trap here in the federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) over 21 years ago. The thing is for my jailers to pit their inmates against me, as well as their colleagues, and then prosecute me, or attempt to, after I defend myself. This has been the unrelenting hate that has followed me from jail to jail, non-stop. I documented the trap that awaited me at USP Leavenworth in 1999. My so-calle...
PID
apw:12358934
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:11:52.24Z
Title
AM song, unheard before, you wrote during sleep?
Author
Abdullah, Ayyub Rahim
Date
2019-09-17
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
(Ch. "Am Song, unheard before, you wrote; during sleep?" From [Whide?]....) "A federal prison, like this Supermax, is the bootcamp! When prisons (State and, Federal) are free; not open, to scrutiny, crimes are rampant! Those crimes, inside (of a closed-off supermax) are, orchestrated; by the interior hacks, not the durance (as most would imagine)! Those (who are unaware) get their point of view, from the guardians; or generally known: as the gov't! 'Who will guard, th...
PID
apw:12360035
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:36:09.928Z
Title
Administrative segregation: Is it torture?
Author
Greer, Tracy Edgar, Jr.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Administrative Segregation: Is It Torture??? I have been in segregation since April 29, 2016, at this time I have been in my dismal crypt for 6 months. I am just beginning an indefinite term. My earliest possible release is September 9, 2017, which'll be 17 months before I even qualify for release into a 'transitional housing unit'. I could be in the hole nearing 2 years or an indeterminate term if the Deputy Director of Missouri's prison system grants me the 'privile...
PID
apw:12350711
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T15:41:32.498Z
Title
Alone, man cannot change: merely, amends
Author
Abdullah, Ayyub Rahim
Date
2019-09-03
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Ch. 15. "Alone, 'man' cannot 'change': merely, 'amends'." ARA (c) 9/3/19 ADX (one generation departs and another generation comes, but the world forever stays; Eccle. 1:4) "As durance, ADX max lends nothing different (to his-tory); than Tocqueville's book - in 1835! So, I must explain, that, truth's sprung; from 'all the weeds left us'! The word (plagiary) roots, in: kidnapper; net; fluke (etc)! If you imagine, where a prison se...
PID
apw:12360076
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:37:17.885Z
Title
America's succubus: The nightmare of the criminal justice system in the United States
Author
Francis, L.
Pages
10 pages
Text (O)
. " America's Succubus V ( The Nightmare of the Criminal Justice System in the United States ) An Essay By: L.Francis . If what I have been led to believe is true,that great works of Art,Music,and Poetry are birthed through the endurance of loss,despair,and great suffering,then the creative gifts that I have to offer the world should at this point be phenominal... Since the Summer of 2002 I have endured the complete and total loss of my freedom,parts of my humanity,and bits and peic...
PID
apw:12352519
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:35:35.497Z
Title
Analyze spiritual self from within
Author
Raws, Sin
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Analyze Spiritual Self From Within By Prime Ambassador of Major Change Yassin Sin Raws Mohamad (c) 2020 Greetings to you all! Major change is here and now! Lets exercise the realness of life and examine the authenticness of ourselves that's formed from the billion cells that blots into what we call 'the brain.' Religiously, we are taught that one must believe in God first before becoming 'a believer.' However, ask yourself " is this a logical? " When we make...
PID
apw:12360955
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:49:14.374Z
Title
Anatomy of a convict 2019
Author
Kamau, Abdul-Malik
Date
43674
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Anatomy of a Convict 2019 by Abdul-Malik Kamau From my very first day into United State penitentiary in Leavenworth, KS, I was assured of never truly being human again. It was 1993 & I was 24 yrs of age! The immersion into the "convict" ethic(s) began with a real lesson: a quite brutal homicide, followed by an entire prison population's instant amnesia upon questioning! The lesson being: convicts hear no evil! see no evil! speak no evil! 'Death before dishonor' be...
PID
apw:12358846
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:09:31.03Z
Title
Anatomy of a convict: Amerikkka's creation
Author
Kamau, Abdul-Malik
Date
43651
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Anatomy of a Convict: Amerikkka's Creation My first experience of prison was a soul numbing experience, from the initial strip search @ Kern County (Bakersfield, CA)! To the intake process @ USP Leavenworth in 1993! The demoralization aspect(s) mirror each other: "Strip naked! Hands out & Turn over! Raise arms to show armpits! Open mouth & lift tongue! Behind ears L to R! Lift your scrotum...pull back your foreskin! Turn around...R foot! Now L foot! Bend over at waist...now ...
PID
apw:12358548
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:02:01.131Z
Title
Another day in Calipatria
Author
Convict, John Q.
Date
2019-03-17
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
American Prison Writing Archive The Digital Humanities Initiative Hamilton College (A.P.W.A.) 198 College Hill Road Clinton, New York 13323 
 16 March 2019 
 Another Day In Calipatria 
 Life in this California Prison is a test of patience, and control. That is not to say that this writer has much of either, as a Trial Judge once concisely stated. This writer has a temper that's out of control. I do not deny the fact in that what makes my blood boil is the stupidity of petty want to be po...
PID
apw:12357463
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:22:08.175Z
Title
Are you just as guilty...for ignoring Americas prison conditions?
Author
Armstrong-El, Lennox K.
Date
2016-03-01
Pages
20 pages
State
Virginia
Text (TR_WF)
Are You Just as Guilty... For Ignoring Americas Prison Conditions? By Lennox Armstrong-El My name is Lennox Armstrong- El. I'm a prisoner in a level 1-2 facility in Virginia. This is my first time in prison. The following is an account of my experiences since I entered the Department of Corrections in 2012. My word count is limited so I'll stick to the facts without the fluff. It is my hope that the title of this work gets your attention. Because if you have turned a blind eye to Am...
PID
apw:12343994
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T21:34:20.852Z
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 if the world ended tommorrow
Author
Bobby
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
As if the World Ended Tomorrow #1 Sometimes I think what if the world ended tomorrow where would that leave us. In this age with HIV/AIDS and now the Coronavirus where does that leave society. Late at night alone in my bunk I think about my future as if the world ended tomorrow. This means I live for today and today I'm a nobody plain and simple. I have to admit at points in my life this nobody was very content because in my eyes I was the king of nobodies fixated on destroying my unexpl...
PID
apw:12361441
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:02:11.653Z
Title
Assalamu alaykum, I want to open this essay
Author
Hanif, Allen Dawkins / Hassan Ali
Date
2020-06-18
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Thursday 6-18-2020 (1) The American Prison Writing Archive c/o Hamilton College: 198 College Hill Rd Clinton, NY 13323-1218 Assalāmu alaykum, I want to open this essay with the greeting of peace. "Salam," I have been sitting in my cell wondering what is going on in the free world and I must say that Im highly disappointed wit the fact that these punk ass racist white cops are continueiously getting away wit murder. Even after George Floyd was lynched by the hands of a Klansman. We s...
PID
apw:12362383
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:29:26.094Z

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