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Title
1st amendment under siege
Author
Magnific, Roc
Date
2017-03-03
Pages
3 pages
Topics
Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (TR_WF)
"1st Amendment Under Siege" Recently last year (May,2016) Arkansas Department of Correction Czarina Wendy Kelly issued a rather fastidious policy that cited newspaper clippings would be banned from prisoner mail, classifying them as (wait for it - with bated breath) "contraband"!? According [ineligible] to ADC (Ay, Carumba! Arkansas Department of Corruption) policy, they are... concerned about drug smuggling but said vitiated policy does not affect newspapers sent directly...
PID
apw:12350565
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T14:09:39.949Z
Title
2014 legislative will prove whether policy makers have gotten smart on crime
Author
Marshall, Ronald
Date
2014-03-19
Date
2014-03-19, 2014-03-19
Pages
2 pages
State
Louisiana
Topics
recidivism, mandatory sentencing, minimum sentencing
Text (FT)
2014 Legislative Session Will Prove Whether Policy Makers Have Gotten Smart on Crime By Roland Marshall Only time will reveal whether the 2014 Legislative Session will mark a sincere effort by Louisiana's lawmakers to reform sentencing laws so that offenders can have a meaningful opportunity to get off the count. At the behest of the Jindal administration, four organizations joined in a collective effort to analyze criminal justice data/ statistics and offer options to assist Louisiana l...
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apw:12341353
Date Uploaded
2015-09-27T14:32:57.658Z
Title
4993 word essay
Author
Powers-Wali, Anthony
Pages
16 pages
Text (FT)
4993 Word Essay At the age of sixteen I was incarcerated for First Degree Murder and later sentenced to 77-years in prison. There seemed to be little consideration of the affects it would have on a teenager to be housed with adults. Fortunately for me I was a fighter. There is a strange unwritten rule in prison that if somebody is willing to stick up for himself from day one then other prisoners will be willing to help him. If you don't stand up for yourself then you are left to the wolv...
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apw:12347577
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:26:46.677Z
Title
A brief summary of the demise of the Colorado Dept. of Corrections and poor drug offender reform
Author
Darris, Stephan
Date
2014-04-28
Date
2014-04-28, 2014-04-28
Pages
6 pages
State
Colorado
Text (FT)
A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE DEMISE OF THE COLORADO DEPT . OF CORRECTIONS AND POOR DRUG OFFENDER REFORM by: Stephan Darris While incarcerated in the state of Colorado I think it' s fair to say that your past dictates your future . I am not a lifer or a violent offe nder. I am a repeat drug offender that has witnessed some of the most vile atrocity ' s that the system can deliver. I think that most people in this institution live under propaganda, false hope, and make believe promises. It ...
PID
apw:288
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T18:25:24.791Z
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 day in my life
Author
Murray, B.C.
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
A DAY IN MY LIFE Awakened by the brilliance of 6:00AM lights, I arise, grab my toiletries and walk down the long, stale white corridor toward the restroom. First, I must wade through a bevy of inmates blocking my path while vehemently discussing lat night's televised basketball game. These men do so without any consideration for those still trying to sleep or pass through. I step across the threshold and into a room with two rows of sinks where all sorts of men — white, black, Mexican, t...
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apw:12353162
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:57:52.741Z
Title
A day in the life of time
Author
Clemmons-Bey, Eric
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Day in the Life of Time My name is Eric. I was born and raised in St.Louis, but for the past 34 years I have been in prison in Missouri. I have been in the South East Correctional Center at Charleston, Missouri for seven years now. When I was 21, I was sentenced to 50 years without the possibility of parole for killing a young man who was trying to rob my younger brother. I did not have a prison record. Very few people have any idea what it is like to be incarcerated for decades. Here is wh...
PID
apw:12346733
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:48.789Z
Title
A lesson in language
Author
Piwowar, Robert
Pages
14 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Lesson in Language Incarceration has forced me to postpone my plans of travelling to the continents of Europe and Asia. Six years into a twenty year sentence for manslaughter, watching Globe Trekker on PBS or flipping through vacation mags in the prison library is the closest I get. My travels into Quebec and Mexico taught me that every street sign, television or radio program, menu, and all product packaging provides a lesson in language. Simply going about a regular routine in a foreign l...
PID
apw:12347101
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:22:45.331Z
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...
PID
apw:12344502
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T15:41:58.187Z
Title
A perspective on prison
Author
Beverley, Michael
Pages
13 pages
State
New Hampshire
Text (O)
A Perspective on Prison By Michael B. Beverley When I was a boy, my mother often said that one-day people would no longer have names, we would be known only by a number. I know she didn’t mean what I would bring upon myself, yet it is not entirely disingenuous to say I am now known as 78552. That is my inmate ID within the New Hampshire state prison system. However, I would rather be remembered as Michael. Though I am now a felon, it wasn’t how my life began. I was the third of eight children...
PID
apw:12345755
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T12:49:45.093Z
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 renaissance
Author
Whetzel, Stephen
Date
2010-07-20
Date
2010-07-20, 2010-07-20
Pages
12 pages
State
Indiana
Topics
pen pals, psychiatric aid, confessional, personal story
Text (FT)
A Renaissance by Stephen Whetzel Page 1 of 12 It started with a visit to the psychologist. Behind the ominous, gray, concrete wall surrounding the Indiana State Reformatory, not many areas existed where one could go to in order to escape the late summer heat. That old maximum-security prison, a place born of a harsher time, was never known for comforts. Therefore, whether or not I felt the need for a counseling session with Eric, my psychologist and substance abuse counselor, I looked forward...
PID
apw:12341322
Date Uploaded
2015-09-27T12:48:43.808Z
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...
PID
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
A.V.P.
Author
Brown, Rahasheem
Pages
3 pages
State
New York
Text (TR_WF)
A.V.P. How can violence be reduced in prison? Well, in my own opinion, the answer is simple: support the "Alternative to Violence Project!" This program, started by Quaker's back in the late 1970's right here at Green Haven Correctional Facility, is one which is now being used to combat the spread and use of violence all over the world. The Alternative to Violence Project (from this point on, to be referred to as A.V.P.) is an interactive workshop, that gives insight to it...
PID
apw:12343778
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T17:56:13.847Z
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
Alone
Author
Murray, B.C.
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
ALONE Alas, I am alone and destined to remain so. No longer can the burning, innate longing for love, companionship and re-affirmation of my worth reverberate inside my heart and mind. Is this due to years apart from others? Or is it because of my transgressions that I am left with no choice but to accept the exile society will impose that separates me even from those who ODCG felt affection from and for me? Once thrust back into the world from which I am now ten years removed, it would be fo...
PID
apw:12356135
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:24:33.952Z
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 open letter to Congress: National COVID-19 November mail-in voting "We can do better"
Author
Williams, Dortell
Date
2020-04-17
Pages
5 pages
PID
apw:12360277
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:44:04.39Z
Title
Anger
Author
Murray, B.C.
Date
2018-01-28
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
Anger Anger for me is unachievable. I am though certainly no pacifist. I don't spurn anger, hostility, or even vindictiveness. Such feelings are simply beyond my reach. Some would regard me as fortunate; say the world would benefit from more like me;‘ or argue that anger holds no value. Such sentiment alas is naive, even risible. There are man like m self. Peo le for whom roactive emotions are lost to a resolve of ho elessness where resorts to _ P gestures preclude the inducement of ange...
PID
apw:12352774
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:33:45.465Z
Title
Anxiety
Author
Murray, B.C.
Date
2018
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
ANXIETY Like a leaking cistern, anxiety,slowly bleeds all semblance of life from one'sA A being. As soon as a rare detente is reached, another anguishing tempest appears .atop life's mountains of Volatile, tormenting emotions pressing everything below until the-cavity of one's heart is breached further, causing one's will to demit faster, more excruciatingly that before. Eventually, anxiety morphs into a depressed emptiness offering only a teasing, hollow eye in a storm th...
PID
apw:12352669
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:38:32.89Z
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

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