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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 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: 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: How solitary confinement has been good for me in prison
Author: Jaynes, Bev
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): How Solitary Confinement Has Been Good for Me in Prison I've been on protective custody and administrative segregation status at the two Missouri women's prisons for almost three years now, liking it and needing its relative safety. Because of being physically harmed by other offenders, I first sought PC status in Nov. of 2011, staying on it in HUSA of WERDCC [?] for 3 months, coming out into general population (GP) for 2 or 3 weeks, only to be harmed again and so miserable that I w...
PID: apw:12347853
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-02T19:42:29.088Z

Title: How state funds are spent on prisons
Author: Jaynes, Bev
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): How State Funds are Spent on Prisons By Beverly Jaynes My wish for the new year is that some public or media entity would investigate how state funds are spent by the Missouri Department of Corrections (MODOC) in its contracts and procurements with private companies such as: CMS/Corizon health care, Mental Health Management, and Missouri Vocational Enterprise, which produces goods in MODOC factories using cheap prisoner labor (mostly earning 50 cents per hour) and sells those goods to MODOC a...
PID: apw:12347838
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-02T19:42:28.434Z

Title: In the killing chamber (revised copy, July 2014)
Author: Jaynes, Bev
Date: 2014-07
Pages: 4 pages
Text (TR_WF): In the Killing Chamber Today, execution by lethal injection is the method used by death penalty states. Until the fall of 2013, a three-drug cocktail of the anesthetic, sodium thiopental, to induce unconsciousness, the paralyzing drug, pancuronium bromide, to halt breathing, and potassium chloride to stop the heart, were the drug mix of choice. Then the only U.S. manufacturer of sodium thiopental had stopped its production. European countries won't supply it to the U.S. per their ethics....
PID: apw:12347841
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-02T19:42:28.706Z

Title: Protection or destruction
Author: Jaynes, Bev
Pages: 3 pages
Text (TR_WF): Title: Protection or Destruction By: Beverly Jaynes In 2016, when the Missouri Legislature overrode Governor Nixon's veto, to pass a far-ranging firearms deregulatory law, which removed the protective requirements of undergoing background checks, training, and obtaining permits for being able to carry concealed guns into public places, the "New York Times" editorial on this was entitled: "Missouri: The Shoot Me State." Now legislators, who indeed fear being shot with ...
PID: apw:12348068
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-02T20:07:22.349Z

Title: State-sanctioned vengeance
Author: Jaynes, Bev
Pages: 3 pages
Text (TR_WF): State-Sanctioned Vengeance By Beverly Jaynes Even in Missouri, the second-most executing state in the nation, legislators are now poised to repeal our law of death - our death penalty. Conservatives and Republicans, now concede that legally killing people runs counter-productively to their credos of pro-life advocacy, fiscal responsibility, and to limiting governmental control over our lives. The number of executions in 2015, by Missouri decreased to only six, rather than the usual twelve or ...
PID: apw:12347827
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-02T19:42:27.752Z

Title: This is my story
Author: Jaynes, Bev
Date: 2015-08-24
Pages: 4 pages
Text (TR_WF): Beverly Jaynes NO TITLE Dear American Prison Writing Archive, This is my story. It’s about domestic abuse, which led to my crime and then the abuse of power by state officials during my imprisonment. It’s about state sanctioned vengeance and illegal, torturous punishments. It’s about licensing offenders to kill and commit more crime in prison, rather than rehabilitating them. It’s about suppressing truths, even in fraudulent medical records and diagnosing as “delusional”, offenders for tellin...
PID: apw:12347822
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-02T19:42:27.372Z

Title: To fight like a man?
Author: Jaynes, Bev
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): To Fight Like a Man? The NFL bullying scandal has raised questions of conscience: What is the measure of a man? What are the consequences of exalting brutality and violence? How do we define human weakness and strength? How to best protest and deal with abuse? How to best control harmful impulses in us all? We call them "football heroes", but aren't heroes usually more humanitarian than barbarian? NFL defensive lineman, Johnathan Martin, is being held in contempt for breaking t...
PID: apw:12347835
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-02T19:42:28.236Z

Title: Worthy lives
Author: Jaynes, Bev
Date: 2012-05-08
Pages: 2 pages
Text (O): Worthy Lives I wrote the list below, “Reasons Not to Dismiss Older People's Lives As Worthless and Useless”, in a tongue—in—cheek manner; but it was inspired by the contempt and disrespect that some younger women show to older women ‘here in prison. I myself as a youth held such contempt, thinking that with their frailties the elderly were a burden upon society, with little to live for anyway. I was repulsed, by their. graying thinning hair and veiny, wrinkled skin, even remarking such t...
PID: apw:12349093
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-03T14:15:32.582Z

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