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Title
Before I as in Charles
Author
Paschal, Charles A. Jr.
Date
2019-04-06
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE 4-6-2019 Before I as in Charles Anthony Paschal Jr. think to take time to write anything on this paper for the reason and purpose of sharing an essay from my viewpoint about education with education meaning the knowledge and development resulting from an educational process, I'm going to start with the words, "I greatly appreciate you for taking a brief moment of your time to give me your attention so I can share this essay about education with you!" As I progress towa...
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apw:12357643
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:28:09.737Z
Title
Before I think to write
Author
Paschal, Charles A. Jr.
Date
2019-01-11
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
1-11-2019 Before I think to write anything on this paper I pray that whomever's attention I'm getting by taking such chance to get your attention is doing alright! Whereas, my name is as previously stated above Charles Anthony Paschal Jr., and I'm currently serving my 17th year straight in the Georgia Department of Corrections off a 30 years total prison sentence! My reason and purpose for taking a chance to get whomever's attention I'm getting is to share an essay ab...
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apw:12356362
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:22:34.807Z
Title
Before I think to write anything on this paper
Author
Paschal, Charles A. Jr.
Date
2018-11-20
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
11-20-2018 Before I think to write anything on this paper my name is Charles Anthony Paschal Jr., and I have been incarcerated 17 years straight off of a 30 year sentence, and the reason I'm currently taking a chance to get anyones' attention that can understand my unthought of words, "no matter what you're serving in life your only confines are the ones that you allow to be your confines!" Freedom is only a eight letter word, and if you allow others' judgements ...
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apw:12356144
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:24:46.903Z
Title
Cabin fever in COVID confinement
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-06-28
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
-Submission- Sunday 6-28-2020 "Cabin Fever" in Covid Confinement Let me begin by telling ya'll that we've <prisoners in Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility> been on this modified program since the end of February 2020 an it's almost July 2020 in a few days. So add that up an think how stir crazy a regular person might act, much less a person with mental health problems like I do. They told us <mental health staff> that the program may return to some t...
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apw:12360380
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:47:02.999Z
Title
Color blind in the system
Author
Cavin, Mario Sentelle
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"Color Blind in the System" As of this writing, I've been incarcerated over 17 years. I've seen and experienced racism on almost every level, and let m tell you – it's surprising and disturbing in the same breath. "Ignorance allied with Power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." -James Baldwin- On the administrative level, discrimination and racism flows through the system like an unchecked ebola virus. For instance, in the Mich. Dept. of Correctio...
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apw:12350659
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T14:43:27.307Z
Title
Contracted
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-08-06
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"Contracted" Thursday 8-6-2020 Well everyone, Covid-19 has finally reached the prison I'm incarcerated at (Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility), so I diligently have to be on guard against catching it by doing all the preventative measures that we are advised to do by medical professionals like...wearing my mask, wearing gloves, distancing myself, disinfecting everything around me regularly, washing anything I wear right away and bathing as much as possible. On 8-4-20, the...
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apw:12360426
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:48:42.65Z
Title
Coronavirus while incarcerated has been mentally difficult
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-06-09
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Submission Tuesday 6-9-2020 Coronavirus while incarcerated has been mentally difficult because I have nothing really to do but think and worry about when this will be over so the program can go back to the way it was. Most of the inmates I've talked to, feel that the Administration will trick us an keep things like they are now or only give us (inmates) certain privileges back. To me, I'm only getting stronger by being forced to deal head-on with my mental thoughts that would usuall...
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apw:12360302
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:44:46.052Z
Title
Corrections? Or corruption?
Author
Cavin, Mario Sentelle
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"Corrections? or Corruption?" Did you know there is no federal constitutional right to rehabilitation? And as a result, whenever there's a so called "budget crisis", educational programming is the first to get x'd out. So when a judge says he's sentencing you to prison to be rehabilitated, it's a load of crock. In theory, the DOC is suppose to rehabilitate prisoners, right? Which would mean promoting higher education for those interested, right? Only in...
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apw:12353068
Date Uploaded
2018-09-25T21:48:12.406Z
Title
Covid credits
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Pages
1 page
PID
apw:12362556
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:32:25.892Z
Title
Covid-19 complications in prison
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-04-09
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
pg. 1. - Submission- Thursday 4/9/20 "Covid-19 Complications in Prison" About <2> months ago our prison <Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility> in San Diego, CA. was put on Modified Program with restricted Group Gatherings, which has been hard on me because I'm in a mental health E.O.P. <Enhanced-Outpatient-Program> that usually has me and other inmates going back and forth to at least <10> hours of self-help groups a week, but now we aren't allo...
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apw:12360136
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:39:38.402Z
Title
Covid-19 conditions & complications
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-05-09
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Covid-19 Conditions & Complications Pg. 1. Submission Saturday 5-9-20 This letter is in receipt of your letter dated on May 5th, 2020. My first essay to A.P.W.A. talked about coronavirus [an and] how I am dealing with it but I feel it's important to [acurately accurately] report or write what I and others are dealing with it too. To date we <prisoners at R.J.D.C.F.> have been on modified lockdown with only officer escorted medical and mental health appointments like emergency s...
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apw:12360212
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:42:18.344Z
Title
Hope in humanity
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-07-22
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
- Submission - pg. 1. Wednesday 7-22-2020 "Hope in Humanity" About two months ago, I began receiving mail from pen pals from different states on the streets who unknowingly helped me revive my faith in humanity at a point in my life when I was losing hope in humanity and today’s society. What I mean by saying “today’s society” is that; people in general seem to have lost their sense of empathy and sympathy for other humans from what I see on the news, which depresses me. Without peo...
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apw:12362817
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:37:10.985Z
Title
In this article you will get a better and deeper understanding
Author
McDonald, LaDeric
Pages
5 pages
PID
apw:12362873
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:38:08.526Z
Title
Keeping calm in the crisis of Covid-19
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Submission for A.P.W.A. "Keeping Calm In the Crisis of Covid-19," Truthfully, keeping calm is really difficult for me because I only have my Mom by my side throughout my prison incarceration, plus she's the only one who takes care of my needs, whether emotionally, mentally, or financially. I worry about me catching, then dying from Covid-19 but the prison officials or powers-that-be, doesn't tell her an lies as to the real cause of my demise. Then on the flip side, what if...
PID
apw:12360253
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:43:23.85Z
Title
Lifers with optimistic progress
Author
Kilgore, Ivan
Date
2019-02
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
Lifers With Optimistic Progress Truth as told by those in power has been formatted to fit into the scheme of their agenda, which makes it a product propaganda. Truth as told by the powerless is a truth unscathed by such distortion, which makes it a reality. As such, the truth as told by the powerless becomes a scepter and reference point in all matters of controversy between these two groups.... Written by Ivan Kilgore February 2019 ecently, the Lifers With Optimistic Progress (L.W.O.P., herea...
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apw:12357702
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:30:14.954Z
Title
Light through darkness
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2021-03-04
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
- Submission - pg. 1. Thursday 3-4-2021 "Light through Darkness" Hello everyone! I’m sorry that I haven’t written any essays or stories in awhile but I’ve been experiencing some unforeseen highs and lows due to Covid-19. After all I’ve told you about being careful and practicing the necessary precautions, I still contracted Covid-19 and had to be placed inside the gym where they <the administration and medical staff> set up bunk beds for about a hundred (100) to be housed for ...
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apw:12363335
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:46:28.363Z
Title
Misunderstood
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-06-17
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
- Submission - 1. Wednesday 6-17-2020 "Misunderstood" My life in a California Prison has been exceptionally hard, due to being misunderstood by my peers because they don't know anything about the different spectrums of sexual orientation and identity in the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community, so trying to explain this to everyone is difficult, but I feel is worth it to maybe stop people from hating us or pre-judging my people. Although the prison system only has two destinations, male and t...
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apw:12362365
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:29:07.324Z
Title
Opinion about our justice system
Author
Johnson, Eric D.
Date
43675
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Opinion About Our Justice System July 29th, 2019 Love, Peace, Justice, Forgiveness, Fairness & Liberty. These are things of which our country was built on but yet here in California our Justice System is far from any of these things. I completely agree that if you break the law then you should be punished for such violation but the consequences should be the same to all across the board. Regardless if someone has been to prison once before & the other hasn’t, one should get less than ...
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apw:12359260
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:20:00.648Z
Title
Progress through pain
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-08-17
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
pg. 1 -Submission- "Progress through Pain" Monday 8/17/2020 We’ve been on modified lock-down status for <6> months now with no definite end in sight, which is driving me crazy! Me and my cellmate are beggining to argue about little things that wouldn’t have even popped up on our radar before this prolonged Covid-19 lock-down. To top it off, the Canteen Supervisor quit due to too many grievances filed on him, so we haven’t been able to order store, as we call it. I honestly don...
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apw:12360429
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:48:49.072Z
Title
Redemption
Author
Cavin, Mario Sentelle
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"Redemption" As I sit here at the finish line, finally victorious, I can't help but reflect on how long it's taken me to get here. Join me as I take you on a ride through a mind that was as twisted as intertwined roots. Heading nowhere fast, I cruised the desolate roads with no particular purpose or destination. Very rarely did I slow down to peruse the beauty of my surroundings. Only two things held my focus: being fast and furious. Life passed by like oncoming traffic on...
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apw:12353170
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:58:01.277Z
Title
Safety and security
Author
Delaney, Ebony
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Essay: Safety and Security Often when people think of individuals being incarcerated, they rarely give thought to the concept of safety and security. It is generally believed that once handcuffs are placed on a suspect, the community is made safer, the person being detained will be safe in police custody and once actually incarcerated, in jail, state or federal prison, those charged with ensuring the safety and security, will adhere to their professional ethics. Nothing can be further from th...
PID
apw:12352092
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T17:43:23.989Z
Title
Surviving the madness
Author
Cavin, Mario Sentelle
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"Surviving the Madness" The clangoring of steel striking steel reverberates down the endless halls as cell doors slam shut. One after another, after another. The hollowed echoes still not enough to drown out the incessent screaming of the residents as neighbors yell at neighbors, and men from the fourth tier holler to those on base. Four levels of endless cells to my left, the same to my right. Unlike the halls and the cells, there is one thing I can see the end of: my future. Welco...
PID
apw:12350664
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T14:43:27.593Z
Title
The glaring contradictions in the rhetoric of prison rehabilitation (part 1)
Author
Kilgore, Ivan
Date
2018-11
Pages
7 pages
Text (O)
The Glaring Contradictions In The Rhetoric of Prison Rehabilitation (Part 1) By Ivan Kilgore (November 2018) 
 Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories... - Amilcar Cabral 
 Processionary caterpillars travel in long, undulating lines, one creature behind another. Jean-Henri Fabre, the French naturalist who died in 1915, once led a group of these caterpillars onto the rim of a...
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apw:12357694
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:29:55.491Z
Title
The treatment part 1
Author
Johnson, Eric D.
Date
43732
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The Treatment Part 1 9.24.19 According to the United Nations Congress on the prevention of crime and the Treatment of Offenders, "All prisoners shall treated with the respect due to their inherent dignity and value as human beings. It's also sates that "No prisoners shall be subjected to & all prisoners shall be protected from torture and other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment for which no circumstances whatsoever may be invoked as a justification."...
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apw:12359256
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:19:54.544Z

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