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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
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...
PID
apw:12360786
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:43:56.934Z
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
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
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
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
Title
Cooked frogs
Author
Vanderford, Anna
Pages
3 pages
Topics
Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O)
‘ @ Anna M. Vanderford Old address New Address 537261 MBCC C1-A-215 145673 1010 W 5”‘ Ave. 29501 Kickapoo Rd. Shakopee, MN 55379 Mc Loud, OK 74851 Cooked Frogs I came from a very abusive single parent home. I’d been beat with hair brushes, appliance cords and slapped. I only stayed as long as I did because I didn’t know what else to do. It wasn’t long before I was in the company of teens that could and would dare me to do things that would endanger their future. I was their shoplifter, I proc...
PID
apw:12356330
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:21:44.618Z
Title
Cornering of the market by TDCJ
Author
Jalomos, Mary Ann
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
For many years our friends, family, and loved ones could purchase items from credited vendors and have them sent to us. Items such as writing paper, note books, journals, stationery, box cards, envelopes, etc. We could even purchase them by direct order with a payment from our Trust Fund Account. 7.1 TDCJ decided it wanted to curb what inmates could get and from whom. Now, we must buy paper, cards, envelopes etc, from the unit commissary. TDCJ made product from TDCJ ran print shops. Our famil...
PID
apw:12353098
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:56:49.827Z
Title
Criminal justice reform
Author
Jade
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM I'm a Chinese immigrant and an American citizen. I'm in wrongful conviction which was decided by detective(s) and Court before investigation, only because I'm a Chinese immigrant and Chemist, thus the first charge immediately was terrorist! Which was later dropped. To convict me wrongfully, almost all kinds of the misconducts of detectives and investigator and prosecutor and judge and lawyer in legal reports happened in my case. Detective(s) destroyed ex...
PID
apw:12360022
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:35:47.976Z
Title
Dear Readers, Many of you guys wonder
Author
Magana, Maria Elena
Date
2019-04-28
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Dear Readers, Many of you wonder how the inside of a prison facility is. Maybe many of you guys have an idea. Which is made up of experiences from a male that was incarcerated. Only if you guys knew that our image of being able to smoke, inmates sticking together, food being good, and one thing above all of that is once you get out your time time given to you: you do it and get out. How wrong we were! Not only that it gets so much worse for a female inmate. My name is Maria Elena Magana and I...
PID
apw:12357958
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:38:40.408Z
Title
FMWCC - COVID-19
Author
Chambers, Jessica
Date
2020-04-03
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
By: Jessica Chambers 4-3-20 FMWCC - Covid-19 Las Vegas, NV. The way this facility is trying to stop the spread of Covid-19/or take precautions is ridiculous. FMWCC might as well have a sign posted outside the facility that says, Welcome Covid-19 and thank you for stopping by". The facility will post "memo's" about everything else except for the truth. It's like this facility is built up off of lies and c/o's, staff and warden and Assistant Wardens, including anyo...
PID
apw:12360138
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:39:41.288Z
Title
Gargle, rinse, repeat
Author
Vanderford, Anna
Pages
2 pages
Topics
Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O)
Anna Vanderford Old address New Address 537261 MBCC C1-A-215 145673 1010 W. 6th Ave. 29501 Kickapoo Rd. Shakopee, MN 55379 Mc Loud , OK 74851 Gargle . Rinse, Repeat You are an adult, you've broken the law, you are in prison, but there's nothing else short of killing you that anyone can do to you, now add, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO! Certainly, not some ignorant inmate that you didn't ask for an opinion from. You get into a scuffle with another inmate. Off to the ja...
PID
apw:12353071
Date Uploaded
2018-09-25T21:48:17.647Z
Title
I am advocating for me
Author
Patmos, Lillys
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
No Title Dear APWA: I am advocating for me and the women imprisoned in TDCJ-Texas Prisons. We are women that would like to see "Rehabilitative Programs" for first 1st time offenders such as ourselves. We are not given an opportunity, because the state labels us "aggravated" charges - so we do not get any kind of help, rehabilitation, advocacy or opportunity. We are not allowed to receive any type of significant or recognizable constructive programs to help us get a time re...
PID
apw:12349510
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T19:18:06.073Z
Title
I am writing regarding issues
Author
Patmos, Lillys
Date
2017-09-29
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
9-29-2017 Dear APWA c/o Hamilton College I am writing regarding issues that affect many inmate women here in TDCJ-Texas Prisons. I am currently imprisoned in Lane Murray unit a Texas Prison, one of many womens' prisons that are without an air conditioner, without cold-water fountains, no programs to rehabilitate 1st time aggravated offenders. Texas Prison Administrators are continually putting my and the other offenders/womens' life in danger and at risk. Here are a few, but severly...
PID
apw:12349507
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T19:18:05.716Z
Title
I'm a 37 year old mother of 6
Author
Hunt, Rosalinda
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
I'm a 37 year old mother of 6, wife of a institutionalized convict. Married 11 years he's been home 2-3 years of the 11 years. I myself just recently began to rebel now I find myself here in the Fresno County Jail doing 16 months for posession of a firearm. I now fit the quote "Your not doing time alone". Meaning my husband, considering you feel like your locked up, if married to a person who stays incarcerated. I married him knowing he was a criminal, with the hopes and o...
PID
apw:12356159
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:25:12.965Z
Title
It wasn't long ago that I found myself
Author
Rosado, Enysia
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
It wasn't long ago that I found myself in a compromising situation as a "inmate" at York Correctional Institution, in Niantic, Connecticut. I put great emphasis on "inmate", because it seems that is all we are to those employed through out the facility. Although we are distinguished by numbers while incarcerated, we must remember we are so much more! Daily, many of us become victims of psychological abuse by staff. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words...
PID
apw:12359787
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:33:25.705Z
Title
It's not the masked singer
Author
Chambers, Jessica
Date
2020-05-09
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Jessica Chambers It's not the Masked Singer 5-9-20 FMWCC Las Vegas, NV on 5-9-20 The only thing consistint about this facility is the inconsistincey! That is the headline of the day every day for the staff and c/o's at this facility. On my way to breakfest today I encountered a c/o once again not wearing a mask while within less than 6 ft from inmates. Also no hand sanitizer was being issued. This officer was clearly in violation of a direct order, not once but twice. Every day sien...
PID
apw:12360216
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:42:24.536Z
Title
Medically trained or not: Where did you get your degree?
Author
Chambers, Jessica
Date
2020-03-10
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
By: Jessica Chambers 3-10-20 Medically trained or not: Where did you get your degree? NDOC FMWCC Las Vegas, NV. Sience 7-28-19 I had been receiving medical care and a variety of antibiotics for my toe. After several rounds of antibiotics plus minor toe surgery my toe still remained infected. Swab cultures and nail specimen were taken on 10-17-19 and 10-18-19 but the idiotic quack doctor didn't wait for the results before giving me surgery because I guess he received his MD from a Cracker...
PID
apw:12361538
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:04:37.034Z
Title
Mentally unstable
Author
Chambers, Jessica
Date
2020-02-10
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Mentally Unstable 2-10-20 I don't think that it is fair for a regular inmate to be housed with a inmate that is mentally unstable. Clearly C/Os and Psych knows, but yet placeing these kind of people in general population is what FMWCC Las Vegas, NV NDOC continues to do. This is a huge safety hazard. These type of people are subject to flip out at any given moment and harm themselves or others. I currently have a cellmate that is very mentally unstable and does not take her medication pro...
PID
apw:12361089
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:53:50.671Z
Title
More than my share
Author
Vanderford, Anna
Pages
1 page
Topics
Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O)
Anna M. Vanderford NEW ADDRESS 537261 MBCC C1-A-215 145673 1010 W. 6*“ Ave. 29501 Kickapoo Rd. Shakopee, MN 55379 Mc Loud, OK 74851 More Than My Share A Every night, I would awaken to an orgasm, as he gave me oral sex. Eventually he penetrated me with his tongue, then replaced it with a cold beer bottle then himself. When he grew bored of my being Daddy’s girl, I was shared with a private club of Uncles, which were his friends. It all came to an abrupt halt when he committed suicide. But the ...
PID
apw:12352968
Date Uploaded
2018-09-25T19:49:27.409Z
Title
My chosen name is
Author
Hopkins, Lilly Anne
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
Trigger warning: contains violence, prison rape. My chosen name is Lilly Anne, because I am incarcerated in Texas I cannot change my name, but thats what my family and friends call me, it isn't a nickname. I am a MtF Transsexual, a Transwoman if you will, and while prison can be a rough place I encounter unique difficulties in terms of harrassment, violence, and access to medical care. The condition I have is now called Gender Dysphoria and is basically the distress you experience when y...
PID
apw:12355111
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T21:11:12.474Z
Title
My crime: The very simplified version of my life
Author
Vanderford, Anna
Pages
8 pages
Topics
Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O)
Anna M. Vanderford 1010 w. 6”‘ Ave. -#145673 Shakopee, Mn 55379 The American Prison Writing Archive 198 College Hill Rd. Clinton, NY 13323 My crime: The very simplified version of my life, I was 19 years old, in a whirlwind courtship. I had lied to my adoptive mom to get money supposedly for college but it was to help the dude obtain drugs, I was pregnant with his child and he was leaving me. I shot him and was sentenced to life in prison. After an escape and trip to Thailand, I was essential...
PID
apw:12353560
Date Uploaded
2018-09-27T00:38:37.591Z
Title
My name is Jammie Mclean... [1]
Author
McLean, Jammie "New Hope"
Date
2015-05-17
Pages
4 pages
State
California
Text (TR)
Jammie McLean California Hope Dear fire inside. 5 - 17 - 15 My name is Jammie Mclean. I am writeing for a few reasons and I hope by the time your done with this letter it will help others. Thank you. Well right now I am in SHU at C. I. W. I been in SHU almost 2 yrs. This has been the hardest time for me yet only because I been threw a lot. Like I said I was 17 yrs. old when I got 17 - life I came right to prison at age 17. No help no friends just me. I did not kill no one. I was just that luc...
PID
apw:12342906
Date Uploaded
2016-10-17T12:59:53.547Z

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