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A day before my 18th birthday
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Author
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Marshall, Tandy
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Date
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2017-02-21
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7 pages
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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...
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apw:12347879
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Date Uploaded
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2017-11-02T19:42:30.234Z
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Title
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A professor once asked me
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Author
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Marshall, Tandy
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5 pages
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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...
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apw:12347996
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Date Uploaded
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2017-11-02T19:54:58.715Z
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Title
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A word to the fish
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Author
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Vanderford, Anna
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Pages
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1 page
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Topics
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Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
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Text (O)
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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...
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apw:12352970
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-25T19:49:28.89Z
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Addendum to #32392 commutation application: Sylvia Boykin
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Author
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Boykin, Sylvia
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5 pages
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State
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Pennsylvania
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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...
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apw:12346101
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Date Uploaded
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2016-10-25T02:16:13.375Z
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Are you properly trained?
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Author
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Chambers, Jessica
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Date
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2019-12-23
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Pages
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3 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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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...
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apw:12360786
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Date Uploaded
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2021-02-03T15:43:56.934Z
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As a black Muslim
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Author
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Rahmaan, Taryanne Abdullah
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Pages
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2 pages
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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...
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apw:12354688
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Date Uploaded
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2019-01-16T17:31:35.186Z
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As of today July 31st 2017
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Author
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Pineda, April Dawn
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Date
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2017-07-31
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Pages
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11 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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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...
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PID
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apw:12350750
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-16T15:41:34.754Z
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Title
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As she lay
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Author
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Burnette, Chanell R.
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Pages
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6 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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As She Lay 9/2/19 "It is with tremendous sadness and under unfortunate circumstances in which this writing arises. However, the deceased no longer have a voice; so I will speak out of respect for the young lady that recently passed away from a drug overdose. At the very moment I sat writing my last essay, there was a young lady in distress. Fighting for the very breath which would become her last before the age of thirty. Right here inside this physical prison. Worse, she was in the ment...
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apw:12359024
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Date Uploaded
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2020-06-18T19:14:11.847Z
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Title
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Chances and choices
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Author
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Maynard, T. L.
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Pages
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2 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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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...
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PID
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apw:12359723
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Date Uploaded
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2020-06-18T19:31:43.272Z
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Title
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Civil war
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Author
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Vanderford, Anna
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Pages
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1 page
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Topics
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Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
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Text (O)
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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 "...
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apw:12352964
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-25T19:49:24.464Z
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Title
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Constitutional right
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Author
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Chambers, Jessica
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Date
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2020-02-24
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Pages
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2 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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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...
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PID
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apw:12360936
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Date Uploaded
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2021-02-03T15:48:43.707Z
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Title
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Cooked frogs
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Author
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Vanderford, Anna
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Pages
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3 pages
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Topics
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Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
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‘ @ 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...
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PID
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apw:12356330
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Date Uploaded
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2019-05-28T17:21:44.618Z
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Title
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Cornering of the market by TDCJ
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Author
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Jalomos, Mary Ann
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3 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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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...
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PID
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apw:12353098
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-26T10:56:49.827Z
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Title
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Criminal justice reform
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Author
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Jade
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Pages
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3 pages
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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...
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PID
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apw:12360022
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Date Uploaded
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2020-12-02T18:35:47.976Z
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Title
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Dear Readers, Many of you guys wonder
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Author
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Magana, Maria Elena
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Date
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2019-04-28
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Pages
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2 pages
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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...
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apw:12357958
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Date Uploaded
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2019-10-28T20:38:40.408Z
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Title
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End the suffering
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Author
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Burnette, Chanell R.
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Date
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2018-12-28
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Pages
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7 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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12/28/18 End The Suffering “The prison population continues to rise at an alarming rate. And sadly, many of those entering the system for the first time, and repeat offenses alike, suffer from mental illness. Some cases more severe than others; but they are all suffering nonetheless. In reality, sometimes some of the crimes committed are by those with mental illnesses. Unfortunately there is not much help for them out there, and definitely not within the jails or prisons. So when they commit ...
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apw:12356585
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Date Uploaded
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2019-05-24T16:12:56.701Z
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Title
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FMWCC - COVID-19
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Author
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Chambers, Jessica
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Date
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2020-04-03
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Pages
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3 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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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...
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apw:12360138
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Date Uploaded
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2020-12-02T18:39:41.288Z
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Title
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Gargle, rinse, repeat
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Author
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Vanderford, Anna
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Pages
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2 pages
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Topics
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Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
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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...
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PID
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apw:12353071
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-25T21:48:17.647Z
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Title
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Hello my APWA friends
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Author
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White, Mia L.
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Date
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43790
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Pages
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2 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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Hello My APWA Friends 11-21-19 It's Mia L. White again [ID], from Union Grove WI at Robert E. Ellsworth Correctional Center. Today is 11-21-19 and 9:02 am. The inmates here have been woken up at 8:00 am for a mandatory cleaning day due to the Madison and much higher authorities coming into the center doing a thorough exspection of the center today. We the inmates have been threatened with tickets or seg. for not cleaning. I feel this is unconstitutional and we the inmates should have a c...
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PID
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apw:12359838
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Date Uploaded
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2020-06-18T19:34:42.214Z
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Title
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I am Mia L. White
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Author
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White, Mia L.
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Date
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43737
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Pages
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4 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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9.29.19 To: Whom it may concern; I am Mia L. White [ID]. I am currently serving out a sentence for revocation on a robbery charge and possession with intent charge in which I am innocent of and the evidence prove's it. Though I was a victim to a sailing system that continues to fail me and I'd like to share my story. Now here on revocation and a new charge of misdemeanor battery, I Mia L. White has not only grown into a woman; but has discovered a new light of understanding and just...
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apw:12359316
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Date Uploaded
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2020-06-18T19:21:23.566Z
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Title
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I am a female incarcerated
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Author
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Tammy
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Pages
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4 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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Dear APWA, I am a female incarcerated at Logan Correctional Center (LCC). I am detain on a unit that they refer to as housing unit that is full of asbestos, lead, and mold. There is even a raccoon that is crapping and peeing in the attic that staff will not capture. Upon starting out there were 3 raccoons. 2 were captures by a trap. Yet the one left has been in the attic over 6 months. Even though several has grieved it nothing has been done. Some ladies even took it upon themself to literarl...
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apw:12352489
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Date Uploaded
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2018-06-15T19:45:37.962Z
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Title
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I am advocating for me
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Author
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Patmos, Lillys
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Pages
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2 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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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...
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PID
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apw:12349510
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-15T19:18:06.073Z
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Title
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I am writing regarding issues
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Author
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Patmos, Lillys
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Date
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2017-09-29
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Pages
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2 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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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...
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PID
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apw:12349507
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-15T19:18:05.716Z
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