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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 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
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
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
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
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
I am a female incarcerated
Author
Tammy
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
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...
PID
apw:12352489
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T19:45:37.962Z
Title
I want to make this letter long
Author
Moore-Ethridge, Nycole
Date
2018-08-27
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[no title] 8-27-18 Dear APWA I want make this letter long. I write in hopes you may assist me in the right direction I am currently incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice I am doing a 4 year sentence for theft (stealing clothes out of Dept. stores) Texas parole is sucks! Toward the women. They do not utilize they parole system but the criminal justice always claim they need money. There are women here that have been awaiting 8-12 months to get in a program That is there answ...
PID
apw:12356087
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:23:15.786Z
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
Last week a baby died
Author
Marshall, Tandy
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Last week a baby died Last week a baby died. She was 21 years old with a child at home she would soon be with in the summer. I imagine her a beautiful spirit that was giving and caring. From what I've been told she was small and timid. After being used and abused here in prison and asking repeatedly for help, to be removed from her abusers and being repeatedly refused, she hung herself. She died while I walked the rec yard between the 6-7 o clock hours. When I was told we weren't to...
PID
apw:12348002
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:54:58.887Z
Title
Left behind
Author
West, Chastity
Date
2009-12-16
Date
2009-12-16, 2009-12-16
Pages
16 pages
State
Connecticut
Topics
Memoir
Text (FT)
- Chasity C. West Left Behind "Everybody lock up!" The guard barked over the intercom. "Get in your cells, now! " " Oh God, what now?" One of the girls asked, picking up her plastic bowl and gathering her belongings beneath her arm. "There's a code purple," someone announced as she stepped through the door that had been electronically unlocked by the fumbling guard at the control panel, "Somebody hung up in building two." Building two hos...
PID
apw:289
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T18:25:37.994Z
Title
Lost hope
Author
Marshall, Tandy
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Lost Hope Tandy Marshall I allowed myself to hope. After 12 years I started to hope I'd make parole. I hoped to make my daughter's 5th grade graduation. I imagined laying on my son's bedroom floor watching him play video games. I dreamed of relieving some of the burden off of my mother and step father. I imagined taking my step dad to a jazz concert on Father's Day because he is so under appreciated by his own children and he is now raising mine. Although hope seemed like ...
PID
apw:12347990
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:54:58.455Z
Title
Running
Author
Maynard, T. L.
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Running A poem/memoir by Tabitha Lee Maynard I don't even remember the time before running. It's all an empty space filled with stories and dark holes. I ran to the TV; escaped into the land of make believe. I learned to read and ran to books; a more transportable land of fantasy. When the books and movies were not enough I ran into the deepest, darkest hole I could find. Inside of closets, cabinets, basements, attics, under the stairs, inside the walls - even drain pipes where the ...
PID
apw:12359726
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:31:47.653Z
Title
Sources of stress in prisons
Author
Agrawal, Shree
Pages
13 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Sources of Stress in Prisons There are an uncountable number of sources of stress in prison. The worst source of stress to prisoners is the unlawful policies and practices inflicted on them. These policies and practices are senseless and are designed solely to make life miserable for prisoners. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that prison regulations that infringe on the federal rights of prisoners must serve some legitimate purpose. Most prisoners want to serve their sentence in p...
PID
apw:12349807
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T20:36:11.049Z
Title
Street life vs. system
Author
Kiesha
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Street life vs. System Street life being the only things that's known. Pain and unreasonable circumstance, drive you into The streets, where hunger strikes, cold, loneliness, and most of all anger. Life responsibilities won't let you in. Jobs, housing, family, friend's, they all say No. A lifestyle formed by rejection may cause the use of drugs, or alcohol. Hunger is the reason why you steal, the cause that drives you to be more severe, keeping the lifestyle going. These habits...
PID
apw:12352476
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T19:45:20.264Z
Title
Texas is an institutionalized industry
Author
Jalomos, Mary Ann
Date
2017-10-12
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
No Title 10/12/17 Texas is an institutionalized industry. I have been here since 1999. Arrested 2-11-98, hit TDCJ 6/99. Going on 20 flat, next year. I am not innocent, I agree that I should have gotten time for my part in my crime. I do not agree with the amount of time I received. 99 yrs. A hard life, abuse galore. Physical, emotional and mental. I believe if I had recevied the psychological help I needed I may not have been in the position I was, when I did what I did. That's long past...
PID
apw:12349894
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T21:23:31.105Z
Title
The challnges of physical and psychological survival
Author
Jarnigan, Shannon L.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[no title] Shannon Jarnigan Nashville, TN The challenges of physical and psychological survival are a major problem in prison. The physical survival is challenging due to numerous of reasons. To be physically fit you have to be mind strong, working your body out on your own time. The prison were I reside barely offers any recreation time for the gym, ballfield, or exercise programs. It is all a show for inspectors or, to meet ACA standards which is federal fundings. The State of Tennessee fai...
PID
apw:12356147
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:24:51.464Z
Title
The dreary weapon
Author
Johnson, Jennifer
Pages
13 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The Dreary Weapon It was the morning of August 14, 1998 the beginning of starting my life sentence in jail. Oh my God it was a rough night. I laid under my blanket all night crying. I would just mumble slightly under my breath, I don't even know what happened to my son. I would like to know, Lord. Show me, Lord I would pray. Next thing I hear count time and wake up at 5:00 am. We had to stand beside our beds as the jailers counted us. After they counted us we remained up. Getting ready f...
PID
apw:12346618
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:32:32.701Z
Title
The poem as grounds for resistance
Author
O'Brien, Colleen
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Poetry as a language is a way to express myself with the veil of a hidden meaning behind each word. Because poetry uses symbolic language, I feel safe in expressing myself since whoever reads my words can interpret it however they want. At times when I write poetry and re-read it at a later date, I can't always remember what prompted me to write the words I wrote, nor, know exactly what I meant by them. Many times, the words that come out of me came from a place that I am not aware of. T...
PID
apw:12359661
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:30:15.74Z
Title
The redemptive power of yoga
Author
Mazzarella, Eve
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
The Redemptive Power of Yoga Redeem: to regain possession; to pay off; to turn in and receive something in exchange; to fulfill: to rescue or ransom; to make up for. In 2009 an experience transformed me from casual practitioner to fully committed yogi.’ It was the Summer Solstice in the heart of Manhattan .at the annual Yoga in Times Square event. Several thousand miles from my home on the west coast, the allure of finding peace in the midst of madness had a deeply personal meaning at this stag...
PID
apw:12354664
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T16:05:58.607Z
Title
Unfit adolescent
Author
Brown, Tasha
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Unfit Adolescent My name is Tasha and I am an adolescent offender. Let us examine the word adolescent shall we? An adolescent is one undergoing adolescence; a period of immaturity, a person who has undergone puberty but not reached maturity: a teenager. An adolescent cannot: purchase alcohol, consent to sex, rent a hotel room, purchase cigarettes, sign a legally binding contract, vote, or gamble; at is I couldn't even obtain a California ID or driver's license, however, I could be t...
PID
apw:12363209
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:44:11.968Z
Title
Unjust justice in a racial world
Author
Jarnigan, Shannon L.
Date
43699
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Shannon Jarnigan [ID] TPFE 1EA32 3881 Stewarts Ln. Nashville, TN 37218 August 22, 2019 "Unjust Justice in a Racial World" In life we are given choices. What choice we make results on our life good or bad. Although we make a choice we do not always know nor expect the outcome that came by what we chose. Allow me to explain a choice I made and now pay a dearly price with cruel and unusual punishment, and a system that failed me due to that one choice. As I grew to a young lady wanting...
PID
apw:12358959
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:12:33.659Z