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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Title
My name is Jammie Mclean... [2]
Author
McLean, Jammie "New Hope"
Date
2015-05-18
Pages
6 pages
State
California
Text (TR)
Jammie McLean California [No Title] Dear fire inside. 5 - 18 -15 My name is Jammie Mclean. I am writing hoping my thoughts help others just by my words. (I hope.) My name is Jammie some know me as Pookey. I been down for almost 19 years. I was 17 when I got this life put on me. I by passed C.Y.A. went right to prison. This is not the same story everyone tells trust me. No I am not like the rest. I have flaws not scard to say it. I did a lot to prove myself to others just to fit in (how dumb)....
PID
apw:12342911
Date Uploaded
2016-10-17T12:59:53.835Z
Title
Rabbit blood
Author
Vanderford, Anna
Pages
3 pages
Topics
Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O)
Anna M. Vanderford Rabbit Blood I had been taken to jail for a second degree murder charge. I was released on bail. So far as I knew I hadn't done anything to forfeit bail. I was home, in my mom's house, she was home from the hospital, on an oxygen machine. I was taking a shower; I think I had a court date in a few days. The police surrounded the house. I could see them silhouetted outside the bathroom. My mom was terrified and mortified as the announcement was made through a blow h...
PID
apw:12356334
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:21:52.165Z
Title
Raped by inmate, re-raped by CDCR: PREA in prison
Author
M., Dorothy
Pages
6 pages
PID
apw:12362460
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:30:48.311Z
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
Short
Author
Vanderford, Anna
Pages
3 pages
Topics
Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O)
Anna M. Vanderford Old Address [ID] MBCC C1-A-215 29501 Kickapoo Rd. McLoud, OK 74851 New Address 145673 1010 W. 6th. Ave. Shakopee, MN 55379 Short It's often said that prisoners get "short and shitty". I've never understood the term. How could I understand it; having been sentenced to life in prison. Until this morning... I'm 50 years old, I've served 30 years and this broad in front of me, starts saying "there will be no cutting/bucking the line": Wel...
PID
apw:12353174
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:58:04.913Z
Title
Some of us come to prison
Author
W, Hannah
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Some of us come to prison with great intentions of never coming back, then there are some who come back because the lesson was not learned. Some of our stories are the same when it comes to our past. Others past are beyond different. We get to prison where all the employees and officers are supposed to be care, custody and control. The prison is supposed to rehabilitate you for the free world. The whole system is a form of "re-entry". But the problem in this prison case is, the men ...
PID
apw:12359097
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:15:59.744Z
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 conversations we're not having
Author
M., Dorothy
Pages
3 pages
PID
apw:12362706
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:35:05.971Z

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