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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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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