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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: 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 was arrested in July 89
Author: Anonomous - Terry
Date: 2015-06-20
Pages: 3 pages
Text (TR_WF): NO TITLE I was arrested in July 89 for the brutal murder of my husband. I had no sense of consequences and did not care about myself or the next person. I was 28 but had the emotional equivalent of a wounded 12 yr old. Where my last abuse took place. I was raised by 2 alcoholic parents who should of never had 6 children. I spent 19 months in county and was sentenced 25 to life for my husband's murder. I instantly went into denial and portrayed myself as a victim. I disassociated myself t...
PID: apw:12347679
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-01T19:34:14.973Z

Title: Reading Plato on death row
Author: Guenther, Lisa
Date: 2016-02-15
Date: 2016-02-15, 2016-02-15
Pages: 4 pages
State: Tennessee
Text (FT): Reading Plato on Death Row Lisa Guenther Every Wednesday, Igo to Riverbend Maximum Security Prison in Nashville to facilitate a discussion group with prisoners on death row and philosophy graduate students. It's a nice prison, as far as prisons go: clean, suburban-feeling, with a soapy smell that lingers on my hands and clothes after I leave. The reception area is filled with motivational posters of determined mountain climbers and goal-oriented rowing teams. Beyond the checkpoint, an or...
PID: apw:12342341
Date Uploaded: 2016-06-20T01:08:59.624Z

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: Staff as a whole create the pressure cooker environment
Author: Wallace, Cynthia
Pages: 1 page
Text (O): Staff as a whole create the pressure cooker environment in which we live by overcrowding, and even when they are made aware of serious conflicts by ignoring them and even setting up the conditions to not only allow butencourage inmates to attack one another. By creating tdheir own rules, and sporadically enforcing the actual rules, staff play favorites with some and with others pick and poke and prod and pretend that no inmate is human. Staff forget that every human has a breaking point. Each...
PID: apw:12352671
Date Uploaded: 2018-06-15T21:38:34.493Z

Title: The redemptive power of yoga
Author: Mazzarella, Eve
Pages: 1 page
Text (TR_WF): 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:12361231
Date Uploaded: 2021-02-03T15:57:07.517Z

Title: You're not as unique as you think you are
Author: Mazzarella, Eve
Date: 2018-11-29
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): Trulincs - Mazzarella, Eve E - Unit: VVM-G-S Subject: Threshold Graduation Speech Date: 11/29/2018 05:12:13 pm "You're Not as Unique as You Think You Are" Hi All! I wanted to share a speech I gave at the graduation ceremony for the Threshold Program yesterday. To put it in context, the program was a 9-month interfaith program designed to help inmates advance on their spiritual path. There was a small group of 22 of us that participated in this last session and I learned a lot f...
PID: apw:12361238
Date Uploaded: 2021-02-03T15:57:16.68Z

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