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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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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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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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PID
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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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I was arrested in July 89
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Author
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Anonomous - Terry
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Date
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2015-06-20
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Pages
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3 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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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...
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PID
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apw:12347679
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Date Uploaded
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2017-11-01T19:34:14.973Z
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Title
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Reading Plato on death row
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Author
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Guenther, Lisa
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Date
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2016-02-15
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Date
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2016-02-15, 2016-02-15
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Pages
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4 pages
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State
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Tennessee
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Text (FT)
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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...
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apw:12342341
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Date Uploaded
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2016-06-20T01:08:59.624Z
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Title
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Running
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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 (O)
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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 ...
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PID
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apw:12359726
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Date Uploaded
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2020-06-18T19:31:47.653Z
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Title
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Staff as a whole create the pressure cooker environment
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Author
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Wallace, Cynthia
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Pages
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1 page
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Text (O)
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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...
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PID
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apw:12352671
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Date Uploaded
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2018-06-15T21:38:34.493Z