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Title: An almost love story
Author: Shaulis, Dahn
Pages: 2 pages
Text (O): An Almost Love Story When Olivia Martin moved into the PC unit, she could have passed for a woman: ﬁve feet nine, slender, with smooth brown skin and braided black hair, her walk feminine. I received advanced knowledge about Olivia from CO Romer. Romer said she had hormone shots before her incarceration, which accounted for her womanly chest. Somehow she was also able to maintain red lips, though cosmetics were not available in the men’s prisons. That was one of her little secrets. But Olivia...
PID: apw:12349271
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-03T14:48:06.634Z

Title: Big sis, slim the wanna-be, and the hole
Author: Shaulis, Dahn
Pages: 4 pages
Text (O): Big Sis, Slim the Wanna-Be, and the Hole Working through the stacks of paperwork on my desk when I’m interrupted by a phone call. “Salomon” I said, into the telephone receiver. A female voice replied, “Yes, I’m calling for Mike, Mike Shaffer.” “And your name is?” I ask. “I’m Mary Shaffer, his sister. I heard he’s in the hole. I want to know if he’s ok. Can he make calls?” Her brother, inmate Shaffer is a 21-year-old inmate, a wanna-be in Pri$neyland, a fresh recruit in the white supremacy gan...
PID: apw:12349274
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-03T14:48:06.823Z

Title: Burning cross
Author: Hooper, David O.
Pages: 10 pages
Text (TR_WF): Burning Cross; Motive. Generally the constitution prohibits the loss of liberty without a meaningful opportunity to defend, Jackson v. Virginia, supra, 443 U.S.307,314,99 S.Ct.2781,2786 (1979), while prohibiting the conviction of any person except upon proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, In re Winship, 397 U.S.358,90 S.Ct.1068(1970)." Generally. Problem is, Nevada, Utah rather, their justice, courts and juries are skewed to favor the Anglo Saxon social order status quo, the burning...
PID: apw:12348177
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-02T20:21:25.555Z

Title: Crooks
Author: Shaulis, Dahn
Pages: 2 pages
Text (O): Crooks The inmate cook can deftly skim sugar and yeast off the top of a recipe, hide it and take it back to his cell for prison-made alcohol, “pruno.” He can ﬁnd ways of sifting sugar into a kitchen sink, then recover it when the coast is clear. He can hide a wad of dough in his pants, then take it back to his house for yeast in his brew. The cunning inmate will carefully look over his shoulder, or enlist another inmate as a lookout. He knows making pruno is against the rules, but believes it...
PID: apw:12349279
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-03T14:48:07.004Z

Title: Death notification
Author: Shaulis, Dahn
Pages: 3 pages
Text (O): Dahn Shaulis 8250 North Grand Canyon Dr. #1024 Las Vegas, NV 89166 dahnshaulis@netzero.com Death Notiﬁcation At Northeast State Prison, one-third of the inmates are in prison for life. Many others are in for a long stretch—-two decades or more. Felix Chacon was one of those inmates: in prison for a long time, but possibly not forever. Like most inmates, I didn’t know much about him other than his crime report: a second degree murder, gang-related, requiring at least twenty years in prison. Ch...
PID: apw:12349282
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-03T14:48:07.258Z

Title: Drama
Author: Shaulis, Dahn
Pages: 2 pages
Text (O): It was Friday afternoon. I was working through my paperwork and computer entries when I heard the steel door crash. An inmate ran into the activity room below my ofﬁce. A young Black man, with blue jeans so big he had to hold them up while he walked. He fumbled with a large full garbage bag, which I found out later, was everything he owned. The young inmate anxiously looked out the thin window in the room, then rushed to my second ﬂoor ofﬁce door I called the control officer and asked what th...
PID: apw:12349286
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-03T14:48:07.526Z

Title: Let the slide show begin
Author: Shaulis, Dahn
Pages: 2 pages
Text (O): Dahn Shaulis Nevada Let the Side Show Begin Late morning in the cell block. I'm in my office with the bottomless pile of paperwork, scribbling responses to requests for information. The inmates have been served lunch. The food slots on the cell doors are closed, locked. The rotunda lights are turned off. When I walk onto the tier again, and pass by the cells, I smell corndogs. Many of the cells, inmate ”houses,” appear dark. Many cover their cell windows with towels, insulating themselve...
PID: apw:12349257
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-03T14:48:05.404Z

Title: No need to know
Author: Shaulis, Dahn
Pages: 4 pages
Text (O): No Need to Know The embarrassing and enlightening lessons of prison work build over years. But most prison workers are so caught up in the day-to-day, so lazy, incurious, or afraid, they miss the bigger dramas. Some have been burned for doing more than the minimum. Caseworker White tells me, “I used to be interested in what was going on, but that just increases your work. You still get paid the same.” Others are unwitting dupes, victims of lies and secrets. At Eureka max, S/CO Romer told me “...
PID: apw:12348861
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-03T11:13:57.934Z

Title: Palido y los Mexicanos
Author: Shaulis, Dahn
Pages: 3 pages
Text (O): Dahn Shaulis 8250 North Grand Canyon Dr. #1024 Las Vegas, NV 89166 702-658-5019 dahnshaulis@netzero.com Palido y Los Mexicanos As I glance away from my desk, I see yet another one at my ofﬁce door. It’s Denzin. He’s an Anglo inmate in his early 20’s, with a thin mustache and goutee, a member of a local Latino gang, the Macho Lokos. I only know him because of his gang afﬁliation and because I had recently seen him for his six-month classiﬁcation review. His fellow gang members, his homies, cal...
PID: apw:12348866
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-03T11:13:58.378Z

Title: The newest boss in pri$neyland
Author: Shaulis, Dahn
Pages: 3 pages
Text (O): Dahn Shaulis 8250 North Grand Canyon Dr. #1024 Las Vegas, NV 89166 dahnshaulis@netzero.com The Newest Boss in Pri$neyland After ﬁve years vested in the civil service, I now felt I could tell a boss the truth, as I saw it. The newest boss, Womack, emailed all caseworkers for their input in the Governor’s Report. As if it mattered. I emailed back, “Can I tell the governor that gangs run day-to-day prison life, that staffing is dangerously low, that we are treated as robots in a factory that kno...
PID: apw:12348870
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-03T11:13:58.663Z

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