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Title
I am writing regarding issues
Author
Patmos, Lillys
Date
2017-09-29
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
9-29-2017 Dear APWA c/o Hamilton College I am writing regarding issues that affect many inmate women here in TDCJ-Texas Prisons. I am currently imprisoned in Lane Murray unit a Texas Prison, one of many womens' prisons that are without an air conditioner, without cold-water fountains, no programs to rehabilitate 1st time aggravated offenders. Texas Prison Administrators are continually putting my and the other offenders/womens' life in danger and at risk. Here are a few, but severly...
PID
apw:12349507
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T19:18:05.716Z
Title
I came to prison January 15, 2018
Author
Harris, Rojonah
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE I came to prison January 15, 2018. Four days before coming to prison, I found out I was 4 weeks pregnant. Both bittersweet moments, but for the most part, I had to plan for my stay. I called my probation officer and alerted her. She called the prison to see if they had any reasonable accommodations to ensure that I would be safe in a medium security being pregnant. Now, this may sound crazy. Medium prison, first time offender, nonviolent charge, but okay. I was admitted into prison a...
PID
apw:12355176
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T19:17:28.68Z
Title
I want to make this letter long
Author
Moore-Ethridge, Nycole
Date
2018-08-27
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[no title] 8-27-18 Dear APWA I want make this letter long. I write in hopes you may assist me in the right direction I am currently incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice I am doing a 4 year sentence for theft (stealing clothes out of Dept. stores) Texas parole is sucks! Toward the women. They do not utilize they parole system but the criminal justice always claim they need money. There are women here that have been awaiting 8-12 months to get in a program That is there answ...
PID
apw:12356087
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:23:15.786Z
Title
I'm a 37 year old mother of 6
Author
Hunt, Rosalinda
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
I'm a 37 year old mother of 6, wife of a institutionalized convict. Married 11 years he's been home 2-3 years of the 11 years. I myself just recently began to rebel now I find myself here in the Fresno County Jail doing 16 months for posession of a firearm. I now fit the quote "Your not doing time alone". Meaning my husband, considering you feel like your locked up, if married to a person who stays incarcerated. I married him knowing he was a criminal, with the hopes and o...
PID
apw:12356159
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:25:12.965Z
Title
I'm here because I was denied
Author
Jones, Pearline
Date
43581
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
I’m using this paper format so I have a record and I can write more people at once. Pearline Jones I’m here because I was denied the right 2 represent myself or hire a lawyer. The conditions here r bad. Lots of civil rights violations. Appeals and grievances do no good. They just reject them so there is no record of them on file. To get a rejection back has taken up 2 45 days. I’m still trying 2 resolve a grievance I filed Dec 27, 18. They reject them 4 senseless reasons 2 detour the inmates ...
PID
apw:12358545
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:01:57.293Z
Title
In 2017 Harold Clarke
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
8 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[No Title] 1 In 2017, Harold Clarke, the Director of the Department of Corrections for the state of Virginia, appeared on the Charlottesville news station stating that the institutions in this state were five hundred officers short than what is necessary to maintain order within the prisons. Five hundred officers! That is a farcical amount! It makes one curious to know the reason for such a shortage. Is there a quandary within Virginia's Department of Corrections? There must be something...
PID
apw:12355252
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T19:52:24.725Z
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
It's not the masked singer
Author
Chambers, Jessica
Date
2020-05-09
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Jessica Chambers It's not the Masked Singer 5-9-20 FMWCC Las Vegas, NV on 5-9-20 The only thing consistint about this facility is the inconsistincey! That is the headline of the day every day for the staff and c/o's at this facility. On my way to breakfest today I encountered a c/o once again not wearing a mask while within less than 6 ft from inmates. Also no hand sanitizer was being issued. This officer was clearly in violation of a direct order, not once but twice. Every day sien...
PID
apw:12360216
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:42:24.536Z
Title
Last week a baby died
Author
Marshall, Tandy
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Last week a baby died Last week a baby died. She was 21 years old with a child at home she would soon be with in the summer. I imagine her a beautiful spirit that was giving and caring. From what I've been told she was small and timid. After being used and abused here in prison and asking repeatedly for help, to be removed from her abusers and being repeatedly refused, she hung herself. She died while I walked the rec yard between the 6-7 o clock hours. When I was told we weren't to...
PID
apw:12348002
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:54:58.887Z
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
Lost hope
Author
Marshall, Tandy
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Lost Hope Tandy Marshall I allowed myself to hope. After 12 years I started to hope I'd make parole. I hoped to make my daughter's 5th grade graduation. I imagined laying on my son's bedroom floor watching him play video games. I dreamed of relieving some of the burden off of my mother and step father. I imagined taking my step dad to a jazz concert on Father's Day because he is so under appreciated by his own children and he is now raising mine. Although hope seemed like ...
PID
apw:12347990
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:54:58.455Z
Title
Medically trained or not: Where did you get your degree?
Author
Chambers, Jessica
Date
2020-03-10
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
By: Jessica Chambers 3-10-20 Medically trained or not: Where did you get your degree? NDOC FMWCC Las Vegas, NV. Sience 7-28-19 I had been receiving medical care and a variety of antibiotics for my toe. After several rounds of antibiotics plus minor toe surgery my toe still remained infected. Swab cultures and nail specimen were taken on 10-17-19 and 10-18-19 but the idiotic quack doctor didn't wait for the results before giving me surgery because I guess he received his MD from a Cracker...
PID
apw:12361538
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:04:37.034Z
Title
Mentally unstable
Author
Chambers, Jessica
Date
2020-02-10
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Mentally Unstable 2-10-20 I don't think that it is fair for a regular inmate to be housed with a inmate that is mentally unstable. Clearly C/Os and Psych knows, but yet placeing these kind of people in general population is what FMWCC Las Vegas, NV NDOC continues to do. This is a huge safety hazard. These type of people are subject to flip out at any given moment and harm themselves or others. I currently have a cellmate that is very mentally unstable and does not take her medication pro...
PID
apw:12361089
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:53:50.671Z
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 Chanell Burnette
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
My name is Chanell Burnette To whom it may concern: My name is Chanell Burnette and I am currently an offender at Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women. I write to you in regards to the inadequate medical care that we women are receiving here at this institution. l have been housed at this facility since 2006 and am aware of the class action lawsuit filed against this facility and, and to date have seen no improvements in the quality of care that we have been receiving. For some of us, this ...
PID
apw:12353447
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T19:50:20.278Z
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
My story
Author
Porter, India
Pages
8 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
MY STORY by INDIA PORTER My name is India Porter and I am currently incarcerated with The Michigan Department of Corrections. I was sentenced to 25 to 40 years for 2 counts of Assault with intent to Murder, felony firearm and felon in possession of a Firearm. As of August 28, 2015 I have served 13 years on that sentence Am I guilty of my crime? Yes. Had someone asked me that question almost 9 years ago I would have probably blamed everyone and everything else before I took responsibility for ...
PID
apw:12345633
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T11:07:04.231Z
Title
No response for the unresponsive
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
No Response for the Unresponsive "Why do people use drugs?" Maybe the inescapable pain of reality. Maybe past hurts or regrets. Maybe reasons unknown to anyone but themselves. Could be a combination; a myriad of things. We have each had our ups and downs. Our own trials and tribulations. Our own experiences; be they good or bad, we've all had them. That is part of being human. That is part of life, for which there is no escape. Or, maybe there is. Not any one of us can escape t...
PID
apw:12358658
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:04:43.788Z
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

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