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- Title
- Why do we judge? Is it fair
- Author
- Jenkins, Raymond
- Date
- 2020-07-03
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (TR_WF)
- 07-03-2020 "Why Do We Judge? Is it Fair." This story is about DUI against 290 Registry. In the publics eyes; Is a 290 registered person "more dangerous only" then other persons convicted by all other crimes? Statistically a person convicted with a DUI more then once' is supposed to be more "dangerous" then a person who is 290 registered. Here are reasons why a person for the first time that has to register 'that has not committed a violent crime against...
- PID
- apw:12362474
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:31:01.189Z
- Title
- Why is my life not worth saving
- Author
- McAfee , Michael Sr.
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Why Is My Life Not Worth Saving? By Michael McAfee Sr. Where do I begin and how could this be that I'm in prison and no longer free. They have taken away my freedom and my dignity too and what they have done to me they can do to you too. I have been accused of a feat so bad that there are those that are judging me but don't know the truth. I spoke against myself of fear by the police who forced me to speak lies to convict me of a crime I didn't commit. The state had evidence of...
- PID
- apw:12358529
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T19:01:35.151Z
- Title
- Why we cant go free in Virginia
- Author
- Rowe, Uhuru B.
- Date
- 2016-09-13
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (O)
- 6/23/2017 Why We Can't Go Free in Virginia Conscious Prisoner - The Evolution of Uhuru Why We Can't Go Free in Virginia By Uhuru B. Rowe August 18, 2016 Every year, hundreds, perhaps thousands of bills are introduced and passed by congress into law on the federal, state, and local level without the knowledge of the average American citizen. Most people are unaware that they can show up at committees when these bills are being debated, analyzed and voted on by politicians and voice t...
- PID
- apw:12351672
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-17T00:56:58.946Z
- Title
- With my life and what I put out
- Author
- Prince
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- [No Title] By: Mr Prince Backman Sing Sing Correctional Facility With my life and what I put out, my purpose is not to hate any one, not women, gays. nor to hate someone because the color of their sing... I an not a gangster, not a criminal. I am a person trying to survive against many contrary destructive forces. Whether substance, disease, addiction, my own negative choices and wrongs, and humans who [foe?] against me, and hate. However, if the black M&M is poison, or any color, kind sh...
- PID
- apw:12349773
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-15T20:36:07.284Z
- Title
- Within every adversit there exists a seed(opportunity) of an equal or greater benefit
- Author
- Noble, Ricardo
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (O)
- ¢v- .. V I n wt .4-J "" 4, *3 V. .3 -. ,...-fix, 5" .. . ~*~‘.-.:. R.H.II, pgflg "WITHIN EVERY BDVERSITY THERE EXISTS A ) OF AN EQUAL OR @EA'l'ER BENEFIT". R.H;U. means Resfirictea Hbusig‘Uhifi(ecmon1y called fine "ho1e"). The RHU is a grison wifihin a priscn. I%'$ fihe wcr$e(kind of conflifiicn). So. an equal pofiential exists E0 develop and bring aboué a baE€er(more pasifiive and pruéuctive) benefifi. ccndittam. at regpanse 3150- when pufi in fihe wuraa s...
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- apw:12351205
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T18:28:04.919Z
- Title
- Within the battle of women rights
- Author
- L., Jet
- Date
- 2020-02-14
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (TR_WF)
- Feb. 14. 2020 The American Prison Writing Archive (APWA) Within the battle of women Rights and being in so many fight, because Im a fight the power kinda guy Ive noticed that women have a couple more structuring to themselves like they don't have a sea of boys around them on the yard like the unnoticed brushing and searches; like objection No to Can I sit next next to you Mrs. like incidents of Mrs. Officer and the Sgt Officer pushing up on her and she is negative there are so many miles...
- PID
- apw:12361210
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-02-03T15:56:39.634Z
- Title
- World largest wall prison
- Author
- Favors, Gene T.
- Date
- 43699
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Dt: 8-22-19 To: The American Prison Writing Archive Fr: Gene T. Favors Sub: Essay Chapter One World Largest Wall Prison It go(s) past the power of my words to express to my readers of being locked up in the World Largest Wall Prison. In 1979 When I first got to Jackson State Prison in Jackson Michigan I was place in a quarantine holding cell with about 25 or more prisoners. While setting in the holding cell awaiting to be quarantine my only thoughts was Fears and Survival. I could picture bei...
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- apw:12358990
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T19:13:21.13Z
- Title
- Would it make sense if I told you that I recieve praise
- Author
- Cox, Christopher R.
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Dear Reader(s) Would it make sense if I told you that I receive praise from those who are incarcerated with me just by mentioning the past versus the present? Would the reader understand that all I am is what I've been able to discover through these revolutionary tablets (books)? Should I be able to name my triggers? Maybe my urges or cognitive distortions? Would you understand me better if I told you my personal library in this dog kennel (cell) includes authors such as: Elaine Brown, D...
- PID
- apw:12362262
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:27:27.109Z
- Title
- Would you eat it?
- Author
- Nolaw97
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (O)
- Would YOU Eat It? Frederick Mason #55487—O56 USP Tucson PO Box 24550 Tucson, AZ 85734 The following essay is based on an actual email I sent to the Food Administrator here at USP Tucson, dated 6/10/2019. I wanted to share this with you, to open up some lines of understanding about what goes on in many prisons. ' Now of course, I cannot speak for every prison, and I in honesty can't speak for every inmate. But what I am sharing is one part of many that inmates go through. My hope in ...
- PID
- apw:12358295
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T18:55:33.064Z
- Title
- Writing of Datra Johnson Vol. I
- Author
- Johnson, Datra C
- Date
- 2018-10
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- American Prison Writing Archive Writing of Datra Johnson Vol. I My life has not been hard, but just in a brief summary, my mother was sentenced to prison in the late eighty's early nineties, around the time Ronald Regan, began this War on Drugs. My date of birth is June, 1985. This isn't a excuse for my lifestyle I've chose, but its a brief beginning for a clear view of a individual to see the circumstances I've grew up in. This is not a biography about Datra, so allow me ...
- PID
- apw:12356120
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-23T19:24:07.914Z
- Title
- Writing of Datra Johnson Vol. II (Texas parole system)
- Author
- Johnson, Datra C
- Date
- 2018-10
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- American Prison Writing Archive Writing of Datra Johnson Vol. II (Texas Parole System) In the books Texas, has a way to justify there actions, without reason, (at least this is what they believe). Once you experience things in Texas, you do not see any understand and the system makes no sense, especially, the Texas parole system. While at Coffield Unit, I had a job at Metal Fabrications, a company in Texas Correctional Industries, that make everything for military, prisons, parks, and recreat...
- PID
- apw:12356286
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T17:20:29.717Z
- Title
- Writing of Datra Johnson Vol. III (Bus ride/or chain gang)
- Author
- Johnson, Datra C
- Date
- 2018-10-24
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- American Prison Writing Archive Writings By Datra Johnson Vol. III (Bus Ride/or Chain Gang) The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is in need of a desperate up grade the whole system including the transportation system. There are three ways, well actually four ways criminals get cuffed and chained up. I'm going to describe these ways that I'm aware of and have been through then I'll zoom in on exactly the procedure that T.D.C.J. uses. There system desperately needs a upgrade....
- PID
- apw:12356290
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T17:20:35.785Z
- Title
- Writing on prisons
- Author
- Worley, Willie, Jr. (Intelligence Journalist)
- Date
- 2015-06-30
- Pages
- 5 pages
- State
- North Carolina
- Text (TR_WF)
- APWA Editors, 198 College Hill, Rd. linton, N.Y. 13323 Date: 6/30/15 Writing On Prisons Out of three hundred and sixty five days of each year I spend most of my time trying to deliver a rational solution to the many dysfunctions of not only prison life, but life in society as well. I have been blessed to be able to be in communication with some of the most intelligent social media outlets and social justice advocates in the nation. Although sometimes I don't produce exactly what they wan...
- PID
- apw:12343548
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-18T20:59:22.379Z
- Title
- Years ago, Dr. Cornell West said
- Author
- Murray, Gregory L.
- Date
- 2017-08-23
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Dear APWA, Salutations! If you've already received the hand-written agreement?, than you were expecting this journal entry. Years ago, Dr. Cornall West said "having a GED is the equivalent of being functionally illiterate." Although I couldn't grasp the complexity of what he meant then, now it makes perfect sense. In 2003 while awaiting trial, I passed the GED test. Unbeknownst to me then that's all I learned i.e. how to pass a test. Fast-forward to around 2010 or 201...
- PID
- apw:12351090
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T17:18:03.694Z
- Title
- You can
- Author
- Wheeler, Rayvon
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- #1 You Can You can: Hate on me by not writing me, not put'n' money on your phone to talk to me, the fact still remain we are blood their for we are family. You can: treat me bad talk about my past, speak on me like I should not be mad, deal with life like it don't make you sad, the fact still remain we are family. You can: 2 step on the issue's make stuff up be cuz of your miscues, act like I don't mean anything to you, what you did to me was real and true like the fa...
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- apw:12361016
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-02-03T15:51:23.418Z
- Title
- You should be thankful
- Author
- The Wordist WAM
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (TR_WF)
- You Should Be Thankful You should be thankful At least enough to say thank you For the blessings we bestow on you everyday Because just like that things could go the wrong way See this environment is volatile and violent The created energy of freedom versus confinement The stewing pot for "We" who have transgressed A buzzards nest for the angry and depressed See we allow you to over act your responsibilities Void of any compassion and or any sensitivities The "We" here car...
- PID
- apw:12346660
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T00:32:35.581Z
- Title
- You will know
- Author
- Nolaw97
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- You Will Know Frederick Mason #[ID] USP Tucson PO Box 24550 Tucson, AZ 85734 There's a wonderful song by Stevie Wonder titled, "You Will Know". There's a line that goes, "You will know, lonely heart you know; every life has meaning, trust and I will show." It's a wonderful testament that God says to us to comfort us in trying times. Every person, and this includes inmates, has value. The problem is that a lot of staff in prisons, like here at USP Tucson, are...
- Text (O)
- You Will Know Frederick Mason #55487—O56 USP Tucson PO Box 24550 Tucson, AZ 85734 There's a wonderful song by Stevie Wonder titled, "You will Know". There's aline that goes, "You ‘i l know, lonley heart you know; every life has meaning, trust and I will showV. It's a wonderful testiment that God says to us to comfort us in trying times. Every person, and this includes inmates, has value. The problem is that a lot of staff in prisons, like here at USP Tucson, =are...
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- apw:12358432
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T18:58:56.911Z
- Title
- Your degree of understanding you receive from this essay will be equal to your degree of acceptance of what is given
- Author
- Douglas, Lamont-O'shea
- Pages
- 7 pages
- State
- Virginia
- Text (TR_WF)
- NO TITLE *Your degree of understanding you receive from this essay will be equal to your degree of acceptance of what is given *** 1 Thessalonians 4:4-6 4 that each one of you should know how to get possession of his own vessel in sanctification and honor, (A.K.A personal responsibility) 5 Not in covetous sexual appetite such as also those nations have which do not know Jehovah; 6 that no one go to the point of harming and encroaching upon the rights of his brother in this matter, because Jeh...
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- apw:12344019
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-19T21:34:24.784Z
- Title
- Your imagination, my reality
- Author
- Hendrix, Troy
- Date
- 2013
- Date
- 2013, 2013
- Pages
- 2 pages
- State
- New York
- Text (TR)
- Troy Hendrix New York Your Imagination, My Reality Imagine this...... (4 walls and steel doors)... (Being confined in a cell 22-24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year).... (Being confined this way for years)... (Being confined this way indefinitely)... (Being in this confinement until Lethargy, chronic depression, irrational anger and rage, and emotional and psychological harm sets in).... (Being in this extreme isolation until your heart becomes cold, mind becomes distant, and soul ...
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- apw:184
- Date Uploaded
- 2015-09-16T17:53:44.3Z
- Title
- Your true character is revealed
- Author
- Gilliam, Marquis
- Date
- 2018-03-07
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (O)
- 3/7/18 Your true character is revealed not by how you act when life goes your way, but how you act when the bottom falls out. — Reflection The American Prison Writing Archive... To Whom It May Concern Thank you for reaching out and letting me know my previous writing wasn't the perspective you'll were looking for. I do apologize on my end for being so callow in my representation, far as offering something like that. I have personally taken some much needed reflection on my current e...
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- apw:12353118
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T10:57:09.704Z
- Title
- …And justice for all
- Author
- Dedekiah
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Attn: Memorandum … And Justice For All Written by Derrick A. Gordon On Monday, March 25, 2019, The Orlando Sentinel posted an article – “Bipartisan Support for Sentencing Reform Bills” – featuring “GOP and Dems passed bills at federal level. Will Tallahassee follow?” This is an effort by state legislators to release the swell of the overcrowded and growing prison system. The “Florida First Step Act” would mimic the “Federal First Step Act,” expanding rehabilitation programs in prisons and red...
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- apw:12358588
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T19:03:01.443Z