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Title
Another ineffective prison reform plan
Author
Smith, Zachary
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ANOTHER INEFFECTIVE PRISON REFORM PLAN I recently read an article in The Kansas City Call concerning the plan to spend $296 million to reduce Missouri prison overcrowding. Let me be frank: the "Justice Reinvestment Initiative Plan" will be a failure and a complete waste of taxpayers‘ hard-earned dollars. Missourians deserve better and would be better served by spending $485 million for two new prisons. Missouri lawmakers have a responsibility to pass legislation that best serves the...
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apw:12352701
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2018-06-16T02:32:16.183Z
Title
Another one bites the dust
Author
Richardson, Corey John
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Another One Bites The Dust... And down goes NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer, Mr. Law and Order. Not only did the Crime—Fighting Crusader cheat on his wife, but he used his government position and its resources to conceal his repeated purchases of women's services. He learned a little over the years as he vigorously prosecuted prostitution rings, but apparently not enough to get away with it himself. We see this hypocrisy all the time, and the usual response is, "How tragic. The poor (rich) ma...
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apw:12349338
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2018-01-13T19:44:32.721Z
Title
Anxiety
Author
Murray, B.C.
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ANXIETY Like a leaking cistern, anxiety,slowly bleeds all semblance of life from one'sA A being. As soon as a rare detente is reached, another anguishing tempest appears .atop life's mountains of Volatile, tormenting emotions pressing everything below until the-cavity of one's heart is breached further, causing one's will to demit faster, more excruciatingly that before. Eventually, anxiety morphs into a depressed emptiness offering only a teasing, hollow eye in a storm th...
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apw:12352669
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:38:32.89Z
Title
April Fools, all year long
Author
Richardson, Corey John
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Corey John Richardson 151152 / 200 Road to Justice West Liberty KY 41472 CoreyJohn1969§9yahoo.com April Fools, All Year Long On April 1, 2009, CNN reported that the felony conviction of former Alaska senator Ted Stevens, meted out on the eve of his re—election loss, would be voided due to prosecutorial misconduct. A man who clearly used his elected position for personal gain — lthe word "bribery" is the only one that comes to mind — got away with it. At first I thought, This must be...
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apw:12349318
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2018-01-13T19:44:31.536Z
Title
Arboretum
Author
Reed, Karter K.
State
Massachusetts
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Arboretum by Karter Kane Reed I stood there staring My heart wrenched My feet like anchors Unable to turn away from the horror Behind the double row of fences topped with glistening razorwire Lay the greens and browns of trees Swaying in the majestic beauty And it pains me to see them caged that way Behind those fences Unable to breathe Suffocated It's inhumane! The loudspeaker comes to life, and a Voice tells me It's time to go The trees hardly seem to notice Oblivious to my pain A...
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apw:12345491
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2016-10-23T22:17:53.402Z
Title
Are they really opposed to the death penalty?
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
State
California
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Kenneth E. Hartman: Are They Really Opposed to the Death Penalty? Page 1 of 20 home / subscribe / donate/ books / t-shirts / search / links / feedback / events / f_a_g Hewsmfiflrwrwm at Rmird: Margarine counter Ellilflli ll! alexamler liflflllllllfll and iflfifflv SI.l3lail' gsamrgiNovvi The Best Tea Partier Corporate Money Could Buy Pam Martens on the rise of the Tea Party's Rand Paul. What was wrong with Prop 19? Fred Gardner on California's failed bid to legalize pot. John Sugg on t...
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apw:12344795
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2016-10-21T22:55:09.518Z
Title
Are you the guy who...?
Author
Minarik, John Paul
State
Pennsylvania
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About 2,300 words 1600 Walters Mill Road, APO—580 Somerset, PA 15510-0005 ARE YOU THE GUY WHO...? by John Paul Minarik, EIT Despite having been.a prisoner for 45 years, I can not begin to tell how many times conversations begin with the question, "Are you the guy who designed (this or that)?" More often than not, the question to me is, "Are you the guy who.designed the lock boxes used on handcuffs with wrist shackles?" As anecdotal evidence has it, some prisoner working in...
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apw:12346124
Date Uploaded
2016-10-25T02:16:18.444Z
Title
Arguing the write-up
Author
Nolaw97
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‘Arguing the Writewup Frederick Mason #55487—O56 USP_Tucson PO Box 24550 Tucson, AZ 85734 . % A If you‘ve read any of my blogs, you know I was retaliated on by staff here at USP Tucson when I wrote on prison issues. On March 4th, 2017, staff member Ms. Farinsky and SIS Officer Kelly put me in the SHU(Special Housing Unit) for false charges, to prevent me from coming back to the library and typing about prison issues (First Amendment rights). U I spent 40 days before I went to DHO (Disciplinar...
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apw:12351692
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2018-03-17T01:19:42.029Z
Title
As for my experience
Author
Pirkel, Daniel
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ie: The America Prison Writing Archive item: Daniei Pirirei Greetings, i am reaiiy excited aheet year eregram and i am enciosing an aeeiication, Ceeid yen send me seme mere inierrnatien regarding your eregrarn? i am a strident in the Caivin hrison initiative {Chi}, a iive hacheinr’s degree erogram, and i am ceerdinating a ietter writing campaign tn reterrn the nrisen system. Any inierrnation that yeti can send me te heirs in this endeaver (inchiding inierrnatinn ahont your program) vviii he p...
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apw:12351761
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2018-03-17T01:52:45.422Z
Title
As society rotates around these governmental designs
Author
Mafahali, Nyasa
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As society rotates around these governmental designs:44 country, are those who suffer the injustice of financial campaigns, voting, elections- for this, that and the other 45 disparity. office. The worlds’ community has been lulled to sleep by the ’appearance’ of democracy. An elaborate trick has beg? played and a corrupt few lords over the masses. The devilds 9/13/16 This has been a composition of thought by H. A. Austin in the details. The common man/woman has no idea of what agendas these ...
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apw:12351300
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2018-03-16T19:07:48.957Z
Title
Ask me about solitary confinement, and the panda bear
Author
Holland, Daniel Leo
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Ask me about solitary confinement, and the Panda Bear If you were to‘ask me about solitary confinement I could tell you horror stories. But here is an example of how solitary confinement is abused and used as a tool to bully inmates. Here is a guy we will call Stan who has been in prison for the better part of 19 years. Stan has been virtually "ticket" free with only a couple minor disciplinary [tickets] infractions over the years.(On a scale of 1 to 10 on the problem scale- this gu...
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apw:12351382
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2018-03-16T19:43:05.099Z
Title
At what point do we act out our ideas?
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
State
Michigan
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At tf’idf* Point Do We Act Out Our Ideas? By: Lac?no Hamilton Boon frying to find space to observe and reflect on the world and where I find myself tn It. Trying to find a place for the careful working out of Ideas. I do not want to form the habit of writing for the ■La of being topical. The dialogue being developed To much to Important for that. Besides, even reading and writing possess functional limits. There must be recourse to other disciplines, other means of challenging practices that ...
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apw:12345563
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2016-10-23T23:38:42.796Z
Title
Attica on my mind
Author
Rhynes, Michael
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nu .1: in in vv .uauuua.U1 111 11533 1111 am l‘|*.llL[IlJ Y El 3' P N_ON—F1(_.“i'I()N l’AGE T Michael Rm. l.7JI-A {Ti 3310 .},Attica on My Mind ii *1 it My day begins by getting up before the coniemporary version of Pavlov’s bell rings, a half hour before count, which starts at 7:00 AM. While performing my morning ritual of washing my face, brushing my teeth, and combing my hair, with such niindiless devotitin it would send a marine sergeant into authoritarian fits of glee, I subcons...
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apw:12351816
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2018-03-17T01:52:49.829Z
Title
Auschwitz to Attica
Author
MacKenzie, John
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Auschwitz to Attica - Methodologies of Psychological Abuse By John MacKenzie Preface “Every prisoner with a sensitive nature suflers much more from unjust, malicious and intended psychological abuse than from physical abuse. He perceives it to be much more humiliating and depressing than any physical abuse. ” “They all easily survived the hard part of camp life because they had a “reasonable assurance” that they would be free againiafter their time was up. There was no set prison term for poli...
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apw:12352516
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2018-06-15T21:35:28.619Z
Title
Auto-Da-Fe
Author
Outman, Robert
State
California
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Auto-Da-Fe .TransTates to; “act of faith”, in Portuguese, however, in history it assumes a much more sinister significance. Auto-da-fe was the ceremony of the Inquisition's judgement, and order for punishment to be executed by the government. This perverse marriage of state and church, ushered in the perfection of punishment, torture, sorted means of death, and "creative crueity" designed to break the wiIT of those deemed; not in moraT conformity. In 1483, Tomas de Torquemada, ...
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apw:12345005
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2016-10-22T13:04:38.315Z
Title
Back to Attica
Author
Richardson, Corey John
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Corey John Richardson 1370 Words 151152 / 200 Road to Justice West Liberty KY 41472 CoreyJohn1969&Eyahoo.com Back to Attica "Attica! Attica! Attica!" The Attica Riot of 1971 was a prisoners' response to the inhumane conditions and abuses suffered at the hands of "corrections." The response to injustice is though only part of the equation. The transformative process began in the 1950s out of the struggle by African—Americans for civil rights. 1952 alone saw 25 seri...
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apw:12349362
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2018-01-13T19:44:34.264Z
Title
Bad things happen in the dark
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
State
California
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1.431?/1:’_? , Printing: Bad Things Happen in the Dark OpEdNews Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Bad—Thincis—HaDDen-in—the-D- bv-Kenneth—E—Hartman-120701-675.html (Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Associate Member, or higher). July 3, 2012 Bad Things Happen in the Dark By Kenneth E. Hartman Advocacy piece by Kenneth E. Hartman, who has served 32 continuous years in prison on a life without parole sentence, on Assembly Bill 1270, which ...
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apw:12344742
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2016-10-21T21:10:43.821Z
Title
Bang! The door goes shut!
Author
Harris, Daniel Lee
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Bang! The door goes shut! In all situations it is the people that create the atmosphere or the environment within a community, and in this collective we have two distinct groups; inmates and prison administration, they are the determining factors of prison, in teleology they would be the cause in determining of purpose. Starting with the inmates; in prison there is a hierarchy of inmates, this is established by the crime each has committed, therein lies the POD boss, his personality sets the ...
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apw:12351471
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T23:11:34.307Z
Title
Behind enemy lines
Author
Stewart, Al-fatah
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EHIND ENEMY LINES Dr. Al—fatah Stewart. DD. #OOA2144 Sullivan Correctional Facility P.O. Box 1 16 .\ Fallsburg, New York 12733 6 {3.::/s,-‘\‘iw\ (20/"~v"§l;xA AIL»; <?:,.’c 1%’ C»: tim, l‘wl"l gums (‘.11/\?r'° A-, AC3 K313 ' Date: Afcwill \§ Vt 7+/~>\B" 5.301 words 379 lines 16 pages 61 paragraphs BEHIND ENEMY LINES (The untold story ofa true fighter) I was born July 5”‘ 1974, in Mount Sidonham hospitalfiul located in a part of New York City‘ called Harlem.% ...
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apw:12351537
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T23:56:39.884Z
Title
Behind the Grey Mountain
Author
Kicking Horse, Andrew
State
California
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"Behind the Grey Mountain" _.by.. Andrew Kicking Horse »What matters most is that my heart beats. "Ak achuma ima an chu kask”, the goodness of my heart. Against the worst intentions of a few, against the odds of many, my heart beats on marking the passing of the prime of my life in this cell. For now, I exist. I live in an altered world which has altered the person I would become. My heart beat in wild terror as the judge announced the verdict in July of 1988. Guilty! Instead o...
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apw:12344941
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T11:10:13.54Z
Title
Behind these walls
Author
Harewood, Ian
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BEHIND THESE By Ian Free will is a l l about w i l l . E v e r y day/ you have wake u p in the middle as i c e - c r e a m up. I wish As days/ had w h o weren't a roof over enthusiasm hundred "only I cost didn't lived buy o u r family other my kids cheap at school. mother didn't fashion was more I dreaded show: Eight different mother felt thebeginning styles could that decision Ball give me. I needed But so I g o t alot b u t she had n o the Ghetto that and Jordans. kids w...
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apw:12347004
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T02:16:35.825Z
Title
Being broke
Author
Jack
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Jack SimP50fl The Correctional Writer’s Initiative BRCI ” 153120 CW1 Student Paper Broad Rdo “ Semester 3 Columbia, SC 29210—4012 BEING BROKE Everything in life comes at a price. Nothing that is faced even when it all seems easy, has a down fall. The moment when born to the last breath on this planet, it is common for people to be broke. Being this way is a state of mind, and not to exclude the pocket. People who worry about bills, the next meal, the family, and how it effects the overall stru...
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apw:12352698
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:32:13.025Z
Title
Being broke
Author
Hampton, Christopher
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Christgpher fiampton The Correctional Writer's Initiative BRCI _ 314597 CWI - Student Paper 4460 Broad River Rd. Semester 3 Columbia, SC 29210-4012 BEING BROKE If you were to ask a rich man what does being broke feel like, he would probably look at you speechless. The fact is, most people that were born into money knows nothing about what being broke feels like; never have they ever had to wake up to the freezing cold, shivering, dreading to get out from beneath the blanket because the me...
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apw:12352679
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:38:44.021Z
Title
Being broke
Author
Brock, Andy
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Andy Brock Correctional writer's Initiative BRCI — 317746 CW1 - Student Paper 4460 Broad River Rd. Semester 3 Columbia, SC 29210~4012 BEING BROKE I am blessed to have someone to send me money from time to time. So, what I'm going to do, is tell you what I have seen people do around me here in prison--to compensate for being broke. But, first, let me tell you one thing about prison: In here, one dollar is like twenty to the free world, and that dollar in here, takes the form of an it...
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apw:12352640
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:38:03.309Z

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