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Title
A boy who was lost, and grew up fast
Author
Carabajal, Ray Morin Fuentes
Pages
2 pages
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Title: "A Boy Who Was Lost and Grew Up Fast (Faith in Believing; God is Waiting for Us)" From [Car BA] Hall: Never learned this world's education. Never knew English. He only spoke in Mexican and was given and gifted voice. He didn't know his purpose of why he was born and it took 35 years of street life to become known, to of why he was born. He was given the test of time and to perform every sinful act on this earth and only five sinful acts he was forbidden to do: 1. mu...
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apw:12352270
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T18:53:43.354Z
Title
A crime is anything
Author
Lazar, Steven
Pages
5 pages
Text (O)
Part One Do I agree with Freda Adler’s quote that “[ a] crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit”? In the context of our American democracy, Adler’s quote is pretty close to an exact definition of how an act that is perceived to be wrong is codified into a body of penal laws.1 An elected body of legislators, i.e. the “group in power”, determines what public wrongs should be deemed wrong enough to be labeled a crime and, as such, carry along with them punitive measures. When A...
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apw:12352592
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:37:04.415Z
Title
A view from inside
Author
Williams, Ivory, Jr.
Date
2017-11-05
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Essays by Eric Volume One A View From Inside I never expected to be in prison. I felt I was too slick. I thought I was too smart, too educated, too worldly to let anyone 'trick' me into their 'system'. Sitting here now with a life + ten year sentence, I have plenty of time to contemplate, elucidate and expound on things urbane, sublime and just plain insane as I continue to 'serve' time. By now, (10 years into my bid) it doesn't really matter that I didn&apo...
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apw:12352056
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T15:29:06.998Z
Title
A weekend in the hills
Author
Phillips, Vance
Pages
12 pages
Text (O)
A WEEKEND IN THE HILLS by Vance Phillips The first time I went to prison . . . I was twenty-one and serving several sentences for a smorgasbord of petty crimes. I had been sentenced to a little over a year for larceny of a person, possession of a stolen firearm, possession with intent to sell marijuana, and taking the police on a high-speed chase. A Sheriff ’s Deputy drove me to Polk Youth Center, one of three North Carolina youth prisons. The prison was far out in the boondocks, miles away fr...
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apw:12352610
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:37:26.096Z
Title
Amen-Ra: An example of the doubt most prisoners struggle with
Author
Neal, Deyon
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
"Amen—Ra: An Example of the Doubt Most Prisoners Struggle with" by Deyon Neal A good dude. Unassuming. Sociable. Intelligent. Those were the first impressions that I got from observing him. Everyone in the hole called him Amen-Ra, which was Egyptian for "God". sith such a dominating presence, he could've controlled the unitls criminal activity, but he wasn't into that. He uplifted people. Everyone not only respected Ra, they looked up to him. "what joint you...
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apw:12352578
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:36:49.516Z
Title
America's succubus: The nightmare of the criminal justice system in the United States
Author
Francis, L.
Pages
10 pages
Text (O)
. " America's Succubus V ( The Nightmare of the Criminal Justice System in the United States ) An Essay By: L.Francis . If what I have been led to believe is true,that great works of Art,Music,and Poetry are birthed through the endurance of loss,despair,and great suffering,then the creative gifts that I have to offer the world should at this point be phenominal... Since the Summer of 2002 I have endured the complete and total loss of my freedom,parts of my humanity,and bits and peic...
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apw:12352519
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:35:35.497Z
Title
An administrative travesty
Author
Moody, Jesse Jr.
Date
2017-12-13
Pages
8 pages
Text (O)
An Administrative Travesty By Jesse Moody AKA Kingsta December 13, 2017 Follow me... You are at a public park toying with your latest model handset while periodically glancing at the children who are happily running around the playground. You like to come to the park for your lunch break because the children’s invigorating laughter resonates in your ears helping to relieve the tension caused by the day to day struggles of your chosen occupation. In the past, the children’s overseer has engage...
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apw:12352682
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:38:46.91Z
Title
An organization that matters
Author
Grote, Danny Russell
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
An Organization That Matters By Dan Grote I'm not very good at robbing banks. I wasn't all that great of a father and, for numerous reasons, a failure as a husband, son, friend and brother. I would have no problem filling volumes with my faults, shortcomings and mistakes, but turns out getting locked up was something I had a knack for. February, 2013. I'm estranged from a wife who hates me, two young boys who will learn to. I'm homeless, I'm desperate and it's ge...
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apw:12352797
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:34:13.059Z
Title
An unappreciative witness to the execution of Jimmie Jeffers
Author
Greenwald, Jesse M.
Date
1995-09-12
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
An unappreciative witness to the execution of Jimmie Jeffers By: Jesse Greenwald / Arizona State Prison 09-12-95 As I sit and write these words, a few dozen yards away another man sits and waits for those that are preparing to end his life. Various devices designed to certify that all life has been extinguished from one of Gods finest works, are rigorously being tested and arranged. The atmosphere within these walls and within the throats of a thousand silent men, is so thick, that movement h...
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apw:12352694
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2018-06-16T02:32:07.375Z
Title
Anger
Author
Murray, B.C.
Date
2018-01-28
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
Anger Anger for me is unachievable. I am though certainly no pacifist. I don't spurn anger, hostility, or even vindictiveness. Such feelings are simply beyond my reach. Some would regard me as fortunate; say the world would benefit from more like me;‘ or argue that anger holds no value. Such sentiment alas is naive, even risible. There are man like m self. Peo le for whom roactive emotions are lost to a resolve of ho elessness where resorts to _ P gestures preclude the inducement of ange...
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apw:12352774
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:33:45.465Z
Title
Another ineffective prison reform plan
Author
Smith, Zachary
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
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
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:32:16.183Z
Title
Anxiety
Author
Murray, B.C.
Date
2018
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
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
As much as I hate this
Author
Lee, Anthony
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
[NO TITLE] 2-14-18 As much as I hate this shxx, I've never had time to complain. My mindset always been keep it pushing because I don't feel like these people owe me nothing. I never wanted to succumb to its suffocating grasp because the moment I feel wronged I have no immediate outlet for anger without putting myself in a worse position. There's so much that doesn't go as it's supposed to and so much corruption you really have nobody to complain to. No authority figu...
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apw:12352494
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T19:45:43.872Z
Title
Auschwitz to Attica
Author
MacKenzie, John
Date
2014-08-11
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
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
Being broke
Author
Jack
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
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
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
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
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
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
Title
Better living through editing
Author
Roberts, Adam
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Nonfiction Better Living Through Editing Adam Roberts On a cool Wednesday morning in October, the incarcerated learners of Cornell's Prison Education Program (CPEP's Auburn campus) assembled in the yard, awaiting word over the loudspeakers to enter the chapel, where Cornell University Provost Michael Kotlikoff would be lecturing on human engineering through genetic modification. There was great anticipation for this lecture topic, along with some concern among students that the mate...
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apw:12352786
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:33:58.328Z
Title
Blue bird
Author
Gallegos, Jason
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
"Blue Bird" by Jason Gallegos The time was drawing near for my departure. I had 13 months built up in the countyjail. I was convicted and sentenced to prison, and I was ready to leave, to start serving out my long-term sentence in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Division. Before my departure, I had the privilege to be laced up by the old-school veterans that had already been in and out of the system most of their adult lives. These convicts prided themselves as they explain...
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apw:12352643
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:38:05.997Z
Title
Brief biography and other information
Author
The Devil's Advocate
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Brief Biography and Other Information I am 51 years old originally from Chicago Illinois the youngest of six children born from 1947-1964. Parents both Hispanic, speak Spanish fluently but none of us kids ever learned. Moved to a south suburb in 1973 called Burnham where I grew up mostly from January 1973 to June 1981. Burnham was and still is a shithole of a town that was very racist and where my views and opinions of life and the world was formed and am currently paying the consequences for...
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apw:12352120
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T17:44:01.987Z
Title
Childhood abuse in America
Author
Prince
Date
2017-11-29
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
From: Mr. Prince Backman, Sing Sing Correctional Facility To: Bronx Supreme Court November 29, 2017 Re: Childhood Abuse in America When I was approximately 9 years old. Me and about 7 people from the project housing, went swimming. I was the youngest. Someone pop the lock on my locker, and stole my brand new Puma sneakers. One of the boys who lived in my building made an accident #2 in the pool. He went to clean himself and use my shirt and pants to clean himself, from my broke into locker. I...
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apw:12352290
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T18:54:09.418Z
Title
Chronicles of July
Author
Nolaw97
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
‘Chronicles of July So, how many journals have we shared the past few years? If you are new to my essays, then you'll probably want to check on many of my past journals made since I came to USP Tucson in December of 2012. The purpose of my essays is several fold. One, to try to crete an opening, a window so that people on the outside can see what some inmates are going through. Ioam trying to pull down the strongholds of stigma, of the idea that every inmate is some monster that deserves...
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apw:12352558
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:36:25.547Z
Title
Chronicles of March
Author
Nolaw97
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Chronicles of March . (Day Two In The Lion's Den) Frederick Mason #55487-O56 USP Tucson PO Box 24550 Tuscon, AZ 85734 This entry is based on the 40 days I spent in the SHU (Special Housing Unit), falsely accused by a member of the Education Department and a prison officer, to prevent me from expressing my First Amendment rights by using the typewriter to talk about prison issues. Now, there is much to say on this, but I wanted to share the journal I wrote while in the "hole". I...
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apw:12352650
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:38:14.241Z
Title
Claims they see no remorse
Author
Prince
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Remorse is not something that a person acted out with like a soap opera. A defendant can articulate a display of remorse in court or at the parole board with crying and the good acting skills. Remorse is seen in a person demeanor his/her action, manners, and character. My respect towards women and men. People tried to rape me when I was 9 years old and 12. I was falsely arrested and jailed 3 days at the age 14. I was spit on as a child, kicked, punched and slapped in my face, cut with glass, ...
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apw:12352251
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T18:53:20.595Z

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