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Title
37
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
37 by Danny Cherry 37 by Danny Cherry pg. 1 My thirty-seventh birthday – February 18, 2020 – had been quite memorable; All things considered. The goddess Audrey Hepburn and I had eaten "Breakfast at Tiffany's" five days before. The pass I received on my birthday to the infirmary provided an opportunity for me to promote my work published in the Archive. The dentist entered urgent
PID
apw:12361313
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:59:07.805Z
Title
A Pollyanna in the penitentiary
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Pollyana in the Penitentiary by Danny Cherry As I sat reading Executive Regional Director Michael Osburn's response, I just shook my head and chuckled. I was way beyond the point of disgust given all that had happened up until that point. Writing the commissioner had always proven itself to be an exercise in futility, however, my conscious reasoning would never allow me to rest unless I
PID
apw:12356553
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:11:52.048Z
Title
A cesspool full of drecks
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
10 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Cesspool Full of Drecks by Danny Cherry As I lay there in excruciating agony caused by the severe infection that had resulted from my untreated burns, I tried very hard not to cry. My salted tears only exacerbated the wounds on the left side of my face. The pain was crippling; it paralyzed me. My wounds bled profusely and oozed puss incessantly. My sheet and blanket were ruined -- stained
PID
apw:12356723
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T18:32:42.239Z
Title
Advanced recidivism conditioning
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Advanced Recidivism Conditioning by Danny Cherry I had been torn from my sleep again by the continuous music that had blared from multiple offender's tablets, since they had been introduced into the Indiana State Reformatory - I was exhausted and sleep deprived. I would not have cared too much if the surrounding offenders had elected to blast symphonies, but they had chosen to broadcast
PID
apw:12356408
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T14:51:08.819Z
Title
An erudite's antirecidivism medications
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
An Erudite's Antirecidivism Medications by Danny Cherry As the virulence of recidivism continued to run rampant through the Indiana Department of Correction, I did not cease from combating it with cultural medicines; I refused to allow myself to become infected. Although I was exceeding poor, I still made financial sacrifices in order to positively maintain my intellectual and emotional
PID
apw:12359685
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:30:49.881Z
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...
PID
apw:12352797
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:34:13.059Z
Title
Beautiful enemies
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Beautiful Enemies by Danny Cherry pg. 1 I finally understood how sane women could have loved men like Christopher Columbus and Adolf Hitler; I had strong physical attractions to a few of Pendleton's tyrants. The equilibrium of love and lust I felt for them was a by-product of my loneliness -- great solace came whenever I saw or though of sexually clandestined escapes with those forbidden
PID
apw:12361147
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:55:10.528Z
Title
Concentration camp
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Concentration Camp by Danny Cherry I imagined the inhumanity that Anne Frank witnessed and endured, as we chronic care prisoners were being herded through Pendleton's cafeteria to receive flu shots. Indescribable fear paralyzed me; medical staff threw used syringes onto tables where we would be eating later; I had HIV, my blood alone was a deadly weapon. Rapid thoughts raced in my mind, as I
PID
apw:12359695
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:31:03.818Z
Title
Every member of the human
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Date
2019-02-13
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Danny Cherry IN 2-13-19 Dear APWA Editors, Every member of the human race is entitled to dignity and equality. That being said, I am not an "incarcerated [writer]," I am a writer who is incarcerated. To expound—without a doubt—would be an exercise in futility, especially to marginalized people suffering from delusions of superiority over members of the population whom have been
PID
apw:12356189
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:12:47.905Z
Title
Haters and hypocrisy
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Haters and Hypocrisy by Danny Cherry The terror I felt when I rose and saw that my mail had been placed on my door’s port was so potent that it quickened me from my somnambulistic trance. I was appalled by the fact that Sergeant Prater had done such an unethical thing. I was even more disgusted that our range detail or anyone who went to med line had not the decency to either have woken me or
PID
apw:12356495
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T14:53:54.804Z
Title
I'm a forty-four year old prisoner
Author
Brandon, Danny
Date
2017-09-11
Pages
9 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE Danny Brandon Florida State Prison Raiford, FL 32083 The American Prison Writing Archive c/o Hamilton College 198 College Hill Road Clinton, NY 13323-1218 Dear A.P.W.A; I'm a forty-four year old prisoner who has been incarcerated for approximately twenty-eight years in two different states, and fifty different institutions. I've literally grown up, as well as educated in prison
PID
apw:12349716
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T20:16:17.75Z
Title
Immortality becomes him
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
3 pages
PID
apw:12361143
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:55:03.413Z
Title
Let me share my personal story
Author
Danny
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
phone system was $15 per call home and it took a legal battle to get it lowered to $4 because DOC get 60% of that money as a kick back. WOW! More money taken from the broken system that creates broken families and uneducated children. Making money from the loss of inmates lives due to a mistake made. If the corruption is this bad, can you imagine the things we don't know about. By Danny
PID
apw:12349739
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T20:16:19.13Z
Title
Oh, the people you will meet
Author
Grote, Danny Russell
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Oh, The People You Will Meet by Dan Grote As a GED instructor in a maximum security prison, I'm responsible for two classes a day consisting of anywhere from six to twenty convicted felons. Some actually want to be there, some who're just going through the motions to keep from receiving a write-up that could turn into a ticket to the Special Housing Unit (SHU) or "Hole" as most people call it. To my credit, I've got the better part of a decade in front of the classroo...
PID
apw:12352496
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T19:45:45.866Z
Title
Revolutionaries' waltz
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Revolutionaries' Waltz by Danny Cherry pg. 1 I had grown weary of the square-dancing with Pendleton's bigots and sycophants -- my feet were yearning to dance the Waltz of Revolution; The steps of positive change. The garments of equality fit me perfectly, and my shoes of activism never wore down, even though I was always in motion. The Indiana Department of Correction's despots
PID
apw:12361180
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:55:58.291Z
Title
Road trip: BOP style
Author
Grote, Danny Russell
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
Road Trip: BOP Style By Dan Grote I've been locked up in the federal prison system since February of 2013. My addictions, for the second time in my life, got the best of me and, in a very misguided attempt to procure the funds I imagined I'd need to drink myself to death (also for the second time in my life) I robbed a bank. I was unarmed and, if it counts for anything, very polite. The tale you are about to read is a product of the return leg of what turned into a six month odyssey...
PID
apw:12353419
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T19:49:49.081Z
Title
The Indiana state recidivist conditioning center
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The Indiana State Recidivist Conditioning Center by Danny Cherry I had been cast into the Dark Age where all that was missing was a fagot upon which to burn my faggot ass to a crisp for the sheer pleasure of the lower primates. I was a damn fool for ever even having thought that tyrannical philistines would permit a replica of priceless elegance into their abyss. I never truly believed
PID
apw:12356302
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:20:57.83Z
Title
The culture of prison violence
Author
Thomas, Danny Ray
Date
2017-03-10
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"The Culture of Prison Violence" 3-10-17 by D. Ray Thomas No subculture can be totally different from or totally in conflict with the society of which is derives -Thesis of a subculture of violence point #1 Marvin Wolfgang Franco Ferracuti Since its inception, prison has been wrought with violence. Whether it be prisoner on prisoner, staff on prisoner or prisoner on staff. But why is this so and can we find a resolution or at least an ability to reduce to level of violence without t...
PID
apw:12350508
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T14:09:36.868Z
Title
The price of active pursuit of justice and human dignity is high
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Date
2020-07-08
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Danny Cherry Perdleton Correctional Facility 4490 West Reformatory Road Pendleton, IN 46064 July 8, 2020 Dear Editors, The price of active pursuit of justice and human dignity is high: The same 'enormously black offender' that almost killed me in my cell June 19, 2020 when Officer Harper unsecured my door for him, split my head open with a sock full of combination locks today. When I
PID
apw:12362584
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:32:57.142Z
Title
The queer language-bender binding purgatory
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
4 pages
PID
apw:12360943
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:48:56.234Z
Title
The unbreakable queen
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The Unbreakable Queen by Danny Cherry I walked Pendleton's camp like Naomi Campbell; I was born to supermodel. The state's hideous brown onesie, and its innumerable haters, could not discourage me; I was over. Pendleton was abundant in miserable employees, and drug addicted prisoners; Those losers received no audience from me; Ever. Negative individuals did not even exist to me; I saw
PID
apw:12359701
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:31:11.78Z
Title
They spilled my tea
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
They Spilled My Tea By Danny Cherry I leaned over the side of Pendleton Infirmary’s hard, funky bed puking my guts out; those incompetent drecks did not have a clue what was wrong with me. My arms resembled those of hardcore IV drugs users because of medical staff’s many attempts to draw blood from me; their miserable failure had my members covered in more tracks than Jesse Owen had ran
PID
apw:12359690
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:30:56.865Z