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Title
A psalm from prison
Author
Mason, Frederick
Pages
2 pages
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A Psalm From Prison Holy Father, it is You who created all things, and by Your hand all things are made; to You I make my plea, Father, plead my cause, O Lord, with those who strive with me, fight against those who fight against me 1. For even from the pit, we are still yours, and You have promised mercy on those who call upon You. You have promised that Your eyes are on the righteous, and Your ears are open to our cry 2. For nowhere in Your word have I found that a person in prison is to be ...
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apw:12363153
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:43:09.451Z
Title
Chronicles of April (Preaching to the wall)
Author
Mason, Frederick
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Chronicles of April (Preaching to the Wall) Frederick Mason [ID] USP Tucson PO Box 24550 Tucson, AZ 85734 There are times, as an inmate, that we have to try to appeal to the prison authority when things seem to go wrong. If you have read a number of my entries, you know the problems that we often have here at USP Prison concerning resolvement of issues. The problem we often have here is that the prison officials often don't try to solve the problem, even when it's in plain sight. Mo...
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apw:12359034
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:14:24.869Z
Title
Chronicles of August (Food, glorious food...or lack of)
Author
Mason, Frederick
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
August 31st 2019 To: American Prison Writing Archive; (The following is my submission; normally I would type it, but USP Tucson has been on an institutional lockdown since Wednesday, August 28th. I have already filled one of your surveys out as well) Chronicles of August (Food, glorious food... or lack of) Today's essay is one I'm sharing in the middle of institutional lockdown here at USP Tucson. I want to share with you an entry I wrote today, August 31st, and as I share this, it ...
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apw:12359031
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:14:21.852Z
Title
Chronicles of August (when birds attack... smile)
Author
Mason, Frederick
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Chronicles of August (When Birds Attack. . . Smile) Frederick Mason USP Tucson PO Box 24550 Tucson, AZ 85734 My name is Fred, and I share my experiences from prison to help those understand that not every person in prison is some "monster" that the prosecution claims. I hope, in the years that I have written essays and shared my journals, that you see that every person has value, and often times this is lost in the Federal Prisons, because the FBOP believes in punishment, and not re...
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apw:12361045
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:52:47.492Z
Title
Chronicles of June: (The fallout on the ground)
Author
Mason, Frederick
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
Chronicles of June (The Fallout on the Ground) Frederick Masfln #55487—O56 USP Tucson PO Box 24550 Tucson, AZ 85734 If you're new to my essays, my name is Frederick Mason, and I write many journals and essays on prison issues. I have written well over 200 essays, one of which I am about to share with you. This essay is about discrimination in prison, and how USP Tucson fails to address it. I'll explain it as we go along, and will "pause" in parts to explain. Let's begi...
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apw:12359864
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:35:18.476Z
Title
Chronicles of September: (Is suicide ever the answer?)
Author
Mason, Frederick
Date
43719
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Chronicles of September (Is Suicide Ever the Answer?) Frederick Mason [ID] USP Tucson PO Box 24550 Tucson, AZ 85734 Today, September 11th, 2019, here at USP Tucson, an inmate attempted to commit suicide in my dorm, B2. This morning, as I was coming back from breakfast, several officers rushed to my dorm, and later took an inmate out on a gurney. Later, we learned that he had attempted suicide, but wasn't clear by what nature; some said he cut himself, others said he swallowed something, ...
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apw:12359440
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:24:36.234Z
Title
Do inmates have rights ... No response
Author
Mason, Frederick
Date
2020-07-13
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Do Inmates Have Rights... No Response The question is, of course rhetorical, but you'd never know it from the response I got from the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Here's what I wrote, and sent to them: December 5th, 2018 Dear U.S. Court of Appeals, I was told by an officer here at USP Tucson, that as inmates, regardless of what the law says, we have no rights at all, and that as "slaves to the state", staff and officers are immune to any laws the...
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apw:12362554
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:32:24.737Z
Title
Don ye not the lead cloak
Author
Mason, Frederick
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Feel free to add to the archives FM Don Ye Not The Lead Cloak "Don ye not the lead cloak; cast off the garments of anxiety, lest ye become subdued by another's weight, and fall under their trepidation" -Nolaw 97 "Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces". -Matthew 7:6 Sometimes in prison you have to be careful of being too kind. While it certainly is godly to help ...
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apw:12363156
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:43:12.125Z
Title
Even inmates care: In memory of Kobe Bryant
Author
Mason, Frederick
Date
2020-01-30
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Trulincs - Mason, Frederick - Unit: TCP-B-B From: To: USP/SPC Unicor/Programa Unicor Subject: ***Request to Staff*** Mason, Frederick, Reg#, TCP-B-B Date: 01/30/2020 10:59:47AM To: unicor Inmate Work Assignment: nil Even Inmates Care (In Memory of Kobe Bryant) I was in my cell, on Sunday, when I heard the very s...
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apw:12361095
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:53:57.465Z
Title
Fighting oppression: Man vs USP Tucson
Author
Mason, Frederick
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Please feel to post. Thank you. FM. Fighting Oppression (Man vs USP Tucson) During difficult times, there comes a time where you must stand for something, even in prison. The assumption that society has is that every inmate is evil, is inferior, and devoid of rights. This, of course, is not true. Left to believe this, mankind will, by their nature, devolve to barbaric treatment of others, based on the ideology of a greater over a lesser. Sadly, society and our world hasn't learned this, ...
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apw:12363021
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:40:48.143Z
Title
Obtaining victory
Author
Mason, Frederick
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Obtaining Victory By Frederick Mason PO Box 24550 USP Tucson, Tucson, AZ "No situation is ever so cleverly planned by the forces of darkness that there is no deliverance". - Kenneth Copeland Ministries (Study Notes Section) I read that this morning, September 29th, 2018, while in my cell during the 10am count here at USP Tucson. I was reading the Bible, looking for some scriptures to encourage me. And while I found many, and was encouraged, this quote really stirred me up. If you&ap...
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apw:12360776
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:43:42.7Z
Title
Please Mr. Postman: Mail issues at USP Tucson
Author
Mason, Frederick
Date
2020-07-06
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Please Mr. Postman (Mail Issues at USP Tucson) Today is July 6th, 2020. I'm here at USP Tucson, waiting for mail. Here at USP Tucson, this activity is more like a crapshoot; will we get our mail, or not? And even if we do get our mail, there's no guarantee the mail room will even let us have it. Why is this? Because for years, USP Tucson violated inmate mail by stealing magazines, opening legal mail, then "losing" it, and throwing away family pictures sent by loved ones. I...
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apw:12362552
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:32:22.918Z
Title
Prison ethics 101
Author
Mason, Frederick
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Prison Ethics 101 Ethic - A principle or system of right or good conduct. Ethics - The study of the nature of morals and of moral choices. - The American Heritage Dictionary 5th edition Lesson One I remember in college taking Media Ethics, as part of my major in RIV/Mass Communications. I remember people saying it was one of the hardest classes, because the professor almost never gave out A's (I think I got a B+). But boiled down, ethics in itself isn't tremendously hard to comprehe...
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apw:12361892
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:13:53.321Z
Title
Should inmates speak up or shut up?
Author
Mason, Frederick
Pages
5 pages
Text (O)
Should Inmates Speak Up or Shut Up? Frederick Mason #55487-056 USP Tucson PO Box 24550 Tucson, AZ 85734 As we set feet deeper in the "Information Age", we see that the world news comes from more venues than in decades past. We're learning, at an alarming rate, of things we didn't know exhisted. Some of these venues are positive, but many are not. For example, we see more now the violence of rogue police officers who intentionally, or unintentionally, take the lives of of i...
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apw:12359552
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:27:33.548Z
Title
The pandemic journals (Day 120: Gender agitation)
Author
Mason, Frederick
Date
2020-08-03
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Hope I havent sent this one like this already FM The Pandemic Journals (Day 120: Gender Agitation) Today is August 3rd, 2020, but I wanted to jump back a couple of weeks in my pandemic journal, to touch on an issue we had on July 16th, 2020. This issue deals with women working in a male penitentiary. Let's begin, and as I usually do, I'll "pause" to color in any necessary details. Let's begin: July 16th, 2020 - 11:37am on Day 120 - 4 months. I've battled a diffic...
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apw:12361895
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:13:57.022Z
Title
The pandemic journals (Day 67: Blind eyes)
Author
Mason, Frederick
Date
2020-08-08
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The Pandemic Journals (Day 67: Blind Eyes) If you're new to this series, know that there's no real order. I take one day out of my journal and write an essay on it. Although I have 5+ years of journals, I started this series to highlight the COVID-19 pandemic while in prison. Today is August 8th, 2020, but I'm turning back the clock to May 20th to share my entry on how the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and USP Tucson, may be deliberately turning a blind eye to the issues of the ri...
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apw:12361898
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:14:03.849Z
Title
The pandemic journals (Day 91: Sorrow)
Author
Mason, Frederick
Date
2020-08-02
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The Pandemic Journals (Day 91: Sorrow) My name is Frederick Mason, currently an inmate at USP Tucson. I've written over 2000 pages on experiences in prison, but wanted to do a separate project, chronicling my experiences in prison, during the Covid-19 pandemic. Lets jump into this, and as I normally do on my regular journal essays, I'll "pause" to fill in a detail of two: June 14th, 2020: Day 91, Sunday 2:10 on a somber afternoon. JB came by, in tears, to tell us that his ...
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apw:12360442
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:49:12.441Z
Title
The prison library
Author
Mason, Frederick
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
The Prison Library Frederick Mason #55487—O56 USP Tucson PO Box 24550 Tucson, AZ 85734 I've always loved Libraries, and can recount every one I've been in. From my first recollections of going to a library while living in Los Angeles, California, where I checked out my first book, "Where The Wild Things Are", to my regular childhood visits to East Branch Library,.in Wilson, North Carolina, and the huge library I spent a lot of time doing research while at Western Carolina ...
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apw:12359283
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:20:32.449Z