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Title: Good time' is a 'no brainer' for Michigan prisons
Author: Milbourn, Matthew A.
Pages: 3 pages
Text (TR_WF): APWA Hamilton College 198 College Hill rd Clinton, NY 1333323-1218 'Good Time' is a 'no brainer' for Michigan Prisons Unfortunately, just being incarcerated isn't reason enough for most prisoners to change their 'bad' behaviors. Although the current Michigan system does offer some avenues of learning for rehabilitation - only 'bad' behavior is given any kind of reward: albeit negative. The [Uey?] isn't catching the undesirable behaviors, being...
PID: apw:12360924
Date Uploaded: 2021-02-03T15:48:23.038Z

Title: Michigan (like many states) has a "broken" corrections system
Author: Milbourn, Matthew A.
Date: 43688
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): Dear Sirs/ Madam, Michigan (like many states) has a "broken" corrections system. By broken, I mean, most men are not being rehabilitated to an acceptable degree to allow adhesion to societies rules and becoming productive citizens. This is not always enough reason to stop infringing on others so they can adapt new values. Lack of funding, understaffing, and complacent state employees (that can't or will not) enforce the rules and policies, already in place, are factors of blame...
PID: apw:12358771
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:07:35.018Z

Title: No accountability
Author: Milbourn, Matthew A.
Date: 2020-06-10
Pages: 3 pages
Text (TR_WF): American Prison Writing Archive Hamilton College 198 College Hill Rd Clinton, NY 13323-1218 June 10, 2020 No Accountability With the recent protests (riots) it’s obvious that our country has some major, major problems. We see the police using (extreme) force, judges and prosecutors not following the laws, Department of Corrections mistreating prisoners, not following their own policies, our politicians (legislators) lying to us. But what is the underlying real issue here? From my perspective ...
PID: apw:12362294
Date Uploaded: 2021-06-10T15:27:56.33Z

Title: Okay
Author: Milbourn, Matthew A.
Date: 43718
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): American Prison Writing Archive c/o Hamilton College 198 College Hill Rd Clinton NY 13323-1218 9/10/19 Okay Not long ago, shortly after their election in 2019, both the Governor of the State of Michigan, and the Michigan Attorney General, went on local TV stations saying that if you are in the state government and involved in corruption to "look out," because they were coming for you. (They may find that to be a full-time job in itself.) Well if its corruption they are after, then t...
PID: apw:12359144
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:17:06.82Z

Title: Prison library
Author: Milbourn, Matthew A.
Date: 2020-03-01
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): American Prison Writing Archive Hamilton College 198 College Hill Rd. Clinton, NY 13323-1218 March 1, 2020 Prison library How important is a library in a prison? Well reading is certainly a much better choice to pass time than gambling, extorting, fighting, and other rule breaking. It is a well known fact that educated people usually make better choices than those with less education. So isn't a library also a source of learning? Should a prison library help prisoners? The Michigan Dept ...
PID: apw:12361400
Date Uploaded: 2021-02-03T16:01:13.266Z

Title: See!
Author: Milbourn, Matthew A.
Date: 43718
Pages: 3 pages
Text (TR_WF): See! 9/10/19 Why is it important for rules and policies to be enforced and followed in prison? The answer may seem obvious-but it's not done in Michigan's prisons. The first reason its important for policy and rules to be in place is they grant "rights." Most prisoners,(and others-especially the guards) believe they (prisoners) no longer have rights. This is not true! (You still have 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech-yet.) The prison policies and rules also grant pr...
PID: apw:12359140
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:17:01.786Z

Title: T.V.?
Author: Milbourn, Matthew A.
Date: 2020-07-11
Pages: 6 pages
Text (TR_WF): APWA 198 College Hill rd Clinton, NY 13323-1218 7/11/20 T.V.? When I came into the Michigan Prison system (2012) I was lucky enough to receive a (unrelated) government Settlement of $1500.00. This I used to purchase a T.V., radio, headphones, clothing, shoes, razor, beard trimmer, and other allowed personal property. The T.V. alone was $130.00. After that purchase I soon realized holding on to it would be a very stressful battle. This because others would be trying to steal or break it (espec...
PID: apw:12362603
Date Uploaded: 2021-06-10T15:33:13.789Z

Title: The mighty pen
Author: Milbourn, Matthew A.
Date: 43715
Pages: 5 pages
Text (TR_WF): 9/7/19 The Mighty Pen As everyone knows (or at least should) violence only results in negative consequences. So the old adage, “The pen is mightier than the sword,” is still true. This is even more so now with the internet. Government’s know this, and so often take steps to “censor” communication. Here, in the United States of America our 1st Constitutional Amendment is our right to freedom of speech; one of the most important of our Civil Rights. Recently here in Michigan the prison system, ...
PID: apw:12359134
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:16:53.998Z

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