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Title
American dream
Author
Milbourn, Matthew A.
Date
2020-02-23
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
American Prison Writing Archive Hamilton College 198 College Hill rd Clinton, NY 13323-1218 2/23/20 'American Dream' In, 1776, the people of the King's America decided to form a new government, "of the people, by the people." Not too long after that the people of that government became self-serving. Meanwhile, the people of and by, became so caught up in living the 'American Dream' that their government was able to pass laws that further propagated its own s...
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apw:12361289
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:58:32.063Z
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...
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apw:12360924
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:48:23.038Z
Title
Impossible?
Author
Milbourn, Matthew A.
Date
2020-04-07
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
American Prison Writing Archive Hamilton College 198 College Hill rd Clinton, NY 13323-1218 4/7/20 Impossible? The recent virus crisis brings to light a need for (6) ft of separation of people to stop the spread of disease. But in our prisons that separation is impossible -- even (4) ft of separation is mostly nonexistant. Most prisons are (2) men to a cell, a cell that's 8 x 10 ft or 10 x 12 ft in size. But Michigan, like some other states, has cubes and dorms, also, to house prisoners ...
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apw:12360142
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:39:47.548Z
Title
Learning
Author
Milbourn, Matthew A.
Date
2020-03-29
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
APWA - Hamilton College 198 College Hill rd Clinton, NY 13323-1218 March 29, 2020 Learning Today, our prison systems have been unable, at least in Michigan, to do little to change the bad behaviors of those incarcerated in its, so called, 'Correctional' facilities. Obviously, for a person to change they must learn other behaviors. It's a well know fact that those with higher educations make better choices (and, yes, criminal behavior is a choice). Only recently (the past few ye...
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apw:12361657
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:07:23.455Z
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...
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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 ...
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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...
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apw:12359144
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:17:06.82Z
Title
Opportunity
Author
Milbourn, Matthew A.
Date
2019-12-23
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
American Prison Writing Archive 198 College Hill rd Clinton, NY 13323-1218 Opportunity 12/23/19 Incarceration doesn't have to be a negative experience. Although some adversity is needed to deter future bad choices - bettering yourself is always benificial. It's all in the attitud you choose to take. An opportunity, for change, is being given to you that is usually not available in the free-world: few distractions to interfere with your studies. If you choose to ignore the bad behavi...
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apw:12360708
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:42:05.209Z
Title
Outside the box
Author
Milbourn, Matthew A.
Date
2020-06-12
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
APWA Hamilton College 198 College Hill rd Clinton, NY 13323-1218 June 12, 2020 "outside the Box" Granted, laws, policies, rules are not being followed by many-everywhere. Our once freedoms of expression (and speech), are being taken away. Everything now has to be "politically" correct least someone might be offended. But have those who feel offended stop to realize they are taking personal what's not met to be? It's a known fact that countries without freedom of ...
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apw:12362343
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:28:46.185Z
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 ...
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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...
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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 Michigan prison system MDOC has once again shown its true colors
Author
Milbourn, Matthew A.
Date
2020-07-09
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
American Prison Writing Archive 198 College Hill rd Clinton, NY 13323-1218 Dear sir/madam, July 9, 2020 The Michigan Prison system MDOC has once again shown its true colors concering prisoners. I sent the following letter to the State Governor's office, MDOC Directors Office too. I (of course) got no response. My logic was that courts of law and others were temporarily making changes to reduce the stress levels caused by the pandemic (in no way over here in MI). So perhaps prisoner resti...
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apw:12360389
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:47:18.366Z
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, ...
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apw:12359134
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:16:53.998Z
Title
Trickery
Author
Milbourn, Matthew A.
Date
2019-12-15
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
American Prison Writing Archive Hamilton College 198 College Hill rd Clinton, NY 13323-1218 12/15/19 Trickery For many, many years the Michigan Dept of Corrections (MDOC) has operated its prisons under a cloak of public deciet. It (they) hide behind a protection of "security" and (so called) "good order" of their facilities. Even the Michigan Legislature has had to pass laws to get "true" statistically accurate numbers pertaining to those incarcerated: program wa...
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apw:12360712
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:42:13.166Z