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Title
Cabin fever in COVID confinement
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-06-28
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
-Submission- Sunday 6-28-2020 "Cabin Fever" in Covid Confinement Let me begin by telling ya'll that we've <prisoners in Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility> been on this modified program since the end of February 2020 an it's almost July 2020 in a few days. So add that up an think how stir crazy a regular person might act, much less a person with mental health problems like I do. They told us <mental health staff> that the program may return to some t...
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apw:12360380
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:47:02.999Z
Title
Contracted
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-08-06
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"Contracted" Thursday 8-6-2020 Well everyone, Covid-19 has finally reached the prison I'm incarcerated at (Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility), so I diligently have to be on guard against catching it by doing all the preventative measures that we are advised to do by medical professionals like...wearing my mask, wearing gloves, distancing myself, disinfecting everything around me regularly, washing anything I wear right away and bathing as much as possible. On 8-4-20, the...
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apw:12360426
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:48:42.65Z
Title
Coronavirus while incarcerated has been mentally difficult
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-06-09
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Submission Tuesday 6-9-2020 Coronavirus while incarcerated has been mentally difficult because I have nothing really to do but think and worry about when this will be over so the program can go back to the way it was. Most of the inmates I've talked to, feel that the Administration will trick us an keep things like they are now or only give us (inmates) certain privileges back. To me, I'm only getting stronger by being forced to deal head-on with my mental thoughts that would usuall...
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apw:12360302
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:44:46.052Z
Title
Covid credits
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
-Submission- Monday 7 "Covid Credits" I don't know if I qualify for this new, "Extraordinary Conduct Credits" due to me receiving an RVR <Disciplinary Write-up> on 2-6-20, but I am sure happy for everyone who does get all that time towards their sentence, because it may help them either get released earlier or give them some hope in these uncertain times, you know what I mean. To be honest, I think I'll also receive the 12 weeks since my RVR happened before...
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apw:12362556
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:32:25.892Z
Title
Covid-19 complications in prison
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-04-09
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
pg. 1. - Submission- Thursday 4/9/20 "Covid-19 Complications in Prison" About <2> months ago our prison <Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility> in San Diego, CA. was put on Modified Program with restricted Group Gatherings, which has been hard on me because I'm in a mental health E.O.P. <Enhanced-Outpatient-Program> that usually has me and other inmates going back and forth to at least <10> hours of self-help groups a week, but now we aren't allo...
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apw:12360136
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:39:38.402Z
Title
Covid-19 conditions & complications
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-05-09
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Covid-19 Conditions & Complications Pg. 1. Submission Saturday 5-9-20 This letter is in receipt of your letter dated on May 5th, 2020. My first essay to A.P.W.A. talked about coronavirus [an and] how I am dealing with it but I feel it's important to [acurately accurately] report or write what I and others are dealing with it too. To date we <prisoners at R.J.D.C.F.> have been on modified lockdown with only officer escorted medical and mental health appointments like emergency s...
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apw:12360212
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:42:18.344Z
Title
Hope in humanity
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-07-22
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
- Submission - pg. 1. Wednesday 7-22-2020 "Hope in Humanity" About two months ago, I began receiving mail from pen pals from different states on the streets who unknowingly helped me revive my faith in humanity at a point in my life when I was losing hope in humanity and today’s society. What I mean by saying “today’s society” is that; people in general seem to have lost their sense of empathy and sympathy for other humans from what I see on the news, which depresses me. Without peo...
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apw:12362817
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:37:10.985Z
Title
Keeping calm in the crisis of Covid-19
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Submission for A.P.W.A. "Keeping Calm In the Crisis of Covid-19," Truthfully, keeping calm is really difficult for me because I only have my Mom by my side throughout my prison incarceration, plus she's the only one who takes care of my needs, whether emotionally, mentally, or financially. I worry about me catching, then dying from Covid-19 but the prison officials or powers-that-be, doesn't tell her an lies as to the real cause of my demise. Then on the flip side, what if...
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apw:12360253
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:43:23.85Z
Title
Light through darkness
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2021-03-04
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
- Submission - pg. 1. Thursday 3-4-2021 "Light through Darkness" Hello everyone! I’m sorry that I haven’t written any essays or stories in awhile but I’ve been experiencing some unforeseen highs and lows due to Covid-19. After all I’ve told you about being careful and practicing the necessary precautions, I still contracted Covid-19 and had to be placed inside the gym where they <the administration and medical staff> set up bunk beds for about a hundred (100) to be housed for ...
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apw:12363335
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:46:28.363Z
Title
Misunderstood
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-06-17
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
- Submission - 1. Wednesday 6-17-2020 "Misunderstood" My life in a California Prison has been exceptionally hard, due to being misunderstood by my peers because they don't know anything about the different spectrums of sexual orientation and identity in the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community, so trying to explain this to everyone is difficult, but I feel is worth it to maybe stop people from hating us or pre-judging my people. Although the prison system only has two destinations, male and t...
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apw:12362365
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:29:07.324Z
Title
Progress through pain
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-08-17
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
pg. 1 -Submission- "Progress through Pain" Monday 8/17/2020 We’ve been on modified lock-down status for <6> months now with no definite end in sight, which is driving me crazy! Me and my cellmate are beggining to argue about little things that wouldn’t have even popped up on our radar before this prolonged Covid-19 lock-down. To top it off, the Canteen Supervisor quit due to too many grievances filed on him, so we haven’t been able to order store, as we call it. I honestly don...
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apw:12360429
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:48:49.072Z
Title
Thoughtful hearts
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-08-02
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
pg. 1 Submission Sunday 8-2-2020 "Thoughtful Hearts" About a month or so ago, I was blessed with not one but two pen pals, from two different states who wanted to show their support to fellow L.G.B.T.Q.+ inmates who're going through this Coronavirus Pandemic and to maybe become friends in the near future if we continue to bond. They came into my life at a time that I was feeling the most depressed that nobody cared, especially my so-called family. Now that I have someone to exp...
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apw:12360423
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:48:33.907Z