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Title: An open letter to Congress: National COVID-19 November mail-in voting "We can do better"
Author: Williams, Dortell
Date: 2020-04-17
Pages: 5 pages
PID: apw:12360277
Date Uploaded: 2020-12-02T18:44:04.39Z

Title: Hanging on to hope with life without
Author: Williams, Dortell
Pages: 4 pages
State: California
Text (O): Dortell Williams Approximately 1,200 words H-45771 / A2-206 Non-fiction P.O. Box 4430 - ' Lancaster, CA 93539 dortellwilliams@yahoo.com HANGING ON TO HOPE WITH LIFE WITHOUT by Dortell Williams I was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in 1989. I was twenty-three years of age. At that time I could hardly imagine doing a minimum of thirty years before even being considered for a reprieve. For I hadn't even lived thirty years of life yet. Still, I pushed on. I learned t...
PID: apw:12345194
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-23T14:21:35.651Z

Title: It's a fact: low-risk offenders don't come back
Author: Williams, Dortell
Pages: 4 pages
State: California
Text (O): Dortell Williams CA Approximately 800 words Non-fiction It's a Fact: Low-Risk Offenders Don't Come Back by Dortell Williams I believe it is the goal of every civil and pragmatic society to set its penal system to reform and rehabilitate its miscreants. Indeed, in California, reform and release is the stated goal of the Supreme Court of California, in its 2008 watershed Lawrence decision, delineating a clear criteria for reforming and releasing prisoners. Of course, not everyone is r...
PID: apw:12345199
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-23T14:21:36.204Z

Title: Release lifers or staff in the budget cuts to come?
Author: Williams, Dortell
Pages: 3 pages
State: California
Text (O): Dortell Williams Approximately 160 words H—4577l / A2-206 Non-fiction P.O. Box 4430 ' Lancaster, CA 93539 RELEASE LIFERS OR STAFF IN THE BUDGET CUTS TO COME? Dortell Williams In October, 2008, I shared lament with AVP regarding the unnecessary layoffs of thousands of state workers. The layoffs were predictable after Conservatives refused early releases of prisoners -- who were within 90 days of release anyway. At $49,0000 a year, per prisoner, their release would have saved taxpayers a b...
PID: apw:12345208
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-23T14:21:37.281Z

Title: Suicides rule in prison
Author: Williams, Dortell
Date: 2011-06
Pages: 3 pages
State: California
Text (O): Dortell Williams Approximately 110 words H-45771 / A2-206 ' Non—fiction P.0. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 SUICIDES RULE IN PRISON by Dortell Williams Would you believe suicide is the leading cause of death in American jails? I'd have never guessed that considering how cushy and comfortable some people would have us to believe the jails are. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics’, "Mortality in Local Jails, 2000-2007," the latest report, suicide is more prevalent in...
PID: apw:12345182
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-23T14:21:33.844Z

Title: The travails of Charlie Sheen
Author: Williams, Dortell
Date: 2010-10
Pages: 3 pages
State: California
Text (O): THE TRAVAlLS OF CHARLlE SHEEN Porn actress Capri Anderson described her experience as unexpected and frightening as she recalled hiding in a closet for safety in a New York hotel room as America's funnyman, Charlie Sheen, turned madman during a cocaine-induced rage. Widely publicized photographs of the demolished hotel room added another element to Anderson's story. Sheen went off, again. I'm not talking about when he shot his then girlfriend, Kelly Preston, in the arm - during...
PID: apw:12345186
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-23T14:21:34.438Z

Title: Two species: peering in and peering out
Author: Williams, Dortell
Date: 2010-05
Pages: 3 pages
State: California
Text (O): Dortell Williams Approximately 350 words H—45771 / A2-206 Non-fiction P.O. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 dortellwilliams@yahoo.com TWO SPECIES: PEERING IN AND PEERING OUT by Dortell Williams Recently a tour of civilians was escorted about the prison grounds by administrative custodial staff. As the small group of bright-faced youth -- probably college students studying law -- ambled their way into the housing unit, I made careful study of their individual and collective countenance. As they pe...
PID: apw:12345204
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-23T14:21:36.846Z

Title: Violent, non-violent: what's the difference?
Author: Williams, Dortell
Date: 2010-02
Pages: 3 pages
State: California
Text (O): Dortell Williams Approximately 250 words H-45771 / A2-206 Non-fiction P.O. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 dortellwilliams@yahoo.com VIOLENT, NON-VIOLENT: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? by Dortell Williams In 1993, Richard Davis, a depraved repeat offender, kidnapped and killed Petaluma, California's young and promising Polly Klaas. In response the notorious Three Strikes law was hatched. A costly, overbearing measure that seems to completely neglect sex offending, yet locks up non—violent pet...
PID: apw:12345190
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-23T14:21:34.99Z

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