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Title
A look in on the prison performing arts theater and poetry classes
Author
Jaynes, Bev
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
I wish you could be witness to the enrichment and achievement, the intellectual stimulation, and the soulful creative expression going on during the Prison Performing Arts theater and "spoken word" poetry classes in WERDCE, the women's prison in Vandalia, MO and Thursdays and in the men's prison down the road in Bowling Green, MO, on Fridays. PPA is a non-profit organization based in St.Louis, MO, which provides opportunities for personal growth and character development t...
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apw:12347831
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:28Z
Title
A lot has been written
Author
Dorotik, Jane
Pages
5 pages
State
California
Text (O)
A lot has been written Original Dorotik CA A lot has been written about the prison system lately -- why we as a nation incarcerate so many, why the bureauocratic and unweildy system is only expected to make minimal cuts to its 11 billion dollar budget while education and social supports are slashed to the very core, why California's prison system has the highest recidivism rate of any state in the nation? But little is written of the individual suffering that occurs in devastating ways o...
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apw:12344502
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T15:41:58.187Z
Title
A voice from inside
Author
Rose, Amber
Date
43726
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
September 18 - 2019 A Voice From Inside Human Kind The rich taking from the poor, a story as old as time. How do the rich get away with what they do? How do we allow these things to continue to happen? The love of money is the route of all evil, money changes people. It sounds crazy doesn't it? I mean, how do you make money off of broke? If it isn't there, it isn't there. You can't squeeze money out of nothing, zero, 0. Let me tell you... Pretend to be doing society a favo...
PID
apw:12359227
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:19:11.593Z
Title
An American epidemic
Author
Adams, Meagan
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
An American Epidemic Do you remember when you were naive enough to believe you were invincible? Now, imagine yourself as that kid and being told your whole life is being stripped from you before you've even had the opportunity to know what it feels like to live by your own rules. Are you there? Can you see it? Can you feel it? Good! Sadly and tragically this scenario is much more than an image cooked up by one's imagination. American is facing a tragedy of epic proportions; an epide...
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apw:12356338
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:21:57.853Z
Title
An artist behind bars
Author
Cosgrove, Kristine
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"An Artist Behind Bars" by Kristine Cosgrove Let me see if I can try to describe what it's like to be in prison. First, it's every horror story you can imagine if you happen to run up against someone suffering from borderline personality disorder and low self-esteem. I like to imagine I'm only here impersonating a fake prisoner because I'm trying out for the new Scorcese film - and I'm up against Jennifer Connelly, and she beat me out of the role in House of...
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apw:12363082
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:41:51.733Z
Title
Are you in charge?
Author
Kuhn-Brown, Erin
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Are You in Charge? By Erin Kuhn-Brown I almost wrote a kite of concern this morning to our AWD Oliver, and quickly had to remind myself how absolutely pointless that would be. I have found in the course of serving almost 20 years that if a topic matter is of concern, and brought to staffs attention, the focus is not on addressing the matter brought to staff, rather staffs concern is to tell as many of their peers, who pointed it out. (See attached letter - to be included in essay) Warden Oliv...
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apw:12360532
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:37:20.319Z
Title
Bloom grown from a crack in the wall
Author
Jaynes, Bev
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Bloom grown from a crack in the wall By Beverly Jaynes Reaching light from deceptive darkness, its seed mysteriously nurtured within, imposing walls cannot contain its growth. Breaking free unexpectantly, from bleak, stark surroundings, the bloom, the more beautiful. for its unlikely flourishing. A surprising sign of hope, graced by opportunity. The transformation of transformed individuals - the diseased, debilitated, disadvantaged, addicted, depressed, degraded, disgraced, disillusioned, di...
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apw:12347846
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:28.91Z
Title
Choices
Author
Huey, Taylor
Pages
8 pages
Text (O)
Taylor Huey-Choices There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you. Elie Wiesel said that “whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.” In the telling of my story, I am giving you my most vulnerable self. My name is Taylor. I am 36 years old and have been incarcerated for the past 17 years. How had I come to commit offenses that brought such a lengthy prison term? I courted danger. I courted danger because danger was one of the few things ...
PID
apw:12356626
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:36:57.669Z
Title
Choices
Author
Gatlin, Amanda Collette
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
10-17-16 Cell-138/IPOD BCJC Choices I became like an animal being fed through a fence when I made that choice. Having to fight for my right to exist and never completely succeeding. I'm only a number in this maximum security hell. I wish this would end, but they wouldn't get their payday, would they? You see, that's the reason for this hopelessness, sadly, for all this madness, are we meat for the beast? If so, which one? This can't fix my problem. Or the problem for most ...
PID
apw:12349646
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T19:51:40.685Z
Title
Choosing to love
Author
Kirby-Watts, Courtney
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Choosing to love Betrayal and wounds. I was the one who betrayed and caused wounds. Not an easy thing to live with. How do you rebuild, recreate, begin again once you have caused so much destruction? is it even possible to repair broken relationships? I say yes, God says yes. I say yes because God said yes to me. I gave my nothingness to God who took it and made something. I hurt those closest to me. I betrayed them in the worst way possible. Yet God has brought us back together. My family ha...
PID
apw:12353178
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:58:08.793Z
Title
Come holy spirit and help
Author
Clement, Kathryn A.
Date
2019-03-14
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[no title] 3-14-19 To A.P.W.A.: Come Holy Spirit and help me to write this experience in Nevada State for your purpose & glory. To help women in FMUCC, in Jesus name. Since I've been in FMUCC, Sept. 25, 2012, I am blown away how the legal system and Nevada State treat the women and their families. One thing is weird (women) been in FMUCC for false accusations; trump up charges; being thrown under the bus by the attorneys, DA, judges {bias}. I believe there's a scheme been going ...
PID
apw:12357721
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:30:50.667Z
Title
Come holy spirit, I need
Author
Clement, Kathryn A.
Pages
10 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE Come Holy Spirit, I need you to help me. Wrote this for your purpose and Glory. To start off, I have been incarcerated now 7 years in FMWCC, Las Vegas, NV. This is my 1st time in a Correctional Center which it has been called to rehabilitate women from bad behavior till Ms. McClure died. Now its a place of control issue in my opinion. Since I've been in here, I've seen a lot of changes. I am considered a "child case" due to the attorneys, DA, Judges, were bias in ...
PID
apw:12356727
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T18:32:45.75Z
Title
Confussed
Author
James, Brittany
Date
2016
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Confussed Brittany James Boggle only there is no words, blank spaces unable to fill, empty an inside out, rung out and hung to dry, here but never fully aware, be in every moment, even if its only fractions, any part is worth hanging onto, my life in a closet, the door opens and you never come out, bleed out to know that your alive, without breath, thickness, you're un-able to catch-22. You never win, Russian roulette, how do you hit and miss, kiss of death, rise above this life, resurre...
PID
apw:12346674
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:42.835Z
Title
Convicted terrorist Kevin James speaks
Author
Ziegler-Wurtz, Nashay M.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Nashay Wurtz Homework assignment: 5 Essay: 2 Ch. 9: terrorism Convicted terrorist Kevin James speaks in an interview bringing to light the issues that terrorism is present in modern day prisons. Authors of our text, Corrections in the 21st Century, Schmullger and Smykla reference the core issues are not only recruitment, but a danger that exists with the growing “gangs” or, better labeled, sophisticated social networks. These gangs are key to potentially planning terroristic acts within the f...
PID
apw:12357964
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:38:48.831Z
Title
Corrections is generally considered the
Author
Ziegler-Wurtz, Nashay M.
Pages
11 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Corrections is generally considered the final stage in the criminal justice process. After a crime has been discovered, reported and the defendant convicted through the court process, corrections takes control. Authors of the 8th edition Corrections in the 21st Century, Smallenger and Smykla define corrections as...management of individuals accused and convicted of crimes. The President of Commission of Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice States "Corrections is the part of the ...
PID
apw:12357735
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:31:19.731Z
Title
Corrections: An exercise in futility
Author
Bingner, Alice G.
Pages
11 pages
Topics
Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O)
Alice Bingner 3744 Dexter Road Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Category: Personal Essay Word Count: 2,246 Corrections: an Exercise in Futility Currently, in the United States, it costs upwards of $50,000,000,000 plus a year to incarcerate more than 2,000,000 men, women and children. And the expense by no means stops there. While 10 percent of prisoners are menaces from whom the public needs protection, the rest would be better served - and so would society - if there were alternative sentencing for non-v...
PID
apw:12358330
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:56:23.837Z
Title
Crime is common happenstance where I come from
Author
Cooper, Kista R.
Date
2020-03-19
Pages
8 pages
PID
apw:12361453
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:02:29.98Z
Title
Descriptions of sources of stress, and ways of copin
Author
Lawless, Arline
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Descriptions of sources of stress, and ways of coping. Where can I start about the sources of stress in here? There are so many forms of stress from the guards screaming at the top of their lungs to your family not being able to come to see you because they were 2 minutes late for the check in. That is complete bullshit if you ask me especially when your family drives 2 % hours to see you. In fact, there are a few women in here where their family members drive over 7 hours to come and see the...
PID
apw:12351574
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T23:56:41.124Z
Title
Different
Author
James, Brittany
Date
2016
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Different view, different you, different sight, touch, and feel, wheel me in center stage and have a quick glance, lance open your perception and see what keeps the thought whole; always falling apart, domino effect, we all fall down - a well and never come out, drowned by your own selfish ways, spoon yourself to death because there is no sharps, safety proof, always guarded, no concern for any rule, regulation, or even request, a test of my attitude and unstable thoughts, a constant accelera...
PID
apw:12346670
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:42.106Z
Title
Employment
Author
Lawless, Arline
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
EMPLOYMENT There are a few jobs that are available to the women here. The paying jobs are two librarians, two computer lab workers, 7 industry workers, then the cook, the baker is paid from each shift, and there are two shifts. Then there are nonpaid jobs which these people receive goodies like drink mix and what not. There are the rest of the kitchen workers that are not paid. I believe that there are 3 to 4 people in the kitchen who isn't paid. In addition, a floor crew does the floors...
PID
apw:12351700
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T01:19:42.759Z
Title
Explain how the development of rights
Author
Ziegler-Wurtz, Nashay M.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Nashay Wurtz SOC 447 - Correctional Systems Homework Assignment: 7 Ch. 11 Essay #1 Explain how the development of rights for female prisoners has differed from that of the rights of male prisoners. The Supreme law of our land is the United States Constitution. Authors of Corrections In the 21st Century, Frank Schmalleger and John Ortiz Smykla point out that the one question at the heart of any discussion of prisoners' rights is this: What does the Constitution have to say? Scholars have ...
PID
apw:12357968
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:38:58.291Z
Title
Focus on your life
Author
Anderson, Jennifer
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Focus on Your Life By jennifer Anderson sunset is such a beautiful and amazing thing to watch. I get lost in the magic of the stunning colors streaking across the sky. As it sets down past the razor-wire and I hear the guards shout to corral us all back inside for the night, I snap back to reality. The smile melts from my face as I remember where I am. I am in a Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas. Entering the tremendously loud unit, which houses two hundred twenty—five girls/women, a diverse...
PID
apw:12351618
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T00:31:44.296Z
Title
Graduation speech 9/1/17
Author
Mazzarella, Eve
Date
2017-09-01
Pages
4 pages
PID
apw:12361233
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:57:09.584Z
Title
Hate
Author
James, Brittany
Date
2016
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Hate Sedate me till its over, nail me to a chair and strip me of my thoughts, the feelings never die, I found the missing link in the chain, peddle my way strait to hell, fall down and never get up, a coffin with no escape route, who knows how to use a first aids kit? Resuscitate me, one, two, three, breathe...operation there is no pulse, a zombie from the walking dead, even they feel hunger, feed my uncensored need, for thought, my thoughts are never enough food, scale your way up the side o...
PID
apw:12346672
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:42.566Z

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