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Title: A singular virtue: "Authenticity within the crisis of confidence"
Author: Flinner, Michael
Date: 2020-08
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): A Singular Virtue: "Authenticity Within the Crisis of Confidence" By: Michael Flinner (San Quentin Death Row / August 2020) Surely, everyone reading this must know at least one person suffering from the intense grip and agony of depression (moderate, severe, or otherwise) resulting from this seemingly perpetual, godawful societal lockdown that was originally slated for saving lives. It seems that everywhere we turn these days, we are subjected to gross violations of common sense, th...
PID: apw:12360416
Date Uploaded: 2020-12-02T18:48:21.371Z

Title: American prisoner-x
Author: Hoslett, Raymond James
Pages: 15 pages
Text (TR_WF): American Prisoner - X It is said that if you want to see the scum of the earth, then just watch the changing of the guard, at any max. security Federal Prison, i.e., United States Penitentiary (Federal Bureau of Prisons). I ask you then, who will guard...the guards?? I was 21-yrs. old when I landed in the Calif. Dept. of Corrections/CA. state Prison System. For me, it was "finishing school". At that point I had no G.E.D., never paid into social security, filed for income tax or vote...
PID: apw:12350719
Date Uploaded: 2018-03-16T15:41:33.566Z

Title: Count time
Author: Fischman, Arnold
Date: 43539
Pages: 1 page
Text (TR_WF): Count Time An ancient, broken down, light skinned black man is prone to wander unit B, hunched over and wearing nothing but his adult diaper. I don't know his name. Last night, at 9:30 stand up count time, he was pushing his wheeled walker toward the bathroom in his underpants as two guards arrived to count us. The female guard, Ms. Payne, a black woman, ordered him to go back to his bunk. He sheepishly replied, "nature issue". She repeated the order. Looking bewildered, he ask...
PID: apw:12358788
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:08:02.014Z

Title: Dennis
Author: Fischman, Arnold
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): Dennis *D=Dennis D----- is a stand up young dude. He was my first bunkie in B unit. Back when I was beaten down and reeling from abuse inflicted by haters in E unit. Dennis is Vietnamese, late 20s. His parents were boat people. He is a self-described junkie. He knew prison. He was returning to TI for two months on a parole violation. D----- was not a reader, but he loved “the Sympathizer”, the novel by Viet Than Nguen. He saw me reading it for book group and told me it was the most important ...
PID: apw:12358794
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:08:08.862Z

Title: Duck dynasty
Author: Fischman, Arnold
Date: 43584
Pages: 1 page
Text (TR_WF): Duck Dynasty No one ever called him anything else. Of all the contemptuous guards, his reptilian stare was the most psychopathic. The other guards avoided him. He dressed for maximum impact, wearing his uniform pants tucked into high leather storm trooper boots and the brim of his cap turned up. Big beard. He made a habit of cursing "the fucking chomos" to the other guards within earshot of prisoners. Duck Dynasty was the one cop who made us all shiver. One day at lunch, there was a...
PID: apw:12358792
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:08:06.13Z

Title: Inmate organs plasma donor project 2020
Author: Flinner, Michael
Date: 2020
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): Inmate Organs Plasma Donor Project 2020 Life is fleeting. It seems like only yesterday that my sentence of death was made public in a San Diego courtroom – that was nearly two decades ago. With few delusions of reprieve, and even less in the way of faith in our mighty 'just-us' system, I find myself faced with a deliberate rehabilitative aspiration – becoming vocal and visible from beyond prison walls in the life-saving conversation, all while drowning in the shallow end of the pool...
PID: apw:12361906
Date Uploaded: 2021-02-03T16:14:16.116Z

Title: Judge
Author: Fischman, Arnold
Pages: 1 page
Text (TR_WF): Judge The sound of Judge's fist on the old man's jaw was like a slab of meat slamming onto the concrete floor. There was a lot of blood. Judge was the very big black man in the corner bunk in the South wing of Bravo Unit. His voice and presence took up all the space in the wing. Judge was the self-appointed police of the dorm. Old man Anderson was a white sex offender who rolled round in his wheelchair in a mental fog. You might remark, "that really narrows it down". Ander...
PID: apw:12358790
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:08:04.022Z

Title: Replacing destruction with life "weighing inmate organ donation"
Author: Flinner, Michael
Pages: 12 pages
Text (O): As Donors State prison administrations typically DO NOT permit prisoners to donate LIVING vital organs and tissues to anyone. The Federal Bureau of Prisons however, permit organ donation by inmates ONLY when the intended recipient is a member of the inmate donor's immediate family (parent, siblings, and biological children.) There are NO laws against prisoner organ donation; only a lack thereof, due in-part to certain influences amid transplant experts discouraging the use of prisoner&ap...
PID: apw:12354007
Date Uploaded: 2018-09-27T14:35:46.247Z

Title: The most frequently asked question
Author: Scholl, Colin
Pages: 1 page
State: California
Text (O): The Most Frequently Asked Question Many people ask, "What were you thinking?" or some variant of that, and I'm not sure how to answer. I guess there are just some things you want so much that you don't care about their provenance. It doesn't matter if they are stolen, of paid for, or forced out by pity or fear. It only matters that you get that drink, or that release, or that money, or that baby, and when you are standing on the side of need, in the thick of not havin...
PID: apw:12345063
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-22T14:32:45.01Z

Title: What's prison like?
Author: Scholl, Colin
Pages: 2 pages
State: California
Text (O): WHAT'S PRISON LIKE? A few times people have asked me what prison is like. I've never known how to answer that, it's such a huge question. It's a whole nother world, it would take reams of paper to tell someone what its like in prison, because it's like nothing people on the outside have ever known. Some people on the outside have queer ideas of prison. They think it's someting akin to a vacation. Let me assure you, it's nothing like a vacation. Since I can&a...
PID: apw:12345060
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-22T14:32:44.49Z

Title: When life got complicated
Author: Flinner, Michael
Pages: 2 pages
Text (O): WHEN LIFE GOT COMPLICATED Viktor E. Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychologist who founded what he called the field of "Logotherapy", which has been dubbed the "Third Viennese School of Psychology" (following Freud and Alder). Logotherapy developed in and through Frankl's personal experience in the Theresienstadt Nazi concentration camp. The years spent there deeply affected his understanding of reality and the meaning of human life. His most popular book, Ma...
PID: apw:12354736
Date Uploaded: 2019-01-16T17:32:31.179Z

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