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A day in life
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Author
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Hairgrove, Donald
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Date
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2016-04-04
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Date
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2016-04-04, 2016-04-04
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5 pages
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State
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Alabama
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Donald D. Hairgrove Alabama A Day in Life Doing time in prison is more than a falling away of the days into months, months into years and years into decades. It's a period of a prisoner's life that disappears into the shadow land of never before known loneliness, dispair and anger. No man is ever prepared to do time in prison, no matter what his background. Once inside he will be in awe by the savagery of the inmates and astounded by the callous and brutal indifference of the prison...
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apw:12342163
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Date Uploaded
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2016-06-19T21:45:56.562Z
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A failed intervention?
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Author
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Remerowski, Eric
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Date
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2016-12-18
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Pages
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4 pages
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Text (O)
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Sunday, December 18, 2016 A Failed Intervention? "History teaches us that men and nations behave Wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." -- Abba Eban Here's a story I've been wanting to tell for a while now but just figured people wouldn't believe it - - either that or they would think I was nuts. But I'm beyond caring about that anymore and I believe it really is something interesting to consider. So here goes; readers can make of it what they w...
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apw:12351265
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-16T19:07:47.212Z
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Title
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A practical approach to prison reform
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Author
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Whitlock, Mick
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Date
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2010-02-23
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Date
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2010-02-23, 2010-02-23
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Pages
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9 pages
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State
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Indiana
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Topics
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Reform
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Text (TR_WF)
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A Practical Approach to Prison Reform As we progress further into the twenty-first century, one thing is clear: serious changes need to be made to the American prison system. America has become a society with the highest incarceration rate of any nation in the world. And with well over two million men and women in America's prisons, there are more people incarcerated in the United States than any other country. In an age of record budget deficits and massive national debt, it would appea...
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apw:304
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Date Uploaded
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2015-09-16T18:23:43.457Z
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A recent study read that
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Author
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Rupert, Bob G.
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Pages
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2 pages
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Editor: College Hill A recent study read that there is over 1.7 million children effected by incarcerated parent. The incarceration of these children statistics show increases to an incredible level. Historical levels, the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals clearly disproved the myth that decreasing crime rates have anything to do with increasing incarceration and announced that prisons unmistakably create crime rather than prevent it. Out of control incarcer...
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apw:12357792
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Date Uploaded
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2019-10-28T20:33:17.288Z
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Title
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A single unheard voice
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Author
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Hairgrove, Donald
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Date
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2016-04-04
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Date
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2016-04-04, 2016-04-04
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Pages
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6 pages
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State
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Alabama
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Donald D. Hairgrove "A Single Unheard Voice" I truly have nothing but pity for the citizens of this State. The reason being...they are being duped for their tax dollars to fund the horrendously unconstitutional prison system. However ignorance and silence is no excuse. The exasperating taste of my world, devoid of any emotional nourishment, is gradually overpowering. Bleak and colorless walls; insipid, disgusting meals and phlegmatic, time-worn daily routines stacked upon unacceptab...
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apw:12342169
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Date Uploaded
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2016-06-19T21:45:57.385Z
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A vision for the future
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Author
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Whitlock, Mick
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Date
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2010-08-25
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Date
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2010-08-25, 2010-08-25
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Pages
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7 pages
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State
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Indiana
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Topics
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Reform
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A Vision For the Future By Mick Whitlock As the steel door slammed shut behind me, I realized that a new chapter in my life was about to begin. And though the uncertainties about my life and my future seemed enormous, deep in my heart I knew that I would be going to prison. My feelings of helplessness were overwhelming. What the future held for my young family was unclear. As my mind drifted between memories of the past and thoughts of what might have been, feelings of helplessness began to c...
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apw:310
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Date Uploaded
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2015-09-16T18:24:34.525Z
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Title
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A whole lot deeper then anger
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Author
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Folsom, Brian Nicholas
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1 page
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"A Whole Lot Deeper Then Anger" By: Brian Folsom 02-21-2020 Prison life can break anyone. When loneliness and fear drive a man or woman too deep inside themselves, faith shrivels into hopelessness. It feels like the last piece of red beating heart finally solidify's, and an infection of bitterness intensifies tenfold. The deep dark become's a very sacred thing. I truley believe when the need for somekind of meaningful human contact become's an impossibility, a soul ca...
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apw:12361296
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Date Uploaded
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2021-02-03T15:58:40.965Z
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A world with no sky
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Author
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Vernon, Charles W.
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Pages
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3 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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A World With No Sky How much pain can the heart take before it turns to glass, cracks and turns to heart break? Alone I sit in my cell staring off or counting the bricks that make it up, each one a mistake I've made in my life that I wish I could undo. But like my cell, my mistakes are set in stone. What is hardest to swallow is that I'll most likely spend the rest of my life in a cell for a crime I didn't commit. I haven't been able to find the strength to make a deal wit...
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apw:12359312
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Date Uploaded
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2020-06-18T19:21:16.886Z
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Actually innocent
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Author
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Taylor, Albert G.
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Pages
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9 pages
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Text (O)
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Albert Taylor- 1 Eastham Unit Lovelady, Tx 75851 "NO TEARS IN THE WRITER, NO TEARS IN THE READER" Robert Frost ACTUALLY INNOCENT Like all other jailhouse lawyers ["writ writers" in prison slang]; I have wished to be able to help someone who is actually innocent, and who was being treated unjustly. When I finally did get the opportunity; it was not a Criminal Law case, as I had expected it would be, but instead, it was a Family Law case, and no one could be more innocent th...
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apw:12353618
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-27T01:07:27.797Z
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After letting severe alochol and drug addiction
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Author
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LaKemper, Cobey
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Date
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2018-09-04
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Pages
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14 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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NO TITLE After battling severe alcohol and drug addiction for many years coupled with long-unaddressed emotional issues — and immediately following the abrupt, jarring conclusion of a relationship with my son's mother and disheartening separation of my sons and I — I lost all sense of belonging and subsequently killed three people. Despite investing absolutely no effort in being evasive as I travelled through several states committing the tragic, regretful crimes, I was the number-eight ...
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PID
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apw:12356735
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Date Uploaded
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2019-05-28T18:32:52.848Z
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Title
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An unnatural situation
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Author
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Boswell, Brandon
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Pages
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6 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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"An Unnatural Situation"-Part 1 by Brandon Boswell My story is irrelevant, but the lessons I've learned may benefit the person who finds themselves thrust into a wilderness where all social protocols previously correct are not only invalid, but counter to one's survival. Growing up in white, middle class suburbia I was, by all accounts, sheltered and blissfully ignorant. My needs were met without question and I came to regard my parents as many such teenagers do; petty tyr...
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apw:12355146
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Date Uploaded
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2019-01-16T21:12:00.49Z
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Title
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Another one bites the dust
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Author
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Richardson, Corey John
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Pages
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3 pages
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Text (O)
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Another One Bites The Dust... And down goes NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer, Mr. Law and Order. Not only did the Crime—Fighting Crusader cheat on his wife, but he used his government position and its resources to conceal his repeated purchases of women's services. He learned a little over the years as he vigorously prosecuted prostitution rings, but apparently not enough to get away with it himself. We see this hypocrisy all the time, and the usual response is, "How tragic. The poor (rich) ma...
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apw:12349338
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Date Uploaded
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2018-01-13T19:44:32.721Z
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Title
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April Fools, all year long
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Author
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Richardson, Corey John
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Pages
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6 pages
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Text (O)
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Corey John Richardson 151152 / 200 Road to Justice West Liberty KY 41472 CoreyJohn1969§9yahoo.com April Fools, All Year Long On April 1, 2009, CNN reported that the felony conviction of former Alaska senator Ted Stevens, meted out on the eve of his re—election loss, would be voided due to prosecutorial misconduct. A man who clearly used his elected position for personal gain — lthe word "bribery" is the only one that comes to mind — got away with it. At first I thought, This must be...
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PID
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apw:12349318
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Date Uploaded
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2018-01-13T19:44:31.536Z
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Title
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As I write this short first hand account…
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Author
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Perry, Daniel
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Date
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2014-05-13
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Date
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2014-05-13, 2014-05-13
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Pages
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8 pages
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State
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Oregon
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Topics
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rehabilitation, prison industrial complex, methadone, Hurricane Sandy
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Daniel Perry [No Title] Dear Readers As I write this short first hand account, I have a black eye, on the left side of my face. Its 10:30pm, the lights are out and lockdown is quit. US prisoners call lockdown The Hole, because its like someone dugg a hole and pushed you in. now try to think of sitting at the bottom of a hole for 6 months (180 days). I have been in the hole for 3 days due to a fist fight. Once I go to the hearing I will find out my fate. The max punishment is $200.00 fine, 180...
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PID
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apw:12341592
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Date Uploaded
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2015-09-29T21:43:06.892Z
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Title
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Back to Attica
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Author
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Richardson, Corey John
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Pages
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6 pages
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Text (O)
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Corey John Richardson 1370 Words 200 Road to Justice KY CoreyJohn1969@yahoo.com Back to Attica "Attica! Attica! Attica!" The Attica Riot of 1971 was a prisoners' response to the inhumane conditions and abuses suffered at the hands of "corrections." The response to injustice is though only part of the equation. The transformative process began in the 1950s out of the struggle by African-Americans for civil rights. 1952 alone saw 25 serious riots which threatened the fo...
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PID
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apw:12349362
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Date Uploaded
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2018-01-13T19:44:34.264Z
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Title
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Being mentally ill in prison and not knowing what is going on
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Author
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Kemp-Horton
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Pages
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2 pages
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State
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Arizona
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Text (TR_WF)
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Arizona Being Mentally Ill in Prison and Not Knowing What is Going On A true story I was there—this guy was 2 cells down from me. Imagine you are sooo mental not there every time you poop you smear your poop all over your cell walls and floor and staff refuses to clean up your cell and leaves you in that cell 24-7-365—and makes you eat in your cell with poop all over the walls and your body—once a week or so you are forcibly removed from your cell and the cell sort of cleaned any you force sh...
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apw:12342700
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Date Uploaded
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2016-10-15T01:26:24.244Z
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Civilian rehabilittion letter
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Author
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Risk, Steve
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Date
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2018-09-29
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Pages
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2 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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risk 9-29-2018 American Prison Writing Archive "civilian rehabilitation letter" 1/2 Greetings! Well, I am indeed a federal prisoner with a 262 month sentence. I have served 5 years already. Recently, when I called home, a new boyfriend to my daughter's mother answered and advised me they would no longer visit me, and not to call. Certainly, I would rather be in my family's lives, raising my daughter, than in prison, She is 4 years old. I was able to be added to the birth c...
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apw:12356090
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Date Uploaded
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2019-05-23T19:23:20.799Z
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Title
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Confusion on the inside and outside
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Author
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Beasley, Tony
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Pages
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5 pages
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Confusion on the inside and outside The Pandemic has left confusion in all states as well as the governor have lef confusion. Tennessee lawmakers have told the judges to find alternatives in sentencing for low-level individuals focusing on class B, C, D and E felony offenses in local county jails. Not only because of the pandemic but also because of the capacity The capacity of local county jails in Tennessee as well as other states are at risk because of incarceration of state prisons relian...
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apw:12360296
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Date Uploaded
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2020-12-02T18:44:37.439Z
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Title
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Confussed
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Author
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James, Brittany
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Date
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2016
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Pages
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1 page
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Text (TR_WF)
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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...
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apw:12346674
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Date Uploaded
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2017-08-16T00:44:42.835Z
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Title
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Conviction
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Author
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Hodgkins, James
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Pages
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3 pages
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State
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California
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Text (O)
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Conviction I've searched for conviction, but I'm not sure where it lies. I've looked for it in the striving of the passionate, in the eyes of the nodding heads; I've listened for it carefully in the rising octaves of the storytellers and the whispers of those whose homes are shadows; but I never found it until I stopped looking. Maybe because conviction is something only seen in it's absence. Or maybe because so many people have painted their passion and agreement the...
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apw:12344915
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Date Uploaded
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2016-10-22T11:10:11.973Z
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Title
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Correctional grievance discombobulation: Grievant or fool, that is the question?
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Author
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Larson, William
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Date
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2017-08-14
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Pages
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15 pages
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Text (O)
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CORRECTIONAL GRIEVANCE DISCOMBOBULATION: GRIEVANT OR FOOL, THAT IS THE QUESTION? By: William A. Larson, MDOC The Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC), instituted its first grievance procedure, in 1967. The procedure had four stages: Informal Resolution Request (IRR); grievance; 1st appeal; 2nd appeal. Each stage was created to be responded to by a progressive level of authority, finalizing with the MDOC Director. In the early 80's, I started noticing an enigmatic phenomenon, after I...
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apw:12349906
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-15T21:58:41.087Z
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Title
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Correctional religious hypocrisy: Scams within scams, or theistic God?
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Author
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Larson, William
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Pages
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15 pages
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Text (O)
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CORRECTIONAL RELIGIOUS HYPOCRISY: SCAMS WITHIN SCAMS, OR THEISTIC OCD? By: William A. Larson Within the Missouri Penal System, nothing is too sacred that prevents it from being turned into some sort of prisonistic scam. Prison officials encourage such behavior, by deliberately playing into, and empowering the gallimaufry hustles. This is not even considering that prisons are nothing more than a typical bureaucratic boondoggle, played out on the uninformed and apathetic citizens, of the State....
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PID
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apw:12349971
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-16T00:30:30.334Z
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