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Title
Alone amidst a crowd
Author
Sharpe, D. E.
Pages
7 pages
Text (O)
Alone Amidst a Crowd An Essay on Prison Life One of the many ironies faced in prison is the fleeting chance moment of friendship found there. That moment, surprising and most unexpected, comes onto the yard and into your cell, your life, so very suddenly that you are left feeling incredulous at it's happening. It comes about usually at the discretion of the guards, who have decided to move a person for concerns of safety or convenience. You have left your cell to go to yard for your dail...
PID
apw:12351353
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T19:43:03.216Z
Title
An almost love story
Author
Shaulis, Dahn
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
An Almost Love Story When Olivia Martin moved into the PC unit, she could have passed for a woman: five feet nine, slender, with smooth brown skin and braided black hair, her walk feminine. I received advanced knowledge about Olivia from CO Romer. Romer said she had hormone shots before her incarceration, which accounted for her womanly chest. Somehow she was also able to maintain red lips, though cosmetics were not available in the men’s prisons. That was one of her little secrets. But Olivia...
PID
apw:12349271
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:48:06.634Z
Title
Being broke
Author
Brock, Andy
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Andy Brock Correctional writer's Initiative BRCI — 317746 CW1 - Student Paper 4460 Broad River Rd. Semester 3 Columbia, SC 29210~4012 BEING BROKE I am blessed to have someone to send me money from time to time. So, what I'm going to do, is tell you what I have seen people do around me here in prison--to compensate for being broke. But, first, let me tell you one thing about prison: In here, one dollar is like twenty to the free world, and that dollar in here, takes the form of an it...
PID
apw:12352640
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:38:03.309Z
Title
Big sis, slim the wanna-be, and the hole
Author
Shaulis, Dahn
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Big Sis, Slim the Wanna-Be, and the Hole Working through the stacks of paperwork on my desk when I’m interrupted by a phone call. “Salomon” I said, into the telephone receiver. A female voice replied, “Yes, I’m calling for Mike, Mike Shaffer.” “And your name is?” I ask. “I’m Mary Shaffer, his sister. I heard he’s in the hole. I want to know if he’s ok. Can he make calls?” Her brother, inmate Shaffer is a 21-year-old inmate, a wanna-be in Pri$neyland, a fresh recruit in the white supremacy gan...
PID
apw:12349274
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:48:06.823Z
Title
Blanket essay
Author
Russell, Stephen
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Blanket Essay 26 June 2019 APWA: Praise יהוה [Yahweh]! About 7:00 A.M. on June 2019, my blanket fell in the toilet. It is cold, so cold some guards wear winter coats. All they left me to wear is a tshirt and thermal. So I wrap my blanket around me and it helps. I have no chair, the only place to sit is the bed (too high) or the toilet. I keep it clean and sit on the toilet, with the blanket wrapped around me. Well I did not realize it was coming off my shoulder and that part fell into the toi...
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apw:12358443
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:59:13.799Z
Title
Blanket update
Author
Russell, Stephen
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Blanket Update On 2 July 2019 I was moved to long term seg. They gave me 180 days. On 8 July 2019 I get the answer to the 1st step for the grievance. As follows: "In response to your grievance. You were moved to the Gray Unit on 2 July 2019 and received new linen. The issue in this grievance is no longer relevant. No further action required." So I got both the blanket and mattress cover. I filed the grievance on 25 June 2019 and got moved 2 July 2019. That was 8 days without a blank...
PID
apw:12358626
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:04:01.17Z
Title
Broken
Author
Lawson-Wilson, James
Date
2018-06-01
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Broken? 6-1-18 Some people claim that our criminal justice system is horribly broken, and to most Americans that probably deserves a nod of recognition for the appearance of truth it presents to our general public. Lets look at it from that perspective for a minute. Most prisons in the United States are extremely unsafe places to both live and work. The facilities for the most part are out dated and in disrepair, due to lack of funding by the state and Federal government. Training for the off...
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apw:12353292
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T11:01:03.001Z
Title
Cell search
Author
Russell, Stephen
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Cell Search Most agents don't do cell searches unless the sgt. tells them to, and even then they look a little here and there, just enough to say I did it and find nothing to justify a write up. In Seg 2 agents are required. They must cuff me in back and one agent holds me beside the door so I cannot see into the cell. The other agent does the search. Most times they look for shanks and phones, so the search is fairly quick. But some agents go all out. 1st they stand at the door closed w...
PID
apw:12359161
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:17:31.249Z
Title
Crooks
Author
Shaulis, Dahn
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Crooks The inmate cook can deftly skim sugar and yeast off the top of a recipe, hide it and take it back to his cell for prison-made alcohol, “pruno.” He can find ways of sifting sugar into a kitchen sink, then recover it when the coast is clear. He can hide a wad of dough in his pants, then take it back to his house for yeast in his brew. The cunning inmate will carefully look over his shoulder, or enlist another inmate as a lookout. He knows making pruno is against the rules, but believes it...
PID
apw:12349279
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:48:07.004Z
Title
Death notification
Author
Shaulis, Dahn
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
Dahn Shaulis 8250 North Grand Canyon Dr. #1024 Las Vegas, NV 89166 dahnshaulis@netzero.com Death Notification At Northeast State Prison, one-third of the inmates are in prison for life. Many others are in for a long stretch—-two decades or more. Felix Chacon was one of those inmates: in prison for a long time, but possibly not forever. Like most inmates, I didn’t know much about him other than his crime report: a second degree murder, gang-related, requiring at least twenty years in prison. Ch...
PID
apw:12349282
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:48:07.258Z
Title
Do you know what it's like to lose all control?
Author
Averitt, D.L
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Do you know what it's like to lose all control? Control of yourself in every way; what you eat, what you watch, what you wear, where you sleep. When you go outside, to feel sunlight on your skin, and after only an hour are forced to go back in. Back into this hell made of concrete and steel. Where you aren't allowed to think and your discouraged to feel. Where the strong survive and the meek fall apart. Have you been beaten or stabbed for the shade of your skin? Does your quality of...
PID
apw:12358561
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:02:21.418Z
Title
Double Standard
Author
Foster, A.R.
Pages
9 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Double Standard The following is from a time in my not so distant past where I find myself drifting back to almost every day & night. A time filled with so much pain and anguish that to this day, this very moment haunts my soul. A short back story is needed for the pain to be shared from my pen, to this paper, through your eyes and into your heart. Imagine if you will, having spent four years of hard labor (earning no income) earning only your freedom. With that freedom came new and chall...
PID
apw:12356691
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:39:00.688Z
Title
Drama
Author
Shaulis, Dahn
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
It was Friday afternoon. I was working through my paperwork and computer entries when I heard the steel door crash. An inmate ran into the activity room below my office. A young Black man, with blue jeans so big he had to hold them up while he walked. He fumbled with a large full garbage bag, which I found out later, was everything he owned. The young inmate anxiously looked out the thin window in the room, then rushed to my second floor office door I called the control officer and asked what th...
PID
apw:12349286
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:48:07.526Z
Title
Example?
Author
Kiser, Paul J.
Date
2018-07-05
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Example? 7-5-18 I find it difficult to believe that a 18-19 year old kid two weeks of training can somehow by example rehabilitate me. Make no mistake, that is, according to the law, their job. It's a top down problem. The D.O.C from the secretary on, does nothing to create an Esprit de Corps. Which is essential to promote a mission goal. Part of this problem is that each facility (Kansas) has its own training cadre, each with its own ethos biases, perceptions and way of doing things his...
PID
apw:12354715
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:32:05.983Z
Title
Inside looking in
Author
Kiser, Paul J.
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Inside Looking In 4-2-18 The American model of incarceration is broke and broken. Dept. of Corrections throughout the land are the only businesses, and they are businesses, that produce a defective product and blame the product. We are dealing with human beings and if society takes on the responsibility of incarceration, then rehabilitation or at least the true attempt at, must be part of the equation. The vast majority of prisoners at this very moment will be released some day. Allthough we ...
PID
apw:12352952
Date Uploaded
2018-09-25T19:49:15.813Z
Title
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
Author
DiTullio, John
Pages
2 pages
PID
apw:12362842
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:37:37.236Z
Title
Let the slide show begin
Author
Shaulis, Dahn
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Dahn Shaulis Nevada Let the Side Show Begin Late morning in the cell block. I'm in my office with the bottomless pile of paperwork, scribbling responses to requests for information. The inmates have been served lunch. The food slots on the cell doors are closed, locked. The rotunda lights are turned off. When I walk onto the tier again, and pass by the cells, I smell corndogs. Many of the cells, inmate ”houses,” appear dark. Many cover their cell windows with towels, insulating themselve...
PID
apw:12349257
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:48:05.404Z
Title
No need to know
Author
Shaulis, Dahn
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
No Need to Know The embarrassing and enlightening lessons of prison work build over years. But most prison workers are so caught up in the day-to-day, so lazy, incurious, or afraid, they miss the bigger dramas. Some have been burned for doing more than the minimum. Caseworker White tells me, “I used to be interested in what was going on, but that just increases your work. You still get paid the same.” Others are unwitting dupes, victims of lies and secrets. At Eureka max, S/CO Romer told me “...
PID
apw:12348861
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T11:13:57.934Z
Title
Palido y los Mexicanos
Author
Shaulis, Dahn
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
Dahn Shaulis 8250 North Grand Canyon Dr. #1024 Las Vegas, NV 89166 702-658-5019 dahnshaulis@netzero.com Palido y Los Mexicanos As I glance away from my desk, I see yet another one at my office door. It’s Denzin. He’s an Anglo inmate in his early 20’s, with a thin mustache and goutee, a member of a local Latino gang, the Macho Lokos. I only know him because of his gang affiliation and because I had recently seen him for his six-month classification review. His fellow gang members, his homies, cal...
PID
apw:12348866
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T11:13:58.378Z
Title
Prior to my incarceration
Author
Forster, Seth
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Biography Prior to my incarceration I was a business manager and family man. A US Navy Vet who served up to just after 9/11 and was in the Gulf when everything went down. After that I went to work for the family business, married a beautiful woman and had two of the most wonderful children I could ever conceptualize. As years progressed I became disillusioned with life and ignored my PTSD and health issues connected to my life in the service. Eventually I took most of my life for granted and ...
PID
apw:12347900
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:30.763Z
Title
Reflections
Author
Kiser, Paul J.
Date
2018-11-15
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Reflections 11-15-18 I'm in the "hole" right now, I hit a guy in the head with a fab motor for stealing my mp3 player. Segregation is a loud dirty place. People lose themselves down here because that's all they have left. Just today a man in the cell above me has plugged his toilet to flood his cell. The overflow cascading down like a pungent waterfall. The C.O.'s eventually shut the water off and the shower stops. Out in front of my cell a mini-lake has formed. The w...
PID
apw:12356129
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:24:24.736Z
Title
Seg
Author
Russell, Stephen
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"Seg" Wat is Seg.? It is short for segregation, modified housing, single cell, 24/7 lock down. I am in Seg, now. I am locked in a cell about 7ft by 10.5ft. As you can see, I have plenty of room. No chair. No table. I sit on the throne most of the time when I read or as I am now writing this, until my backside can take no more of it. Try sitting on a throne with a big hole in the middle for hours at a time. My mattress is almost 4in thick. I am very blessed, most of them are 2in or l...
PID
apw:12358150
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:44:33.742Z
Title
Shoe essay
Author
Russell, Stephen
Date
43756
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Shoe Essay 18Oct 2019 Praise,[]! 14 July 2019 agent F. searched my cell (see essay cell search 18 Sept 2019) One item taken was my shoe strings. I wrote affidavits to offices of NCDPS in Raleigh, N.C, the capital. One of them answered and told my unit mgr Ms.S about the shoe strings and thermals. Sat. a.m. my Sabbath, Ms. S called me to her office, disrupting my sabbath. The agents woke me up. I had to strip for them to search my clothes. I got dressed and with cuffs and shackles was escorted...
PID
apw:12359541
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:27:17.743Z
Title
The 5th victims
Author
Kiser, Paul J.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The 5th Victims Everybody forgets about them, the loved ones. The ones left behind. The ones on the other side of the aisle. The ones who also ask why. Why did he do it? What did I do wrong? Why didnt I see? What did I do wrong? How do I go on? Grief and guilt are terrible alone, but together can shatter who you are. They are looked upon with pity not compassion. They shoulder the guilt without being guilty. They all do the time too. Some without accepting what was done. They belieive because...
PID
apw:12353008
Date Uploaded
2018-09-25T21:47:15.986Z

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