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$3 million a month in taxes prison won't release "low threat" seniors it can't protect from CV-19 virus
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Author
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Azreal, David
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2020-04-12
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2 pages
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Date: 4-12-2020 *You have full permission to use this* $3 Million a Month in taxes Prison Won't release "Low Threat" Seniors it can't Protect from CV-19 Virus By: Jeremy Mount aka David Azreal Warden J. Fikes recently gave rejection notices to senior prisoners who had filed for compassionate release on the grounds that the prison could not possibly keep them safe from CV-19 virus. The prison, Sandstone F.C.I., is considered a "low" and cost tax payers $3 million ...
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apw:12360128
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Date Uploaded
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2020-12-02T18:39:18.114Z
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16 years since inception.
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Author
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Martinez, Brandon
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2010-08-25
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2010-08-25, 2010-08-25
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3 pages
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State
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California
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1 Brandon Martinez Word Count: 1,253 August 25, 2010 (NO TITLE) 16 years since inception. Been locked down in the department of correction entered the prison gate. Had no idea what would be my fate. Slangin the rocks from the triple beam. Was just a young buck having fun. Didnt realize what the cost of packing a gun. As I heard the iron gates rattle. Prepared for every twist and turn of the battle. For a life sentence surely I was doomed living in obscurity in a cocoon. Would I lose my mind. ...
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apw:176
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Date Uploaded
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2015-09-16T17:52:37.443Z
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2020 election candidates need to address prison reform or go home
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Author
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Spade, David
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2 pages
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2020 Election Candidates Need to Address Prison Reform or Go Home To understand just how important prison reform is, consider for a moment that in 2016, a prison in St. Clair had a staggering 249 reported inmate on inmate assaults for just that year. Almost an assault a day according to a New York Times press article. This horrific report can not be ignored and is solid evidence that our prison systems are not meant to excessively incarcerate humans. So it’s lost on me why the 2020 electoral ...
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apw:12358697
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Date Uploaded
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2020-06-18T19:05:40.181Z
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452 words on incarceration
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Author
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Roberts, W.E.
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2 pages
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452 Words on Incarceration Prison is a poisoned environment. It leaves no one untouched. It seeps into the pores like mustard gas. It fouls the very air we breathe, polluting it with anger and hatred and bitterness. It creates unseen lesions on our souls, damages our being, eats away at our minds until we have no choice but to shut down all emotion or risk self-destruction. One cannot "care" for another in here, it is a weakness pounced upon by those who prey on misery, a liability ...
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apw:12349593
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-15T19:34:03.96Z
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666
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Author
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Radford, Frederick L. Sr.
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Date
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2016-07-11
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5 pages
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(666) Essay by, Frederick Radford 7/11/2016 One reason I chose to title this essay “666”, is because I’m thirty six years old and 36 = 3 / 6’s = 666. Even though I am a peace maker, I’ve been battling the beast for so long that it has literally put me in beast mode! Like I said, I’m thirty six years old, on this day and I thank God that death hasn’t conquered me yet. From my understanding, I feel like “life” is designed to-program-all of us into pawns. We live in a system that is designed to ...
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apw:12355950
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Date Uploaded
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2019-05-23T17:58:18.397Z
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A bad year
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Author
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Arreygue, Michael
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Date
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2016-10-02
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Pages
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4 pages
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Michael Arreyene S.V.S.P. California A Bad Year Any year in prison could be considered a bad year, but for me the past year has been a bad year. Although it is far from the worst because things could always be worse, for instance I probably could not be able to write these thoughts or even be around. By no means do I intend to be morbid, but as we all view the best/worse case scenario this is mine. My bad year began in August 2014 and it came out of nowhere and knocked me out like a suckerpun...
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apw:12347867
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Date Uploaded
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2017-11-02T19:42:29.569Z
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A bitch slap to Nieztche
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Author
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Torres, Eduardo
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2 pages
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A Bitch Slap to Nietzsche If you don't know who Nieztche is, he's a famous thinker from the late 19th century who is famous for deeming God as Dead and believing immorality is power to those who seek it and morality destroys individual lives. He believes apparantly that humans are not in any kind of spiritual battle exept with morality that "always" destroys people's lives, he must not believe in evil or aliens or supernatural balance is needed for existence He is in ...
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apw:12360512
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Date Uploaded
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2021-02-03T15:36:45.145Z
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A brand new beginning awaits us all
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Author
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Sharpe, Darrell
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4 pages
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A brand new beginning awaits us all By Darrell Sharpe, MA The windows here at the MCI Norfolk Prison-Security Housing unity extend from floor to ceiling, about eight feet high. They're only five inches wide-impossible for anyone to escape through, and the glass is clear. That surprised me. Most segregation units I've landed in have cell windows that are completely frosted over from the outside, making it impossible to look through them. But here at MCI Norfolk we have lots of beauti...
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apw:12347958
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Date Uploaded
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2017-11-02T19:54:56.655Z
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A brief history of administrative segregation in Texas
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Author
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Feijoo, Joe
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4 pages
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Text (O)
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A Brief History of Administrative Segregation in Texas By: Joe Feijoo “Ad. Seg.” Is short for Administrative Segregation. (ad-seg). The commonly held understanding of solitary confinement defines ad-seg. It is, at best, the most grim form of incarceration and is reserved for offenders who exhibit behavior that is harmful to themselves, other offenders, staff or prison facilities. It is an enhanced method of punishment within the institution of punishment. The guidelines for putting an offender ...
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apw:12357807
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Date Uploaded
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2019-10-28T20:33:45.331Z
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A concise history of the prisoners' rights movement: an epic struggle for human dignity
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Author
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Littek, Thomas
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Date
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2015-04-13
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Pages
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19 pages
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A Concise History of the Prisoners' Rights Movement: An Epic Struggle for Human Dignity Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it. Historian's maxim. After visiting Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary in 1842 Charles Dickens wrote, "The system is rigid, strict and hopeless...and I believe it to be cruel and wrong....I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the [mind] to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body." Eastern State ...
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apw:12347462
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Date Uploaded
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2017-08-16T15:10:45.99Z
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A crime is anything
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Author
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Lazar, Steven
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Pages
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5 pages
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Text (O)
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Part One Do I agree with Freda Adler’s quote that “[ a] crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit”? In the context of our American democracy, Adler’s quote is pretty close to an exact definition of how an act that is perceived to be wrong is codified into a body of penal laws.1 An elected body of legislators, i.e. the “group in power”, determines what public wrongs should be deemed wrong enough to be labeled a crime and, as such, carry along with them punitive measures. When A...
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apw:12352592
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Date Uploaded
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2018-06-15T21:37:04.415Z
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A criminal end
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Author
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Glenn, Tracy
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Date
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2014-03-25
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2 pages
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Text (O)
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"A Criminal End" By: Mr. Tracy "Hollywood" Glenn March 25th 2D1h Prison has a way of sometimes helping one find another path, one that is seemingly reachable that one could not see beforehand from the offense that has one there locked away. If I were to tell you this correspondence is being written by one man who has at 50 years of age no high school diploma or B.E.D. could you believe it? Prison for me today is demoralizing and it has no place in my efforts to fulfill in ...
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apw:12349016
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Date Uploaded
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2017-11-03T12:35:30.869Z
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A description of who I am
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Author
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Caraballo, Pedro R.
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3 pages
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Text (O)
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A Description of Who I Am: I have been in prison since 1999. I was 20 years old when I committed my crime. I had never been in any kind of trouble with the law and yet I was sentenced to die in prison in spite of mine being a non—homicide conviction and a first offense. My crime was that I participated in a kidnapping at the urging of the 47 year old man who befriended me at summer camp when I was a child and had been the lone parental figure in my life since bringing me to the United States ...
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apw:12356262
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Date Uploaded
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2019-05-28T17:14:54.935Z
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A few words on post traumatic stress
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Author
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Fuller, Brian D.
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1 page
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A Few Words on Post Traumatic Stress It often takes time for the full effect of traumatic events to set in. At first, we're just so relieved to get past the initial pain and stress of the ordeal, that we pay little attention to the possibility of future problems. We simply let it go and focus on other things in an effort to move on with our lives. Recently, the Texas Innocence Project responded with their questionnaire they wanted me to fill out and send in. This is what I've been s...
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apw:12357692
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Date Uploaded
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2019-10-28T20:29:52.027Z
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A loss of memory?
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Author
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Roberts, W.E.
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3 pages
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A Loss of Memory? In a recent Esquire article entitled "The Cold Open" by long-time contributor Charles P. Pierce, we are reminded of the power of memory, of our mandate public witness to history and politics, and our obligation to join together with others in order to shape a better future for our nation and our world. Pierce invokes the prescient words of Czech author Milon Kundera, who saw the struggle for independence from Soviet domination as one of "man against power... m...
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apw:12349589
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2018-03-15T19:34:03.699Z
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A murder victim speaks: The truth in the age of "me too"
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Author
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Douglas, Steffe'n
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Pages
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14 pages
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Text (O)
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American Prison Writing Archive: A Murder Victim Speaks A Murder Victim Speaks: (The Truth in the Age of "Me Too") I am a murder victim... I have often said that Paul Harvey was right. I maintain that to this day. 'If you want to see the worst that society has to offer humanity sit outside a prison at shift change'. No one is more corrupt, no one is more criminal than those folks you'll see exiting or entering the facility with badges on their chests. You won't b...
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apw:12359321
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Date Uploaded
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2020-06-18T19:21:32.036Z
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A plea for attention to an injustice
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Author
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Navarro, Robert R.
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3 pages
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A Plea for Attention to an Injustice — Robert Navarro Where do I even begin and what do I say? Let me begin with some general questions and observations about ourjustice system today and how it works: Justice is defined as: 1) Just conduct, 2) Fairness, 3) Exercise of authority in the maintenance of right, 4) Judicial proceedings, 5) Magistrate, Judge. 1-3: uprightness, righteousness, decency, correctness, fair playing, lawfulness, equity Yet when you look at my conviction one will wonder whe...
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apw:12353138
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-26T10:57:29.365Z
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A polygraph nation
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Author
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Figge, Brian Keith
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Date
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2017-09-13
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5 pages
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A Polygraph Nation "When you fail your polygraph test, we're going to string you by your balls,’ exclaimed police detectives. All that I have ever wanted to do from the first second, when false allegations were made against me, was to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Most shocking, was when I realized that these police detectives were not very happy with me when results came in after my first polygraph saying that I had passed. They simply were pissed off ...
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apw:12351603
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-17T00:31:42.969Z
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A prisoner tells his tale
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Author
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Hattley, Matthew
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1 page
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SHAWANGUNK JOURNAL www.shawangunkjournal.com Thursday, September 4, 2014 Inside The Box A Prisoner Tells His Tale Parole Decision: The Breakdown By Matthew Hattley Every person receiving an “indeterminate” sentence will automatically be scheduled to see the Parole Board —- usually four months prior to completing their minimum term. Regardless of which prison they are at when this date arrives, a hearing will be conducted. This is the average parole decision: “Denied — Hold For 24 Months: Next...
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apw:12348965
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Date Uploaded
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2017-11-03T11:14:13.431Z
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Title
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A prisoner's apology
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Author
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King, Dayshaun
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Pages
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2 pages
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Text (O)
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Essay By Terry Little A Prisoner's Apology Many days I would think of the words that I would say the mother of my victim. Do I give her a simpde sorry? do I explain in detail how regretful I am? Téis tends be a huge burden on my guilt ridden heart. The problem most times isn't about the apologetic feature, rather it's the gesture, and how will it be recieved. There has been many mothers who have lost their children from acts of violence, but how many mothers can actually say th...
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apw:12354778
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Date Uploaded
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2019-01-16T17:35:30.78Z
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A prisoner's perspective on the institution
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Author
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Terway, David J.
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Date
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41844
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4 pages
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David J. Terway, F-32909 Professor CP Bird Sociology 102 24 July 14 Final Essay A Prisoner's Perspective on the Institution Before I attempt to convey howirny experience over the last nine years here in prison relates to sociology and also what sociologists might learn from me, I want my readers to know that I did, in fact, engage in behavior which deviated from the norms of the society in which I lived. I am not innocent; I deserve to be punished. I am not so sure that the length of my ...
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apw:12358348
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Date Uploaded
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2020-06-18T18:56:54.146Z
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A sad truth
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Author
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Harper, Bednago
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2 pages
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A Sad Truth Bednago Harper Black, White, Hispanic, race don't matter. None are exempt. Neither are the countless and rising numbers of innocent misfortunate people who have fallen tragic victim in their wake. The new breed of Grim Reapers are no longer the city gates.... They are in the city! If life was fair, this world wouldn't be such a violent and deadly place to live in. But since life isn't fair, you read about it every day, or hear about it in the news. Every day this ci...
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apw:12354697
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Date Uploaded
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2019-01-16T17:31:44.171Z
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Title
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A shitty situation
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Author
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Hastings, William D.
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8 pages
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"A Shitty Situation" by William D. Hastings As if I was observing some kind of sickening and sadistic scientific experiment, I watched the garbage bag I had wrapped around the toilet slowly rise as the unflushed feces emanated methane gas. I was fascinated by the sight of science in action and horrified by the knowledge that soon I would have to remove the plastic covering to take a leak - and in so doing, get a mighty whiff of my own shit. There had been a glut of rain, too much to...
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apw:12355261
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Date Uploaded
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2019-01-21T19:52:38.148Z
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Title
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A short commentary on Nordstrom v. Ryan
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Author
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Gardner
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Date
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2014-09-16
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2 pages
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Text (O)
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A SHORT COMMENTARY ON NORDSTROM V. RYAN; THE READING OF LEGAL MAIL BY PRISON STAFF by Gardner, September 16, 2014 The APWA seeks ‘essays’ about personal experiences; a recent Ninth Circuit case reminds me about prison mail improprieties in a related very unpleasant experience. I write to point out what the judges DIDN'T think about in their decision, hoping that my opinion might be pointed out in some future opportunity. The case is Nordstrom v. Ryan, 2014 DJDAR 106131, a federal 1983 (c...
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apw:12351281
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-16T19:07:47.901Z
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