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Title
A day in my life
Author
Murray, B.C.
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
A DAY IN MY LIFE Awakened by the brilliance of 6:00AM lights, I arise, grab my toiletries and walk down the long, stale white corridor toward the restroom. First, I must wade through a bevy of inmates blocking my path while vehemently discussing lat night's televised basketball game. These men do so without any consideration for those still trying to sleep or pass through. I step across the threshold and into a room with two rows of sinks where all sorts of men — white, black, Mexican, t...
PID
apw:12353162
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:57:52.741Z
Title
A.D.C. The beast
Author
Hagen, Daniel Thomas
Pages
9 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Title: A.D.C. The Beast by Daniel Hagen The Public's "keep them locked up" mentality leads to a distorted view of incarceration and the perceived purpose of an objective correctional system. The sex offenders situation draws attention to the stagnated state of human sexuality, natures and suppressed sexual instincts whose opportunities in life have been permanently diminished by the loss of rights, morally policed by the same system that the delusionally institutionalized penal...
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apw:12350772
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T16:16:16.977Z
Title
Anger
Author
Murray, B.C.
Date
2018-01-28
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
Anger Anger for me is unachievable. I am though certainly no pacifist. I don't spurn anger, hostility, or even vindictiveness. Such feelings are simply beyond my reach. Some would regard me as fortunate; say the world would benefit from more like me;‘ or argue that anger holds no value. Such sentiment alas is naive, even risible. There are man like m self. Peo le for whom roactive emotions are lost to a resolve of ho elessness where resorts to _ P gestures preclude the inducement of ange...
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apw:12352774
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:33:45.465Z
Title
Anxiety
Author
Murray, B.C.
Date
2018
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
ANXIETY Like a leaking cistern, anxiety,slowly bleeds all semblance of life from one'sA A being. As soon as a rare detente is reached, another anguishing tempest appears .atop life's mountains of Volatile, tormenting emotions pressing everything below until the-cavity of one's heart is breached further, causing one's will to demit faster, more excruciatingly that before. Eventually, anxiety morphs into a depressed emptiness offering only a teasing, hollow eye in a storm th...
PID
apw:12352669
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:38:32.89Z
Title
Children's book helps imprisoned parents
Author
Tinsman, Anthony
Date
2013
Date
2013, 2013
Pages
2 pages
State
Arkansas
Topics
Families in a new parenting program for inmates and families read a new book "Hungry Robot" (written by the author) about personal reformation
Text (TR)
'!)... FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Attn: Editor Topic/ Title: "Children's Book Helps Imprisoned Parents" By: Anthony Tinsman (First published by prisoneducation.com) Being a parent is a tough job. Prison doesn't make that job any easier . Between 1991 and mid-year 2007 parents held in state and federal prisons increased by 79%, to 357,300 parents (Bureau Of Justice Statistics) . This makes being an imprisoned parents a bigger challenge than the general public is aware of. R...
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apw:292
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T18:26:19.14Z
Title
Cold
Author
Meadows, Tracy
Pages
9 pages
Text (O)
Cold Tracy Meadows It had rained early and the sun in the narrow window of my cell made the world look warm. But I was awake, and cold. It was always cold at the prison in Mason, Tennessee. The prison at Mason serves as a holding spot for prisoners waiting to go to trial, to another prison or,in the age of trump, to an ICE facility. The prison is owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of America. CCA recently changed it's name to CoreCivic as a prelude to expanding it's reach...
PID
apw:12352562
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:36:30.518Z
Title
Cold days in purgatory
Author
Murray, B.C.
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
COLD DAYS IN PURGATORY BY B.C. Murray The divergent distractions that exists inside a prison compound are often enough to hoard away feelings of hopelessness and despair. Nothing though is cogent enough to overcome the morose feelings to which every prisoner eventually succumbs. As hard as one may try; loneliness, despair, insufficiency, and shame supercede all other emotions regardless of efforts to the contrary. Just as on the outside, the weather dictates emotions. When cold, wintry, days ...
PID
apw:12352662
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:38:26.465Z
Title
Confusion
Author
Murray, B.C.
Date
2018-02-06
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
Confusion Would life be worth living without confusion? What purpose would then require our rising from bed each day? Or maneuvering for legions of hours along life's jagged pathways? lf content, then what would be our impetus for confronting, waging war with all that perplexes, and even exhilarates us? Our hubris endeavors to put confusion to rest once and for all. We pray to awake without ambiguities, issues to confront and coerced into contesting. The child naively relishes adulthood&...
PID
apw:12352776
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:33:47.132Z
Title
Fences
Author
Murray, B.C.
Date
2018
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
FENCES Fences: Society's artisan of salvation and refuge. Fences prohibit interruptions and distractions for those seeking freedom, fecundity. Their impregnable strands of wire offer sanctuary from the unholy, impure, and all that impugns thoughts and actions of those protected therein. Fences provide unfettered isolation adn disincentive to venture beyond civilization's Cloister of all deemed favorable and championed. Consequently, from across the divide, fences spawn a flourishing...
PID
apw:12352726
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:32:46.195Z
Title
Him
Author
Meadows, Tracy
Pages
4 pages
State
Arkansas
Text (FT)
Him By Tracy Meadows My celly has a subscription to Harper's Magazine and recently I read an essay concerning the definition and joys of "frottage" - which, the author instructed, is pronounced like "cottage". My memory is usually a stew of subtle reflections rather than clear recollections, but as I read, the stew was stirred and suddenly there rose a steaming memory of him. I remember him standing on the top floor staircase landing in the music building. We were col...
PID
apw:12344129
Date Uploaded
2016-10-20T11:42:25.506Z
Title
Holiday blues 'n blahs
Author
Magnific, Roc
Pages
4 pages
State
Arkansas
Text (TR_WF)
Roc Magnific Holiday Blues ‘n Blahs There’s nothing more effacing for one to lose control of hiser positive thinking when being confined during holidays. Melancholy, despair, depression (especially that dog, depression)… tag-team to assault one’s mental bulwarks. As humans, male and female, young and old, we create realities… based [upon?] faiths and beliefs. Thus it is [gey?] [eutse?] why so many people experience mental issues during the holidays, being far… from those they love. Our lives ...
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apw:12342456
Date Uploaded
2016-10-14T20:31:17.565Z
Title
I, intellectual firing squad
Author
Tinsman, Anthony
Date
2013
Date
2013, 2013
Pages
4 pages
State
Arkansas
Topics
Description of program "Take a Load Off" developedand taught by author, program plan and charts on recidivism rates by crime, etc.
Text (FT)
NON-FICTION STORY ( 700 + words ) Anthony Tinsman Title: I, Intellectual Firing Squad I wanted my prisoner rehabilitation program "Take a Load Off" to provide a body of positive work and hope for prisoners who were getting ready to leave for the World. There are some glimpses of hope, but progress routinely feels like a muddy canard rather than the champion I designed and put into practice . In a word People are the problem. We think we're the stars of everything, everything ex...
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apw:294
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T18:26:48.978Z
Title
New study probes prisoner reentry
Author
Tinsman, Anthony
Date
2015
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
I have a unique job. As the program designer of Take a Load Off (TLO) it’s my job to teach it, train others to teach it, and evaluate the progr effectiveness. Since July 2014, with support from our proactive Reentry Affairs Coordinator Mrs. Guthrie, TLO has provi , standardized curriculum and one-on—one guidance to prisoners for their reentry needs. This required a new work deta "6 24 inmates, called Reentry Technicians, who provide the services: such as applications for vital documents ...
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apw:12349048
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T13:24:48.995Z
Title
Numbness is all I desire
Author
Murray, B.C.
Date
2017-06-05
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
Numbness is all I desire. is that too much for a man to ask? To be comfortably numb just like the Pink Floyd song says. One would think that after seven years, almost eight, I would have reached an emotional plateau that provides some semblance of sequestration from the insatiable madness of my environs. Regardless of the amount of prayer and other efforts, such a reprieve never arrives. Maybe my parents and teachers did a better job of indoctrinating me than family, ex—family and others (inc...
PID
apw:12352664
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:38:27.828Z
Title
On prison health care
Author
Magnific, Roc
Pages
5 pages
State
Arkansas
Text (TR_WF)
"On Prison Health Care" When it comes to prison health care, the best way to describe it is by an old axiom true: "Galen says "yea," Hippocrates says "nay" (e.g. doctors and nurses disagree over what... types of aid to render [ineligible] forlorn hopes; and will not follow the orders of free-world physicians; and instead follow their own initiatives). Basically here's the [dillie?]: the only good inmate is a dead... inmate. Financially speaking the cost...
PID
apw:12342450
Date Uploaded
2016-10-14T20:31:16.963Z
Title
Out of control
Author
Murray, B.C.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR)
OUT OF CONTROL Due to incompetence, indifference and outright bias; graft and corruption run amok at FCC-Forrest City-Low. Meanwhile inmates who wish to obey the policies and rules and staff who want to simply do there jobs and go home are made to suffer. On Friday, September 29, 2017, an African-American corrections officer (CO) physically attacked a white inmate who never instigated a confrontation or tried to respond. Staff at the prison wasted no time trying to sweep this incident under t...
PID
apw:12352846
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:35:17.241Z
Title
Pen pals who are news services, collaborators and fans
Author
Tinsman, Anthony
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Re: Writing Contest (Pen Pals) By: Antony Tinsman, POB 3000,Forrest City,AR.,72336 Topic: Pen Pals who are News Services, Collaborators and Fans My first passion was words. I didn't even know what I was looking at as a toddler, but there was some kind of magic in the structure of writing and power in what people could share by reading it aloud. Since I have some time to work on this passion a little more, I have come a long way. It started with writing fiction and poetry, to master the c...
PID
apw:12349040
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T13:24:48.341Z
Title
Pen pals who are professionals
Author
Tinsman, Anthony
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
gfiv /%¢%¢%g/25#Zo#:J7hi«;(x.ccmu. ARTICLE (800 words) For Immediate Use Title / Topic: Commitment To Change By: Anthony Tinsman 04276-063 FCC PO BOX 3000, Forrest City, AR., 72336 Many prison programs offer selected inmates access to positive peer support, but none, until recently, have scaled 1:1 service to the entire population. Here in Forrest City Medium (BOP) there is a functioning model of evidence based 1:1 peer support and counseling. The program uses reentry curriculum, resources and...
PID
apw:12349043
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T13:24:48.625Z
Title
Prison's most contented
Author
Murray, B.C.
Date
2018
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
Prison's Most Contented While most inmates on a prison compound struggle with low self-esteem, depression and anxiety, it is awe-inspiring how contented openly gay men appear. In an environment presumed to be unembracing and even hazardous, gay inmates quietly, calmly and religiously coalesce and develop circles.composed entirely of self-satisfied, even merry men. While other inmates appear angry, melancholy and lonely, gay inmates -for whatever reason- project unburdened persona complet...
PID
apw:12352956
Date Uploaded
2018-09-25T19:49:18.822Z
Title
Prison's most contented
Author
Murray, B.C.
Date
1905-07-10
Pages
1 page
PID
apw:12354670
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T16:06:04.397Z
Title
Reynoso
Author
Meadows, Tracy
Date
2014-09-22
Date
2014-09-22, 2014-09-22
Pages
4 pages
State
Arkansas
Topics
Story about his friend - inmate
Text (FT)
Reynoso By Tracy Meadows I never knew what disease stiffened and wasted Reynoso's body. It wasn't any of my business. My job as his irunate companion was to get him outside. Reynoso's head was shaved and covered with tattoos. His inked body was a record of his life, his associations, his beliefs about the world and his place in it. His face, bisected by the oxygen tube pushed into his nostrils and wrapped around his ears, was a frozen mask dominated by his black eyes. His turtl...
PID
apw:287
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T18:21:22.812Z
Title
Southern discomfort
Author
Magnific, Roc
Pages
5 pages
State
Arkansas
Text (TR_WF)
“Southern Discomfort” Then there’s the joke inmates in Arkansas prisons that goes something like this: what’s the difference between a near-sighted armadillo and an Arkansas inmate? Eventually the former sees well enough to sojourn safely across a car-filled highway while the latter, even if heshe possessed the eyes of Argus, will not unite as a whole to rid themselves of the satori that afflicts them. When it comes to a state controlling its pained forlorn hope population via all kinds of ch...
PID
apw:12342435
Date Uploaded
2016-10-14T20:31:16.075Z
Title
The depths of my own inferno
Author
Murray, B.C.
Date
1905-07-10
Pages
9 pages
Text (O)
THE DEPTHS OF MY OWN INFERNO I lost my freedom long before coming to prison. Although it took actually coming here to realize it. Otherwise, I would have continued to languish in an eddy of perpetual confusion, self- doubt, and self—loathing about the unknown; past, present, and future. No hell is greater than not understanding one's self. No physical or emotional pain comes close. For a Type A individual whose sole desire is to control every aspect of my destiny, the unknowing- especial...
PID
apw:12355307
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T19:53:41.31Z
Title
The hope of an aging man
Author
Murray, B.C.
Date
1905-07-10
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
THE HOPE OF AN AGING MAN It is official: I look like my grandfather. A long, vehement stare at my fifty-eight year old reflection confirms it. I am no longer the young, hubristic, overambitious sen1 who was never intimidated or apprehensive about life's omnipresent challenges. Life's wear and tear is inescapable. My upper lip that once eloquently moved to form patterns of speech and a seemingly ‘ever-present smile has shriveled like a once inflated balloon that now appears flaccid, ...
PID
apw:12354848
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T18:29:25.588Z

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