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A book review of Writing my wrongs: Life, death, and redemption in an American prison by Shaka Senghor
Author
Smith, Zachary
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
A Book Review of Writing My wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison by Shaka Senghor by Zachary A. Smith I read this book after another prisoner received it as a gift from his mother. The first thing that stood out to me was Shaka Senghor's (aka James White) claim that out of respect for the victims‘ family and their privacy, he changed the name of the man he killed. If Shaka truly wantefi to show respect for the man he killed, wouldn't he have honored it insteafi of...
PID
apw:12349922
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T21:58:41.431Z
Title
A look in on the prison performing arts theater and poetry classes
Author
Jaynes, Bev
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
I wish you could be witness to the enrichment and achievement, the intellectual stimulation, and the soulful creative expression going on during the Prison Performing Arts theater and "spoken word" poetry classes in WERDCE, the women's prison in Vandalia, MO and Thursdays and in the men's prison down the road in Bowling Green, MO, on Fridays. PPA is a non-profit organization based in St.Louis, MO, which provides opportunities for personal growth and character development t...
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apw:12347831
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:28Z
Title
Administrative segregation: Is it torture?
Author
Greer, Tracy Edgar, Jr.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Administrative Segregation: Is It Torture??? I have been in segregation since April 29, 2016, at this time I have been in my dismal crypt for 6 months. I am just beginning an indefinite term. My earliest possible release is September 9, 2017, which'll be 17 months before I even qualify for release into a 'transitional housing unit'. I could be in the hole nearing 2 years or an indeterminate term if the Deputy Director of Missouri's prison system grants me the 'privile...
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apw:12350711
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T15:41:32.498Z
Title
Another ineffective prison reform plan
Author
Smith, Zachary
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
ANOTHER INEFFECTIVE PRISON REFORM PLAN I recently read an article in The Kansas City Call concerning the plan to spend $296 million to reduce Missouri prison overcrowding. Let me be frank: the "Justice Reinvestment Initiative Plan" will be a failure and a complete waste of taxpayers‘ hard-earned dollars. Missourians deserve better and would be better served by spending $485 million for two new prisons. Missouri lawmakers have a responsibility to pass legislation that best serves the...
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apw:12352701
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:32:16.183Z
Title
As much as I hate this
Author
Lee, Anthony
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
[NO TITLE] 2-14-18 As much as I hate this shxx, I've never had time to complain. My mindset always been keep it pushing because I don't feel like these people owe me nothing. I never wanted to succumb to its suffocating grasp because the moment I feel wronged I have no immediate outlet for anger without putting myself in a worse position. There's so much that doesn't go as it's supposed to and so much corruption you really have nobody to complain to. No authority figu...
PID
apw:12352494
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T19:45:43.872Z
Title
At the time my friend and brotha
Author
Clemmons-Bey, Eric
Date
2015-05-27
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[No Title] 05/27/2015 At the time my friend and brotha ask me to write something about my experiences I gladly jumped at the chance. After going through my thoughts I began to hesitate. I asked myself had I turned into a bitter old man. I know I sometimes sound this way to myself. At the time of this writing I am 53 years of age, and I have been locked up 33 years this August 16, 2015. My sentence is Capital murder and I received Life with No Parole for 50 years. I had no prior record. For th...
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apw:12346728
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:48.617Z
Title
Bloom grown from a crack in the wall
Author
Jaynes, Bev
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Bloom grown from a crack in the wall By Beverly Jaynes Reaching light from deceptive darkness, its seed mysteriously nurtured within, imposing walls cannot contain its growth. Breaking free unexpectantly, from bleak, stark surroundings, the bloom, the more beautiful. for its unlikely flourishing. A surprising sign of hope, graced by opportunity. The transformation of transformed individuals - the diseased, debilitated, disadvantaged, addicted, depressed, degraded, disgraced, disillusioned, di...
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apw:12347846
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:28.91Z
Title
Book review: Orange is the new black
Author
Smith, Zachary
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
BOOK REVIEW: ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK I recently read "Orange Is The New Black" by Piper Kerman. I didn't get why it was a #1 New York Times best-seller. Maybe it was Piper's honesty that moved people on the outside who have never experienced the hell of being trapped in a situation with no power or control over what happens to them from day to day. I did find Piper's author photo intriguing, like the Mona Lisa. I can't read her expression, but it's familiar ...
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apw:12353011
Date Uploaded
2018-09-25T21:47:18.544Z
Title
Bottom line!
Author
Methodical
Date
2014
Pages
10 pages
State
Missouri
Text (TR)
Methodical Easter Regional Diagnostic Correctional Center Bottom Line! It's business! The military-industrial-complex. The War on Poverty. The War on drugs! Health care! War on Terror! Once Business recognized that there is profit to be had by investing in the criminal justice system they joined the enterprise. Government! State and Federal? Offer the opportunity to procure profit that is guaranteed for business as tax dollars are poured into projects created by legislation offered as so...
PID
apw:12343462
Date Uploaded
2016-10-18T02:19:30.599Z
Title
COVID-19 is mean but the immune system is meaner
Author
Smith, Zachary
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
COVID-19 Is Mean But the Immune System Is Meaner After a miserable summer without air conditioning, at Western Missouri Correctional Center (WMCC), the fall came, which was a welcomed reprieve from the smoldering summer heat. As winter approached, I began wondering whether my cell would be warm or bone chillingly cold. I didn't know what to expect, since I had just transferred to WMCC from Crossroads Correctional Center (CRCC) after an incident May 12, 2019, where fifty or more offenders...
PID
apw:12360375
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:46:56.05Z
Title
Civilian rehabilittion letter
Author
Risk, Steve
Date
2018-09-29
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
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
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:23:20.799Z
Title
Collusion
Author
Williams, Edward E.
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
I write on behalf of the prisoners in the State of Missouri and others. I know that there will be retaliation on me for speaking up’, But, I truely feel that someone must speak out to the readers of the State of Missouri and other states. COLLUSION People conspiring together for their own gain or in illegal acti- vities. As you will read in this. In September of 2010, I sent a State Habeas Corpus motion to the courts of Texas County, Houston, Mo. I had the motion logged into : the legal log h...
PID
apw:12353227
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:59:51.478Z
Title
Confined to the same maximum-security facility...
Author
Case, Byron
Pages
5 pages
State
Missouri
Text (O)
Byron Case, #328416 Crossroads Correctional Center 1115 East Pence Road Cameron, MO 64429 Confined to the same maximum—security facility for (at the time of this writing) twelve years of my life sentence without possibility of parole, my perspective on the amount of correction being done by the Department of Corrections is a blinkered one. However, anecdotal evidence tells me that the facility that's housed me for more than a decade isn't the exception but the rule, that prisons eve...
PID
apw:12345672
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T11:07:06.519Z
Title
Corizon medical services
Author
Bear, Bobby
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Corizon Medical Services Corizon took over from Correctional Medical Service (CMS) in about 2012. CMS was notorius for delaying treatment, or ignoring symptoms indicating the need for immediate care. Under Corizon things have only gotten worse. Here at Northeast Correctional Center in Bowling Green, MO a lot of the staff that worked here under CMS retained their positions under Corizon. I just saw on CNN in late August where Corizon and the D.O.C. in another state were sued for refusing to tr...
PID
apw:12347729
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:32:39.015Z
Title
Corruption at N.E.C.C.
Author
Bear, Bobby
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Corruption at N.E.C.C. If you look up Northeast Correctional Center in Bowling Green, MO on the internet it will indicate among other things that this camp is air-conditioned. It was designed that way and the central area is air-conditioned, but the housing unit's components somehow disappeared during construction. But that's not the only things that went missing. It was common knowledge among staff that were here when this camp opened that 2 million dollars went missing before it e...
PID
apw:12347724
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:32:38.767Z
Title
Death at the hands of the system
Author
Lee, Anthony
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
[ DEATH AT THE HANDS OF THE SYSTEM J FEB.27—28 @ 2:30am Bless the soul of Brother Charles Hart, I seen him lose his just a couple feet away from me and my bunk assignment 4B- 13698 Airport Rd., Bowling Green, Mo. 63334. Only ten minute from the infirmary he just left. Heart attack, stroke what- in my mind I believe the whole situation was contrived. Seeing such thing there are No words to explain the emotion?‘ or hurt that goes with such experience. Instantly I felt sad, helpless, once again ...
PID
apw:12352946
Date Uploaded
2018-09-25T19:49:11.116Z
Title
Deliberate ignorance
Author
Shaw, Stacy
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Deliberate Ignorance Cognizance is the prerequisite to obtaining, actuating, and sustaining all rudimentary facets that are pertinent to knowledge. But knowing is only half the battle. To “know” but neglect to “do” is an intentionally driven response and a term I like to refer to as “Deliberate Ignorance”. Anyone who understands, acknowledges, and develops the mental wherewithal to foresee the subsequent effects thereof is imparted with the added responsibility to conscientiously respond. To ...
PID
apw:12355920
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T17:57:29.438Z
Title
Different
Author
JJ
Date
43738
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Title: Different By: Rome 09-30-2019 The difference between Missouri State Prison and Minnesota State Prison. I was always told when I talk about Minnesota is “We’re not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy.” Well its obvious. I remember working as a prisoner in Minnesota Correctional Facility. I was getting $1.00 an hour, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. That is $40.00 a week. We get paid every 2 weeks. Missouri gives you $8.50 a month working in the kitchen. You have to work 90 days in the kitchen, befo...
PID
apw:12359263
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:20:04.605Z
Title
Do you know her??
Author
Shaw, Stacy
Pages
13 pages
PID
apw:12361543
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:04:44.233Z
Title
Finding freedom inside of prison
Author
Shaw, Stacy
Pages
7 pages
Text (O)
Finding Freedom Inside of Prison When man has been consciously enslaved by the omnipresent manacles of stagnation, where does he turn in order to ingest the necessary resolve needed to break free from this self—induced sense of servitude? For much of my disparaged life I was, from a comprehensive standpoint, blind and reticent to the fact that I was helping to brand upon virtually every youthful black urbanite the systematic stigma contrived to culturally, morally, and spiritually extinguish....
PID
apw:12352623
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:37:42.632Z
Title
Hamilton's legal hype dishonest and undeserved
Author
Smith, Zachary
Pages
3 pages
Text (FT)
HAMILTON'S LEGAL HYPE DISHONEST AND UNDESERVED As a pro se litigator and author of the Smith's Guide legal series for prisoners (Smith's Guide to Habeas Corpus Relief for State Prisoners Under 28 U.S.C. §2254; Smith's Guide to Executive Clemency for State and Federal Prisoners; and Smith's Guide to Chapter 7 Bankruptcy for Prisoners), I was curious about Derrick Hamilton's legal prowess after reading Jennifer Gonnerman's article (Home Free," June 20th)....
PID
apw:12346737
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:48.983Z
Title
Health care or medical neglect: In here it is all the same
Author
Greer, Tracy Edgar, Jr.
Date
2016
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Health Care or Medical Neglect: In Here It Is All The Same I would like for you to sit and visualize for a second if possible - You have left the clinic and you have a feeling that you may have been misdiagnosed buy this 'clinician' posing as a MD. The problem persists, continues to exacerbate becoming unbearable mentally as well as physically. You go back to the 'clinician' who seems appalled that you have the audacity and gall to challenge them to run a new series of tes...
PID
apw:12349562
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T19:34:01.94Z
Title
Hidden to oppression
Author
Lee, Anthony
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Hidden To Oppression (H2O) 
 When I look into the world I see endless opposition but even greater opportunity. Opposition is for everyone while opportunity is for those who take them. For individuals who take opportunities and seek knowledge for the betterment of their positional roles in this world have a greater chance at overcoming the inherent opposition. Living in tall grass aint so bad after all. Once you reach the prison system it obscures the outward goals of Freedom, Success educatio...
PID
apw:12352676
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:38:40.054Z
Title
Home sweet home
Author
Smith, Zachary
Date
2013-02-26
Pages
4 pages
State
Missouri
Text (O)
Home Sweet Home Twice—convicted murderer Mark woodworth recently won a postconviction appeal. The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that the county prosecutor withheld favorable evidence from Woodworth prior to his trial, undermining confidence in the jury's Verdict. At trial, the State alleged that, at midnight on November 13, 1990, Woodworth, sixteen years old at the time, sneaked into the home of Lyndel and Catherine Robertson, shooting Catherine once in the neck and once in the chest. Lyn...
PID
apw:12345694
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T11:07:08.851Z

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