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Title
A murder victim speaks: The truth in the age of "me too"
Author
Douglas, Steffe'n
Pages
14 pages
Text (O)
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...
PID
apw:12359321
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:21:32.036Z
Title
Essay of retaliation by FDC staff for speaking out
Author
Hempstead, Harold
Date
2017-08-18
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
8/18/17 Re: Essay of Retaliation by FDC Staff for Speaking Out. Dear APWA: In order for people to know what goes on in prisons in America people who live and work in prisons in America need to speak out about the unlawful and unconstitutional conditions and acts that happen in American prisons. In every essay I write I'll be sharing with you the unlawful and unconstitutional conditions and acts I've witnessed and/or that I'm trying to get fixed in the Florida Department of Corr...
PID
apw:12349766
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T20:36:06.884Z
Title
Essay on Bledsoe County correctional complex (BCCX) in the Tennesse Department of Corrections (TDOC) not following their own policy concerning the housing of inmates (TDOC policy 506.14)
Author
Hempstead, Harold
Date
2017-08-25
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
To: American Prison Writing Archive (APWA) Date: 8.25.17 Essay on Bledsoe County Correctional Complex (BCCX) in the Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC) not following their own policy concerning the housing of inmates (TDOC Policy 506.14). All inmates in TDOC are given a classification custody level of minimum, medium, or close custody. Minimum custody is the lowest level, close custody is the highest level, and medium is between these 2 custody levels. During the months (3.17.17 till 8...
PID
apw:12349782
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T20:36:07.916Z
Title
Essay on how Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) staff are allowing gang members to live in general population and engage in criminal acts
Author
Hempstead, Harold
Date
2017-09-10
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
To: American Prison Writing Archive Date: September 10, 2017 Essay on how Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) Staff are allowing gang members to live in general population and engage in criminal acts. There's more than ninety-nine thousand inmates in FDC. Tens of thousands of inmates in FDC are gang members. In 2014 I read a newspaper article that said there was close to ten thousand Latin King gang members in FDC alone. Other than the Latin Kings, there's dozens of other gangs ...
PID
apw:12349711
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T20:16:17.03Z
Title
Essay on how Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) staff are placing medications that are hurting and killing prisoners in the food ate by prisoners that expose or try to expose the unlawful conduct of FDC staff
Author
Hempstead, Harold
Date
2017-09-10
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
To: American Prison Writing Archive Date: September 10, 2017 Essay on how Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) staff are placing medications that are hurting and killing prisoners in the food ate by prisoners that expose or try to expose the unlawful conduct of FDC staff From June 2000 till March 17, 2017, I was incarcerated in FDC. On March 17, 2017 I was involuntary interstate compacted from FDC to the Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC). Throughout my years incarcerated in the FD...
PID
apw:12349706
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T20:16:16.538Z
Title
Essay on how many convicted killers I've received as cellmates out of retaliation for my communications with the media, civil rights groups, agencies, etc. about the unconstitutional conditions of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC)
Author
Hempstead, Harold
Date
2017-09-03
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
To: The American Prison Writing Archives From: Harold Hempstead Date: September 3, 2017 Essay on how many convicted killers I've received as cellmates out of retaliation for my communications with the media, civil rights groups, agencies, etc. about the unconstitutional conditions of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) In June 2000 I was convicted and sentenced to 165 years in FDC on 34 counts of burglary and one count of dealing in stolen property, no body was in the homes durin...
PID
apw:12350868
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T16:49:56.22Z
Title
Essay on inmates with contagious diseases, etc. working in FDC chowhalls handling food in violation of state and federal health laws
Author
Hempstead, Harold
Date
2017-08-18
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
To: American Prison Writing Archive (APWA) Date: August 18, 2017 Essay on inmates with contagious diseases, etc. working in FDC chowhalls handling food in violation of state and federal health laws. Prior to my March 17, 2017 transfer to Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC), I was incarcerated in the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) for approximately 17 years. During my years incarcerated in FDC, I personally knew dozens of inmates who had blood, skin, and lung diseases, etc. who...
PID
apw:12349763
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T20:36:06.408Z
Title
Essay on the FDC inmate risk management system/sexual risk indicator
Author
Hempstead, Harold
Date
2017-09-03
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
To: American Prison Writing Archives From: Harold Hempstead Date: September 3, 2017 (Essay on the FDC inmate risk management system/sexual risk indicator) I was incarcerated in the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) from June 2000 till March 17, 2017. When I was transferred to the Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDC). I'm supposed to be returning to FDC in 2018. FDC has a classification system called the "inmate risk management system/sexual risk indicator" (IRMS/SRI)...
PID
apw:12349821
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T20:36:11.363Z
Title
Essay on the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) pattern and practice of taking retaliatory action against staff and inmates who speak out against the corruption and etc. in FDC
Author
Hempstead, Harold
Date
2017-08-25
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
To: American Prison Writing Archive (APWA) Date: 8/25/17 Essay on the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) pattern and practice of taking retaliatory action against staff and inmates who speak-out against the corruption and etc. in FDC I was incarcerated in FDC from June 2000 until March 17, 2017. On March 17, 2017 I was involuntary interstate [compacted?] to the Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC). During my years incarcerated in FDC, I've filed 5 42 USC S1983 civil rights com...
PID
apw:12349787
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T20:36:08.278Z
Title
Essay on the murder of Darren Rainey
Author
Hempstead, Harold
Date
2017-08-13
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Essay on the Murder of Darren Rainey. Dear APWA Readers: The Transitional Care Unit (TCU) at Dade Correctional Institution in the Florida Department of Correction (FDC) houses some of the most severe mentally disabled inmates in FDC. From April 2011 till December 2012, I worked as a special housing orderly in this TCU at Dade CI. During the time that I worked in the Dade CI TCU I seen mentally disabled inmates starved, physically abused, tortured and murdered. The worse thing I seen was the m...
PID
apw:12350823
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T16:16:19.511Z
Title
Essay providing information on how to research the unconstitutional conditions of the Florida Department of Corrections
Author
Hempstead, Harold
Date
2017-08-13
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Essay providing information on how to research the unconstitutional conditions of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC). If you Google "Harold Hempstead", or a nickname of mine "Caged Crusader", you'll find dozens of new articles and interviews with me. The foregoing will show I've been fighting for justice for the murder of mentally disabled inmate Darren Rainey, and challenging the unconstitutional conditions of FDC for several years now. I'd like to...
PID
apw:12350828
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T16:16:19.85Z
Title
Happy meals
Author
Vaughn, Don
Date
2016-02-10
Pages
2 pages
Text (FT)
Vaughn 1 Donald Vaughn English 1010 Professor Catherine Randall 10 February 2016 Happy Meals At four and three years old, when anyone asked me and my younger brother Brandy what we wanted to eat, it was always a very enthusiastically loud "happy meal." The cheap prizes inside always distracted us from the reality of sleeping in an uncomfortable back seat, and the fact that our nineteen year old single mother struggled to provide us with this great luxury. One night, as we crouched t...
PID
apw:12347266
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:54:02.457Z
Title
Hell on earth
Author
Philip, Ashton Jamarr
Pages
9 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Hell on Earth By: Ashton J. Philip As I sit here in this cell, I despair at the prospect of having to spend the next 25 years of my life behind the walls of this Tennessee prison. As a convicted murderer I guess my perspective is unique. I have been incarcerated now since I was 19 years old. I'm now 28, and proud to say that I am not the man I was 9 years ago. I've changed substantially for the better I would say. But I must admit I am surely the exception and not the rule. During m...
PID
apw:12350358
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T13:01:28.821Z
Title
I am 21 years old
Author
Quinto, Kyro
Pages
11 pages
State
Tennessee
Text (TR)
Kyro Quinto TN [no title] Considering this organization is "open to any testimony about the issues that matter to incarcerated people...". I would like to share my personal first-person experiences in jail and prison, which I hope is okay. I would also like to share some personal information about myself to give the reader a better understanding of who I am. I am 21 years old and am currently serving a six year sentence at Whiteville Correctional Facility (WCFA) in Whiteville, TN. I...
PID
apw:12343920
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T22:27:50.833Z
Title
Looking through the windows
Author
Vaughn, Don
Pages
7 pages
Text (O)
Vaughn 1 Looking Through the Windows It was an early spring morning in 1990, and as usual I was late for work. Every morning I drove to dads house and from there he and I would ride to work together. I had been working for him for several months, but it seemed to me that instead of teaching me about work he was more interested in lecturing me about slowing down with the partying and self medicating. I was eighteen years old that spring — and I was as wild as the fields that surrounded the neig...
PID
apw:12355160
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T19:17:08.005Z
Title
Twenty-one years, finally done
Author
Hallum, Christopher
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
Twenty—One Years, Finally Done Scars. They’re triggered by snapshots from my auto-biographical memory. Sounds, images, physical sensations; all identifying marks that will soon leave with me, yet never from me. They hold memories of violence; violence enacted by others against me, violence that I have witnessed, and institutional violence manifested physically and mentally against prisoners. These scars are me now; a part of my physiological and psychological makeup. I never knew that the defi...
PID
apw:12351345
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T19:43:02.478Z
Title
Unfortunately this is my second time in prison
Author
Van Helsing, Adam
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
1 Unfortunately, this is my second time in prison, and for the same things (H.M.V.O.). Manufacturing meth, and possession of drugs. I flattened a five year sentence, at Northwest Correctional, at the time it was called The Thunderdome, for all the fights and stabbings. I saw a Black man get stabed by a sharpened lawn mower blade, he made it to the front door of medical and died. Recently, at Trousdale Turner Corrections Center, I saw a young man get his throat sliced by a razor blade that was...
PID
apw:12362822
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:37:15.746Z
Title
What makes a difference?
Author
Sledge, Fredrick
Pages
8 pages
Text (O)
WHAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE? Somehow, the word penitentiary has been misinterpreted and redefined. Today there are pre and post synonyms replacing the word penitentiary. For example, prison, institution, plantation, concentration camp, penal farm, correctional facility, and the big house are substituted names for the word penitentiary. The true term penitentiary derives from the word penitent. I shall ask, what happened to reform and can a person change while in prison? Penitent by definition is b...
PID
apw:12348954
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T11:14:07.986Z
Title
When the smoke clears
Author
Mostella, Quinton
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
The Promise land requires you to forsake your comfort to attain your destiny!! As I continue to strive in this perpetual struggle, despite the opposition and indifference I face, I continue to seek the promise from the hand of provision. However, my undeniable faith in Christ gives me courage to face the uncertainties of the future. It will give my tired feet new strength as I continue forward toward the city of freedom. I must admit there are days where my mind becomes weary from the travel ...
PID
apw:12361218
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:56:50.415Z
Title
Wreckless
Author
Vaughn, Donald
Pages
7 pages
Text (O)
WRECKLESS In 1993, I was 21 years old. I lived life way too fast and didn’t expect to live long, nor did I care to -- I was severely broken. That summer, I watched as a woman died. The worst part was that it may have happened because of me. I’ve often wondered if fate made the right choice that day when it allowed me to live instead of her. It was an early summer morning in Nashville. As usual, I was late for work. After several oblivious minutes of the alarm warning me to get up, I woke. Qui...
PID
apw:12359470
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:25:22.812Z