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Title: A weekend in the hills
Author: Phillips, Vance
Pages: 12 pages
Text (O): A WEEKEND IN THE HILLS by Vance Phillips The first time I went to prison . . . I was twenty-one and serving several sentences for a smorgasbord of petty crimes. I had been sentenced to a little over a year for larceny of a person, possession of a stolen ﬁrearm, possession with intent to sell marijuana, and taking the police on a high-speed chase. A Sheriff ’s Deputy drove me to Polk Youth Center, one of three North Carolina youth prisons. The prison was far out in the boondocks, miles away fr...
PID: apw:12352610
Date Uploaded: 2018-06-15T21:37:26.096Z

Title: After letting severe alochol and drug addiction
Author: LaKemper, Cobey
Date: 2018-09-04
Pages: 14 pages
Text (TR_WF): NO TITLE After battling severe alcohol and drug addiction for many years coupled with long-unaddressed emotional issues — and immediately following the abrupt, jarring conclusion of a relationship with my son's mother and disheartening separation of my sons and I — I lost all sense of belonging and subsequently killed three people. Despite investing absolutely no effort in being evasive as I travelled through several states committing the tragic, regretful crimes, I was the number-eight ...
PID: apw:12356735
Date Uploaded: 2019-05-28T18:32:52.848Z

Title: Education & recidivism
Author: Ridley, Christopher D.
Pages: 14 pages
Text (TR_WF): Chris Ridley Education & Recidivism "The Fortune News", a reentry publication of the Fortune Society of New York City, asked it's readers the following question: "Do you think education has received enough attention as a strategy for successful reentry?" My answer to this is dual: Yes, the issue has been studied extensively; No, the implementation of extensive educational opportunities has not received the level of funding required to be effective. Budgetary conce...
PID: apw:12350550
Date Uploaded: 2018-03-16T14:09:39.633Z

Title: I want to make it clear that I strongly oppose this department of in-justice system
Author: Grissom, Reginald
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): [no title] I want to make it clear that I strongly oppose this Department of "In"-justice system, and I will never let prison make me feel inferior. In here I see so many people without hope. All of their appeals have been denied, and their multiple convictions have them drowning in a sea of guilt, anger, and depression. All of that negative energy stirring in one environment make the penitentiary a very dangerous place. I was an integral part of that confusion, a walking time bomb ...
PID: apw:12356117
Date Uploaded: 2019-05-23T19:24:03.799Z

Title: I've been thinking about what I should write
Author: Chapman, Donald Rorie
Pages: 4 pages
Text (TR_WF): April, 10th, 2018 I've been thinking about what I should write about in this new report? My first writings was a personal testimony about losing my wife last summer, and dealing with the affects of that mental strain in a place where nobody cares.. It's still a topic I speak about to many prisoner's because when you feel passionate about something you want to let people know that inner core. It's like the rules of life are so different now.. Feels like the value of life, a...
PID: apw:12353257
Date Uploaded: 2018-09-26T11:00:22.743Z

Title: This story is a real life event
Author: Chapman, Donald Rorie
Date: 2018-03-13
Pages: 7 pages
Text (TR_WF): NO TITLE March 13, 2018 True Story is a Real Life event. The construction of my words are meant to touch those who take the time to read them. It's a story of loss, of living through it, and how hard it's been on my mind, and my heart. My hopes are that my story will help someone "coping through it," in life... Maybe even save a life... My name is Donald R. Chapman. I've been in prison 15 years... Started at 18 yrs old, and now I'm 33... Last summer on August 3rd...
PID: apw:12353494
Date Uploaded: 2018-09-26T23:40:29.373Z

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