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Title
An American epidemic
Author
Adams, Meagan
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
An American Epidemic Do you remember when you were naive enough to believe you were invincible? Now, imagine yourself as that kid and being told your whole life is being stripped from you before you've even had the opportunity to know what it feels like to live by your own rules. Are you there? Can you see it? Can you feel it? Good! Sadly and tragically this scenario is much more than an image cooked up by one's imagination. American is facing a tragedy of epic proportions; an epide...
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apw:12356338
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:21:57.853Z
Title
Assaulted
Author
Stompingbear, Happy
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Assaulted StompingBear Files #FreeHappy Let me tell you about a time I got beat up. But to do this let me back up a couple days to give you some background. First off, let me say, I'm a litigator, as in I file grievances and lawsuits, because of this I have acquired a good amount of legal work. So one day I get transferred to this unit in Malvern. When I get here I'm told I can't keep all my legal work and I try to explain that I had active cases but he, the Lt., didn't ca...
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apw:12358569
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:02:33.092Z
Title
Beth in Florida: Letter addressed to Harvard Solitary Confinement Panel
Author
Gann, Jennifer
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
Letter addressed to Harvard Solitary Confinement Panel January 2013: Greetings from California! As a transgender woman prisoner and activist, I welcome this opportunity to contribute to the discussion on Solitary Confinement. Initially, I was convicted for the crime of armed robbery and sentenced to seven years in state prison. Subsequently, however, that "7 years" was extended to an indeterminate term of 104 years-to—life under the draconian "Three Strikes" law for prison...
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apw:12348975
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T12:35:28.085Z
Title
Cornering of the market by TDCJ
Author
Jalomos, Mary Ann
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
For many years our friends, family, and loved ones could purchase items from credited vendors and have them sent to us. Items such as writing paper, note books, journals, stationery, box cards, envelopes, etc. We could even purchase them by direct order with a payment from our Trust Fund Account. 7.1 TDCJ decided it wanted to curb what inmates could get and from whom. Now, we must buy paper, cards, envelopes etc, from the unit commissary. TDCJ made product from TDCJ ran print shops. Our famil...
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apw:12353098
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:56:49.827Z
Title
Dear Readers, Many of you guys wonder
Author
Magana, Maria Elena
Date
2019-04-28
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Dear Readers, Many of you wonder how the inside of a prison facility is. Maybe many of you guys have an idea. Which is made up of experiences from a male that was incarcerated. Only if you guys knew that our image of being able to smoke, inmates sticking together, food being good, and one thing above all of that is once you get out your time time given to you: you do it and get out. How wrong we were! Not only that it gets so much worse for a female inmate. My name is Maria Elena Magana and I...
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apw:12357958
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:38:40.408Z
Title
Fifteen minutes
Author
Geri Q
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
'Fifteen Minutes' G. Allen Erwin I sit wooden, staring at my x-slashed calendar, calculating the days remaining. Prison is peppered with waiting, twenty plus years of maximum security captivity has habituated me to this reality. But this is different, this wait is for a pending HIV test. A critical screening, precipitated by a sexual assault. A tacit insult heaped atop an acute injury, regardless of endgame result. The consequences of a positive reading weigh heavily upon me. I know...
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apw:12357335
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:17:31.289Z
Title
Hello, my name is Laura
Author
Purviance, Laura L.
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Laura Purviance 11/6/2017 Hello, my name is Laura and I'm currently serving my 50-life sentence in the largest womens prison in the world, CCWF. When I commited my crime at 24 years old, I was totally ignorant to our justice system and the conditions of confinement people face in jail and prison. I have a terrible knack for learning things the hard way. I'm 29 now, and next year when I turn 30 I'll have both an elderly parole date and a youth offender parole date. Either way I ...
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apw:12352323
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T18:54:51.874Z
Title
I am a female incarcerated
Author
Tammy
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Dear APWA, I am a female incarcerated at Logan Correctional Center (LCC). I am detain on a unit that they refer to as housing unit that is full of asbestos, lead, and mold. There is even a raccoon that is crapping and peeing in the attic that staff will not capture. Upon starting out there were 3 raccoons. 2 were captures by a trap. Yet the one left has been in the attic over 6 months. Even though several has grieved it nothing has been done. Some ladies even took it upon themself to literarl...
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apw:12352489
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T19:45:37.962Z
Title
Lifers with optimistic progress
Author
Kilgore, Ivan
Date
2019-02
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
Lifers With Optimistic Progress Truth as told by those in power has been formatted to fit into the scheme of their agenda, which makes it a product propaganda. Truth as told by the powerless is a truth unscathed by such distortion, which makes it a reality. As such, the truth as told by the powerless becomes a scepter and reference point in all matters of controversy between these two groups.... Written by Ivan Kilgore February 2019 ecently, the Lifers With Optimistic Progress (L.W.O.P., herea...
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apw:12357702
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:30:14.954Z
Title
My first year in a women's prison
Author
Langan, Bella Donna
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
My First Year In A Women's Prison After 20 years in a male prison system I was moved to Women's prison. How and why that happened may be of interest to you. I was sentenced to a term of Life with out parole for Bank Robbery, Assault, and Weapons convictions. During my trials it came out that I was a Transgender Woman and had been living a secret life. But I was sentenced and sent to a male prison as was the policy back then. I struggled to get treatment for my gender dysphoria, but ...
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apw:12363192
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:43:54.057Z
Title
My only problem is that as we speak I am lying under a toilet
Author
Mister Yemen
Date
2017-07
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
To: The American Prison Writing Archive C/O Hamilton College: 198 College Hill Road Clinton, NY 13323-1218 From: Dr. Laverne Ware II AKA "Mister Yemen" Pen Name The Dodge County Detention Facility 216 West Center Street Juneau, WI 53039 RE: Did you in fact, receive my first essay/writing? Dear A.P.W.A: I got a report that you were informed of my query. Only I am confused at the fact that it is July and I wrote you sometime in April!? Please let me know if you did get my letter? Did ...
PID
apw:12350679
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T14:43:28.705Z
Title
My second year in women's prison
Author
Langan, Bella Donna
Date
2018-01-11
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
My Second Year in Women's Prison As I come to the end of my second year in a women's prison, I wonder if it will be my last. I am doing very well here and have made the change with out to much trouble. I am very well liked and respected by my peers and part of the Community of Women here. But there is a very small and bitter minority that wants me and the rest of the transgender prisoners out of here. They have filed a law suit in the Federal Court,and obtained representation from s...
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apw:12363199
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:44:01.779Z
Title
My third year in a women's prison
Author
Langan, Bella Donna
Date
2019
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
My Third Year in a Women's Prison ( By: Bella Donna Langan ) I would like to say hello to all of my sisters and brothers in the LGBT Community. Wow three years in a women's prison, it has been quite an experience. As we say here " Living the Dream", just remember dreams can turn into a night mare if we are not carefull. All in all I am glad to be here and if I could sum up the number one reason for that is, " I Am Safe " !, I can go to sleep and not worry about s...
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apw:12363206
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:44:09.239Z
Title
Pagan rights
Author
Stompingbear, Happy
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Pagan Rights StompingBear Files #FREEHAPPY This essay is about religious rights, or rather, the lack of my religious rights. I'm eclectic Pagan, mainly Wicca, and I'm Native American. I am not allowed to practice my religion. In fact only Christians and Muslims are allowed to have services. Muslims only because they have previously won a lawsuit. Arkansas prisons gear everything toward Christian, programs, special events, the only people allowed to be in the band have to play only C...
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apw:12358567
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:02:29.976Z
Title
Prior to my incarceration
Author
Forster, Seth
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Biography Prior to my incarceration I was a business manager and family man. A US Navy Vet who served up to just after 9/11 and was in the Gulf when everything went down. After that I went to work for the family business, married a beautiful woman and had two of the most wonderful children I could ever conceptualize. As years progressed I became disillusioned with life and ignored my PTSD and health issues connected to my life in the service. Eventually I took most of my life for granted and ...
PID
apw:12347900
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:30.763Z
Title
Rainbows: A transgender prisoner's emergence
Author
Geri Q
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Rainbows: A Transgender Prisoner's Emergence - Geri Q My chosen name is Geri, I am a 48 year old, Queer and transgender persyn*. I was out, and comfortable in my identity, but in 1994, a 25-to-life prison sentence changed the rules, and my life. Handcuffed, chained and shackled - I was shipped, like cattle, to the upstate New York gulag, and tossed into the deep end of the prison pool - maximum security. I was young, bright and bold, but in evaluating this oppressive environment - intell...
PID
apw:12357332
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:17:25.407Z
Title
Texas is an institutionalized industry
Author
Jalomos, Mary Ann
Date
2017-10-12
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
No Title 10/12/17 Texas is an institutionalized industry. I have been here since 1999. Arrested 2-11-98, hit TDCJ 6/99. Going on 20 flat, next year. I am not innocent, I agree that I should have gotten time for my part in my crime. I do not agree with the amount of time I received. 99 yrs. A hard life, abuse galore. Physical, emotional and mental. I believe if I had recevied the psychological help I needed I may not have been in the position I was, when I did what I did. That's long past...
PID
apw:12349894
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T21:23:31.105Z
Title
The dreary weapon
Author
Johnson, Jennifer
Pages
13 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The Dreary Weapon It was the morning of August 14, 1998 the beginning of starting my life sentence in jail. Oh my God it was a rough night. I laid under my blanket all night crying. I would just mumble slightly under my breath, I don't even know what happened to my son. I would like to know, Lord. Show me, Lord I would pray. Next thing I hear count time and wake up at 5:00 am. We had to stand beside our beds as the jailers counted us. After they counted us we remained up. Getting ready f...
PID
apw:12346618
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:32:32.701Z
Title
The glaring contradictions in the rhetoric of prison rehabilitation (part 1)
Author
Kilgore, Ivan
Date
2018-11
Pages
7 pages
Text (O)
The Glaring Contradictions In The Rhetoric of Prison Rehabilitation (Part 1) By Ivan Kilgore (November 2018) 
 Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories... - Amilcar Cabral 
 Processionary caterpillars travel in long, undulating lines, one creature behind another. Jean-Henri Fabre, the French naturalist who died in 1915, once led a group of these caterpillars onto the rim of a...
PID
apw:12357694
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:29:55.491Z
Title
The modified steel bed
Author
Purviance, Laura L.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[No Title] 11/9/2017 Laura Purviance The modified steel bed is wheeled into our shop, and while the staff and office supervisor bicker, joke, ridicule and shrug at the large object, only me & my fellow inmate coworkers can fully appreciate exactly what we see. This is a death bed for a woman condemned to die in prison, an LWOP who has been bed ridden for over a decade post-stroke. She has respitory issues and now must be confined to an upright welded bed fabricated in the facility, for so...
PID
apw:12352328
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T18:54:56.755Z
Title
The new normal
Author
Phelan, Joy B.
Date
2020-07-07
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
American Prison Writing Archive Submission Joy Belle Phelan July 7, 2020 The New Normal The stern countenanced judge sat upon his pulpit and placated an outraged community by condemning me to eight years in the Colorado Department of Corrections on two separate economic crime cases. I appeared stoic but felt numb, my stomach began to churn and my knees wobbled. At 39, raised in a dysfunctional middle-class, blue-collar, suburban family, I'd only spent one night in county jail, when I was...
PID
apw:12362573
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:32:44.922Z
Title
The unorthodox teacher: The institutitonalization of society V
Author
Kilgore, Ivan
Pages
10 pages
Text (O)
CHAPTER 5 "THE UN ORTHODOX TEACHER" [THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF SOCIETY V] UNDERSTAND ME, As I sit back with eyes open to life, I've become able to understand the realities of life! Time has changed, but life remains the same. People have to understand the obstacles of this world, so as to remain free from political wars and government struggles. UNDERSTAND ME! Open your eyes to the unjust economy. You 're living in a country built on lies and thievery. So protect your co...
PID
apw:12353935
Date Uploaded
2018-09-27T14:34:07.514Z
Title
Transcendence: Passing through fire to fly high
Author
Geri Q
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Transcendence: Passing through fire to fly high - Geri Q A twenty-five to life sentence - my fate at age twenty-six, appeals fruitless, I finally dug in and chipped away at that stark monolith of time. My chosen name is Geri - as a Queer and gender non-conforming (GNC) persyn*, coming of age in the 70’s, I’d become politically radicalized in my early teens. Becoming a captive in the Prison Industrial Complex forced me to face a fresh set of challenges and issues to overcome and advocate on. T...
PID
apw:12357328
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:17:12.54Z
Title
Transgender issue
Author
Stompingbear, Happy
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
StompingBear Files #FREEHAPPY Transgender Issue In this essay I will write about trans issues, well one of them anyway. This issue, an injustice to me, is if the mental health decide you don't have gender dysphoria then to them, the unit admin, to all of them, you are not trans and you can not trans. Nothing is available. For me, I've always been feminine, but it seems the older I get the more woman I feel, like I have grown into a woman. I feel... I feel constricted like I'm i...
PID
apw:12358564
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:02:26.327Z

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