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Title
A daoist interpretation of the yoga sutras of Patanjali
Author
Deaton, Keith A.
Date
2019-04-02
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Daoist Interpretation of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali I recently read The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, translated by James Haughton Woods, 1927, with interest. Not expecting a fresh insight because it was an unabridged republication from almost a hundred years ago, I wasn't shocked to find this text true to the writing style of an earlier time. Personal experience on unrelated adventures greatly assisted in my understanding of this text. Many years ago and housed in a four man cell with t...
PID
apw:12357601
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:26:48.634Z
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 little bit of sunshine
Author
Deaton, Keith A.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Little Bit of Sunshine by Keith Allen Deaton The morning was absolutely beautiful. A thick snowfall began to cover the landscape. When I woke, I didn't think to look out the condensation covered window. The grayish (alpine blue) bars not being my first thought or interest in the morning. Only later after I brushed my teeth did someone exclaim "Hey, it's snowing." Today is Wednesday and it would be a good day! For the last several months, Wednesday is always a good day! R...
PID
apw:12356354
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:22:20.935Z
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...
PID
apw:12350772
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T16:16:16.977Z
Title
Alone
Author
Murray, B.C.
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
ALONE Alas, I am alone and destined to remain so. No longer can the burning, innate longing for love, companionship and re-affirmation of my worth reverberate inside my heart and mind. Is this due to years apart from others? Or is it because of my transgressions that I am left with no choice but to accept the exile society will impose that separates me even from those who ODCG felt affection from and for me? Once thrust back into the world from which I am now ten years removed, it would be fo...
PID
apw:12356135
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:24:33.952Z
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
At what point- freedom?
Author
Boivin, Matthew
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
At What Point- Freedom? There is no doubt whatever the most prevalent thought on my mind is freedom. Not a day goes by that I don't long for the chance to use my skills to give back when I once took so much. There are even times when I still cry from the karmic pain of the life I lost for the life I took. All my mistakes led me to the root of my folly: I did not understand the meaning of freedom. Certainly, I had a rudimentary knowledge of the concept of freedom from a young age, but it ...
PID
apw:12353340
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T18:56:59.83Z
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...
PID
apw:292
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T18:26:19.14Z
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
Double Standard
Author
Foster, A.R.
Pages
9 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Double Standard The following is from a time in my not so distant past where I find myself drifting back to almost every day & night. A time filled with so much pain and anguish that to this day, this very moment haunts my soul. A short back story is needed for the pain to be shared from my pen, to this paper, through your eyes and into your heart. Imagine if you will, having spent four years of hard labor (earning no income) earning only your freedom. With that freedom came new and chall...
PID
apw:12356691
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:39:00.688Z
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
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 ...
PID
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...
PID
apw:294
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T18:26:48.978Z
Title
In February 20, 2020, the Arkansas Supreme Court took a very surprising turn
Author
Hill, Jessie
Date
2020-04-26
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
American Prison Writing Archive Hamilton College 198 College Hill Road Clinton, New York 13323-1218 In February 20, 2020, the Arkansas Supreme Court took a very surprising turn in its course of Hill v. Kelley et al, No. CV-19-261...it granted certain reliefs that gave me access to the records which Lincoln County Circuit Court judge and clerk had initiated methods to prevent me from having the merits of my habeas corpus appeal heard, inter alia. I was given a March 23, 2020 due date-slash-dea...
PID
apw:12361797
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:11:29.992Z
Title
Insight into my future
Author
Murray, B.C.
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
INSIGHT INTO MY FUTURE My detainment behind these federal prison fences is coming to an end. After nearly ten years I am finally able to foresee a life elsewhere that heretofore was seemingly a fantasy never to come true. Certainly, I knew I would eventually leave. Comprehending such a stupendous transition was simply impossible to grasp. After evading calendars and annual celebrations for years, I find myself reaching the point to where days not years stand between my freedom and me. As I me...
PID
apw:12356114
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:23:58.71Z
Title
Matt
Author
Murray, B.C.
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
Matt One doesn't meet friends in prison. Or so I was told just like the others residing inside this lethargic purlieu. As one of those who only experience thoughts of regret, survival, and uncertainty, I felt friendship was an impossibility. Something I neither deserved or should dare contemplate. For my life on earth, I felt, was essentially over, whether anyone else realized this actuality or not. Since arriving in 2010, my course never deviated from one filled with despair and hopeles...
PID
apw:12357996
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:39:56.014Z
Title
My name is Rufus Poindexter
Author
Poindexter, Rufus, Jr.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Essay My name is Rufus Poindexter. I am an inmate of the Arkansas Department of Correction better known as the A.D.C. I been incarcerated since December 26, 2006 since I was sixteen for a bank robbery with three other males and a shoot out I had with an LRPD officer who shot me once in my lower thigh. I was convicted of all charges and given 28 yrs in the A.D.C. under the 70% percent law. My parole date is 2026 and my flat date is 2034. I was sent to Cummins Unit from another prison to comple...
PID
apw:12360318
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:45:10.936Z
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 ...
PID
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

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