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Title
28 days from Nirvana
Author
Kayer, George
Pages
2 pages
State
Arizona
Text (O)
28 Days From Nirvana By George Kayer My condition is so rare, on the North American continent less than 3,400 people are stricken by it. The population of this continent: home to Canada, Mexico and the U.S.A. is estimated at half a billion people . Through government reports, we know it's found in only 36 areas in the United States. The mortality rate is 40% to 93% depending on a state's resources and its government's willingness to aggressively combat this rare condition. Rega...
PID
apw:12344093
Date Uploaded
2016-10-20T10:56:33.87Z
Title
A deaf person would probably welcome it
Author
Pitman, Michael Ted
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A deaf person would probably welcome it, but I'm sure that it has driven many men mad at its extreme! Noise; all kinds of and all levels and durations. Music is simply noise of another kind to some and not all singing is truly welcome. On an air craft carrier the noise is not just loud in decibels, but nearly constant with launch and recovery operations around the clock. In prison, the noise is both loud and persistent with a little easing of the din in early morning hours. Normally, the...
PID
apw:12361403
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:01:17.371Z
Title
A person cannot become who they need to be by remaining who they are!!
Author
Purkey, Wesley I.
Date
2014-03-18
Date
2014-03-18, 2014-03-18
Pages
2 pages
State
Indiana
Topics
life lessons
Text (FT)
"A PERSON CANNOT BECOME WHO THEY NEED TO BE BY REMAINING WHO THEY ARE!!" By Wesley I. Purkey, Federal Death Row. My great Aunt Ga-ga who adopted me when I was kid, who didn't weigh a buck five soak and wet, inundated me with an assemblage of words of wisdom, which has left an indelible imprint on me. These "golden sayings" were generally flaunted when she was trying to school me on the importance of obtaining and continuing my education, and the need for learning from...
PID
apw:12341395
Date Uploaded
2015-09-27T15:04:38.45Z
Title
A view from the bottom
Author
Corbett, Burl N.
Pages
13 pages
Text (O)
A VIEW FROM THE BOTTOM by Burl N. Corbett The legal profession loves to quote the hoary aphorism "We are a nation of laws" to wheedle the rest of us into sanctioning their self—appointed role as our protector. The platitude's bitter truth, however, soon becomes apparent to those accused of a crime when he or she finds themself charged with not only the primary offense, but a slumgullion of barely applicable sister charges, an obnoxious practice of flinging every conceivable all...
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apw:12350144
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T01:36:13.956Z
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...
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apw:12350772
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T16:16:16.977Z
Title
All I have
Author
Valentine, Alex
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (O)
AFWA Essay Submission All I Have Pay attention. Parents and teachers say those words over and over, and it is so easy not to understand what they mean; to be annoyed by then; to reject them. They are, unfortunately, two of the most important words that you will ever hear when you are young, if not the most important. They do not mean ,iobeyn. If whoever says them includes that in their tone, then thay also misunderstand what it means to pay attention. And they suffer for it. Knowing that, rat...
PID
apw:12345073
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T14:32:48.285Z
Title
Being of light: Meditation and transcendence inside administrative segregation
Author
Frandsen, J.D.
Date
2015
Pages
2 pages
State
Wyoming
Text (O)
Being of Light by J.D. Frandsen Meditation and transcendence inside Administrative Segregation "The world of every day life cannot ever be taken as something personal that has power over us, something that could make us, or destroy us, because man's battlefield is not in his strife with the world around him. His battlefield is over the horizon, in an area which is unthinkable for an average man, the area where man ceases to be a man."- Juan Matus. The cell door slams, gloved ha...
PID
apw:12345115
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T00:46:20.047Z
Title
Breaking the cycle
Author
Moser, Ryan M.
Date
2016
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Breaking the Cycle By Ryan M. Moser Originally published in the Spring 2016 Beacon Re-Entry Newsletter Florida's high recidivism creates a costly burden on taxpayers and is overwhelming the criminal justice system at an unprecedented rate. Statistics vary, but out of the 100,000 men and women incarcerated in the Florida Department of Corrections, approximately 75% will come back as a re- offender in their lifetime. Official records show that 35% of inmates released will return to prison w...
PID
apw:12353062
Date Uploaded
2018-09-25T21:48:06.77Z
Title
Bring it on
Author
Tooker, Charles
Date
2019
Pages
4 pages
PID
apw:12362444
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:30:31.27Z
Title
Comments on medical services in California prisons
Author
Moore, Stan
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Comments on Medical Services in California Prisons Submitted by Stan Moore 12 April, 2019 I have been in California prisons since later summer of 2015, when I was sent to reception at San Quentin. I got off the bus with a urinary catheter and leg bag due to a presumed prostate problem that arose when I was awaiting sentencing at Marin County Jail. At San Quentin they diagnosed a bladder infection and put me on antibiotics for a week. The infection went away, the catheter was removed, and I co...
PID
apw:12357677
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:29:21.435Z
Title
Deficient medical treatment at CMC west
Author
Moore, Stan
Date
2018-07-09
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Sten Moore AY1455 07/09/19 CMC West, G-2B-32L Deficient Medical treatment at CMC West The very serious failure at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to care for the medical needs of it's population is well known and has been the object of litigation and intervention by the state government, the courts, etc. One may think that the problem has been resolved of one reads press releases from CDCR. One should not believe the CDCR entirely, but listen to the voices of ...
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apw:12355097
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T21:10:53.362Z
Title
Do not agree justice systems
Author
Kim, Daniel
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Do not agree Justice Systems I paid over $100,000 to a lawyer, my contract included investigation because I figure out without investigation I can not defense my case at the trial. Unfortunately my lawyer didn't do it for save his money then I fired him and ask to the court appoint public defender to me because public defender use public money for investigations. but court denied because I have a house then order me with in 9 business days sold house and hired private lawyer and bring in...
PID
apw:12358576
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:02:42.503Z
Title
Early personal impressions of prison & the legal system
Author
Moore, Stan
Pages
8 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Submission from Stan Moore Early Personal Impressions at Prison & the Legal System I am now 62 years old and have been down for almost four years. I was originally accused of threatening a business client's life and charged with criminal threats. I knew that I was innocent of that charge and I wanted go to trial if necessary and get an acquittal. Early on I began to see the flaws of the criminal justice system. I lived in Marin County, CA and I was represented by a public defender. O...
PID
apw:12355225
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T19:51:42.9Z
Title
For the last 3 years
Author
Williams, Nash
Pages
14 pages
Text (O)
For the last 3 years I have lived in fear. Fear and sorrow. Alone in a mass of humanities waste. Castaways. In roughly 60 square feet of an all—inclusive concrete and steel studio, where my toilet almost touches my bed. Most commonly called a cell. My landlord of sorts, the New Jersey Department of Corrections. I've visited five different ‘facilities’. Stripped and searched countless times. I've had a couple of rapist/murderers as bunkies (roommates) and have had to shower and shit ...
PID
apw:12355344
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T21:23:02.162Z
Title
Fractured, but not broken
Author
Wine, Kendrick Lamount
Pages
5 pages
Text (O)
FRACTURED, BUT NOT BROKEN It is quite difficult to maintain a relationship with family and friends while a loved one is in prison. The longer the sentence, the greater the challenge and complexity it is to be a part of each other’s lives. I have been incarcerated since the tender youthful age of 17- years old. In less than a half a year I will be 40-years old with the soul of a man and mental scares twice my age. Over the many years I learned what it means to “be family” and to “have family.”...
PID
apw:12348926
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T11:14:05.546Z
Title
Gray sorrow: Depression in prison
Author
Moser, Ryan M.
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
Gray Sorrow: Depression in Prison A.P.W.A. Essay Written by Ryan M. Moser To truly explain the depression one experiences while in prison is difficult. It's like a sadness so deep within that it can never be lifted; a heart of heaviness which mere words cannot express. It becomes an exercise in futility to seek a promise land when you're cut off from society, taken away from your family, separated from your friends, co-workers, peers, and isolated by yourself. There's an underl...
PID
apw:12354646
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T16:05:39.293Z
Title
I am currently incarcerated at Wasco State Prison
Author
E., Shaye
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
I am currently incarcerated at Wasco State Prison in Wasco, California. It has one or two yards that are mainline programming yards but most of the inmates that are sent here from Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, Fresno & Kern county jails are sent here to undergo the Reception Center process before being sent to their final destination prison or paroled or released to work furlough. It is a process that can take anywhere from 60 days to 6 months; everyone is put through medical diagnostic...
PID
apw:12359361
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:22:34.749Z
Title
I need more info
Author
Rainbow Dancer-Thunderbird
Pages
2 pages
PID
apw:12361380
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:00:44.676Z
Title
I want to call your attention
Author
Bogomolova, Anastasia
Date
2018-01
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Anastassia Bogomolova Coleman FL A copy of this letter has been mailed to 32 members of congress who support the sentencing reform in January/February 2018. No action followed. NO TITLE Dear Senator, I want to call your attention to the rarely discussed issue of the collateral damage to the families and young children of the non-violent first-time offenders, who are currently serving time in federal prisons and prison camps. This damage is a direct result of the existing law, 28 U.S.C.S. 994(...
PID
apw:12356222
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:13:41.499Z
Title
In the dead zone
Author
Morales, Robert
Date
2006
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (O)
In the Dead Zone I am confined in a stifling cell measuring 7 1/2 X 6 1/2 feet; hewn completely of rock, an aperture in the smooth unfinished stone is where I sleep. A thin and greasy, sweat-stained pallet serves as my mattress. The heart and mind constitute my only means of travel. I was born and raised in a blighted area of Los Angeles known as Boyle Heights. The squalid flat I called home was in a crime infested area nestled in the heart of the barrio slums of East Los Angeles. As small ch...
PID
apw:12344993
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T13:04:36.33Z
Title
Initial letter the American Prison Writing Archives
Author
Bartling, Teddy
Date
2016-07-22
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Initial Letter the American Prison Writing Archive by Teddy Bartling APWA, Hello, and thank you for the opportunity to tell someone, even if no one in particular, the conditions of the Dept. of Corrections in Oklahoma. I have read in more than one article or publication that we are ranked #1 for incarcerations for men and women in the world. This is not a statistic to be proud of considering the population of our state. It's shameful. This letter will not be in essay form, it will merely...
PID
apw:12347214
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:35:12.937Z
Title
It is good justice is blind because she would not like some of the things done in her name if she could see them
Author
Purkey, Wesley I.
Date
2014-03-18
Date
2014-03-18, 2014-03-18
Pages
2 pages
State
Indiana
Topics
injustice of insanity plea
Text (TR_WF)
It is Good Justice is Blind Because She Would Not Like Some Of the Things Done in Her Name if She Could See Them By Wesley I. Purkey Not long after turning 18 in 1970 I was booked in the Sedgwich County Jail, Wichita, KS after being convicted of burglary by a jury not of my peers. The jail was packed beyond capacity and because of such I was housed in one of the segregation cells on the fifth floor. The cell had a piece of plywood and a waffle size mattress for a bunk on the floor and a hole ...
PID
apw:12341549
Date Uploaded
2015-09-29T21:23:21.807Z
Title
Mass incarceration- What is it costing us and our children?
Author
Bogomolova, Anastasia
Date
2017-12-01
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
MASS INCARCERATION — WHAT IS IT COSTING US AND OUR CHILDREN? I. WHAT IS IT COSTING US: Former Attorney General Eric Holder stated in 2013 that the problem with the federal sentencing system is the "outsized, unnecessary large prison population", and that "too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason" /1/. Four years later, we are still waiting for the prison reform. The House Judiciary Committee cannot move ahead ...
PID
apw:12355895
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T17:56:47.706Z
Title
No one here gets out alone
Author
Norman, Carl
Pages
9 pages
Text (O)
No One Here Gets Out 5 by Carl Norman It ’s hard to die with dignity when you ’re wearing a dirty diaper. That was the first thought to cross my mind when I heard that Tony* had passed away earlier in the day while I slept. He had been my patient in the Palliative Care Program (PCP), my —and his- Virgin vigil; the first fellow prisoner I’d sat with as he lay dying. But I was someplace else, sound asleep, when he took his last breath. I had left his cell at South Wood State Prison’s Extended Ca...
PID
apw:12359443
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:24:40.136Z

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