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A bottle of contradictions
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Williams, Dortell
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A Bottle of Contradictions by Dortell Williams Is it me, or is the sentence of life without the possibility a bottle of contradictions? Perhaps the bottle should say "Break in case of emergency!" The Legislature wrote the law implying that I am - that we are - incorrigible. So the prison system excludes us from every meaningful rehabilitative program: trades, jobs with career paths, and even some self-help programs. In spite of these impediments, many of us have achieved remarkable ...
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apw:12360743
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Date Uploaded
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2021-02-03T15:42:57.793Z
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A colossal disparity in the Florida prison system
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Author
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Moody, Jesse Jr.
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Date
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2018-01-16
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7 pages
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A Colossal Disparity In The Florida Prison System By AKA Kingsta January 16, 2018 I understand I was sentenced to serve time in the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) even though I was wrongfully convicted. However, a prison sentence subjecting me to cruel and unusual punishment and unequal treatment violates both federal and state constitutions and Florida state law. At the very moment I stepped off the large bus (blue bird) at the reception and medical center of Lake Butler Correction...
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apw:12353486
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-26T23:40:20.169Z
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A modernized dungeon
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Author
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Moody, Jesse Jr.
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Date
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2017-12-28
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14 pages
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A Modernized Dungeon By Jesse Moody AKA Kingsta December 28, 2017 Visualize this... After hearing and seeing all of the different and shocking news about America’s archaic penal system via the various media outlets, you decide to seek out a more sensorial experience to help you grasp the plight of the incarcerated. Searching the internet, you unexpectedly discover a nonprofit organization hosting an experiment offering substantial compensation for those willing to participate in a control gro...
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apw:12354034
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-27T14:37:14.087Z
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A torturous van ride
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Author
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Moody, Jesse Jr.
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Date
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2018-01-04
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10 pages
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A Torturous Van Ride By Jesse Moody JR AKA Kingsta January 4, 2018 Imagine this... On this day you arise from your slumber and go through your normal routine. You make your bed, drape yourself in clothing, use the bathroom, brush your teeth, and eat breakfast. After saying your farewells to your family, you finish preparing for work. Then, as soon as you walk out of the door, police officers unexpectedly approach you with menacing scowls. Once they are upon you, they aggressively grab you by ...
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apw:12354176
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-27T17:01:59.834Z
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An administrative travesty
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Author
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Moody, Jesse Jr.
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Date
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2017-12-13
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8 pages
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An Administrative Travesty By Jesse Moody AKA Kingsta December 13, 2017 Follow me... You are at a public park toying with your latest model handset while periodically glancing at the children who are happily running around the playground. You like to come to the park for your lunch break because the children’s invigorating laughter resonates in your ears helping to relieve the tension caused by the day to day struggles of your chosen occupation. In the past, the children’s overseer has engage...
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apw:12352682
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Date Uploaded
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2018-06-15T21:38:46.91Z
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An open letter to Congress: National COVID-19 November mail-in voting "We can do better"
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Author
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Williams, Dortell
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Date
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2020-04-17
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5 pages
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Dortell Williams P.O. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 April 17, 2020 An Open Letter to Congress National COVID-19-November Mail-In Voting “We Can Do Better" “This is ridiculous! I hope they aren’t playing politics and risking our lives,” to do this, said a Wisconsin voter, on March 7th, during their primary election. The frustration of this senior, female African-American voter was palpable as she stood in the hours-long line waiting; waiting for the only opportunity she was given to exerci...
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apw:12360277
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Date Uploaded
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2020-12-02T18:44:04.39Z
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Brief Autobiography
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Author
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Moody, Jesse Jr.
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Date
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2017-12-05
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2 pages
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Brief Autobiography December 05, 2017 Jesse Moody #XO2438 5400 Bayline Drive Panama City F.L. 32404 My young undeveloped mind did not understand the consequences of my actions and I made a few critical mistakes as a juvenile that drastically altered the course of my life. I sat through four criminal jury trials, lost three, and was sentenced as an adult to serve approximately 18 years in the Florida Department of Corrections even though the offenses occurred when I was 17 years old. I should ...
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apw:12353005
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-25T21:47:13.148Z
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CDCЯ? (part 1)
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Author
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Blacher, Marlon
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Date
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2012
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9 pages
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State
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California
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CDCR? (part 1) by Marlon Blacher in 2012 "Sam Adams. 'The law serves those in power. That is the function and purpose of the law. The only honest question is who holds that power. The rest is hypocrisy'" ("John Adams" by Walter Bernstein) The California state prison system was formerly referred to as the California Department of Corrections (CDC) but in recent years was renamed the "California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation" (CDCR). Most o...
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apw:12342754
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Date Uploaded
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2016-10-15T02:19:56.667Z
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COVID-19 and prison overcrowding: Its all in the framing
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Author
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Williams, Dortell
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2 pages
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Dortell Williams P.O. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 COVID-19 and Prison Overcrowding: It's All in the Framing by Dortell Williams I am tremendously grateful to, and for, all of the advocacy organizations that strive to liberate our imprisoned voices, voices that have been so vehemently smothered by tons of aggregate concrete and shackled by miles of cumulative razor wire. In two recent interviews, one organization described the adverse conditions we endure daily during normal circumstance...
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apw:12360179
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2020-12-02T18:41:03.164Z
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Change is within us all
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Williams, Dortell
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2 pages
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Dortell Williams P.O. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 Change is Within Us All I have been teaching my peers for over a decade. Yet I quickly became a student when I came to realize how dynamic human beings can be -- even prisoner human beings. In 2007 I was asked to instruct peer-led classes here on the Progressive Programming Facility, in Lancaster, CA. What I learned is that all of the creativity, intelligence and capacity for innovation I could ever want or need is right here, within reach. O...
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apw:12361393
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2021-02-03T16:01:03.562Z
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Depression on lockdown: Prisoners empathize
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Author
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Williams, Dortell
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3 pages
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Dortell Williams [ID] P.O. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 DEPRESSION ON LOCKDOWN: PRISONERS EMPATHIZE Depression is debilitating. Depression saps one's energy, induces whole-body numbness, and stimulates streams of negative thoughts. In the extreme, those negative thoughts can provoke suicidal ideation. As a prisoner serving a sentence of life without the possibility of parole, I know about depression from first-hand experience and observation. Fortunately, I've learned to utilize a n...
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apw:12360290
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2020-12-02T18:44:26.746Z
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Essay to be included in archive
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Author
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Broussard, Brad
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2016-02-05
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2016-02-05, 2016-02-05
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12 pages
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Texas
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Brad Broussard Beeville, Texas 78102-8696 APWA 198 College Hill Road Clinton, NY 13323 August 10, 2014 RE: Essay to be included in archive: To whom it may concern: I present to you one of the biggest and most powerful problem of todays time. This is a matter that should be of concern by every citizen in America and around the world. The continuation of our mass incarceration of prisons and all non positive institutions in the U.S. There is not enough movement of concern by our statesmen and G...
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apw:12342346
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2016-06-20T01:09:00.951Z
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Hanging on to hope with life without
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Author
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Williams, Dortell
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4 pages
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State
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California
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Dortell Williams Approximately 1,200 words H-45771 / A2-206 Non-fiction P.O. Box 4430 - ' Lancaster, CA 93539 dortellwilliams@yahoo.com HANGING ON TO HOPE WITH LIFE WITHOUT by Dortell Williams I was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in 1989. I was twenty-three years of age. At that time I could hardly imagine doing a minimum of thirty years before even being considered for a reprieve. For I hadn't even lived thirty years of life yet. Still, I pushed on. I learned t...
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apw:12345194
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2016-10-23T14:21:35.651Z
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I am the victim of a campaign of cruel & unusual harassment
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Author
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Wadis, George
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2 pages
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Mr George Wadis NC 4173 Mohanoy State Prison 301 Morea Rd. Frackville, PA. 17932 Dear Sir(s) I am the victim of a campaign of cruel & unusual harassment, to deprieve me of my interest, rights & my property, compensation & otherwise, by fraud, deceit & artifice, in aseparate account from this defraud. I am also the victim of monies owed to me from the sales of my book being historically & flamboyantly withheld & denied!!! My due process rights, also my constitutional ri...
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apw:12363224
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2021-06-10T15:44:27.42Z
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I thought to myself
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Kucinsky, Charles
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1 page
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I thought to myself it must have been something I did or said but it was probably for nothing at all. Probably the fear factor - that those officers strong armed me, choked me and beat my body like their gun & badge wasnt threatening enough. Did they just want to intimidate me? I blamed myself and tryed to justify their actions. Did they justify themselves by saying I was a gang member; that I wasnt innocent? Is that what I might have deserved? If that was my punishment who decided the pu...
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apw:12352439
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2018-06-15T19:44:31.809Z
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I've been thinking about what I should write
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Chapman, Donald Rorie
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4 pages
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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...
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apw:12353257
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2018-09-26T11:00:22.743Z
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It's a fact: low-risk offenders don't come back
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Williams, Dortell
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4 pages
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State
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California
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Dortell Williams CA Approximately 800 words Non-fiction It's a Fact: Low-Risk Offenders Don't Come Back by Dortell Williams I believe it is the goal of every civil and pragmatic society to set its penal system to reform and rehabilitate its miscreants. Indeed, in California, reform and release is the stated goal of the Supreme Court of California, in its 2008 watershed Lawrence decision, delineating a clear criteria for reforming and releasing prisoners. Of course, not everyone is r...
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apw:12345199
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2016-10-23T14:21:36.204Z
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Loathe & rage: Personal origins
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Vikalpa, Kali Yuga
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3 pages
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I{ali Yuga Vikalpa Vikalpa l Loathe & Rage: Personal Origins One morning I awoke to realize that I had intense rage and hatred towards many aspects of my life. This revelation came with the understanding that I live in the most deplorable enviromnent on earth, a maximum-security prison. My seething hatred and simmering rage are caused by the conditions of my confinement. Being physically restricted, being forced to live with people I detest, and having to suffer the loss of self-sufficienc...
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apw:12357314
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2019-10-28T20:16:43.896Z
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Release lifers or staff in the budget cuts to come?
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Author
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Williams, Dortell
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3 pages
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California
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Dortell Williams Approximately 160 words H—4577l / A2-206 Non-fiction P.O. Box 4430 ' Lancaster, CA 93539 RELEASE LIFERS OR STAFF IN THE BUDGET CUTS TO COME? Dortell Williams In October, 2008, I shared lament with AVP regarding the unnecessary layoffs of thousands of state workers. The layoffs were predictable after Conservatives refused early releases of prisoners -- who were within 90 days of release anyway. At $49,0000 a year, per prisoner, their release would have saved taxpayers a b...
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apw:12345208
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2016-10-23T14:21:37.281Z
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Sources of stress in prisons
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Author
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Agrawal, Shree
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13 pages
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Sources of Stress in Prisons There are an uncountable number of sources of stress in prison. The worst source of stress to prisoners is the unlawful policies and practices inflicted on them. These policies and practices are senseless and are designed solely to make life miserable for prisoners. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that prison regulations that infringe on the federal rights of prisoners must serve some legitimate purpose. Most prisoners want to serve their sentence in p...
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apw:12349807
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-15T20:36:11.049Z
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Suicides rule in prison
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Author
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Williams, Dortell
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Date
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2011-06
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3 pages
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State
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California
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Dortell Williams Approximately 110 words H-45771 / A2-206 ' Non—fiction P.0. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 SUICIDES RULE IN PRISON by Dortell Williams Would you believe suicide is the leading cause of death in American jails? I'd have never guessed that considering how cushy and comfortable some people would have us to believe the jails are. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics’, "Mortality in Local Jails, 2000-2007," the latest report, suicide is more prevalent in...
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apw:12345182
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Date Uploaded
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2016-10-23T14:21:33.844Z
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The lesser of two hells
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Author
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Vikalpa, Kali Yuga
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3 pages
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Kali Yuga Vikalpa A Vikalpa 1 The Lesser of Two Hells Clinton Correctional Facility and Sing Sing Correctional Facility are two maximum- security prisons within the New York State prison system. A stay in either prison would result in trauma, torture, and possibly death. Nevertheless, the opportunities for rehabilitation are greater at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. Both Clinton C. F. and Sing Sing C. F. are set in vastly different geographic locations, differing in topography & climate...
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apw:12357472
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Date Uploaded
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2019-10-28T20:22:23.97Z
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The power of honesty and forgiveness
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Author
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Jensen, Josef Michael
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15 pages
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The Power of Honesty and Forgiveness By Josef Michael Jensen
I wake up every morning to the sound of someone breaking in my front door. As the grogginess of a restless night wears off, memories flood my mind of a party, loud music... the artificial dulling of alcohol plays upon my consciousness. Oh wait... that's just the first watch guy unlocking the food port. Zero five-hundred hours time to get up and... damn! I'll never get used to this cold concrete floor first thing in the m...
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apw:12351421
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-16T20:58:47.882Z
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The power of words: How lockdown and empathy can intersect
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Author
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Williams, Dortell
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3 pages
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Dortell Williams P.O. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 Approximately 470 words "The Power of Words: How Lockdown and Empathy Can Intersect" by Dortell Williams "America's on lockdown," reads the headlines. These are jarring words to prisoners across the land; completely inappropriate for a free society; touching a nerve for people suffering literal, long-term lockdown. In fact, that verbiage, extreme and punitive, traumatic as it is, should be limited to prisons where inh...
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apw:12360195
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Date Uploaded
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2020-12-02T18:41:45.492Z
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