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Title: As of today July 31st 2017
Author: Pineda, April Dawn
Date: 2017-07-31
Pages: 11 pages
Text (TR_WF): NO TITLE By: April Dawn Pineda As of today July 31st 2017, I sit in my 10 by 4 concrete cell with a blue steel door, with no visability out a purposely fogged out window, (so we can't see the sky, for what reason I do not know) with a hatch for our meals in a maximum level 4 unit locked down for 23 hours a day to the beat of commercials, banging, clanging and screaming at all hours of the day. I'm at Elmwood Correctional facility in Milpitas California and have been in maximum level...
PID: apw:12350750
Date Uploaded: 2018-03-16T15:41:34.754Z

Title: Chances and choices
Author: Maynard, T. L.
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): Chances and Choices A memoir By Tabitha Lee Maynard The cinderblocks breathe and sweat, spin and jump, like they have a life of their own. The weight piles on as the volume raises. The screams of ignorance and suffering cannot drown out the noise in my head. The burns, bruises, and cuts do not cover the pain. The ringing of keys, a clink and bang; new sounds in the ocean of noise. Chow’s here, preceded by the nauseating smell of rotten food adding to the constant wet smell of mildew. On the e...
PID: apw:12359723
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:31:43.272Z

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...
PID: apw:12357335
Date Uploaded: 2019-10-28T20:17:31.289Z

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: Running
Author: Maynard, T. L.
Pages: 2 pages
Text (O): Running A poem/memoir by Tabitha Lee Maynard I don't even remember the time before running. It's all an empty space filled with stories and dark holes. I ran to the TV; escaped into the land of make believe. I learned to read and ran to books; a more transportable land of fantasy. When the books and movies were not enough I ran into the deepest, darkest hole I could find. Inside of closets, cabinets, basements, attics, under the stairs, inside the walls - even drain pipes where the ...
PID: apw:12359726
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:31:47.653Z

Title: The prison veil
Author: Marrero, Jamie
Pages: 9 pages
Text (O): Jaime Marrero The Correctional Writer's Initiative BRCI - 330923 Student #2 028 4460 Broad River Rd. Columbia, SC 29210-4012 THE PRISON VEIL An Essay by JAIME MARRERO I am known to the state of South Carolina, as "INMATE #330923", but my given name is Jaime Eduardo Marrero——and I was once known to the Navy as Aviation Machinists Mate Petty Officer Second Class Air Warfare Designee Jaime Marrero --but, I became a "ward" of the South Carolina Department of Corrections a...
PID: apw:12351719
Date Uploaded: 2018-03-17T01:19:43.43Z

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

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