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Title
A colossal disparity in the Florida prison system
Author
Moody, Jesse Jr.
Date
2018-01-16
Pages
7 pages
Text (O)
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...
PID
apw:12353486
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T23:40:20.169Z
Title
A day of my life
Author
Martin, David
Pages
7 pages
State
Florida
Text (TR)
David James Martin Florida A Day of My Life A day on death row is not something I would wish on anyone. We sit here, day after day, awaiting the Ultimate Punishment for crimes we may, or may not, have committed. Now, this is not about any persons guilt or innocence, it's just a mere glimpse into a day in the life of the Condemned. As we sit here, the days turn into months, months into years and years into decades. Most of the Condemned men & women of America are securely locked away ...
PID
apw:12343298
Date Uploaded
2016-10-17T23:54:41.268Z
Title
A modernized dungeon
Author
Moody, Jesse Jr.
Date
2017-12-28
Pages
14 pages
Text (O)
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...
PID
apw:12354034
Date Uploaded
2018-09-27T14:37:14.087Z
Title
A torturous van ride
Author
Moody, Jesse Jr.
Date
2018-01-04
Pages
10 pages
Text (O)
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 ...
PID
apw:12354176
Date Uploaded
2018-09-27T17:01:59.834Z
Title
Affidavit invoking Florida statute 16.615(4)(c)(d)
Author
A.M.O.S
Pages
8 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Affidavit Invoking Florida Statute 16.615(4)(c)(d) I am being held captive under the unlawful custody of the Florida State Prison industrial complex, due to the infringements of my constitutional rights to a fair and speedy trial. Wherefore, I'm humbly invoking the Council on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys to act as an arbiter as far as propose a panacea and remuneration of these social injustices within the judicial forum(s). On October 29th 2009, I went to trial for aggravated...
PID
apw:12355326
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T19:56:05.26Z
Title
An administrative travesty
Author
Moody, Jesse Jr.
Date
2017-12-13
Pages
8 pages
Text (O)
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...
PID
apw:12352682
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:38:46.91Z
Title
An irrepairable mind?
Author
Powell, Robert
Date
2017-09-01
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
An Irrepairable Mind? In this notification it is my intentions to convey to you certain indisputable facts that should be considered, as well as pose logical questions that are indeed in need of sincere answer. To whom can it be said to have an "irrepairable mind"? Is it the "criminal" who at a young age imitated some of his T.V./movie star idols - by finding a gun - and shooting a person and now sits in prison for life? Is it the person who robbed a bank? Invaded a home? ...
PID
apw:12349701
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T20:16:16.202Z
Title
Are you kidding?!: A lifer's view of the death penalty
Author
Doyle, James P.
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Are You Kidding?!: A Lifer's View of the Death Penalty By: James Doyle Some time ago, I sat alone in my prison cell reading a Christian magazine. One article in particular caught my eye. It was entitled, "Rethinking the Death Penalty." In it, the author laid out his polemic against the death penalty. Nothing new, he presented the same vague generalities and shallow understanding of the issue I have heard for years. However, he made one statement that really shocked me. Arguing ...
PID
apw:12360071
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:37:09.96Z
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
Brief Autobiography
Author
Moody, Jesse Jr.
Date
2017-12-05
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
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 ...
PID
apw:12353005
Date Uploaded
2018-09-25T21:47:13.148Z
Title
Broken
Author
Lawson-Wilson, James
Date
2018-06-01
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Broken? 6-1-18 Some people claim that our criminal justice system is horribly broken, and to most Americans that probably deserves a nod of recognition for the appearance of truth it presents to our general public. Lets look at it from that perspective for a minute. Most prisons in the United States are extremely unsafe places to both live and work. The facilities for the most part are out dated and in disrepair, due to lack of funding by the state and Federal government. Training for the off...
PID
apw:12353292
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T11:01:03.001Z
Title
Color my world
Author
Lagano, Albert S.
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
Color my World by A. Scott Lagano The morning sun languishes through the once verdant southern forest, now transposed to a morose insalubrious monotone of gray by the winter's lack of rain and the seemingly perpetual and unseasonable Florida heat. A persistent daybreak fog only adds to the ghost-like dawn. What was once a vivid burst of life now struggles in thirst and identity. Winter's death, even among the evergreen pines, offers little promise. The only hint of the day's fa...
PID
apw:12354828
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T18:29:02.941Z
Title
Did you know that physical
Author
A.M.O.S
Pages
9 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE To whomever this may concern, Did you know that physical and/or mental disabilities in no way diminish a person's right to fully participate in all aspects of society? Yet many people with physical or mental impairments have been precluded from doing so because of discrimination; others who have a record of disability or are regarded as having a disability also have been subjected to discrimination. Did you know historically, society has tended to isolate and segregate qualified...
PID
apw:12356671
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:38:19.227Z
Title
Electric monitoring: The intelligent alternative to prison
Author
Koenck, Timothy P.
Date
2017-03
Pages
12 pages
Text (O)
Electronic Monitoring The Intelligent Alternative to Prison Introduction In its simplest form, electronic monitoring is the use of automatic, remote technology such as computers, global positioning, and other surveillance equipment to track the exact location and current activity of selected individuals, in real time. The vast majority of people in the United States are probably a bit uncomfortable with the thought of someone watching over their every move, and probably rightly so. For the ev...
PID
apw:12352755
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:33:19.989Z
Title
Everybody your color, isn't your kind
Author
Akbar, Ismail
Date
2016-02-05
Date
2016-02-05, 2016-02-05
Pages
2 pages
State
Florida
Text (TR)
Ismail akbar Florida "everybody you'r color, isn't you'r kind" Brother's or sister's may be as dark as the night, they may have the hair, the lip's and the look's. But before you go calling them brother's and sister's, you had better check them out. Because it is a fact black people, that everyone you'r color isn't you'r kind. These day's, it has become fashionable to say, people look like me. Well friend's, i hav...
PID
apw:12342312
Date Uploaded
2016-06-20T00:56:49.295Z
Title
Florida elderly inmate abuse by prison gangs
Author
Johnson, Patrick
Pages
1 page
State
Florida
Text (O)
FLORIDA ELDERLY INMATASIAE ABUSE BY PRISON GANGS Violence and extortion toward the elderly Florida prison inmate is escalating because of the proliferation of Florida prison gangs. Prison gangs prey on the elderly inmates more than any other group of inmates. Old men are being robbed of all their possessions, forced to spend their money on these thugs in the canteen, sexually assaulted sometimes and beaten up if they refuse to cooperate with these gangs. The solution to this growing inhumane ...
PID
apw:12345259
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T15:57:10.359Z
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
Greetings from camp fed....
Author
Rohrs, Michael
Date
2015-07-07
Pages
2 pages
State
Florida
Text (O)
SUBJECT: Greetings From Camp Fed... DATE: 07/07/2015 08:34:43 PM On purpose, and defining my own ~— today, l can advocate for prison reform. l just finished reading "Caught — The Prison State and The Lockdown of American Politics," by Marie Gottschalk. l'd like to share a little bit about what I've learned recently. My goal is not to convince you of anything. My goal is to give you something to think about ~— My goal is to start a conversation that we continue having. Firs...
PID
apw:12345279
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T15:57:13.3Z
Title
I am submitting this notification
Author
Powell, Robert
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
APWA I am submitting this notification along with the questionnaire/permission form in which is to give you authorization to publish/display (etc) any of my possible articles/essays. Yet, I am no journalist, author or poet and not many individuals shall be able to write out their first hand experience with this system. Lack of education is massive inside. It should be noted that prison/incarceration can be viewed from various different perspectives. I am not certain if I will be able to prope...
PID
apw:12350445
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T13:43:37.328Z
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
I'm a forty-four year old prisoner
Author
Brandon, Danny
Date
2017-09-11
Pages
9 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE Danny Brandon Florida State Prison Raiford, FL 32083 The American Prison Writing Archive c/o Hamilton College 198 College Hill Road Clinton, NY 13323-1218 Dear A.P.W.A; I'm a forty-four year old prisoner who has been incarcerated for approximately twenty-eight years in two different states, and fifty different institutions. I've literally grown up, as well as educated in prison. It wasn't some prison ran or organized educational program by which I obtained my education...
PID
apw:12349716
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T20:16:17.75Z
Title
I'm doing good... let me out!
Author
Ezzial
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
I’m doing good...let me out! Greetings from the belly of the beast that is prison, from the bowel of this beast which is solitary. As I sit in this cell the size of a standard parking space for the better part of 23 hours a day, I cannot help but to contemplate how I landed here. In my defense, it is already known that I only spoke out about the inhumane treatment of inmates in a fleeting email, nothing more or less, but I will be politically correct for the sake of this piece. In hindsight, ...
PID
apw:12356378
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:31:32.348Z
Title
In a material world
Author
McCoy, B. L.
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
In a Material World Page 1 of 6 Being placed into handcuffs had an instant effect on my mind. My life is going to change. I am not going where I have been and I am being casted, unwillingly, into the unknown while everything I have ever loved is going to be taken away. Prior to my incarceration Aug. 7, 2008 I had a 1973 Lincoln Continental, a 2006 Suzuki Forenza, a five piece Pearl brand drumset, desktop computer, cell-phone and pictures of those close to me, hanging on the wall, inside my qu...
PID
apw:12360585
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:38:59.342Z
Title
In solidarity from solitary
Author
Ezzial
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
In Solidarity from Solitary As the national prisoner strike leading up to Sept. 9th continues to gain momentum, I find myself in super solitary confinement humbly rooting for the progress being made. I mean it's all over the news these days! You see, I am currently serving an #18 month punishment in solitary for allegedly attempting to incite a riot after speaking out and about the inhumane treatment of inmates despite calling for non-violent sit downs that never occurred. I was found gu...
PID
apw:12354793
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:35:48.297Z

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