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Title
A day in life
Author
Hairgrove, Donald
Date
2016-04-04
Date
2016-04-04, 2016-04-04
Pages
5 pages
State
Alabama
Text (TR)
Donald D. Hairgrove Alabama A Day in Life Doing time in prison is more than a falling away of the days into months, months into years and years into decades. It's a period of a prisoner's life that disappears into the shadow land of never before known loneliness, dispair and anger. No man is ever prepared to do time in prison, no matter what his background. Once inside he will be in awe by the savagery of the inmates and astounded by the callous and brutal indifference of the prison...
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apw:12342163
Date Uploaded
2016-06-19T21:45:56.562Z
Title
A failed intervention?
Author
Remerowski, Eric
Date
2016-12-18
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Sunday, December 18, 2016 A Failed Intervention? "History teaches us that men and nations behave Wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." -- Abba Eban Here's a story I've been wanting to tell for a while now but just figured people wouldn't believe it - - either that or they would think I was nuts. But I'm beyond caring about that anymore and I believe it really is something interesting to consider. So here goes; readers can make of it what they w...
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apw:12351265
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T19:07:47.212Z
Title
A practical approach to prison reform
Author
Whitlock, Mick
Date
2010-02-23
Date
2010-02-23, 2010-02-23
Pages
9 pages
State
Indiana
Topics
Reform
Text (TR_WF)
A Practical Approach to Prison Reform As we progress further into the twenty-first century, one thing is clear: serious changes need to be made to the American prison system. America has become a society with the highest incarceration rate of any nation in the world. And with well over two million men and women in America's prisons, there are more people incarcerated in the United States than any other country. In an age of record budget deficits and massive national debt, it would appea...
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apw:304
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T18:23:43.457Z
Title
A recent study read that
Author
Rupert, Bob G.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Editor: College Hill A recent study read that there is over 1.7 million children effected by incarcerated parent. The incarceration of these children statistics show increases to an incredible level. Historical levels, the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals clearly disproved the myth that decreasing crime rates have anything to do with increasing incarceration and announced that prisons unmistakably create crime rather than prevent it. Out of control incarcer...
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apw:12357792
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:33:17.288Z
Title
A single unheard voice
Author
Hairgrove, Donald
Date
2016-04-04
Date
2016-04-04, 2016-04-04
Pages
6 pages
State
Alabama
Text (TR)
Donald D. Hairgrove "A Single Unheard Voice" I truly have nothing but pity for the citizens of this State. The reason being...they are being duped for their tax dollars to fund the horrendously unconstitutional prison system. However ignorance and silence is no excuse. The exasperating taste of my world, devoid of any emotional nourishment, is gradually overpowering. Bleak and colorless walls; insipid, disgusting meals and phlegmatic, time-worn daily routines stacked upon unacceptab...
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apw:12342169
Date Uploaded
2016-06-19T21:45:57.385Z
Title
A vision for the future
Author
Whitlock, Mick
Date
2010-08-25
Date
2010-08-25, 2010-08-25
Pages
7 pages
State
Indiana
Topics
Reform
Text (TR_WF)
A Vision For the Future By Mick Whitlock As the steel door slammed shut behind me, I realized that a new chapter in my life was about to begin. And though the uncertainties about my life and my future seemed enormous, deep in my heart I knew that I would be going to prison. My feelings of helplessness were overwhelming. What the future held for my young family was unclear. As my mind drifted between memories of the past and thoughts of what might have been, feelings of helplessness began to c...
PID
apw:310
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T18:24:34.525Z
Title
A world with no sky
Author
Vernon, Charles W.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A World With No Sky How much pain can the heart take before it turns to glass, cracks and turns to heart break? Alone I sit in my cell staring off or counting the bricks that make it up, each one a mistake I've made in my life that I wish I could undo. But like my cell, my mistakes are set in stone. What is hardest to swallow is that I'll most likely spend the rest of my life in a cell for a crime I didn't commit. I haven't been able to find the strength to make a deal wit...
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apw:12359312
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:21:16.886Z
Title
After letting severe alochol and drug addiction
Author
LaKemper, Cobey
Date
2018-09-04
Pages
14 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE After battling severe alcohol and drug addiction for many years coupled with long-unaddressed emotional issues — and immediately following the abrupt, jarring conclusion of a relationship with my son's mother and disheartening separation of my sons and I — I lost all sense of belonging and subsequently killed three people. Despite investing absolutely no effort in being evasive as I travelled through several states committing the tragic, regretful crimes, I was the number-eight ...
PID
apw:12356735
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T18:32:52.848Z
Title
An example of how Wisconsin prison officials mishandle Prison-Rape-Elimination-Act (P.R.E.A.) complaints and endanger prisoners who make such complaints
Author
Lindell, Nate A.
Date
2018-08-19
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
An Example of How Wisconsin Prison Officials Mishandle Prison-Rape-Elimination-Act (P.R.E.A.) Complaints And Endanger Prisoners Who Make Such Complaints. by Nate A. Lindell, created 19 Aug. 2018 Nate A. Lindell W.S.P.F., P.O. Box 1000, Boscobel, WI 53805) In many prisons, cultural differences lead to racial self-segregation and divisions. But, here in WI's secure Program Facility (W.S.P.F.), I became friendly with a Black prisoner (I'm White), Mxxx Exxx. This offended another Black ...
PID
apw:12354955
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T19:27:17.325Z
Title
An unnatural situation
Author
Boswell, Brandon
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"An Unnatural Situation"-Part 1 by Brandon Boswell My story is irrelevant, but the lessons I've learned may benefit the person who finds themselves thrust into a wilderness where all social protocols previously correct are not only invalid, but counter to one's survival. Growing up in white, middle class suburbia I was, by all accounts, sheltered and blissfully ignorant. My needs were met without question and I came to regard my parents as many such teenagers do; petty tyr...
PID
apw:12355146
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T21:12:00.49Z
Title
Another one bites the dust
Author
Richardson, Corey John
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
Another One Bites The Dust... And down goes NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer, Mr. Law and Order. Not only did the Crime—Fighting Crusader cheat on his wife, but he used his government position and its resources to conceal his repeated purchases of women's services. He learned a little over the years as he vigorously prosecuted prostitution rings, but apparently not enough to get away with it himself. We see this hypocrisy all the time, and the usual response is, "How tragic. The poor (rich) ma...
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apw:12349338
Date Uploaded
2018-01-13T19:44:32.721Z
Title
April Fools, all year long
Author
Richardson, Corey John
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
Corey John Richardson 151152 / 200 Road to Justice West Liberty KY 41472 CoreyJohn1969§9yahoo.com April Fools, All Year Long On April 1, 2009, CNN reported that the felony conviction of former Alaska senator Ted Stevens, meted out on the eve of his re—election loss, would be voided due to prosecutorial misconduct. A man who clearly used his elected position for personal gain — lthe word "bribery" is the only one that comes to mind — got away with it. At first I thought, This must be...
PID
apw:12349318
Date Uploaded
2018-01-13T19:44:31.536Z
Title
As I write this short first hand account…
Author
Perry, Daniel
Date
2014-05-13
Date
2014-05-13, 2014-05-13
Pages
8 pages
State
Oregon
Topics
rehabilitation, prison industrial complex, methadone, Hurricane Sandy
Text (TR)
Daniel Perry [No Title] Dear Readers As I write this short first hand account, I have a black eye, on the left side of my face. Its 10:30pm, the lights are out and lockdown is quit. US prisoners call lockdown The Hole, because its like someone dugg a hole and pushed you in. now try to think of sitting at the bottom of a hole for 6 months (180 days). I have been in the hole for 3 days due to a fist fight. Once I go to the hearing I will find out my fate. The max punishment is $200.00 fine, 180...
PID
apw:12341592
Date Uploaded
2015-09-29T21:43:06.892Z
Title
Back to Attica
Author
Richardson, Corey John
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
Corey John Richardson 1370 Words 200 Road to Justice KY CoreyJohn1969@yahoo.com Back to Attica "Attica! Attica! Attica!" The Attica Riot of 1971 was a prisoners' response to the inhumane conditions and abuses suffered at the hands of "corrections." The response to injustice is though only part of the equation. The transformative process began in the 1950s out of the struggle by African-Americans for civil rights. 1952 alone saw 25 serious riots which threatened the fo...
PID
apw:12349362
Date Uploaded
2018-01-13T19:44:34.264Z
Title
Being mentally ill in prison and not knowing what is going on
Author
Kemp-Horton
Pages
2 pages
State
Arizona
Text (TR_WF)
Arizona Being Mentally Ill in Prison and Not Knowing What is Going On A true story I was there—this guy was 2 cells down from me. Imagine you are sooo mental not there every time you poop you smear your poop all over your cell walls and floor and staff refuses to clean up your cell and leaves you in that cell 24-7-365—and makes you eat in your cell with poop all over the walls and your body—once a week or so you are forcibly removed from your cell and the cell sort of cleaned any you force sh...
PID
apw:12342700
Date Uploaded
2016-10-15T01:26:24.244Z
Title
Civilian rehabilittion letter
Author
Risk, Steve
Date
2018-09-29
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
risk 9-29-2018 American Prison Writing Archive "civilian rehabilitation letter" 1/2 Greetings! Well, I am indeed a federal prisoner with a 262 month sentence. I have served 5 years already. Recently, when I called home, a new boyfriend to my daughter's mother answered and advised me they would no longer visit me, and not to call. Certainly, I would rather be in my family's lives, raising my daughter, than in prison, She is 4 years old. I was able to be added to the birth c...
PID
apw:12356090
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:23:20.799Z
Title
Confusion on the inside and outside
Author
Beasley, Tony
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Confusion on the inside and outside The Pandemic has left confusion in all states as well as the governor have lef confusion. Tennessee lawmakers have told the judges to find alternatives in sentencing for low-level individuals focusing on class B, C, D and E felony offenses in local county jails. Not only because of the pandemic but also because of the capacity The capacity of local county jails in Tennessee as well as other states are at risk because of incarceration of state prisons relian...
PID
apw:12360296
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:44:37.439Z
Title
Confusion on the inside and outside: Part 2
Author
Beasley, Tony
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Confusion on the inside and outside Part (2) The public does not understand just what is going on in Tennessee State Prison when it Comes to the Corona virus Pandemic. I am sure most all States are doing the same thing in some way or another. When someone get's locked up in Prison for a Crime the State takes on that Persons Medical responsibility and medication. But now with the coronavirus due to the cost coust of said virus, cuts are being made. The cuts are in medications to inmates. ...
PID
apw:12360365
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:46:40.207Z
Title
Confussed
Author
James, Brittany
Date
2016
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Confussed Brittany James Boggle only there is no words, blank spaces unable to fill, empty an inside out, rung out and hung to dry, here but never fully aware, be in every moment, even if its only fractions, any part is worth hanging onto, my life in a closet, the door opens and you never come out, bleed out to know that your alive, without breath, thickness, you're un-able to catch-22. You never win, Russian roulette, how do you hit and miss, kiss of death, rise above this life, resurre...
PID
apw:12346674
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:42.835Z
Title
Conviction
Author
Hodgkins, James
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Conviction I've searched for conviction, but I'm not sure where it lies. I've looked for it in the striving of the passionate, in the eyes of the nodding heads; I've listened for it carefully in the rising octaves of the storytellers and the whispers of those whose homes are shadows; but I never found it until I stopped looking. Maybe because conviction is something only seen in it's absence. Or maybe because so many people have painted their passion and agreement the...
PID
apw:12344915
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T11:10:11.973Z
Title
Corrections: An exercise in futility
Author
Bingner, Alice G.
Pages
11 pages
Topics
Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O)
Alice Bingner 3744 Dexter Road Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Category: Personal Essay Word Count: 2,246 Corrections: an Exercise in Futility Currently, in the United States, it costs upwards of $50,000,000,000 plus a year to incarcerate more than 2,000,000 men, women and children. And the expense by no means stops there. While 10 percent of prisoners are menaces from whom the public needs protection, the rest would be better served - and so would society - if there were alternative sentencing for non-v...
PID
apw:12358330
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:56:23.837Z
Title
Crime deterrence by publicizing the abomination of "corrections"
Author
Bauhaus, James
Date
2014-12-16
Pages
16 pages
Text (O)
James Bauhaus Wrongly Convicted Prisoner on Legal Reform Crime deterrence by publicizing the abomination of “Corrections” Published December 16, 2014 “Who shall we get to guard these criminals? Worse Criminals!” Napoleon Bonaparte All prisons are slow death camps. The politicians who create and maintain these places should advertise how deadly and horrid they are, the same way that they pound into our heads how bad drugs are with endless public service announcements. Prisons are worse than an...
PID
apw:12356746
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T18:33:06.262Z
Title
Criminality: a state of mind
Author
Ramer, Allen
Pages
11 pages
State
California
Text (O)
C R I M I N A L I T Y : A S T A T E O F M I N D A L L E N R A M E R Criminality is not just some physical act that oversteps a delineated set of laws. It is also a state of mind. Underlying the outer manifestations of criminality is, among other things, a certain kind of thought process: an attitude moulded by various experience. How .people view thier circumstances, surroundings, relationships, etc. will greatly determine the nature of their response to them. Behind every act of crime is a r...
PID
apw:12345048
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T14:32:43.68Z
Title
Criminalizing poverty
Author
Windsor, Darek D.
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
CRIMINALIZING POVERTY First, the facts: The arrested: Darek D. Windsor. Age 27. Not prior felonies. The charge: 21 O.S. 1991 Section 652; Assault and battery with a deadly weapon clue wit, a pocket knife. The maximum sentence: 20 Years imprisonment. The imposed sentence: 50 Years with 40 to serve in D.O.C. custody with 85% of the sentence to be served day for day. My story is not a new one. Uneven treatment of fellow humans has been an undeniable fact since the dawn of self—awareness. Though ...
PID
apw:12348921
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T11:14:05.319Z

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