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- $3 million a month in taxes prison won't release "low threat" seniors it can't protect from CV-19 virus
- Author
- Azreal, David
- Date
- 2020-04-12
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Date: 4-12-2020 *You have full permission to use this* $3 Million a Month in taxes Prison Won't release "Low Threat" Seniors it can't Protect from CV-19 Virus By: Jeremy Mount aka David Azreal Warden J. Fikes recently gave rejection notices to senior prisoners who had filed for compassionate release on the grounds that the prison could not possibly keep them safe from CV-19 virus. The prison, Sandstone F.C.I., is considered a "low" and cost tax payers $3 million ...
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- apw:12360128
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-12-02T18:39:18.114Z
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- 2020 election candidates need to address prison reform or go home
- Author
- Spade, David
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- 2020 Election Candidates Need to Address Prison Reform or Go Home To understand just how important prison reform is, consider for a moment that in 2016, a prison in St. Clair had a staggering 249 reported inmate on inmate assaults for just that year. Almost an assault a day according to a New York Times press article. This horrific report can not be ignored and is solid evidence that our prison systems are not meant to excessively incarcerate humans. So it’s lost on me why the 2020 electoral ...
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- apw:12358697
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T19:05:40.181Z
- 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...
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- apw:12344093
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-20T10:56:33.87Z
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- 4 year old nephew travels across the state to visit, but is denied by prison staff
- Author
- Bell, Shane
- Date
- 2017-08-25
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- 4 year old nephew travels across the state to visit, but is denied by prison staff About a month or so ago I made arrangements with my family about when they would visit me. I was excited to meet my 4-year old nephew named Carter for the first time ever, as well as my 6 year old nephew Keegan. I needed to get my 4-year old nephew Carter on my visit list so my parents, who were traveling across the state of South Dakota to visit me with him could get in to see me. I contacted the Unit Coordina...
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- apw:12350889
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T16:49:57.87Z
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- 452 words on incarceration
- Author
- Roberts, W.E.
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- 452 Words on Incarceration Prison is a poisoned environment. It leaves no one untouched. It seeps into the pores like mustard gas. It fouls the very air we breathe, polluting it with anger and hatred and bitterness. It creates unseen lesions on our souls, damages our being, eats away at our minds until we have no choice but to shut down all emotion or risk self-destruction. One cannot "care" for another in here, it is a weakness pounced upon by those who prey on misery, a liability ...
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- apw:12349593
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-15T19:34:03.96Z
- Title
- A bag of rags please, governor
- Author
- Bell, Shane
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- A Bag of Rags Please, Governor In this time of the Coronavirus pandemic sweeping our country and the prisons in it, I find that it goes against common sense to clean less and take away cleaning rags in which prisoners use to clean their cells and help prevent the spread of Covid-19. I work in the Mauve section of the Jameson Annex of the South Dakota State Penitentiary. The bottom tier is all A&O inmates, new inmates brought in from the outside and most likely to bring in the Coronavirus,...
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- apw:12363242
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:44:48.7Z
- Title
- A brief deconstruction of America's leviathan
- Author
- Rippo, Michael
- Pages
- 19 pages
- State
- Nevada
- Text (O)
- A Brief Deconstruction of America’s Leviathan INTRODUCTION Recently, I had cause to consider the following two—part question: The goals of criminal punishment include retribution (giving people what they deserve), deterrence (discouraging future crimes), and rehabilitation (improving behavior). What purpose, if any, has your time in prison served? Should any of these purposes be emphasized more? At first, its sophomoric quality invited a dismissive chuckle but a second reading encouraged a mo...
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- apw:12345834
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-24T18:13:30.822Z
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- A choice between Elohim or the world
- Author
- Smalley, Eric
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- April 8, 2020 A Choice Between Elohim or the World By: Eric Smalley When you look at yourself in the mirror, what type of person do you see? Im not asking you about your physical features. I'm asking you about who you are on the inside? We can be a good judge of character when it comes to other people. We will be able to tell if a certain individual is a good person or a bad person to be around. But since we are around ourselves so much, the question must be asked: "Would you hangou...
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- apw:12361625
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-02-03T16:06:38.322Z
- Title
- A concise history of the prisoners' rights movement: an epic struggle for human dignity
- Author
- Littek, Thomas
- Date
- 2015-04-13
- Pages
- 19 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- A Concise History of the Prisoners' Rights Movement: An Epic Struggle for Human Dignity Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it. Historian's maxim. After visiting Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary in 1842 Charles Dickens wrote, "The system is rigid, strict and hopeless...and I believe it to be cruel and wrong....I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the [mind] to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body." Eastern State ...
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- apw:12347462
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T15:10:45.99Z
- Title
- A convicts reposte
- Author
- King, Bradford
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Bradford King Thumb Correction Facility 3225 John Conley Drive Lapeer, Michigan 48446 email @ Jpay.com A Convicts Reposte I have watched the events in our nation, of late, and that brings to mind a line from a 60's song, "Hate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace." Looking back at my experience of the 60's and 70's, I now wonder, are we in reverse. Voices seem to be that of hate, degradation, and racism. This message is spread by the very people ...
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- apw:12362024
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:23:06.165Z
- Title
- A crime is anything
- Author
- Lazar, Steven
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Text (O)
- Part One Do I agree with Freda Adler’s quote that “[ a] crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit”? In the context of our American democracy, Adler’s quote is pretty close to an exact definition of how an act that is perceived to be wrong is codified into a body of penal laws.1 An elected body of legislators, i.e. the “group in power”, determines what public wrongs should be deemed wrong enough to be labeled a crime and, as such, carry along with them punitive measures. When A...
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- apw:12352592
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-06-15T21:37:04.415Z
- Title
- A daoist interpretation of the yoga sutras of Patanjali
- Author
- Deaton, Keith A.
- Date
- 2019-04-02
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- A Daoist Interpretation of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali I recently read The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, translated by James Haughton Woods, 1927, with interest. Not expecting a fresh insight because it was an unabridged republication from almost a hundred years ago, I wasn't shocked to find this text true to the writing style of an earlier time. Personal experience on unrelated adventures greatly assisted in my understanding of this text. Many years ago and housed in a four man cell with t...
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- apw:12357601
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-10-28T20:26:48.634Z
- 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 day in my life
- Author
- Murray, B.C.
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (O)
- A DAY IN MY LIFE Awakened by the brilliance of 6:00AM lights, I arise, grab my toiletries and walk down the long, stale white corridor toward the restroom. First, I must wade through a bevy of inmates blocking my path while vehemently discussing lat night's televised basketball game. These men do so without any consideration for those still trying to sleep or pass through. I step across the threshold and into a room with two rows of sinks where all sorts of men — white, black, Mexican, t...
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- apw:12353162
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T10:57:52.741Z
- 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...
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- apw:12361403
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-02-03T16:01:17.371Z
- Title
- A different type of dictatorship
- Author
- Herforth, Bruce W.
- Pages
- 13 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Bruce W. Herforth 9/5/19 A Different Type of Dictatorship Introduction: My regular correspondent recently wrote, "I was really interested to hear your report about 'prison politics.' How would you describe it, a benign dictatorship?" I was intrigued by the question and flattered by his repetition of a term that had been coined by another inmate in my Cognitive Thinking and Anger Management class. I took the bait and wrote this essay. My main role as a recently transplanted...
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- Bruce W. Herforth 9/5/19 A Different Type of Dictatorship Introduction: My regular correspondent recently wrote, "I was really interested to hear your report about ‘prison politicsi' How would you describe it, a benign dictatorship?" I was intrigued by the question and flattered by his repetition of a term that had been coined by another inmate in my Cognitive Thinking and Anger Management class. I took the bait and wrote this essay. My main role as a recently transplanted pris...
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- apw:12359298
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T19:20:53.614Z
- 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
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- A few words on post traumatic stress
- Author
- Fuller, Brian D.
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (TR_WF)
- A Few Words on Post Traumatic Stress It often takes time for the full effect of traumatic events to set in. At first, we're just so relieved to get past the initial pain and stress of the ordeal, that we pay little attention to the possibility of future problems. We simply let it go and focus on other things in an effort to move on with our lives. Recently, the Texas Innocence Project responded with their questionnaire they wanted me to fill out and send in. This is what I've been s...
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- apw:12357692
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-10-28T20:29:52.027Z
- Title
- A lifer's perspective
- Author
- Brunetti, Anthony
- Pages
- 4 pages
- State
- Connecticut
- Text (O)
- A Lifer's Perspective This essay is written with the intention of showing the reader why lifers--especially those sentenced at a young age-- have the most potential for change and rehabilitation, why they are the least likely to reoffend if given an opportunity for release and what life is like for the long term prisoners who have renounced the criminal lifestyle. My motivation for writing on this topic is the pain and frustration I feel, as someone who was sentenced to life--defined as ...
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- apw:12345239
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-23T15:57:01.528Z
- Title
- A little bit of sunshine
- Author
- Deaton, Keith A.
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- A Little Bit of Sunshine by Keith Allen Deaton The morning was absolutely beautiful. A thick snowfall began to cover the landscape. When I woke, I didn't think to look out the condensation covered window. The grayish (alpine blue) bars not being my first thought or interest in the morning. Only later after I brushed my teeth did someone exclaim "Hey, it's snowing." Today is Wednesday and it would be a good day! For the last several months, Wednesday is always a good day! R...
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- apw:12356354
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T17:22:20.935Z
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- A look in on the prison performing arts theater and poetry classes
- Author
- Jaynes, Bev
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- I wish you could be witness to the enrichment and achievement, the intellectual stimulation, and the soulful creative expression going on during the Prison Performing Arts theater and "spoken word" poetry classes in WERDCE, the women's prison in Vandalia, MO and Thursdays and in the men's prison down the road in Bowling Green, MO, on Fridays. PPA is a non-profit organization based in St.Louis, MO, which provides opportunities for personal growth and character development t...
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- apw:12347831
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-11-02T19:42:28Z
- Title
- A loss of memory?
- Author
- Roberts, W.E.
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- A Loss of Memory? In a recent Esquire article entitled "The Cold Open" by long-time contributor Charles P. Pierce, we are reminded of the power of memory, of our mandate public witness to history and politics, and our obligation to join together with others in order to shape a better future for our nation and our world. Pierce invokes the prescient words of Czech author Milon Kundera, who saw the struggle for independence from Soviet domination as one of "man against power... m...
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- apw:12349589
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-15T19:34:03.699Z
- Title
- A murder victim speaks: The truth in the age of "me too"
- Author
- Douglas, Steffe'n
- Pages
- 14 pages
- Text (O)
- American Prison Writing Archive: A Murder Victim Speaks A Murder Victim Speaks: (The Truth in the Age of "Me Too") I am a murder victim... I have often said that Paul Harvey was right. I maintain that to this day. 'If you want to see the worst that society has to offer humanity sit outside a prison at shift change'. No one is more corrupt, no one is more criminal than those folks you'll see exiting or entering the facility with badges on their chests. You won't b...
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- apw:12359321
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T19:21:32.036Z
- Title
- A page from the cage
- Author
- Twisted Tex
- Pages
- 2 pages
- State
- Ohio
- Text (TR)
- Twisted Tex Ohio American Prison Writing Archive Twisted Art Production April 1st, 2016 "A Page from the Cage" To with all & any; greetings & good day. My name is Jeremy P. Gallant (The Twisted One). I write to you from the infamous Lucasville prison, home to the 1993 11 day prison riot. I write to you from the cruel confines of 23 hour solitary isolations in the warped world of reform and rehabilitations! May my letter be received in the same context from that in which it i...
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- apw:12343827
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-19T18:32:30.097Z