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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
County erections
Author
Orr, John
Date
2001
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
(c) John L. Orr 1996 2000 words County Erections by John L. Orr I willingly gave my country four years in the 1960's, but giving an almost equal amount to my county was unplanned. I usually slept well in my cell in the Los Angeles County Jail, but woke up to a nightmare. "An erection! I need an erection!" These are not the words you expect to wake up to in a jail, or anywhere but an asylum, but that's what roused me one morning in 1996. I recognized the voice of my friend,...
PID
apw:12351979
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T12:27:04.201Z
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
Dear fellow Americans and citizens
Author
Grok, Guro
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
An open letter Dear fellow Americans and citizens of the great and golden state of California, I am writing to you today on this final day of March because, had I been willing to admit to something which I simply did not do, today would be the last possible day in which the government could continue their incarceration of me, Matt Armendariz, an incarceration that, while technically legal, is no less unjust, bogus, and ruinous to lives including my own as well as those whom I care about, in a...
PID
apw:12352734
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:32:55.092Z
Title
Don't judge a book by its cover. Same for an O.G
Author
Grok, Guro
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Essay: Don't judge a book by its cover, Same for an O.G. A work of non-fiction in the spring of 2014 I arrived at Pleasant Valley State Prison in a bright red paper jumpsuit, a "onesie" if you will, forthe adult criminal population issued by the budget-conscious California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that morning at 4 am as I boarded a bus from Wasco Prison Reception to go to mainline yard. After a brief stop at Avenai Prison l was delivered to PVSP, which i qu...
PID
apw:12352729
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:32:49.574Z
Title
Editorial- the benefit seen
Author
Hodgkins, James
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Editorial- The Benefit Seen Sunset. You can't see, but you feel it. The waffs are cooling. Somewhere out there the sky is full of irrelevant, beautiful, wasted colors. The slivers of light usually visible through the cracks of the doors disappear in resignation like tired old guards. On the other side of the wall a lifetime thick, animals change shifts and the sun takes its intermission before beginning its other role as dawn. You're watching your show as that thought about walls th...
PID
apw:12344919
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T11:10:12.333Z
Title
Federal felines
Author
Orr, John
Date
1993
Pages
5 pages
Text (O)
©_John L. Orr 1993 Word count: 1400 FEDERAL FELINES by John L. Orr While I marched purposefully through a desolate prison industry area, his sudden appearance stopped me in my tracks. Stepping out from behind waist—high rusted conveyer parts, he confidently sidled into my path. i had just left the ninth-inning baseball game 100 yards behind me and knew no one followed me. The path ahead, too, was clear of anyone. Now only 30 feet away, his appearance sent a cold wave across my back and throug...
PID
apw:12351973
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T12:27:03.817Z
Title
I am 42 years old
Author
Shipley, Craig S.
Date
2019-05-01
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE Craig Shipley I am 42 years old, and I grew up in eastern North Carolina. I came to California and stayed with my uncle in 2000. Thought I could leave my drug habit(s) and prison visits behind, but of course wherever you go there you are. So I have been in California since 2002, mostly incarcerate. Lots of people say they are not the person they were when arrested, or when they committed their crime. I am here to tell you that I am the same person who started committing crimes at an ...
PID
apw:12357828
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:34:25.39Z
Title
Mail call
Author
Orr, John
Date
1994
Pages
5 pages
Text (O)
John L. Orr P—13502 €91994mby John L. Orr word count: 1110 MAIL CALL by John L. Orr You can feel the tension increase on 6-North every evening around six p.m. The after-dinner cleanup is finished, cribbage and Scrabble games begin, and a soft murmur of the evening news escapes from the TV room, but does not mask the electricity in the air. Resolute chess players periodically lift their heads and peer nonchalantly toward the entrance door to the module. Tiny beads of sweat appear on upper lips...
PID
apw:12351986
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T12:27:04.565Z
Title
Ollin
Author
Hodgkins, James
Pages
6 pages
State
California
Text (O)
The winds that whistle through the valley of Mexico whisper. They don't howl, don't scream or beat or bellow. They are old and somber, patient, intelligent, sentient-nothing hectic like the blister of New York or the chorus of hopes deferred that flows through L.A., not the shattered pane that flies over Europe or winds thick with the pleas of a third world metropolis. It's as if the valley is an old sage, the hills and rivers the subtleties of his face, his soft exhales the br...
PID
apw:12344908
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T11:10:11.475Z
Title
Soledad
Author
Redwine, Raymond Allen
Date
2019-03-24
Pages
16 pages
Text (O)
Raymond Allen Redwine G-13142 Essay for The American Prison Writing Archive by akaymond Allen Redwine SOLEDAD The official name of Soledad Prison is Correctional Training Facility (CTF). Located in Soledad; California, this prison was ‘ built in 1946 but is far from being run like the 72-year-old institution it is. One would think that such a mature facility would have worked out all the challenges necessary to run a prison efficiently and proficiently by now, yet this is not at all what we e...
PID
apw:12357569
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:25:39.426Z
Title
Squander 101
Author
Orr, John
Date
2011
Pages
11 pages
Text (O)
Squander 101: A required corrections officer academy class? 
 By Bryce Canyon (pseudonym) 
 My introduction to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prison system followed a lengthy stretch in a Club Fed penitentiary near Los Angeles. The difference between federal and state time is like departing a Hawaiian vacation and stepping into an Amazonian jungle without food, water or a weapon. Indoctrination into Governor Swarzenegger's penal system required my spen...
PID
apw:12351996
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T12:27:05.011Z
Title
Talking in circles
Author
Orr, John
Date
1994
Pages
7 pages
Text (O)
(c) 1994 1800 wds. TALKING IN CIRCLES by Bryce Canyon (Pseudonym) At least twice a month I walk down to the south yard at Club Fed L.A. - Terminal Island Federal Correctional Institution in San Pedro, California. My stroll usually takes place in the evening at a time when I am sure there will be few of my fellow inmates present. The south yard covers a little over an acre of the island and has a combination baseball diamond/soccer field surrounded by a half-mile running track. The grass is re...
PID
apw:12352008
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T12:27:05.243Z
Title
Tehachapi: An essay
Author
Redwine, Raymond Allen
Date
2019-12-25
Pages
22 pages
PID
apw:12360813
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:44:42.83Z
Title
The barking spider incident
Author
von Renegar, Eric
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"The Barking Spider Incident" While sitting in a cell, in the Lake County jail, California; my cellmate and I where talking about how smart a person has to be, to be a correctional guard. My cellmate was saying; that they had to be pretty smart to be a correctional guard. I was saying; a moron could do the job better than the ones that work here. Since we were both bored, and just waiting for our one hour of dayroom program to begin. So to prove my point, I came up with an idea, but...
PID
apw:12358774
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:07:38.72Z
Title
The problem with ideology: incarceration and unintended consequences
Author
Ramer, Allen
Pages
12 pages
State
California
Text (O)
The Problem with Ideology: Incarceration and Unintended Consequences Allen Ramer 
 America has a love affair with incarceration and tough punishment that borders on the extreme. The fact that U.S. prisons/jails hold a greater proportion of their population than 26 of the largest European nations combined is a telltale sign. Even countries with some of the most appalling records on human rights (namely, Russia and China) have lower incarceration rates. Although longer prison terms and more pri...
PID
apw:12345035
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T14:32:43.036Z
Title
The right "high
Author
Orr, John
Date
2015
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
©dohn L. Orr 2015 THE 2 scam’ "HIGH" by John L. Orr The word "high" generally gets. the attention of the incarcerated. and is universally understood - but everybody has their own literal interpretation of the descriptor. To an addict the "high" is immediacy when brought on by the introduction of a drug of choice or opportunity — it is a given, it's gonna happen, and has the added element that it might kill you, so hang on. However, to an avid runner or exerc...
PID
apw:12351992
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T12:27:04.731Z
Title
There is no rehabilitation in the state of California
Author
Bandit
Date
43772
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"There is No-Rehabilitation in the State of California" Now, I know for a fact, there is no such thing as rehabilitation in the state of California criminal justice system. As a non-violent drug offender, and a Vietnam combat Veteran, I can attest to the fact, there is no such thing as Rehabilitation in the "California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation," also known as C.D.C.R.. The reason for my saying this; which will be made more clear, as this story unfolds. ...
PID
apw:12359591
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:28:36.447Z
Title
Warriors of iron from piles of wood
Author
Grok, Guro
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Warriors Of Iron From Piles Of Wood Introduction As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. — A proverb Many times I have laughed when friend or foe alike has told me, "I used to have 19 inch arms," or, “I once bench-pressed 400 and such and such pounds.” You see, in my nearly thirty years of coaching varsity level sports and of training as a full-time athlete myself, I have learned how very easy it is to talk big. But the work required to actually accomplish notable things...
PID
apw:12352739
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:33:01.052Z