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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 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 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
Title
A prisoner's worldview upon the discovery of insight
Author
Parvin, John Alan
Date
2015-04-07
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
John Alan Parvin CA April 7, 2015 Dear, Editor; APWA First and foremost, give all you my utmost respects and may the light shine on you, within the quality of your life. A Prisoners World-View Upon the Discovery of Insight The first sign of intelligence will show, is when thinking rational, thus, selective few will in the beginning of their incarceration, start by reviewing and rewind their life's. Some come into realization and understanding upon "the errors of their ways", al...
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apw:12351398
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T20:58:45.61Z
Title
APWA -- essay
Author
Shaffer, Tom
Pages
5 pages
Text (O)
Page 1 A.P.W.A.--Essay I was raised by a mom the first 6 years of my life mostly because my Dad was not given the chance to; I seen my first injustice at 6 years old when a guy who was not my Dad killed my Mother in the middle of the night to steal the drugs that she was selling. Then, I went and hid under the bed until I fell asleep. Then, I woke up and rode my bike until I found a lady named Beverly (or Beth)--one of the two who called the police. The police are telling me after 30 minutes ...
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apw:12349897
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T21:58:40.646Z
Title
About me
Author
Watterson, Randy A.
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
About Me I'm 52 years old and obviously well preserved. I'm bright, funny, classy, easygoing, loyal, faithful, loving, tough, and at times wild. I like REO Speedwagon, Journey, Rolling Stones, Kiss, Ratt, Dio, Motley Crue, R&B, candlelit dinners, and slowed eyed moments. I also like volleyball, skating, softball, nature, animals, people, and I love God. My downside, and for the majority of my crazy and undisciplined life I have been a criminal. I don't know why I chose to s...
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apw:12358995
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:13:29.149Z
Title
Again do I find myself
Author
Dean, Tommy Lee
Pages
11 pages
Text (O)
Again do I find myself looking for self—affirmation, being so down in the dumps as I presently feel. Thirsting for a boost to my self—worth; hungering for an increase in my self—esteem. It's hard to appease these needs, at times, through new choices, I try and want to make, concerning this new persona I seek. Do I fear my anima? With so much looking so wrong right now, with life kicking the crap out of me again, does my inner beast look to devour this kinder side of self? That inner beas...
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apw:12356728
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T18:32:46.561Z
Title
Alone amidst a crowd
Author
Sharpe, D. E.
Pages
7 pages
Text (O)
Alone Amidst a Crowd An Essay on Prison Life One of the many ironies faced in prison is the fleeting chance moment of friendship found there. That moment, surprising and most unexpected, comes onto the yard and into your cell, your life, so very suddenly that you are left feeling incredulous at it's happening. It comes about usually at the discretion of the guards, who have decided to move a person for concerns of safety or convenience. You have left your cell to go to yard for your dail...
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apw:12351353
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T19:43:03.216Z
Title
American prison: The largest sinkhole of taxpayer dollars in history
Author
Orr, Adam Gregory
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
American Prison: The Largest Sinkhole of Taxpayer Dollars in History A recent report called "Follow the Money of Mass Incarceration" says taxpayers spend approximately 182 billion dollars per year on incarceration. That is 182, followed by 9 zeros. Numbers that large are difficult to comprehend. I mean a lot of calculators don't have screens that wide! I'm not going to parse that report, (it's available on the internet at www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/money.html) inste...
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apw:12356396
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T14:50:47.805Z
Title
An almost love story
Author
Shaulis, Dahn
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
An Almost Love Story When Olivia Martin moved into the PC unit, she could have passed for a woman: five feet nine, slender, with smooth brown skin and braided black hair, her walk feminine. I received advanced knowledge about Olivia from CO Romer. Romer said she had hormone shots before her incarceration, which accounted for her womanly chest. Somehow she was also able to maintain red lips, though cosmetics were not available in the men’s prisons. That was one of her little secrets. But Olivia...
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apw:12349271
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:48:06.634Z
Title
Atrocities in the El Dorado Correctional Facility
Author
Shaver, Michael
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Atrocities in the El Dorado Correctional Facility By: Michael Shaver In the light of the tragic death of George Floyd, some things have opened my eyes. The way those officers restrained him is a less violent way the CO's restrain us. When we're restrained, they have about six CO's hold us with the full weight of one on our necks after using pepper spray. They use divide and conquer military tactics to keep us constantly at each others' throats. We only get paid a total of ...
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apw:12362316
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:28:19.137Z
Title
Auschwitz to Attica
Author
MacKenzie, John
Date
2014-08-11
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Auschwitz to Attica - Methodologies of Psychological Abuse By John MacKenzie Preface “Every prisoner with a sensitive nature suflers much more from unjust, malicious and intended psychological abuse than from physical abuse. He perceives it to be much more humiliating and depressing than any physical abuse. ” “They all easily survived the hard part of camp life because they had a “reasonable assurance” that they would be free againiafter their time was up. There was no set prison term for poli...
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apw:12352516
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:35:28.619Z
Title
Background: I came to prison with a 60 year bit
Author
Cooper, Charles E. II
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Background: I came to prison with a 60 yr bit for murder. I was 22 yrs. old with no education and from a family that was very poor. I'm now 46 yrs. old. Stress: When seeing a 40 ft. wall that is gray and dull. Walking into one of the hardest prisons in Indiana. If that wasn't tough enough in intake I was told how young men like me are raped or killed within the first 2 yrs. of prison. The third day in prison 3 men came at me telling me that I had to pay, fight, or f**k. So I started...
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apw:12358882
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:10:26.279Z
Title
Bail jumping
Author
Kropp, Tom
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
WCI Tom Kropp [ID] PO Box 351 Waupun, WI 53963 True Story Bail Jumping I knew it was a bad idea to go get K, but I did it anyway. We'd been together two years at that point. When we first hooked up she'd had a lot of desirable qualities. But the longer we were together the more she became addicted to painkillers. When we first met she was on some painkillers due to a car accident that required extensive leg surgery and doctors said she would always likely suffer from chronic pain. B...
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apw:12359425
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:24:13.661Z
Title
Battery
Author
Kropp, Tom
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Waupun Correctional Institution Tom Kropp #[ID] P.O. Box 351 Waupun, WI, 53963 Battery True Story I was 35 when these events occurred. At the time I was considered a habitual criminal in Wisconsin. But my criminal history could be quickly summed up in short order. At age 16 while out hunting on my horse in the country two young punks in a car zoomed out in the field like the "Dukes of Hazard." They gunned the gas behind my horse, making Buster run and hurdle a two foot high stone wa...
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apw:12359292
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:20:44.308Z
Title
Being broke
Author
Brock, Andy
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Andy Brock Correctional writer's Initiative BRCI — 317746 CW1 - Student Paper 4460 Broad River Rd. Semester 3 Columbia, SC 29210~4012 BEING BROKE I am blessed to have someone to send me money from time to time. So, what I'm going to do, is tell you what I have seen people do around me here in prison--to compensate for being broke. But, first, let me tell you one thing about prison: In here, one dollar is like twenty to the free world, and that dollar in here, takes the form of an it...
PID
apw:12352640
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:38:03.309Z
Title
Big sis, slim the wanna-be, and the hole
Author
Shaulis, Dahn
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Big Sis, Slim the Wanna-Be, and the Hole Working through the stacks of paperwork on my desk when I’m interrupted by a phone call. “Salomon” I said, into the telephone receiver. A female voice replied, “Yes, I’m calling for Mike, Mike Shaffer.” “And your name is?” I ask. “I’m Mary Shaffer, his sister. I heard he’s in the hole. I want to know if he’s ok. Can he make calls?” Her brother, inmate Shaffer is a 21-year-old inmate, a wanna-be in Pri$neyland, a fresh recruit in the white supremacy gan...
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apw:12349274
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:48:06.823Z
Title
Blanket essay
Author
Russell, Stephen
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Blanket Essay 26 June 2019 APWA: Praise יהוה [Yahweh]! About 7:00 A.M. on June 2019, my blanket fell in the toilet. It is cold, so cold some guards wear winter coats. All they left me to wear is a tshirt and thermal. So I wrap my blanket around me and it helps. I have no chair, the only place to sit is the bed (too high) or the toilet. I keep it clean and sit on the toilet, with the blanket wrapped around me. Well I did not realize it was coming off my shoulder and that part fell into the toi...
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apw:12358443
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:59:13.799Z
Title
Blanket update
Author
Russell, Stephen
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Blanket Update On 2 July 2019 I was moved to long term seg. They gave me 180 days. On 8 July 2019 I get the answer to the 1st step for the grievance. As follows: "In response to your grievance. You were moved to the Gray Unit on 2 July 2019 and received new linen. The issue in this grievance is no longer relevant. No further action required." So I got both the blanket and mattress cover. I filed the grievance on 25 June 2019 and got moved 2 July 2019. That was 8 days without a blank...
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apw:12358626
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:04:01.17Z
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...
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apw:12353292
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T11:01:03.001Z
Title
Burglary and perjury
Author
Kropp, Tom
Pages
9 pages
Text (TR_WF)
WCI Tom Kropp PO Box 351 Waupun, WI, 53963 Burglary and Perjury By Tom Kropp Linda entered my life looking like Pat Benatar or Joan Jett in skin tight jeans and leather coat. The weird vibration energy and hormone imbalance that people call love hit us right away. She was also the kind of bad girl I gravitated towards. She'd been a hooker, stripper, and girlfriend of drug dealers. She'd never called the cops on anyone, not even the guys that hit her. In addition I'd done time w...
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apw:12360054
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:36:41.597Z
Title
Cell search
Author
Russell, Stephen
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Cell Search Most agents don't do cell searches unless the sgt. tells them to, and even then they look a little here and there, just enough to say I did it and find nothing to justify a write up. In Seg 2 agents are required. They must cuff me in back and one agent holds me beside the door so I cannot see into the cell. The other agent does the search. Most times they look for shanks and phones, so the search is fairly quick. But some agents go all out. 1st they stand at the door closed w...
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apw:12359161
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:17:31.249Z
Title
Civilized paradox, or hypocrisy
Author
Outman, Robert
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Civilized Paradox, or Hypocrisy The sight of a bully, or bullies, continuing to beat a person already down is intolerable, cause for outrage, and social indignation. Schools take bullying serious. Children are taught and disciplined not to bully others: "It's wrong to over-power another and force them to say uncle." Domineering, browbeating, and subjugating, is what tyrants do; definitely not what we want our children to do, or to become. Such behavior is not acceptable in a ci...
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apw:12361228
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:57:03.731Z
Title
Corona prisoner
Author
Watterson, Randy A.
Date
2020-07-26
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
-1- Submission For APWA 7/26/20 Corona Prisoner Imagine a country where every ten minutes, one of its citizens are being introduced to its broken and polarized criminal justice system. Imagine a country where everyday a black, brown, or underprivileged poor white person is arrested, ticketed, beaten or killed by a narcissistic police officer. Imagine a country where every ten minutes one of its citizens are being intimidated into accepting a plea bargain that he or she doesn't fully unde...
PID
apw:12360399
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:47:39.592Z

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