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- Title
- 1st amendment under siege
- Author
- Magnific, Roc
- Date
- 2017-03-03
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (TR_WF)
- "1st Amendment Under Siege" Recently last year (May,2016) Arkansas Department of Correction Czarina Wendy Kelly issued a rather fastidious policy that cited newspaper clippings would be banned from prisoner mail, classifying them as (wait for it - with bated breath) "contraband"!? According [ineligible] to ADC (Ay, Carumba! Arkansas Department of Corruption) policy, they are... concerned about drug smuggling but said vitiated policy does not affect newspapers sent directly...
- PID
- apw:12350565
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T14:09:39.949Z
- Title
- A word to the fish
- Author
- Vanderford, Anna
- Pages
- 1 page
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- Anna MI Vanderford OK A Word to the Fish I don't know why they call new arrivals "fish", perhaps because you feel like a fish out of water, when you arrive in prison. My mom was an old Jewish lady, old by even the standard of other parents. She was really old enough to be my grandmother when she and her retired husband adopted me. She used to say ,"You can't put an old head on: young shoulders." I'm not sure that I ever knew what that meant nor cared. Howeve...
- PID
- apw:12352970
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-25T19:49:28.89Z
- Title
- American prisons and free-world staff not ready for second wave of COVID
- Author
- Magnitic, Roc
- Pages
- 7 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (TR_WF)
- "American Prisons and Free-World Staff Not Ready for Second Wave of Covid" "When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity." Never before have many would have thought such a [crisis?] as the Covid-19 pandemic would wreck havoc upon all parts of American life. But when it comes to prisons, a lot of the free-world staff (e.g. - guards, medical staff) as well as the residents of t...
- PID
- apw:12361864
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-02-03T16:13:06.874Z
- Title
- Black Lives Matter: Are they ignoring Blacks in prison?
- Author
- Magnitic, Roc
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (TR_WF)
- “Black Lives Matter: Are They Ignoring Blacks In Prison?" Ever since its origin in 2013, the Black Lives Matter movement has… repeatedly stressed it was founded on the idea that Blacks were ad libitum being targeted as well as being murdered by police for being Black indiscriminately. As a Black man who has experienced police paramilitary tactics while (WWB) in the wee hours of the morning, of which such was used to obtain a... search warrant (with affidavit) whereas police lied in their...
- PID
- apw:12363057
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:41:25.707Z
- Title
- Blown out of proportion
- Author
- Morales, Efrain, Jr.
- Date
- 2016
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- Efrain Morales, Jr. CT Approx. 670 words One-Time Rights + Electronic (COPYRIGHT 2016, By: Efrain Morales, Jr.) "Blown out of Proportion" By: Efrain Morales, Jr. Many citizens of free-world society are of the sentiment that sex offenders are crazed deviants who create new victims upon release from prison, even though Federal Bureau of Justice statistics prove otherwise. The overstated premise being "hidden crimes." This postulation is rarely challenged even by lucid-minded...
- PID
- apw:12350072
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T01:14:16.74Z
- Title
- Censorship in Michigan prisons
- Author
- Hamilton, Lacino
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- Eensorship In Michigan Prisons By: Uacino Hamilton Today, another book was rejected. The fifth time in the past two weeks this has happened. All because the book wasn't sent from an "approved vendor." To the uninformed public such a requirement may appear on its face reasonable, the Michigan department of Corrections should control where information prisoners are receiving is coming from, and what that information is. But in practice, its a form of censorship. A policy that pro...
- PID
- apw:12351823
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-17T02:47:33.878Z
- Title
- Civil war
- Author
- Vanderford, Anna
- Pages
- 1 page
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- Anna M. Vanderford OK Civil War Did you know that we have been having a civil war for many years now, what was deemed as The War on Drugs. Not only was I on the wrong side of the war but I am a casualty of the war. I grew up with an alcoholic, pedophile for a father and a cult-blinded, religious mother. I was scared of everything, but if I was going to live in sin, I had narrowed it down to my childhood sin of sex. My boyfriend on the other hand, was into drugs. All those sayings about "...
- PID
- apw:12352964
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-25T19:49:24.464Z
- Title
- Cooked frogs
- Author
- Vanderford, Anna
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- ‘ @ Anna M. Vanderford Old address New Address 537261 MBCC C1-A-215 145673 1010 W 5”‘ Ave. 29501 Kickapoo Rd. Shakopee, MN 55379 Mc Loud, OK 74851 Cooked Frogs I came from a very abusive single parent home. I’d been beat with hair brushes, appliance cords and slapped. I only stayed as long as I did because I didn’t know what else to do. It wasn’t long before I was in the company of teens that could and would dare me to do things that would endanger their future. I was their shoplifter, I proc...
- PID
- apw:12356330
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T17:21:44.618Z
- 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
- D.O.C's counter-rehabilitation disfunctions
- Author
- Morales, Efrain, Jr.
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (TR_WF)
- Efrain Pedro Morales #180444 984 Norwich New-London Turnpike Uncasville, CT .06382 ____/_____/2017 Dear Editor(s), Society worries about recidivism. What survive Society isn't aware of is that when humans aren't treated like humans it can have a destabilizing effect that sometimes carries over into society. In my approximately 400 word essay I touch on the cage rattling tactics in which the D.O.C. curtails creativity, complaints and rehabilitation. I'm a 2003 alumnus of The Wri...
- PID
- apw:12350833
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T16:16:20.387Z
- Title
- Egyptian days for one gallimaufry enterprise
- Author
- Magnific, Roc
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (TR_WF)
- Egyptian Days for One Gallimaufry Enterprise If you operate an enterprise built upon desiring and getting the gold of Tolash (e.g., ill-gotten wealth will do no one good) that's not worth a tinker's damn, you will be a business many consider "ne touchez pas, nole me tangere" (e.g., one not to be touched). This is what's facing the Kakistrecratic Arkansas Department of Correction as it finds itself stricken with one gey case of "blue flu" and increasing inmat...
- PID
- apw:12351169
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T17:50:48.359Z
- Title
- From experience I've come to realize
- Author
- Jackson, Cedric D.
- Date
- 2018-02-15
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (TR_WF)
- Dear reader, From experience, I've come to realize that most of society has little remorse for the "statistics" either because they feel that a person incarcerated has it easier than the free world or the incarcerated deserves to be worse off than the free world. I am among the category of "statistics," I truly beg to differ. Yes, I am given food to eat three times a day, yes I am provided with a limited amount of supplies; even a bed to sleep on. But when facilities ...
- PID
- apw:12353202
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T10:59:25.974Z
- Title
- From public enemy to enemy of the state
- Author
- Holbrook, Robert Saleem
- Date
- 2008-05-30
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- Page 1 of 4 From Public Enemy To Enemy of The State by Robert Saleem Holbrook When I was a child I used to often walk past the old Eastern State Penitentiary on Fairmount Avenue in North Philadelphia and stare in awe at its high walls and ramparts seemingly towering into the sky believing naivety that the old prison was an ancient castle from the days of knights and kings. There were times myself and other kids my age used to try and scale the walls to get a glimpse of what was inside, how ir...
- PID
- apw:12351243
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T18:28:07.223Z
- Title
- Gargle, rinse, repeat
- Author
- Vanderford, Anna
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- Anna Vanderford Old address New Address 537261 MBCC C1-A-215 145673 1010 W. 6th Ave. 29501 Kickapoo Rd. Shakopee, MN 55379 Mc Loud , OK 74851 Gargle . Rinse, Repeat You are an adult, you've broken the law, you are in prison, but there's nothing else short of killing you that anyone can do to you, now add, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO! Certainly, not some ignorant inmate that you didn't ask for an opinion from. You get into a scuffle with another inmate. Off to the ja...
- PID
- apw:12353071
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-25T21:48:17.647Z
- Title
- If I (Jason D.G.) were in charge of prison
- Author
- Gandy, Jason D.
- Date
- 43674
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (TR_WF)
- If I (Jason D.G.) were in charge of prison I'd change how GLBT are tortured by solitary confinement under P.R.E.A. Todays 7-28-19. I've been in B.O.P since 7-20-12. 9-21-18 Mark Adair made the Houston Chronicle b/c he hung himself & died at FDC Houston the day of his sentencing. My celly told me about his family abandoning him after trial & how he wrote a letter to his family just before killing himself & I completely related to Mark. I asked Officer B. Young to speak wi...
- PID
- apw:12358870
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T19:10:05.501Z
- Title
- Interview of Lacino Hamilton by the opening statement (2)
- Author
- Hamilton, Lacino
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- INTERVIEW OF LACINO HAMILTON BY THE OPENING STATEMENT OS: What is the first thing you want people to know about living in prison? LACINO: That prison is an emotional and psychological torture that is far worse than any torture to the body, by design. Days and weeks and months and years of being told up is down and right is left, punished for not acquiescing, for not showing extreme deference, influences the oven/vhelming majority of imprisoned men and women to give up or give in, and become mer...
- PID
- apw:12357190
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-10-28T20:12:38.51Z
- Title
- Is prison reform a fargone solution?
- Author
- Morales, Efrain, Jr.
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (TR_WF)
- "Is Prison Reform A Fargone Solution?" By: Efrain Morales, Jr. Institutions have been known to run-a-mock when unchecked for too long (the reason for a checks-and-balances in gov.). But what happens when, as a society, we become as complaisant as to ignore corruption merely because, as a society, we've adopted a visceral reaction to felons or certain types of offenders? The answer is that, as an institution of public safety (Dept. of Corrections/D.O.C), it will concede to statu...
- PID
- apw:12350379
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T13:01:30.007Z
- Title
- Is the American deus ex machina in trouble?
- Author
- Magnific, Roc
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (TR_WF)
- "Is the American Deus Ex Machina in Trouble?" For years billions of taxpayer... dollars have been spent building state and federal human warehouses to "combat crime and protect John and Jane Q. Public from crime." Many politicians have been elected because of advocating "get tough on crime: build more prisons - it'll mean more jobs and security for concerned citizens." Furthermore: "Let's punish repeat offenders by increasing existing or let's...
- PID
- apw:12353384
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T19:49:11.037Z
- Title
- Knowing where we have been in order to know where we are going: From protest to politics
- Author
- Hamilton, Lacino
- Date
- 2017-07-08
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- Atrium Press July 6, 2017 KNOWING WHERE WE HAVE BEEN IN ORDER TO KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: FROM PROTEST TO POLITICS By Lacino Hamilton As activists fighting for racial equality encounter crises similar to crises activists experienced in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, being aware of those similarities can provide a framework for questioning today’s activism. That awareness can catalyze desperately needed new approaches when inevitable problems of reaction, cooptation, insufficient knowledge and changin...
- PID
- apw:12351839
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-17T02:47:34.59Z
- Title
- Little voices rise up
- Author
- Adler, Elisa
- Pages
- 11 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- Adler_LittIe Voices Rise Up, 5211 words elisaadler@frontiernet.net Little Voices Rise Up In the universe suddenly restored to its silence, the myriad wondering little voices of the earth rise up. --- Camus Soon after a new gang with alternate facts and simplified stories took control of the most powerful position on Earth, I drove through a post-flood landscape to High Desert State Prison, an institution created to confine, control and punish the rule-breakers. It was a terrible time — the Pr...
- PID
- apw:12356729
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T18:32:47.116Z
- Title
- Modern day lepers #1
- Author
- Morales, Efrain, Jr.
- Date
- 2008-02-03
- Pages
- 1 page
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- "Modern-Day Lepers #1 BY: Efrain P. Morales (Published 2/2-3/ 08, Journal Inquirer Newspaper, pg.22) Today's society is at unrest, preoccupied with sex offenders in their neighborhood. The typical solution is GPS tracking bracelets, protective buffer zones, and a barrage of restrictions augmented to stringent terms of parole or probation. But how does it really work? Human Rights Watch, a leading international group, released a two year study in September '07 that was the first...
- PID
- apw:12350075
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T01:14:17.094Z
- Title
- More than my share
- Author
- Vanderford, Anna
- Pages
- 1 page
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- Anna M. Vanderford NEW ADDRESS 537261 MBCC C1-A-215 145673 1010 W. 6*“ Ave. 29501 Kickapoo Rd. Shakopee, MN 55379 Mc Loud, OK 74851 More Than My Share A Every night, I would awaken to an orgasm, as he gave me oral sex. Eventually he penetrated me with his tongue, then replaced it with a cold beer bottle then himself. When he grew bored of my being Daddy’s girl, I was shared with a private club of Uncles, which were his friends. It all came to an abrupt halt when he committed suicide. But the ...
- PID
- apw:12352968
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-25T19:49:27.409Z
- Title
- My crime: The very simplified version of my life
- Author
- Vanderford, Anna
- Pages
- 8 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- Anna M. Vanderford 1010 w. 6”‘ Ave. -#145673 Shakopee, Mn 55379 The American Prison Writing Archive 198 College Hill Rd. Clinton, NY 13323 My crime: The very simplified version of my life, I was 19 years old, in a whirlwind courtship. I had lied to my adoptive mom to get money supposedly for college but it was to help the dude obtain drugs, I was pregnant with his child and he was leaving me. I shot him and was sentenced to life in prison. After an escape and trip to Thailand, I was essential...
- PID
- apw:12353560
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-27T00:38:37.591Z
- Title
- My introduction to district court
- Author
- Bingner, Alice G.
- Pages
- 7 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- Alice Bingner 3744 Dexter Ann' Arbor Road Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Phone: (734) 665-9760 Category: Word Count: l,4i4 My Introduction to District Court I made my way to court that first of many trips with knees of silly putty. I knew my son deserved whatever punishment the court deemed prudent - but no mother sees her 16-year old, the favorite of her brood, before a judge, without trepidation. I rode the elevator with a crowd of boys about 14. One read painstakingly aloud the sign in the eleva...
- PID
- apw:12358830
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T19:09:04.807Z