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Title
Dear APWA
Author
Guy
Date
2020-05-01
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
May 2020 RE: Permission page enclosed dear APWA.... Greetings, I've written before I'm following up my position being in Gen. Population, I dont have many I write to in the "free" world, to print pages of my writings, I do write another type articles to a "free blog" its Between The Bars.org I located it years back as I began using resource directories, I wrote radical magazines and organizations, before I left Death Row, yes I was once a condemned man...for a li...
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apw:12362048
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:23:30.286Z
Title
Dear sirs, I found a listing
Author
Alexander, Guy S.
Date
43618
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
June 2 2019 - Dear Sirs, I found a listing of resources in Oakland, CA I am here in TX prison, I arrived back in 1988 here below is the way I began doing time? This story is real and still in a active progress... I was 28 yrs old in 1988 no one knows how we end up in prison, it was a real eye opening experience for me... I was convicted of capital murder 30 yrs ago, I was sentenced to die by lethal injection for a double murder it was a burglary of a residence home... After a somewhat lengthy...
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apw:12358233
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:53:51.195Z
Title
Despite numerous attempts to resolve
Author
Dillon, Kyle
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
Despite numerous attempts to resolve the following issues through contacting and informing this units administrators C only cosmetic responses, if any, have been the answers to our pleas for constitutional and humane conditions of confinement. As anyone can make any kind of claim we will endeavor to substantiate all claims with fact and lw being as specific as possible so there is no confusion about the conditions we live under and why it is a right to be free of such conditions. I. FUDD Per ...
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apw:12355139
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T21:11:49.538Z
Title
Dungeon diary
Author
Hernandez, Jason J.
Date
2015-04
Pages
10 pages
Text (O)
Dungeon Diary by Jason J. Hernandez Polunsky Unit, solitary confinement Livingston, Texas April 2015 'I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them saying, Verily I saw unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of ...
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apw:12348998
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T12:35:29.751Z
Title
End prison slavery in Texas now!
Author
Washington, Keith Malik
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
by Keir}: ‘./Izlalik’ Wasizinggton the Deputy Chairman of the New A frikan Black Panther Party, Prison Chapter, Texas Region. More information about him and more follows the article. “For years we were called Niggers to indicate we had no value or worth and that anything could be done to us. Then the word ‘nigger’ became politically incorrect. So, they began calling us criminals. When you say a person is a criminal it means that what happens to them does not matter. It means he or she is a ni...
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apw:12353262
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T11:00:28.383Z
Title
Essay to be included in archive
Author
Broussard, Brad
Date
2016-02-05
Date
2016-02-05, 2016-02-05
Pages
12 pages
State
Texas
Text (FT)
Brad Broussard Beeville, Texas 78102-8696 APWA 198 College Hill Road Clinton, NY 13323 August 10, 2014 RE: Essay to be included in archive: To whom it may concern: I present to you one of the biggest and most powerful problem of todays time. This is a matter that should be of concern by every citizen in America and around the world. The continuation of our mass incarceration of prisons and all non positive institutions in the U.S. There is not enough movement of concern by our statesmen and G...
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apw:12342346
Date Uploaded
2016-06-20T01:09:00.951Z
Title
Fifty fuck or fight
Author
Jills, Jacob
Date
2018-11-12
Pages
10 pages
Text (O)
Fifty Fuck or Fight by Jacob Jills "The camp is changing, there are only wolves among wolves.” An elderly Belgian KL inmate wrote to his son... Near the end of NNII, a small group of Dachau prisoners gathered for a singular purpose. For 24—hours each would attempt to replace violent, selfish, and greedy behavior with empathy and compassion, as if their lives were being lived outside the wire of a Nazi concentration camp in civility. The group's honorable and courageous efforts to sh...
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apw:12356724
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T18:32:43.45Z
Title
Forced competition
Author
Jills, Jacob
Pages
9 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Forced Competition by Jacob Jills You do not need a degree in zoology to understand and explain how the herds, the flocks, and schools of earth's creatures seem to act as one entity in perfect synch; as if telepathically communicating in some inaudible animal language beyond human understanding. These mammals, birds, and fish are perfectly synchronous in their behavior and movements out of some primordial instinct of necessity- every single life competing against the other in unison for ...
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apw:12353588
Date Uploaded
2018-09-27T01:06:45.522Z
Title
Fourth amendment protections against unlawful searches and seizures
Author
James, John
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Fourth Amendment protection against unlawful searches and seizures A lawsuit that alleges excessive search procedures that's demanding answers and changes. The questions at the heart of the issue are what rights do people have in prison. What powers do officers have and when and where do parts of the Fourth Amendment. Which protects people from unlawful searches and seizures. Stop applying. Ask for an investigation into the latest incident in which a man claims in a lawsuit that he was f...
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apw:12348188
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T20:21:25.782Z
Title
Gears and cogs
Author
Peacock, Kyle J.
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Gears and Cogs Texas is the second largest state in the U.S.A., boasting 268,596 square miles of land and water area. Texas is also the second-most-populous state, with over 26 million people that call it home. If we're talking sheer size or population, then Texas holds the rank of second place. Which is very impressive, considering there are 49 other states in the equation. However, I would prefer to discuss with you where Texas comes in at first place: Prison Population. Scattered acro...
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apw:12358342
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:56:44.558Z
Title
Glass-ice wax, pills, and blood: Reading the floor
Author
Kendall, Tracy Lee
Date
2018
Pages
15 pages
Text (O)
Tracy Lee Kendall #[ID] Dorrington Unit (TDCJ) 59 Darrington Rd. Rosharon, TX 77583 Glass-Ice Wax, Pills, and Blood: Reading the Floor by Tracy Lee Kendall (2018) I stared into the glass-ice wax covering the floor. It was beautiful, although I feel empty for some reason when I describe it as such. Then, a correctional officer from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice began screaming at me to press my genitals up against the garage wall. This was in the late spring of 1999, when I arrived ...
PID
apw:12355347
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T21:23:15.121Z
Title
Gone and forgotten in the uncivilized world
Author
Undercover Soldier
Pages
3 pages
State
Texas
Text (TR)
Tucker Strickland Texas "Gone and Forgotten In the Uncivilized World" The system can be very inhumane, and what you don't know can hurt you. The jail's and jailer's District Attorney's all work togther. There is no structure and often the place makes someone feel like their feet have been yanked out from underneeth them. The system does use a inconstitutional power to manipulate for conviction's. It's degrading the way the system does use mock torture. ...
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apw:12343952
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T21:18:43.888Z
Title
Greetings and blessings to all
Author
Tabler, Richard L.
Date
2017-11-03
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
November:3rd:20l7 Greetings and Blessings to all of you who have found the time to read this.My name is Richard L.Tabler,and for the last few times that I have written to the A.P.W.A. and shared the things that I have had to go through,it has been a time that I wouldn't wish on some of my worst enemies.They say that the things that don't kill us will only make us stronger.There is something that I would like to share with all of you here and now.So,that you may better understand me ...
PID
apw:12351953
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T12:27:02.928Z
Title
Greetings to all who may be reading this
Author
Brother of Strange Struggle
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Greetings to all who may be reading this missive it is I, the Brother of Strong Struggle that comes with plenty much love. All praise are do unto the Most High, the Most Gracious Allah. I’m thankful and honored to be alive and have this opportunity to relate my struggle. I pray that you all gain an overstanding of what I’m relating so you may utilize it for the sake of the good fight and positive struggle. In a world of loneliness because those who we all love ones and family don’t communicat...
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apw:12358285
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:55:18.286Z
Title
Greetings, I pray that you are well
Author
Patterson, Perry
Date
2016-09-27
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
To the Editors of the APWA Sept 27, 2016 Greetings, I pray that you are well and enjoying peace of mind. I am now writing you about the most serious issue ever. I briefly mentioned the murder of prison guard, Timothy Davidson, by a prisoner here at Telford Unit in July 2015. Because of the murder, an investigation was performed which exposed failures to follow proper procedures resulting in firings (so we were told) and resignations of all the wardens and many high ranking guards. Telford rec...
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apw:12349538
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T19:18:08.415Z
Title
Greetings, my name is Benjamin
Author
Rzadaca, Benjamin S.
Pages
14 pages
Text (O)
Benjamin Rzadca INN: 35448-044 Greetings, my name is Benjamin Rzadca, and I'd love to speak to the realities of incarceration in the United States of America. For the benefit of the reader let me begin by describing myself and my criminal background. I was born in 1980, to Catholic parents, in Detroit, Michigan. In 1984 we moved to St. Louis, Missouri, and it was there that I grew up. I attended parochial schools, graduated high school, and an associates degree from the local community c...
PID
apw:12356740
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T18:33:00.094Z
Title
Greetings. I wanted to add
Author
Patterson, Perry
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR)
Perry Patterson Texas [NO TITLE] Greetings. I wanted to add to my last essay with this very important issue of being imprisoned. BEING in prison is the worst punishment possible for a judge/jury to impose. It is the loss of anyone's most valuable possession - FREEDOM. The loss of freedom means we can not go to comfort family in crises or as they are dying. We can not work to support our families financially or attend birthday parties, weddings or graduations. This is the punishment that ...
PID
apw:12347306
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:54:03.907Z
Title
Heart check
Author
Keith, Lincoln Allen
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
"HEART CHECK" In 1996, I was sent to the Terrel unit in Livingston, Texas, 14 hours and worlds away from my home and family in the mountains of New Mexico. At that time, the Terrel Unit was one of, if not THE, worst of the "gladiator farms" in the state. Nicknamed "Terrible Terrel" and "The TerrelDome", it was filled with young inmates convicted of violent crimes and/or with assaultive records within the prison system itself. I was l3O pounds, l9—years ...
PID
apw:12350126
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T01:36:12.648Z
Title
Heart of the lesson
Author
Leatherland, Todd Alan
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Heart of the Lesson Lying somewhere at the core of every individual circumstance of life the heart of the lesson may be found. Nowhere does this prove more evident than in the dynamic that is contained inside the prison system. Within the constant friction that occurs as a result of authoratarian interaction a pattern begins to emerge, a truth of human nature. This pattern, if one conditions himself to recognize it, can be utilized in any and all situations as a means to overcome the challeng...
PID
apw:12348139
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T20:07:51.16Z
Title
Hello, and I hope this
Author
Tamez, Brian Christopher
Date
2018-07-13
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE Please post 7/13/2018 Dear American Prison Writing Archive, Hello, and I hope this correspondence finds you well! About a month(*) ago I responded to your institution by mail, regarding non-fiction related to the prison system, (corruption) + (firsthand) experience (Mark W. Stiles Unit). About 1 week later I was uprooted from my college degree program, shipped to a distant unit without a colleague, + on the way there, I was assaulted. Upon reporting the assault, utilizing the "s...
PID
apw:12355022
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T20:15:47.522Z
Title
Hunger games, prepare!
Author
Jills, Jacob
Date
2018-05-30
Pages
18 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"Hunger Games, Prepare!" by Jacob Jills When I first came to prison I lasted only six weeks in general population (GP). No! I was not a "catch-out." In the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ - or Texas State Prison) "catch-out," as coined by offenders, means you "caught that pussy," pushed the officer call button and reported to the guards you were in some kind of danger and needed to be moved for your own safety. In prison the stigma of being l...
PID
apw:12354113
Date Uploaded
2018-09-27T14:38:46.794Z
Title
I am 37 years old
Author
Garcia, Antonio Andres
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Antonio A. Garcia Beeville TX I am 37 years old. Ive been in prison since I have been 19 years old. Got convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison. I escaped my first month in prison and didn’t get too far. Since then (2001) I have been living in administrative segregation. I want to share with you a couple of things. One is the mental health issue of living in segregation. Some states call this control units, security housing units, solitary confinement, isolation units. Its...
PID
apw:12354960
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T19:27:25.51Z
Title
I am Roy Shiloh Bryant
Author
Bryant, Roy S.
Date
2020-07-07
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
APWA greetings! First of all, I grant you'al permission to print and publish the following Truth as I acknowledge the same under penalty of perjury and death, as attested to by my signature: Roy Shiloh Bryant. I am Roy Shiloh Bryant, incarcerated at Eastham prison, at 2665-Prison Rd. #1., Lovelady Tx. 75851; In the administrative segregation unit. Here I am fighting for four hundred (400) similarly situated prisoners. We all are confined to 4 1/2 feet by 8 1/2 feet cells (the size of Gre...
PID
apw:12362870
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:38:05.78Z
Title
I am an incarcerated person
Author
Roundtree, Terrence Anthony
Date
2019-01-22
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Terrence A. Roundtree 22 January 2019 Dear Readers, I am an incarcerated person within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Institutional Division. My name is Terrence Anthony Roundtree and I was sentenced to 99 years for the offense of aggravated assault on a public servant and as a first-time, indigent offender. This letter/essay is for the purpose of elucidating the flaws of the criminal justice system in general and the lasting effect it has on society as a whole, including the offe...
PID
apw:12356000
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:41:49.666Z

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