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Title: Celldweller journal: Fractured mirror of society pt. 5 - entry 14
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR_WF): Celldweller's Journal: Fractured Mirror of Society, Part 5 Author: Sékou Levert Brookshire Jamaa Askari Date: 8-14-13 (Publish) (Entry Fourteen) "Black [August?]" Essay's When, I was introduced to this "education," it wasn't in society's "school system," It was in this large "prison system." It wasn't those "teachers" at my high school that taught me how the world really works. It was my "teachers" on these p...
PID: apw:12349457
Date Uploaded: 2018-03-02T21:49:07.098Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Fractured mirror of society pt. 6 - entry 15
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Celldweller Journal: "Fractured mirror of society" (Publish) Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari VI date: 8-15-13 "Black August" (Entry fifteen) After being captured and convicted, Essay's I've been engaged in the adventure's of trying to understand how this world really truly works, every since -- being enrolled into California's Institutions of 'higher education'. Where my re-educational' journey first began at. We can all get an education at a ...
PID: apw:256
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:29:12.423Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Fractured mirror of society pt. 7 - entry 16
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Levert III (Sekou) Brookshire Arizona Celldweller journal: Fractured mirror of society pt. 7 - entry 16 This degeneration, that I describe to you, Eventually leads us to their social garbage disposal system, They Have created for disposing of their 'expendable', 'non-contributing', 'non-voting', 'non-tax-paying' citizen's. Converting us into 'Livestock', 'cattle' herds, charging the taxpayers, 40k a head, for our upkeep and main...
PID: apw:257
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:29:25.379Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Fractured mirror of society pt. 8 - entry 17
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Celldweller Journal; "Fractured mirror of society" 'Publish' Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari date: 8-17-13 "Black August" (Entry seventeen) Each and every one of us, cell dweller's has a personal and unique story to tell. In light of everything that I've said here in, my translation or interpretation of the black male's experience. Here inside these pages, I only attempt to lay-out the heart of the problems, and my understanding of the answers. There wi...
PID: apw:258
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:29:40.352Z

Title: Celldweller journal: I lost it all but found myself - entry 7
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Levert III "Sekou" Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 267 Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari date: 8-7-13 Celldweller Journal: "I Lost it all, but Found Myself" "Black August Essay's" (Entry Seven) Nobody sets-out, 'planning' to fail at what they do, yet we often set-out 'failing' to plan what we do? The consequences for that, can singlehandedly cost us our lives, or freedom, and all of our possessions, even those we lack. What I've learned is, ...
PID: apw:248
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:17:30.299Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Man cannot live by words alone - entry 1
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): 1 Levert III “Sekou” Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 171 Celldweller Journal: “Man Cannot Live by Words Alone” “Black August Essay’s” (Entry One) I pick-up this ink-pen & paper, I become truly ‘free’, nothing limit’s me, restrict’s me or contains me. I rule this ‘dominion’. It can take me anywhere my mind will guide-it, it’s the one place that I become the true ‘master of my fate’ and the ‘captain of my destiny’. No matter the status assigned to me by the status quo. When, I am depositing ...
PID: apw:242
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:16:25.345Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Power of words - entry 3
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Being a 'Celldweller University' alumni has been from, the 'beginning' and always will be a constructive, positive, alternative to the usual 'corrossive'; negative mindset, that permeates the prison environment. For years I walked these yards and looked at all these faces, contorted, twisted and full of anger. Everyday men, fighting and rioting, causing harm to each other, conflicting and competing for mere crumbs out of desperation. Prisoners 'sinking'...
PID: apw:244
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:16:50.181Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Swimming against the current - entry 5
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): We often 'think' we can control our future, even when we are swimming 'upstream' against the current. But, whenever we 'clear' our heads, detox our body's, get our 'thinking' back in-order, we start to 'float' along with current of life, effortlessly. 'Black August' gives me time to remind myself, about, my own personal power to gain balance again, re-gain physical, mental and emotional health again. Through fasting it makes me,...
PID: apw:246
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:28:32.689Z

Title: Celldweller journal: The royal game - entry 9
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Levert III "Sekou" Brookshire "Publish" Arizona Word Count: 347 Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari date: 8-9-13 Celldweller Journal: "The Royal Game" "Black August Essay's" (Entry Nine) Whenever I'm asked, what are my plans for the future, or more specifically, what are my plans for when I get released from prison? My answer is always's strange for the person asking the question. Because they pause, and look at me puzzeled. "When I tell them...
PID: apw:250
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:18:13.869Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Tools helping underground society inc - T.H.U.G.S inc movement pt. 1 - entry 18
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): 1 Levert III “Sekou” Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 258 Celldweller Journal: “Tools Helping Underground Society Inc – T.H.U.G.S Inc Movement Pt. I” “Black August Essay’s” (Entry Eighteen) It has alway’s been a vision of mine, to take everything I’ve learning about social ‘resistance’, and ‘revolutionary’ theory, and pass-it-on. Spreading what was passed-on to me, by those who came before-me. I, know of many young black men, who haven’t been introduced to George Jackson or Jonathan Jackson. Se...
PID: apw:259
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:29:51.707Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Tools helping underground society inc - T.H.U.G.S inc movement pt. 2 - entry 19
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): 1 Levert III “Sekou” Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 275 Celldweller Journal: “Tools Helping Underground Society Inc – T.H.U.G.S Inc Movement Pt. II” “Black August Essay’s” (Entry Nineteen) The “consumer marketing machines” are relentless, once they’ve created a product, merchandise, or service they begin bombarding consumer’s with elaborate programing that makes them excited to buy. It is through this same formula, that (Tools Helping Under Ground Society Inc.) was created. Designing the ba...
PID: apw:260
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:30:04.206Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Tools helping underground society inc - T.H.U.G.S inc movement pt. 3 - entry 20
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Levert III "Sekou" Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 297 Celldweller Journal: Tools Helping Underground Society Inc – T.H.U.G.S Inc Movement Pt. III" "Black August Essay's" (Entry Twenty) Once we got the youth to come around and make a committment to a revolutionary beliefsystem, pursuading them to 'recruit' other youth into our belief system. Then, we were able to effectively harnest other peoples willingness to volunteer their time, resources and action ...
PID: apw:261
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:30:19.161Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Tools helping underground society inc - T.H.U.G.S inc movement pt. 4 - entry 21
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Levert III "Sekou" Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 297 Celldweller Journal: "Tools Helping Underground Society Inc - T.H.U.G.S Inc Movement Pt. IV" "Black August Essay's" (Entry Twenty One) Anyone 'alive' can see the phenomenon of 'street gangs', 'thugs', cropping up throughout the country, all-over, in practically every city, large and small. The role of these thugs and street gang's in our societys expanding poor communiti...
PID: apw:262
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:30:31.601Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Use time or it uses you - entry 4
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Whether I was here. Dwelling in this 'cell' or outside dwelling in the 'ghetto,' the same amount of time [illegible] passed me by, 10 1/2 years, would've elapsed regardless. Regardless of our wherebout's, 'time' is all the same. Think about it, if I did nothing to better myself or improve myself, out there in society, for these past 10 1/2 years? If staying alive, is all I did? Yet while I'm here, I obtained (two) college degrees, became physically...
PID: apw:245
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:17:04.902Z

Title: Celldweller journal: We all are followers of something - entry 6
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Levert III "Sekou" Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 274 Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari date: 8-6-13 Celldweller Journal: "We All, are Followers of Something" "Black August Essay's" (Entry Six) Words, make 'books' what they are; 'book's' make library's and library's make school's and university's, or celldweller univeristy's. Each of these, make us more informed and more educated. Some follow 'fashion', ma...
PID: apw:247
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:17:18.213Z

Title: Celldweller journal: Words alone aren't enough- entry 2
Author: Brookshire, Levert, III (Sékou)
Date: 2013-11-21
Date: 2013-11-21, 2013-11-21
Pages: 1 page
State: Arizona
Text (TR): Levert III "Sekou" Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 347 Date: 8-2-13 Celldweller Journal: "Words Alone Aren't Enough" "Black August Essay's" (Entry Two) We all have the power to change our own attitudes whether in prison or the streets. Regardless, if we are 'ghettodwellers', or 'celldweller's'. Before, any of us can start to consider changing our ways, changing our behaviors and attitudes we have to start by changing our thinking...
PID: apw:243
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:16:38.035Z

Title: Ex-convicts
Author: Garner, Curtis
Date: 2015-07-16
Pages: 1 page
State: Pennsylvania
Text (TR): Curtis Garner Pennsylvania Ex-convicts Images in the newspaper of "former convicts" reveal the prevailing mindset of those who have never spent more than a night in jail. Those "convicts" are people before, during, and after their incarceration. Their DNA strand does not reveal origin from some alternate ancestral entity, specific abhorrent mutation, or hidden mysterious galaxy. For the most part, they look, act, and feel, just as we do. The most transparent difference is ...
PID: apw:12343895
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-19T20:31:52.268Z

Title: Grievance [1]
Author: Garner, Curtis
Date: 2015-02-07
Pages: 1 page
State: Pennsylvania
Text (TR): Curtis Garner Pennsylvania Grievance Of what purpose is a grievance policy where all concerns are summarily dismissed in favor of facility administration? The same persons who implement policy, sit in judgment of prisoners opposition to said policy. This is akin to taking your wife to court, and finding you mother in law is the judge. Any legitimate, effective procedure in which prisoners may hope to obtain judicial re-dress must be framed in this validity of impartiality; for all persons con...
PID: apw:12343870
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-19T20:31:41.094Z

Title: Grievance [2]
Author: Garner, Curtis
Date: 2015-02-13
Pages: 2 pages
State: Pennsylvania
Text (TR_WF): Grievance 2-13-15 Friday Due to the continued practice of "triple celling" within this facility, in combination with erratic linen/towel exchanges, uniform exchanges, and the lack of a regular scheduled cell cleaning procedure; in addition to sporadic access to showers for kitchen workers, MRSA, and inadequate number of staff for supervision of inmates; a hazardous condition has evolved here that inevitably precedes a tragic event. The "tour"s implemented by administration...
PID: apw:12343872
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-19T20:31:41.555Z

Title: Hello folks
Author: Carr, James
Date: 2010-04-10
Date: 2010-04-10, 2010-04-10
Pages: 1 page
State: Nevada
Text (TR): 4-8-10 -P. 1.- James Carr, NV HELLO FOLKS, I SAW YOUR ADVERTISEMENT IN THE ARA NEWSLETTER THAT I GET IN THE MAIL. TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH I AM SURPRISED THIS ADMINISTRATION DOESN’T CONFISCATE THE NEWSLETTER? I AM A FIFTY FIVE YEARS OF AGE, HALF BLACK, ONE QUARTER INDIAN, OR NATIVE AMERICAN, ONE QUARTER WHITE INMATE AT ELY, NEVADA. IT IS A SMALL MINING TOWN IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE. THE PRISON SETS AT AN ELEVATION OF ABOUT 6800’ ABOVE SEA LEVEL, SO IT SNOWS A BIT FROM EARLY OCTOBER ...
PID: apw:173
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T17:51:59.013Z

Title: I'm writing this, of course
Author: Moore, Robert
Pages: 4 pages
State: California
Text (TR_WF): Greetings; I'm writing this, of course to state my opinions, but also because of a sentence in the Questionaire which explains the submissions are to help people understand American prison conditions and the prison's practical effects and place is society. I'm writing from the San Francisco County Jail, where i've been held for twenty months. I'm 61 years old and have served three prison terms in California. In no way am I proud to say it, but i've been involved ...
PID: apw:12342918
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-17T12:59:54.11Z

Title: Ineffective counsel
Author: Garner, Curtis
Date: 2015-03-28
Pages: 2 pages
State: Pennsylvania
Text (TR): Garner Curtis Pennsylvania 3-28-15 Saturday Ineffective Counsel All agents and agencies involved in the criminal justice system of Philadelphia county are aware of the overcrowded unconstitutional conditions within the Philadelphia prison system. To wit, a concerted endeavor to ensure citizens rights should be assumed by this municipality. ..."the duty to intercede is heightened in a prison setting, where the state has restrained an individuals liberty to such a degree that he can no lon...
PID: apw:12343881
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-19T20:31:48.415Z

Title: Memorandum of law in support of plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction
Author: Garner, Curtis
Date: 2015-02-25
Pages: 1 page
State: Pennsylvania
Text (TR_WF): Memorandum of Law in Support of Plaintiff's Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction 2-25-15 The men of A2 pod 2 have not had a simultaneous linen/blues exchange in over 10 weeks. On Monday, February 23, linen and blues were exchanged. On Tuesday, February 24, a "shakedown" crew sent by facility administration confiscated our clean blues, threw our clean sheets and towels on the filthy floors and walked on them. As kitchen workers, we supply a valid s...
PID: apw:12343875
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-19T20:31:42.846Z

Title: My own prison
Author: Bailey, Willie III
Date: 2013
Pages: 1 page
State: California
Text (O): My own prison LIKE A DISEASE, A PLAGUE, NO ONE WANTS TO CATCH, NO ONE WANT'S TO KNOW, TOUCH, FEEL, OR EVEN LOVE. WORTHLESS AND UNWANTED TO THE WORLD. I AM NO LONGER A HUMAN BEING TO SOCIETY. NO MEANS NECESSARY FOR YOU TO EVER ACKNOWLEDGE MY EXISTENCE. THESE CHAINS, THE CUFFS, THOSE WALLS, THIS CONCRETE TOMB IS MY REALITY. I AM THE WALKING DEAD, TO FEEL LIKE I EXIST EVEN FOR A DAY, I THIRST KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, STRENGTH. REFUSING TO BE INSTITUTIONALIZED BY MY CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS UNJUSTLY SY...
PID: apw:12344494
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-21T13:51:16.796Z

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