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Pages
- Title
- My search for Ms. Right
- Author
- Allah, Intelligent
- Pages
- 10 pages
- State
- New York
- Text (O)
- 1/ Intelligent Allah 3,005 words #95A43 15 Woodboume Cor. Facility Box 1000 Woodboume, N.Y. 12788 My Search for Ms. Right by Intelligent Allah Since 1994, I’ve been confronting the obstacles that prison trusted into my love life. Shanna, the high—maintenance honey who became my fist love in 1990, became my first love lost in 1996. My burgeoning relationship with Lisa, a radiology student at Columbia University, was dismantled by her well—intentioned, but untrusting mother who happened to be a...
- PID
- apw:12345861
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-24T18:13:32.317Z
- Title
- One of my best friends is a serial killer
- Author
- Whetzel, Stephen
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- One of My Best Friends Is a Serial Killer by Stephen Whetzel One of my best friends is a serial killer. Perhaps given his court-mandated and state-supported retirement plan, a 129-year prison sentence, I should refer to him as an ex-serial killer. Although he has not committed murder since his incarceration, the State of Indiana recently convicted him of 21 previously unsolved murder. His DNA matched a sample founcl on a corpse discovered thirteen years earlier. The media had touted the gru...
- PID
- apw:12355076
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-01-16T21:10:20.516Z
- Title
- Police killings/hunting of blacks people, July 2016, Americans comment...
- Author
- Carroll, Wesley R.
- Date
- 2016
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Police Killings/Hunting of Blacks People, July 2016, Americans Comment... By Wesley Carroll ...the police and their killing of innocent black people is a reflection of overall white people, white society, white racist ideology dogma...; ...the racist in this country is so engrained that white folks just take it all as the way they are and are suppose to be...; ...many of the cops are actually card carrying KKK members, white supremacist, neo nazi,...; ...black folks are treated worse than any...
- PID
- apw:12347243
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T14:48:17.792Z
- Title
- Prison cats cry for help
- Author
- Anonymous Cat Lover
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (TR_WF)
- Prison Cats Cry for Help Shaky is a black-and-white cat with no eyes and two broken hind legs. He has difficulty walking and constantly trembles. He lives on the yard of a maximum security prison. There are more than 100 feral cats living within the fences of Kirkland Correctional Institution, a state-run prison in Columbia, South Carolina. These animals have committed no crimes, but they are punished every day. People kick them, throw rocks at them, dash them with steaming hot coffee, spit o...
- PID
- apw:12362919
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:39:02.117Z
- Title
- Prison politics part 1
- Author
- Kalonji Shenkiri Tutankhamen Fati-El
- Pages
- 7 pages
- State
- Indiana
- Text (TR_WF)
- Prison Politics (Part 1) Intercom: "Count time. Count time" Word is going around that a gang is moving out on one of their members for engaging in homosexual activities and usually once word gets out to me its almost written in stone... The correctional officer (C.O.) has just walked through and did count and its the wee hours of the morning, when all of a sudden bap, bap, bap, bap (sound of a lock-in-sock tagging human flesh). Being that the gang was just delivering a light-weight ...
- PID
- apw:12343370
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-18T00:54:19.228Z
- Title
- Prison, is it for anyone?
- Author
- O Brien, Colleen
- Pages
- 14 pages
- State
- Michigan
- Text (TR)
- Colleen O'Brien Michigan NO TITLE As I sit down to write this paper, I find it hard to believe that I am writing from a prisoner's perspective. Not in my most unrealistic worries did I see myself ending up in prison at 41 years old. Nor did I ever think that I would be convicted of a murder II charge, but here I am, a 46 year old woman doing a 19 year bit. I have decided not to write too much about the circumstances of my crime or my experience with the Judicial System. I will make ...
- PID
- apw:12343430
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-18T01:55:19.059Z
- Title
- Program of Neocolonialism taking place in America today
- Author
- Hamilton, Lacino
- Date
- 2017-06-10
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- I need some help. I'm all over the place. PROGRAM OF NEOCOLONIALISM TAKING PLACE IN AMERICA TODAY As prisoners in Michigan and throughout the country begin the grueling process of breathing life back into the prison movement, a process through which prisoners have been slowly moving for the past several years, of utmost importance is a cogent analysis of the situation in which prisoners find themselves. Through this process the larger movement for social justice can review and reassess t...
- PID
- apw:12351845
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-17T02:47:34.964Z
- Title
- Rediscovering humanity's voice through the walls of darkness
- Author
- Williamson, Jimmy
- Date
- 2010-02-17
- Pages
- 16 pages
- State
- California
- Text (TR_WF)
- Humanity's Love Collective Human One-ness Free Spirituality Soul Connections To: Voices Through The Walls 198 College Hill Road Clinton, NY 13323 February 17, 2010 Fr: Jimmy B. Williamson P.B.S.P. P.O. Box 7500-d41107 Crescent City, Calif 95532 Resubmission of Essay/Story: Rediscovering Humanity's Voice Through the Walls of Darkness Dear V.T.T.W., New Year's Salutations *Note to the Reader* When i first received this call for Essays/Stories i paused and deeply contemplated this...
- PID
- apw:12343253
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-17T20:19:48.923Z
- Title
- Slaves of the state
- Author
- Bazrowx, Timothy D.V.
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (O)
- Slaves of the State An Essay Based On True Events By: Timothy D.V. Bazrowx Slaves! The very word brings up feelings of hatred, and degradation, yet although thought to be abolished with the, "Emancipation Proclamation of 1863" issued by President Lincoln, it still exists today. There is another form of slavery that is alive, and well in todays age, that surpasses racial borders; It surpasses religions; it surpasses financial levels of social class (in some cases), and seems to onl...
- PID
- apw:12349210
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-11-03T14:47:30.14Z
- Title
- Smoothing the road: the formerly incarcerated get a helping hand
- Author
- Allah, Intelligent
- Pages
- 6 pages
- State
- New York
- Text (O)
- Intelligent Allah 1,691 words #95A4315 Woodbourne Cor. Facility Box 1000 Woodbourne, N.Y. 12788 SMOOTHING THE ROAD The Formerly Incarcerated Get a Helping Hand by Intelligent Allah Seventeen—year-old Anthony Sheldon had chased fast cash until he ran into trouble with the law——25 years in prison. During decades of isolation, his friends vanished and he lost his parents to health ailments. Anthony’s forlorn journey to freedom culminated with the 42-year- old stepping out of prison and into a ho...
- PID
- apw:12345877
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-24T18:13:42.738Z
- Title
- Street organizations. Todays challenge, tomorrows hope
- Author
- Hamilton, Lacino
- Date
- 2016-06-03
- Pages
- 7 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- Street Organizations. Today's Challenge, Tomorrow's Hope Friday, 03 June 2016 By Lacino Hamilton [Image Description: photo of graffiti in Birmingham, Alabama] Graffiti for the Crips, a street organization, lines train tracks in Birmingham, Alabama, in a photo taken on November 29, 2007. "Gangs" are arguably one of the most dominant and effective organizing mechanisms of urban youth today, though virtually no one will acknowledge this. The "common wisdom" abou...
- PID
- apw:12351830
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-17T02:47:34.258Z
- Title
- The Carroll systemic plan for saving billions of taxpayers' dollars
- Author
- Carroll, Wesley R.
- Date
- 2016
- Pages
- 3 pages
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Text (O)
- The Carroll Systemic Plan for Saving Billions of Taxpayers' Dollars Copyright (c) 2016 by L.A. and W.R. Carroll Three Words: Stop Pork Barrel Spending! Note Below: 1. Eliminate the entire Parole Board, its systems, agency, all infrastructure and all side businesses etc., making millions off of the ex-offenders plight. Allow the so called offenders the right to complete their minimum sentence in prison allowing the maximum to be dropped, expunged (grace relief), imposed ONLY if the of...
- PID
- apw:12346113
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-25T02:16:15.928Z
- Title
- The PACE towards AIDs awareness
- Author
- Allah, Intelligent
- Pages
- 6 pages
- State
- New York
- Text (O)
- Intelligent Allah 1,409 words #95A4315 Woodbourne Corr. Facility Box 1000 Woodbourne, N.Y. 12788 The PACE towards AIDS Awareness by Intelligent Allah The dimly lit gymnasium resembles a high school prom. Toni Braxton’s high notes echo softly through two towering speakers on the sidelines of a basketball court. Fudge brownies and fruit punch await the 250—plus people strolling inside the gym. But the attendants are not students. There are no raging hormones, celebratory dances, or teachers rec...
- PID
- apw:12345854
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-24T18:13:31.978Z
- Title
- The beasts within (just what the ___ is this!)
- Author
- Carroll, Wesley R.
- Date
- 2016
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (TR_WF)
- The Beasts Within (Just what the ___ is this!) Wesley Carroll Unlike any other state that I've lived in, Pennsylvania appears to be the most hate inspired, racist and/or hate possessed thus far. Let me begin by just giving you some true life examples. Within its so called criminal justice system under the heading of war on crime, here is what you see. Minorities are at least 20 times more likely to be charged with committing crimes as compared to those who are within the majority. You ca...
- PID
- apw:12347246
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T14:48:18.032Z
- Title
- The dream
- Author
- Daugherty, Jason
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (FT)
- The Dream Jason Daugherty Huttonsville Correctional Center Huttonsville, WV Four years into a ten-year sentence, I have had countless dreams and nightmares that have left me with feelings of melancholy and remorse. There is one dream in particular which has stuck with me. To this day, memories of this dream evoke thoughts and emotions that are nearly indescribable to somebody who has never been through the mistakes and experiences that often accompany the criminal lifestyle. As the dream ...
- PID
- apw:12347622
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T15:49:31.437Z
- Title
- The focus of this essay concerns the devaluation of human life
- Author
- Pinson, Jeremy
- Date
- 2014-08-21
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (TR_WF)
- Author: Jeremy Pinson Date: 8-21-14 Essay No. 2 The focus of this essay concerns the devaluation of human life in a prison setting. Human beings have a penchant for division, creating endless us versus them scenarios in the mind to justify any conduct or decision that would be otherwise unacceptable. In the United States the demonization of "the criminals" is longstanding. But we forget that criminals are human beings too. Human beings who broke the law but also who still feel pain,...
- PID
- apw:12351038
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T17:17:45.336Z
- Title
- The history of my gambling addiction
- Author
- Schmidt, John
- Pages
- 3 pages
- State
- Delaware
- Text (O)
- The History of My Gambling Addiction By John Schmidt Going back as far as I can remember, my first encounters with gambling occurred when I was about seven or eight years old. I bet horses at Delaware Park with my Dad. I also bet horses at Brandywine Raceway with my Mom. But I remember playing the football tickets with my dad on the weekends the most. I’m not sure which one was first of these three activities, but I remember feeling pretty cool when I did any of them. Particularly, when I was ...
- PID
- apw:12345250
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-23T15:57:08.684Z
- Title
- The letter
- Author
- Whetzel, Stephen
- Date
- 2010-07-20
- Date
- 2010-07-20, 2010-07-20
- Pages
- 6 pages
- State
- Indiana
- Topics
- familial abuse, sibling dynamics, outside contact
- Text (FT)
- The Letter by Stephen Whetzel Last summer, I received a letter from Misty, my little sister-my first contact with anyone from home since coming to prison, my first letter ever from anyone in my family. For eleven lonely years. years when I felt forgotten, I had written and sent countless letters and cards to my parents, hoping to fan some imagined glowing cinder of compassion. We were never close, never. In fact, the term family should be used loosely when referring to us collectively. I neve...
- PID
- apw:12341356
- Date Uploaded
- 2015-09-27T14:35:32.125Z
- Title
- The mentality of an incarcerated criminal! part one
- Author
- Brown, Rahasheem
- Pages
- 12 pages
- State
- New York
- Text (TR_WF)
- The Mentality of an incarcerated criminal! Part One The Mentality of my Youth There is a whole mentality behind, both, crime and incarceration. In criminology (the study of the behavior patterns & the mindset of the criminal) one learns how to recognize & apprehend a criminal. When someone is arrested, he is diagnosed, in different ways, as criminally insane (i.e. anti-social, narcissistic, etc.). The mentality of the criminal is acquired at a very young age, in most cases. This is wh...
- PID
- apw:12343765
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-19T17:56:13.595Z
- Title
- The need and importance of unity
- Author
- Brown, Rahasheem
- Pages
- 4 pages
- State
- New York
- Text (O)
- The Need and Importance of Unity It is said that: "United we stand; divided we fall". It is also said that: "Two heads are better than one". Where those two heads are focused on one common cause or goal, no statement can be more true. Except, of course, billions of heads are better than one, or "the more heads, the better". Social means to advocate a groupe of men (or women) or a society of men for one common cause. Social is the root-word of the word socialize, ...
- PID
- apw:12345884
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-24T18:13:43.091Z
- Title
- The police of PghPa today
- Author
- Carroll, Wesley R.
- Date
- 2016
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (TR_WF)
- Wesley Carroll The police of PghPa today in PghPa (and most all other areas), you have three branches of police within its' criminal justice system. Herein after we shall refer to them (each separate branch) as "popo #1", "popo #2", and "popo #3". One day, the so called powers that be of PghPa, decided to give them a test, since they all claim to be the best at apprehending criminals. So the powers that be there, releases a white rabbit into the forest and e...
- PID
- apw:12347239
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T14:48:17.118Z
- Title
- The razor ribbon retribution
- Author
- Bazrowx, Timothy D.V.
- Date
- 2017-11-12
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (O)
- The Razor Ribbon Retribution An Essay The sun is still hiding behind the curtain of darkness called night, but you can hear it outside the window. The darkness is still alive and well, but there is always light; the light glints off of the points of the razor ribbon that adorns the fences that surrounds the prison I am in- They all have them, society in Texas is proud of them, for they are always building new prisons, with new fences, and yes new razor ribbon, shiny, new, sharp razor ribbon. ...
- PID
- apw:12351873
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-17T02:47:36.567Z
- Title
- The taxpayer's burden
- Author
- Harris, Larry "Rocky"
- Pages
- 6 pages
- State
- Illinois
- Text (O)
- THE TAXPAYER'S BURDEN I am a prisoner housed at the Illinois Department Of Corrections Prison located in Pinckneyville Illinois. If the reader was to punch up this prison on the State website one would find that the current rate of incarceration is at $18,355.00 per one year of my living in prison. This is down from the $30,000.00 price tag that was in place in the early days of the 2000's. One would ask why is is getting cheaper? The budget cuts in the prison system due to the budg...
- PID
- apw:12345334
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-23T17:20:47.403Z
- Title
- True life series: this could be you or your child!
- Author
- Carroll, Wesley R.
- Date
- 2016
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- True Life Series: This Could Be You Or Your Child! Copyright (c) 2016 By Wesley Carroll, Investigative Reporter Censored-Redacted Version On or about April 2011, plantiff [name of the incarcerated inmate redacted] (incarcerated within the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections), complained to a Dr. Khatri that he was having trouble sleeping. He also complained of being anxious, and had racing thoughts. Immediately Dr. Khatri prescribed the psychotropic medication ("psych med") Remer...
- PID
- apw:12347232
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T14:48:16.704Z