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- Title
- It's a fact: low-risk offenders don't come back
- Author
- Williams, Dortell
- Pages
- 4 pages
- State
- California
- Text (O)
- Dortell Williams CA Approximately 800 words Non-fiction It's a Fact: Low-Risk Offenders Don't Come Back by Dortell Williams I believe it is the goal of every civil and pragmatic society to set its penal system to reform and rehabilitate its miscreants. Indeed, in California, reform and release is the stated goal of the Supreme Court of California, in its 2008 watershed Lawrence decision, delineating a clear criteria for reforming and releasing prisoners. Of course, not everyone is r...
- PID
- apw:12345199
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-23T14:21:36.204Z
- Title
- Labeling theory
- Author
- Vance, John
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Labeling Theory Like most prisoners, I could go on a tirade about the multitude of problems that exist within the confines of prisons. But, most of those problems are merely symptomatic of a greater issue: the way in which prisoners are viewed. The police, courts, legislators, and prison officials label prisoners in ways that perpetuate the existing system. For the prisoner, the labeling process begins at the time of arrest. Suspects are humiliated by being arrested in public. This humiliatio...
- PID
- apw:12346688
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T00:44:43.597Z
- Title
- Life or death
- Author
- King, Bradford
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (O)
- BRADFORD KING 228745 Thumb Correction Facility 3225 John Conley Drive Lapeer, Michigan 48446 email @ Jpay.com LIFE OR DEATH Serving a life sentence seems like an insurmountable endeavor. At some point I acknowledge that a change in point of view is necessary. Without a change in my view point, I will fail to adjust and live life, instead of soing time. Finding a job, on that gives me purpose and makes a difference. I first worked as a Law Clerk and taught a class in legal research. Next, I st...
- PID
- apw:12356382
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T17:31:42.905Z
- Title
- Matt
- Author
- Murray, B.C.
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Text (O)
- Matt One doesn't meet friends in prison. Or so I was told just like the others residing inside this lethargic purlieu. As one of those who only experience thoughts of regret, survival, and uncertainty, I felt friendship was an impossibility. Something I neither deserved or should dare contemplate. For my life on earth, I felt, was essentially over, whether anyone else realized this actuality or not. Since arriving in 2010, my course never deviated from one filled with despair and hopeles...
- PID
- apw:12357996
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-10-28T20:39:56.014Z
- Title
- My justice experience, so far...
- Author
- Barstad, James
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Text (FT)
- My Justice Experience, So Far... Coming to prison actually saved my life. Due to sexual abuse as a child, I started to drink and abuse drugs very early in my life, at age nine. I don't remember any real childhood in which drugs and alcohols did not play a part. The road of my life was inevitably leading to one of two conclusions. One was prison, the other one death. It is quite possible that I actually did die in the five-car collision that was the beginning of my present ordeal. I rec...
- PID
- apw:12347492
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T15:18:13.27Z
- Title
- Numbness is all I desire
- Author
- Murray, B.C.
- Date
- 2017-06-05
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (O)
- Numbness is all I desire. is that too much for a man to ask? To be comfortably numb just like the Pink Floyd song says. One would think that after seven years, almost eight, I would have reached an emotional plateau that provides some semblance of sequestration from the insatiable madness of my environs. Regardless of the amount of prayer and other efforts, such a reprieve never arrives. Maybe my parents and teachers did a better job of indoctrinating me than family, ex—family and others (inc...
- PID
- apw:12352664
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-06-15T21:38:27.828Z
- Title
- One
- Author
- Barstad, James
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (FT)
- James Barstad ONE "Life sucksr That was the one thought going through my head, when I realized that I was in a mental institution. I had bounced off of a couple cars, cut myself a couple times, and my girlfriend's dad thought I was suicidal. Of course, I wasn't. I was just upset, and expressing myself in the only way I knew how. I wasn't crazy\ Regardless, I was tricked into going to the hospital with him. Once there, I was locked in a room. Then, since they didn't ha...
- PID
- apw:12347502
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T15:18:13.94Z
- Title
- Out of control
- Author
- Murray, B.C.
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR)
- OUT OF CONTROL Due to incompetence, indifference and outright bias; graft and corruption run amok at FCC-Forrest City-Low. Meanwhile inmates who wish to obey the policies and rules and staff who want to simply do there jobs and go home are made to suffer. On Friday, September 29, 2017, an African-American corrections officer (CO) physically attacked a white inmate who never instigated a confrontation or tried to respond. Staff at the prison wasted no time trying to sweep this incident under t...
- PID
- apw:12352846
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-06-16T02:35:17.241Z
- Title
- Post-release programs and gender variant people
- Author
- Royal, Valjean
- Date
- 2010-08-26
- Date
- 2010-08-26, 2010-08-26
- Pages
- 7 pages
- State
- Indiana
- Topics
- Memoir
- Text (FT)
- /r • section three. . . problems with post-release programs Post-Release Programs and Gender Variant People Ms. Valjean Royal · On Tuesday, January 20th, 2004 President Bush called for the funding of programs to deal with some 600,000 inmates who will be released from prison this year-without work, without a home, without help. "America," he said, "is the land of second chances", and he added that, "when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a be...
- PID
- apw:307
- Date Uploaded
- 2015-09-16T18:23:59.706Z
- Title
- Prison's most contented
- Author
- Murray, B.C.
- Date
- 2018
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (O)
- Prison's Most Contented While most inmates on a prison compound struggle with low self-esteem, depression and anxiety, it is awe-inspiring how contented openly gay men appear. In an environment presumed to be unembracing and even hazardous, gay inmates quietly, calmly and religiously coalesce and develop circles composed entirely of self-satisfied, even merry men. While other inmates appear angry, melancholy and lonely, gay inmates - for whatever reason - project unburdened persona compl...
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- apw:12352956
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-25T19:49:18.822Z
- Title
- Prison's most contented
- Author
- Murray, B.C.
- Date
- 1905-07-10
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (TR_WF)
- Prison's Most Contented While most inmates on a prison compound struggle with low self-esteem, depression and anxiety, it is awe-inspiring how contented openly gay men appear. In an environment presumed to be unembracing and even hazardous, gay inmates quietly, calmly and religiously coalesce and develop circles composed entirely of self-satisfied, even merry men. While other inmates appear angry, melancholy and lonely, gay inmates - for whatever reason - project unburdened persona compl...
- PID
- apw:12354670
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-01-16T16:06:04.397Z
- Title
- Prison, re-entry, reintegration and the 'star gate': The experience of prisoner release
- Author
- Bliss, Jeffrey
- Date
- 2015
- Pages
- 12 pages
- Text (O)
- Prison, Re-entry, Reintegration and the 'Star Gate': The Experience of Prison Release Jeffrey Bliss Many people are asking 'why do ex-offenders continue to re-offend or violate the conditions of their release supervisions usually within a 90 day period after release?' But more importantly, many more are saying that this is because individuals 'choose to continue to live the lifestyle of lawlessness, and opt to act and behave in ways that violate the conditions of thei...
- PID
- apw:12355349
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-01-21T21:23:16.233Z
- Title
- Release lifers or staff in the budget cuts to come?
- Author
- Williams, Dortell
- Pages
- 3 pages
- State
- California
- Text (O)
- Dortell Williams Approximately 160 words H—4577l / A2-206 Non-fiction P.O. Box 4430 ' Lancaster, CA 93539 RELEASE LIFERS OR STAFF IN THE BUDGET CUTS TO COME? Dortell Williams In October, 2008, I shared lament with AVP regarding the unnecessary layoffs of thousands of state workers. The layoffs were predictable after Conservatives refused early releases of prisoners -- who were within 90 days of release anyway. At $49,0000 a year, per prisoner, their release would have saved taxpayers a b...
- PID
- apw:12345208
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-23T14:21:37.281Z
- 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
- Suicides rule in prison
- Author
- Williams, Dortell
- Date
- 2011-06
- Pages
- 3 pages
- State
- California
- Text (O)
- Dortell Williams Approximately 110 words H-45771 / A2-206 ' Non—fiction P.0. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 SUICIDES RULE IN PRISON by Dortell Williams Would you believe suicide is the leading cause of death in American jails? I'd have never guessed that considering how cushy and comfortable some people would have us to believe the jails are. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics’, "Mortality in Local Jails, 2000-2007," the latest report, suicide is more prevalent in...
- PID
- apw:12345182
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-23T14:21:33.844Z
- Title
- Survivor testimony: Finding light in a dark place
- Author
- Royal, Valjean
- Date
- 2008
- Date
- 2008, 2008, 2009-07-14
- Pages
- 2 pages
- State
- Indiana
- Topics
- experience as a survivor of rape
- Text (TR_WF)
- Survivor Testimony Finding Light in a Dark Place By Valjean Royal, Indiana I was just seventeen (17) when I was arrested for Female Impersonation and Prostitution. I was placed in the county jail for adults and gang-raped. As a male to female transgender (pre-op), the juvenile detention center would not allow me entry there, stating their concern for the effect of exposure to my alternative lifestyle on the other boys I would have to be housed with. As I entered the cell block at the county j...
- PID
- apw:12341539
- Date Uploaded
- 2015-09-29T21:18:37.2Z
- Title
- The depths of my own inferno
- Author
- Murray, B.C.
- Date
- 1905-07-10
- Pages
- 9 pages
- Text (O)
- THE DEPTHS OF MY OWN INFERNO I lost my freedom long before coming to prison. Although it took actually coming here to realize it. Otherwise, I would have continued to languish in an eddy of perpetual confusion, self- doubt, and self—loathing about the unknown; past, present, and future. No hell is greater than not understanding one's self. No physical or emotional pain comes close. For a Type A individual whose sole desire is to control every aspect of my destiny, the unknowing- especial...
- PID
- apw:12355307
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-01-21T19:53:41.31Z
- Title
- The hope of an aging man
- Author
- Murray, B.C.
- Date
- 1905-07-10
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (O)
- THE HOPE OF AN AGING MAN It is official: I look like my grandfather. A long, vehement stare at my fifty-eight year old reflection confirms it. I am no longer the young, hubristic, overambitious sen1 who was never intimidated or apprehensive about life's omnipresent challenges. Life's wear and tear is inescapable. My upper lip that once eloquently moved to form patterns of speech and a seemingly ‘ever-present smile has shriveled like a once inflated balloon that now appears flaccid, ...
- PID
- apw:12354848
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-01-16T18:29:25.588Z
- Title
- The power of words: How lockdown and empathy can intersect
- Author
- Williams, Dortell
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Dortell Williams P.O. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 Approximately 470 words "The Power of Words: How Lockdown and Empathy Can Intersect" by Dortell Williams "America's on lockdown," reads the headlines. These are jarring words to prisoners across the land; completely inappropriate for a free society; touching a nerve for people suffering literal, long-term lockdown. In fact, that verbiage, extreme and punitive, traumatic as it is, should be limited to prisons where inh...
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- apw:12360195
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-12-02T18:41:45.492Z
- 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. ...
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- apw:12351873
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-17T02:47:36.567Z
- Title
- The travails of Charlie Sheen
- Author
- Williams, Dortell
- Date
- 2010-10
- Pages
- 3 pages
- State
- California
- Text (O)
- THE TRAVAlLS OF CHARLlE SHEEN Porn actress Capri Anderson described her experience as unexpected and frightening as she recalled hiding in a closet for safety in a New York hotel room as America's funnyman, Charlie Sheen, turned madman during a cocaine-induced rage. Widely publicized photographs of the demolished hotel room added another element to Anderson's story. Sheen went off, again. I'm not talking about when he shot his then girlfriend, Kelly Preston, in the arm - during...
- PID
- apw:12345186
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-23T14:21:34.438Z
- Title
- Three
- Author
- Barstad, James
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (FT)
- James Barstad THREE Elephants are known for their long-term memory. When they are little baby elephants, what are they, cubs, kits, pups, oh yeah, calves, they are chained to a wooden post driven into the ground. They push, pull, and fight. Eventually they learn that they are not strong enough to pull out the post. When they grow to adulthood, they remember that they could not pull the post loose. Even though they are now strong enough to gain their freedom, they fail to test the post, becaus...
- PID
- apw:12347510
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T15:18:14.404Z
- Title
- To politically, discriminatorily and unequaly attack a minority per se lessor of three evils is to assist in those greater evil's: "organized prison mafia gang and associate street gang activities"
- Author
- Winters, Robert
- Date
- 2010-04-02
- Pages
- 5 pages
- State
- California
- Text (O)
- TO POLITICALLY, DISCRIMINATORILY AND UNEQUALY ATTACK A MINORITY PER SE LESSOR OF THREE EVILS IS TO ASSIST IN THOSE GREATER EVIL'S: "ORGANIZED PRISON MAFIA GANG AND ASSOCIATE STREET GANG ACTIVITIES" The Fresno Bulldogs are indentified as a hispanic street gang that primarily derives in and around the Fresno County in the central valley of California. This bulldog street gang and group of prisoners in question; "is not an associate or an affiliated fraction to either the muc...
- PID
- apw:12345212
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-23T14:21:38.738Z
- Title
- Two
- Author
- Barstad, James
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (FT)
- Two James Barstad Although I never knew her name, I recall the face of the Romper Room lady. I distinctly remember her calling my name as she gazed through her magic looking glass. She said, "I see Jamie," along with an assortment of names of other children watching the show. While I watched her, she was watching me! Is she still watching? Is she employed by the NSA, scanning my thoughts? I don't have a cell phone, but I don't know that I have already been labeled as a ter...
- PID
- apw:12347506
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T15:18:14.142Z