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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
House of cards
Author
Ridenour, William
Date
2014-04-14
Date
2014-04-14, 2014-04-14
Pages
1 page
State
Ohio
Topics
Drexell Greene, ORDC, US Attorney General
Text (FT)
HOUSE OF CARDS by William Ridenour April of 2014, The Sizzler newsletter published the article "Justice for All," in which Mr. Drexell Greene ' s experiences with the parole board were a featured topic . The sister of Mr. Greene sent a copy of that article and her cover letter to Ohio Senator Bill Seitz, requesting that he investigate her brother's recent parole hearing. Senator Seitz contacted the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction ("ODRC") and req...
PID
apw:12341456
Date Uploaded
2015-09-27T16:32:16.984Z
Title
I am currently a North Carolina state prisoner
Author
Green, Robbie Switzer
Pages
13 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE I am currently a North Carolina state prisoner who has seventeen years of incarceration thus far. I have been housed at fifteen (15) different State Correctional Facilities. -This is my non-fiction essay intended for researchers and the general public, to help them to see and understand prison conditions in the state of North Carolina, ways of coping, healthcare, causes of violence and some ways to reduce violence, education, employment conditions, visions of a better way to operate ...
PID
apw:12352098
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T17:43:32.553Z
Title
I am currently incarcerated
Author
Shelley, Edward C.
Pages
11 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE I am currently incarcerated in a Washington State Correctional Institution serving a 129 month sentence of which I have just completed 5 years. I have spent 8 of my last 11 years in an incarcerated situation. Looking back over my life, it is hard to believe I have come to this point. Yet in retrospect, I can clearly see where my alcoholism and drug addiction led me to make some poor choices in my life, and I certainly didn't heed the warning signs that are so clear to me now. Pr...
PID
apw:12347904
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:31.091Z
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 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
Is there really justice for all?
Author
O'Shea, Patrick
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Is There Really Justice For All? When Public Officials engage in Conspiracies to Cover up Potential Criminal Acts - Far too often the Guilty Parties are not held Accountable by the Criminal Justice System. HOW THEN WE ASK: Are Families of the Victims to Obtain Closure and Justice? My Mother Was Never the Same Ovell Krell s last contact with her brother George Owen Smith took place back in 1940. At the young age of 14, George was sent off to one of Florida's most brutal Reform Schools, th...
PID
apw:12349159
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:47:25.988Z
Title
Justice for all
Author
Ridenour, William
Date
2014-04-14
Date
2014-04-14, 2014-04-14
Pages
3 pages
State
Ohio
Topics
elderly prisoners, sexual assault, ageism, mental illness, old law, Cynthia Mausser
Text (FT)
JUSTICE FOR ALL By William Ridenour According to a report in the Columbus Dispatch Newspaper on April30, 2012, there were over 4,700 prisoners still incarcerated in Ohio who were sentenced under the law in effect prior to 1997 ("Old Law"}. This figure is unlikely to change according to the chairwoman for the Ohio Parole Board, Ms. Cynthia Mauser, "because we're 16 years from Senate Bill 2, most people suitable for parole have already been released." (Source: The Colum...
PID
apw:12341449
Date Uploaded
2015-09-27T16:25:33.049Z
Title
Justice for all
Author
Ridenour, William L.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Justice For All By William Ridenour According to a report in the Columbus Dispatch Newspaper on April 30, 2012, there were over 4,700 prisoners still incarcerated in Ohio who were sentenced under the law in effect prior to 1997 ("Old Law"). This figure is unlikely to change according to the chairwoman for the Ohio Parole Board, Ms. Cynthia Mauser, "because we're 16 years from Senate Bill 2, most people suitable for parole have already been released." (Source: The Colu...
PID
apw:12356298
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:20:48.811Z
Title
Killing the poor tonight: A Copernican revolution in racial politics
Author
Chyatte, D. Joseph
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
D. Joseph Chyatte SID# 22150296 Killing the Poor Tonight: A Copernican Revolution in Racial Politics “I remember the day I became colored.” — Zora Neale Hurston, “How it Feels to be Colored Me” I was retching and gagging, physically ill, as I watched the video of Philando Castile’s summary execution play over-and-over on the television. My eyes blurring with tears and my teeth clenched, impotent rage consumed my body . . . thinking of Philando’s partner—that strong, savvy, woman—and their sma...
PID
apw:12349945
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T21:58:43.195Z
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
Man versus beast - January 30, 2015
Author
Vitality, Prison
Date
2015-01-30
Pages
2 pages
Text (FT)
Man Versus Beast - January 30, 2015 I stare at my freshly washed T-shirt hanging from a string clothesline against the wall. I've seen this sight a thousand times yet never seen it at all. What a pathetic shirt. Would anyone in the freeworld wear it? Probably not. Wearing it would be frowned upon, especially in a public place like a store or restaurant. Not that I think much about what's acceptable in public, but every once in a while I allow myself a little role-playing game to fil...
PID
apw:12347365
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:03:33.288Z
Title
Massive corruption again within the Pennsylvania judicial system
Author
Carroll, Wesley R.
Date
2016
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Massive Corruption Again Within the Pennsylvania Judicial System Copyright (C) 2016 by Wesley R. Carrol In Feb. 2016 a Philadelphia Pennsylvania judge overturned 51 cases brought by a tainted Philadelphia Drug Unit. Some described this as "rapid fire dismissals of old narcotics convictions...". The tainted Drug Unit had six of its officers from the citywide narcotics squad, who were themselves criminally charged of federal corruption charges, as a result of suspects they arrested an...
PID
apw:12347241
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:48:17.459Z
Title
Most of us believe the parole board
Author
Dorotik, Jane
Date
2010-01-21
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Most of us believe the parole board Jane Dorotik Most of us believe the Parole Board Commissioners have a very serious job in determining who should stay in prison and who should be released. After all, the burden of public safety would seem to lie squarely on their shoulders. If a prisoner can t, after years of incarceration, prove to these commissioners they are not a menace to public safety, then maybe they shouldn't be released. My guess is this is what the public generally thinks......
PID
apw:12344508
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T15:41:59.185Z
Title
My greatest fear
Author
Daugherty, Jason
Pages
5 pages
Text (FT)
My Greatest Fear Jason Daugherty One of my greatest fears in life is becoming a statistic. There are currently an estimated seven million people in some form of correctional custody in the United States. Of those, two million and three hundred thousand are in jail or prison (Ross and Richards xi). Unfortunately, I am already counted among those over two million souls already in jail or prison. It is another, far more disturbing, statistic that worries me. Each year, six hundred and fifty thou...
PID
apw:12347616
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:49:31.08Z
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
Naked destiny
Author
Vitality, Prison
Pages
3 pages
Text (FT)
Naked Destiny I feel instead of hear a squeaky groan come from my chest in reaction to the sharp pain penetrating my eardrums. They fixed the loudspeaker last night. The same loudspeaker I paid Dennis 4 Ramen noodle soups to disable a couple of weeks ago. I was hoping for a longer reprieve, but over all the money was well spent. My cage is located in such a manner as to perfectly convey the demon speaker's scream from hell. One can avoid the resulting pain with a pair of earplugs, but I ...
PID
apw:12347368
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:03:33.489Z
Title
Newswrap raw...9-11...U.S.A....2016
Author
Carroll, Richard W.
Date
2016
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Newswrap raw...9-11...U.S.A....2016 ... 8:45 a.m ... bell rings ... " ... ding ... a moment of silence, in memory please ..." * - Daren Seals, the Ferguson (St. Louis) activist who spoke out about the killings of black males by the police; was himself killed (shot) and burned to death inside his car, found in some rural suburban area. This is the same pattern of six other black males killed in that area, the same way within the last year. Facts further show that just a few days earl...
PID
apw:12351240
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T18:28:06.979Z
Title
No longer silent
Author
Carroll, Richard W.
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
No Longer Silent Copyright (C) 2016 By W.R. Carroll No longer silent, I ain’t never gonna shut up! The devil keeps trying, As he does with constant lying, But guess what, I ain’t never gonna shut up No matter what happens, No matter what does go down, Whatever is put in my way, Or even when things get tough, Guess what? I am no longer silent, and Still, I ain’t never gonna shut up. When we think we have, All of what we deserve, Burning and dieing, Was there waiting on us, Within lifes curve. ...
PID
apw:12348938
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T11:14:06.468Z
Title
Notes on coping
Author
Norton, David Andrew
Pages
13 pages
Text (O)
David Andrew Norton — 211153 Notes on Coping / November 2016 The stress within prison walls is really not all that different from the ‘real’ world of stress. So we prisoners do many of the same things that ‘ordinary’ people do to cope with the stress we all face. One way to cope is through diversion, as through mental and physical exercise. I'm not much of a sportsman anymore (though I dearly miss the swimming pool), but I like to get out of my routine and comfort zone a little by playin...
PID
apw:12349225
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:47:31.05Z
Title
On this is the case they game me, ...
Author
Carroll, Richard W.
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Title: On this is the case they gave me,... Copyright (C) 2015 by Wesley R. Carroll Six foot eleven, so the state says, /Straight out of heaven./ Two hundred forty, the state says again,/Like Old [8?] glory./A daughter to [illegilbe] acting quite dizzy,/Another close friend loving to pretend, That is all quite well and [illegible] swell. When in Virginia, orange dirt and all,/They saw me run the track from daylight to sunset./ Many wonder to this very day,/ "Just how does he do it...How ...
PID
apw:12348942
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T11:14:06.99Z
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
Parole suitability in Ohio
Author
Ridenour, William L.
Pages
1 page
State
Ohio
Text (O)
PAROLE SUITABILITY IN OHIO By William Ridenour Parole suitability for Ohio prisoners appears to have become dependent upon the grant terms in the agreement between the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction ("DRC") and the federal government. The groundwork for this grant contract was laid when the United States Congress enacted legislation in 1994 to provide states with funding to increase bed capacity for "Part 1 Violent Offenders." A Part 1 Violent Offender was def...
PID
apw:12346032
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T21:23:38.725Z
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

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