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Title
A few thoughts about the cell
Author
Markhasev, Mikhail
Date
2003
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Mikhail Markhasev Corcoran, CA I wrote this essay in 2003, while I was in the hole (SHU). It was printed in The Beat Within, a youth outreach in the S.F. Bay area. I want to share it with A.P.W.A. You have my permission to post it. A few thoughts about the cell The cell... for some, it is a taste of hell — where single day is an eternity to dwell But as for me, when I’m in the cell a sweet serenity upon my heart it spells my doubt and uncertainty it quells my fear dispels — amidst the noise, ...
PID
apw:12357853
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:35:13.617Z
Title
A few words on post traumatic stress
Author
Fuller, Brian D.
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
A Few Words on Post Traumatic Stress It often takes time for the full effect of traumatic events to set in. At first, we're just so relieved to get past the initial pain and stress of the ordeal, that we pay little attention to the possibility of future problems. We simply let it go and focus on other things in an effort to move on with our lives. Recently, the Texas Innocence Project responded with their questionnaire they wanted me to fill out and send in. This is what I've been s...
PID
apw:12357692
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:29:52.027Z
Title
A future
Author
Cervantes, Mario
Date
2019-01-11
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Mario Cervantes Jan. 11. 2019 A Future Can someone progress out from the shadow his past was built within? Solitary confinement. By: Mario Cervantes A Future Growing up in CYFD custody, (Children Youth and Families department.) is like growing up on a planet that Earth does not know of its existence. Then you're sent to Earth and expected to function correctly. Ending up in solitary confinement within the juvenile CYFD facilities is like a George Orwell book not written. I spent a lot of...
PID
apw:12356444
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T14:52:20.689Z
Title
A healthy ambition
Author
McCreary, Howard Lewis, III
Date
2019-01-27
Pages
8 pages
Text (TR_WF)
January 27, 2019 Time: 2:15 A.M By: Howard McCreary A Healthy Ambition [Part 1: Mentally Stimulation] I thank you all fore taking time out of your day to connect with my Diamond Thoughts on health. It brings me relief to know that people in society are concern or interested in the "condemn" and my salutation of the highest greeting goes to you all. What you all are embarking on is a three part dialogue on the three essential characteristics that make us human: mentality, physically,...
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apw:12356653
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:37:46.419Z
Title
A heartfelt thank-you
Author
Chatman-Bey, Tony
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
A HEARTFELT THANK-YOU I am an inmate presently housed at the Medium Security ECI-East Prison in Westover, Maryland. It is the largest prison in the state however, being located on the Eastern Shore it often feels like being in another country. I have been incarcerated for 30 years and in that time I have seen the health care providers go from very good to very bad, to what it is now “Mediocre”. As you can guess just about any inmate can give you some horror stories about the medical care in p...
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apw:12351349
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T19:43:02.764Z
Title
A introduction into the impulsive journey of highs is how I feel
Author
Cox, Christopher R.
Date
2020-04-13
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
1# April 13 2020 Dear reader(s) A introduction into the impulsive journey of highs is how I feel. A recipient of 24 hour lock down with this Covid-19 viral pandemic has my fear and paranoia at an all time high. No alternative it seem is made to those of us who need to vent that we truely fear for the 1st time. This fear is spoken in the confessional booth aka the vent that connects our vents. I express them when APWA gives my body a voice and a chance to ask for help. The world should see thi...
PID
apw:12360176
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:40:57.328Z
Title
A letter to law-enforcement executives
Author
Worley, Willie, Jr.
Date
2014-11-26
Pages
8 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Letter to Law-Enforcement Executives My name is Willie Worley Jr. I consider myself a servant of the people as the minister of Self-Defense of National Intelligence for African American Communities 3rd Party Black Panthers. Since my reign I have made it my number one goal to point to the facts of the many dysfunctions that plague our communities both African and caucasian Americans. I have focused on the causes of the social derangements that has effected our nations racial communication li...
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apw:12346902
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T01:31:47.199Z
Title
A lifer's perspective
Author
Brunetti, Anthony
Pages
4 pages
State
Connecticut
Text (O)
A Lifer's Perspective This essay is written with the intention of showing the reader why lifers--especially those sentenced at a young age-- have the most potential for change and rehabilitation, why they are the least likely to reoffend if given an opportunity for release and what life is like for the long term prisoners who have renounced the criminal lifestyle. My motivation for writing on this topic is the pain and frustration I feel, as someone who was sentenced to life--defined as ...
PID
apw:12345239
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T15:57:01.528Z
Title
A little bit of sunshine
Author
Deaton, Keith A.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Little Bit of Sunshine by Keith Allen Deaton The morning was absolutely beautiful. A thick snowfall began to cover the landscape. When I woke, I didn't think to look out the condensation covered window. The grayish (alpine blue) bars not being my first thought or interest in the morning. Only later after I brushed my teeth did someone exclaim "Hey, it's snowing." Today is Wednesday and it would be a good day! For the last several months, Wednesday is always a good day! R...
PID
apw:12356354
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:22:20.935Z
Title
A look in on the prison performing arts theater and poetry classes
Author
Jaynes, Bev
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
I wish you could be witness to the enrichment and achievement, the intellectual stimulation, and the soulful creative expression going on during the Prison Performing Arts theater and "spoken word" poetry classes in WERDCE, the women's prison in Vandalia, MO and Thursdays and in the men's prison down the road in Bowling Green, MO, on Fridays. PPA is a non-profit organization based in St.Louis, MO, which provides opportunities for personal growth and character development t...
PID
apw:12347831
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:28Z
Title
A loss of memory?
Author
Roberts, W.E.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Loss of Memory? In a recent Esquire article entitled "The Cold Open" by long-time contributor Charles P. Pierce, we are reminded of the power of memory, of our mandate public witness to history and politics, and our obligation to join together with others in order to shape a better future for our nation and our world. Pierce invokes the prescient words of Czech author Milon Kundera, who saw the struggle for independence from Soviet domination as one of "man against power... m...
PID
apw:12349589
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T19:34:03.699Z
Title
A major hang-up
Author
Walker, Curtis Lee
Pages
8 pages
Text (O)
A MAJOR HANG-UP Ilve spent 22 years in maximum security facilities where the culture has a texture unique to that environment. Extremes are embraced when moderation would prove the more productive path. Violence, dominance and emasculation are the languages which most cons come to believe that they must be fluent in to communicate our strength and declare our manhood. I've been here in New Lisbon, a medium security facility for 2 years now. It's not nearly as yiolent as max because ...
PID
apw:12355270
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T19:52:50.221Z
Title
A man died today
Author
Key, Kenneth M.
Pages
8 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Man Died Today By Kenneth M. Key It was about 12:00pm when I saw the EMTs run pass my cell house window to the adjacent cell house. The sound over the radio said, a man was down code 3 medical emergency. It would be less than a minute and a half and the E.M.Ts' would be walking back past. The word would come down he didn't make it. I would learn later in that day that it was a Friend of mine, whom we will simply call my Friend. They said my Friend had died of a heart attack, and a...
PID
apw:12353542
Date Uploaded
2018-09-27T00:38:09.74Z
Title
A message to the incarcerated Muslim
Author
Mujahid, Shakkir T.
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful By Shakkir Talib Muj ahid A Message to the Incarcerated Muslim I am sad today, for the Message I bring has been shouted through the halls and walls of these universities for years. “Say, You Believe in Allah and Stand firm on it.” .1 don’t know that many of you know what this actually means. It appears that you have let your life of anger, deceit, distrust, hate, greed and lust for power, control and fame make you b...
PID
apw:12351403
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T20:58:46.03Z
Title
A model of futility: The PLRA and Wisconsin's Inmate Complaint System
Author
Taliaferro, Robert
Pages
9 pages
Text (O)
Robert Taliaferro, 150555 JCI P.O. Box 233 Black River Falls, WI 54615-0233 A.MODEL OF FUTILITY: The PLRA and Wisconsin's Inmate Complaint System by Robert E. Taliaferro, Jr. Introduction In 1996 Congress passed the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) in response to a few highly publicized--but isolated and over—exaggerated--instances of prisoner abuse of the judicial process. The PLRA was designed as a tool to curb those abuses by making it more diffi- cult for prisoners to seek judicia...
PID
apw:12349215
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:47:30.513Z
Title
A modernized dungeon
Author
Moody, Jesse Jr.
Date
2017-12-28
Pages
14 pages
Text (O)
A Modernized Dungeon By Jesse Moody AKA Kingsta December 28, 2017 Visualize this... After hearing and seeing all of the different and shocking news about America’s archaic penal system via the various media outlets, you decide to seek out a more sensorial experience to help you grasp the plight of the incarcerated. Searching the internet, you unexpectedly discover a nonprofit organization hosting an experiment offering substantial compensation for those willing to participate in a control gro...
PID
apw:12354034
Date Uploaded
2018-09-27T14:37:14.087Z
Title
A more complicated framework may yield more decarceration options
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
4 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
A More Complicated Framework May Yield More Decarceration Options By: Lacino Hamilton Many incarcerated people find the sudden message of mass incarceration being a really bad idea, the right message, but the dominate narrative superficial. And therefore distracts from the most immediate challenges of not only decarceration, but ultimately the abolition of prisons. Let's be clear, for the most part, the current national conversation surrounding how to reform mass incarceration policies i...
PID
apw:12345547
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:40.813Z
Title
A murder victim speaks: The truth in the age of "me too"
Author
Douglas, Steffe'n
Pages
14 pages
Text (O)
American Prison Writing Archive: A Murder Victim Speaks A Murder Victim Speaks: (The Truth in the Age of "Me Too") I am a murder victim... I have often said that Paul Harvey was right. I maintain that to this day. 'If you want to see the worst that society has to offer humanity sit outside a prison at shift change'. No one is more corrupt, no one is more criminal than those folks you'll see exiting or entering the facility with badges on their chests. You won't b...
PID
apw:12359321
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:21:32.036Z
Title
A novel idea: Growing through creative writing
Author
Minatani, Rev. Dr. Corey
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Rev. Dr. Corey Minatani, M.Divinity Submission for Publication Consideration A Novel Idea: Growing Through Creative Writing "The cell was ten feet wide and fifteen feet long; the door was closed to others who had done wrong," I thought to myself. In reality I was trapped physically, but what of my mind? Questioning myself one day, I thought about what could be accomplished. The need to do something I had never done before was overwhelming. Then I had a novel idea, literally. I wante...
PID
apw:12361152
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:55:17.57Z
Title
A page from the cage
Author
Twisted Tex
Pages
2 pages
State
Ohio
Text (TR)
Twisted Tex Ohio American Prison Writing Archive Twisted Art Production April 1st, 2016 "A Page from the Cage" To with all & any; greetings & good day. My name is Jeremy P. Gallant (The Twisted One). I write to you from the infamous Lucasville prison, home to the 1993 11 day prison riot. I write to you from the cruel confines of 23 hour solitary isolations in the warped world of reform and rehabilitations! May my letter be received in the same context from that in which it i...
PID
apw:12343827
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T18:32:30.097Z
Title
A peek on the inside
Author
Pearson, Fredrick M.T.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Peek on The Inside There is the common predisposed outlook of prison and life in prison by the public. It becomes ingrained by the movies and tv shows, and its glorified by the music and those who use prison for "street credit." Prison is a lot of things. But 1 thing that prison isn't is fun. This is a system meant to reform, but designed to destruct. And the worst part is that its self-perpetual. To the unfortunate individual who find themselves in this system, we come to re...
PID
apw:12358326
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:56:18.56Z
Title
A person cannot become who they need to be by remaining who they are!!
Author
Purkey, Wesley I.
Date
2014-03-18
Date
2014-03-18, 2014-03-18
Pages
2 pages
State
Indiana
Topics
life lessons
Text (FT)
"A PERSON CANNOT BECOME WHO THEY NEED TO BE BY REMAINING WHO THEY ARE!!" By Wesley I. Purkey, Federal Death Row. My great Aunt Ga-ga who adopted me when I was kid, who didn't weigh a buck five soak and wet, inundated me with an assemblage of words of wisdom, which has left an indelible imprint on me. These "golden sayings" were generally flaunted when she was trying to school me on the importance of obtaining and continuing my education, and the need for learning from...
PID
apw:12341395
Date Uploaded
2015-09-27T15:04:38.45Z
Title
A personal proposition
Author
Hicks, Gentric A.
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
A Personal Proposition (Lifer seeks to hock his life by asking to sign death penalty contract and to have an implant monitoring chip placed in him to regain freedom!) UPDATE REVISIONS: I originally wrote this proposition to the Governor of Iowa Terry Branstad in 1996, as a limited means of re—imp|ementing the highly debated Death Penalty issue. My name is Gentric (Abdullah) Hicks. I am a 72 year old African American inmate at Iowa State Penitentiary and have been incarcerated since May of 197...
PID
apw:12357864
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:35:34.378Z
Title
A plea for attention to an injustice
Author
Navarro, Robert R.
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
A Plea for Attention to an Injustice — Robert Navarro Where do I even begin and what do I say? Let me begin with some general questions and observations about ourjustice system today and how it works: Justice is defined as: 1) Just conduct, 2) Fairness, 3) Exercise of authority in the maintenance of right, 4) Judicial proceedings, 5) Magistrate, Judge. 1-3: uprightness, righteousness, decency, correctness, fair playing, lawfulness, equity Yet when you look at my conviction one will wonder whe...
PID
apw:12353138
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:57:29.365Z

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