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- Title
- As society rotates around these governmental designs
- Author
- Mafahali, Nyasa
- Date
- 2016-09-13
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (O)
- As society rotates around these governmental designs:44 country, are those who suffer the injustice of financial campaigns, voting, elections- for this, that and the other 45 disparity. office. The worlds’ community has been lulled to sleep by the ’appearance’ of democracy. An elaborate trick has beg? played and a corrupt few lords over the masses. The devilds 9/13/16 This has been a composition of thought by H. A. Austin in the details. The common man/woman has no idea of what agendas these ...
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- apw:12351300
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T19:07:48.957Z
- Title
- Assalamu alaykum, I want to open this essay
- Author
- Hanif, Allen Dawkins / Hassan Ali
- Date
- 2020-06-18
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Thursday 6-18-2020 (1) The American Prison Writing Archive c/o Hamilton College: 198 College Hill Rd Clinton, NY 13323-1218 Assalāmu alaykum, I want to open this essay with the greeting of peace. "Salam," I have been sitting in my cell wondering what is going on in the free world and I must say that Im highly disappointed wit the fact that these punk ass racist white cops are continueiously getting away wit murder. Even after George Floyd was lynched by the hands of a Klansman. We s...
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- apw:12362383
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:29:26.094Z
- Title
- At the root of mass incarceration
- Author
- #Whynotme?!?!?!
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (O)
- AT THE ROOT OF MASS - INCARCERATION (LIES THE KEY TO CRIMINALJUSTICE REFORM] Did you realize the ”Mass - Incarceration Movement" started around the 100th anniversary celebrating the enactment of the "Jim Crow” laws of 1890? We should also keep in mind that in the early nineties Hillary Clinton called inner city youth "super predators" suggesting our youth are criminals who need to be contained. Bill Clinton (then President) signed "Three Strikes” crime bill in 1994 ap...
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- apw:12354718
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-01-16T17:32:09.3Z
- Title
- At the time my friend and brotha
- Author
- Clemmons-Bey, Eric
- Date
- 2015-05-27
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- [No Title] 05/27/2015 At the time my friend and brotha ask me to write something about my experiences I gladly jumped at the chance. After going through my thoughts I began to hesitate. I asked myself had I turned into a bitter old man. I know I sometimes sound this way to myself. At the time of this writing I am 53 years of age, and I have been locked up 33 years this August 16, 2015. My sentence is Capital murder and I received Life with No Parole for 50 years. I had no prior record. For th...
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- apw:12346728
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T00:44:48.617Z
- Title
- At this writing, I am now into
- Author
- Bracey, Larry
- Date
- 2017-08-29
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- "No person is a criminal, a person is taught to be a criminal" (ala, Mandela) At this writing, I am now into the twenty-eighth year of this incarceration, and I say, this length of time I'm sure it must constitute me as being certified, qualified to say something of major importance and of validity about prison due to my experience. The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre said that, "Freedom" could not help but to be Free, which throughout all these years, I have come...
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- apw:12350917
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T16:50:00.905Z
- Title
- At what point do we act out our ideas?
- Author
- Hamilton, Lacino
- Pages
- 3 pages
- State
- Michigan
- Text (O)
- At What Point Do We Act Out Our Ideas? By: Lacino Hamilton Been trying to find space to observe and reflect on the world and where I find myself in it. Trying to find a place for the careful working out of ideas. I do not want to form the habit of writing for the sake of being topical. The dialogue being developed is much to important for that. Besides, even reading and writing possess functional limits. There must be recourse to other disciplines, other means of challenging practices that do...
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- apw:12345563
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-23T23:38:42.796Z
- Title
- Attica on my mind
- Author
- Rhynes, Michael
- Date
- 2011-06-06
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (O)
- Michael Rhynes Attica on My Mind My day begins by getting up before the contemporary version of Pavlov's bell rings, a half hour before count, which starts at 7:00 AM. While performing my morning ritual of washing my face, brushing my teeth, and combing my hair, with such mindless devotion it would send a marine sergeant into authoritarian fits of glee, I subconsciously search for a way to affirm my humanity. The breakfast list is being taken, and naturally I sign up. Every morning for t...
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- apw:12351816
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-17T01:52:49.829Z
- Title
- Balance (The destruction of Amerikka)
- Author
- Abdullah, Ayyub Rahim
- Date
- 43639
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- pg 1 of pg 2 6/23/2019 day 1 "Balance!" (The destruction (of amerikkka) by 'Out there') DLB (c) How to destroy (War, Iran...), create panic (spread racial hatred); use news: "Because knowledge...has been granted to you, but to them it has not been granted. To anyone who has, more will be given...from anyone who has not given what he has will be taken away..."(Mt. 13:11-12). Truth, in amerikkka, gone! The migrants (fake, wall, cry) are dying, and; in concentration...
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- apw:12358736
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T19:06:41.8Z
- Title
- Barrell of funky's
- Author
- Mack-Lemdon, Mr. L.
- Date
- 2018-07-02
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- 7/2/18 Barrel of Funky's Being raped repeatedly as a young child is a very horrible experience and it will tear the mind to pieces if you fail to deal with it. I am a victim of rape, however, out of shame and embarrassment, I never told anyone. Instead, I self-medicated. In other words, I became a drug addict. Drugs took me for a real ride. They were a "killer in a thriller". 1987-1988 - brain surgery-- mentally ill w/ seizures 1988-1992 - prison 1992-1994 - drugs---->left f...
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- apw:12354836
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-01-16T18:29:12.663Z
- Title
- Because we all wear white
- Author
- The Wordist WAM
- Date
- 2016
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (TR_WF)
- Because We All Wear White Because we all wear white You view me with a prejudice mind sight I am seen as being less than what I am And what I am at the very least is a human So that should afford me at least creation's minimum But I cannot seem to get that from them Instead I am treated with a predetermined low standard allowed to have no opinion so I feel like a coward I might wear them but I am not a scrub Outside of this place I am wanted, needed, and loved Under normal ciurcumstances...
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- apw:12346664
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T00:32:36.506Z
- Title
- Being Muslim in prison
- Author
- James, Randall T.
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (TR_WF)
- "Being Muslim in prison" I have to share with America how Muslim are treated in State and Federal prison. The Muslim population in prison is fairly large. It consists of Sunni, Muslim, Moorish American and Nation of Islam. I'm a Sunni Muslim. I follow the Holy Qur'an, and the Sunnah of prophet Muhammad peace be unto him. We are required to make 5 Salats a day. That's 5 prayers at a fixed time. But the Muslims are hated because most of the guards were in the military a...
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- apw:12350332
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T13:01:26.539Z
- Title
- Being broke
- Author
- Hampton, Christopher
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (O)
- Christgpher fiampton The Correctional Writer's Initiative BRCI _ 314597 CWI - Student Paper 4460 Broad River Rd. Semester 3 Columbia, SC 29210-4012 BEING BROKE If you were to ask a rich man what does being broke feel like, he would probably look at you speechless. The fact is, most people that were born into money knows nothing about what being broke feels like; never have they ever had to wake up to the freezing cold, shivering, dreading to get out from beneath the blanket because the me...
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- apw:12352679
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-06-15T21:38:44.021Z
- Title
- Being incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Author
- Hayes, Jamil
- Date
- 2020-08-20
- Pages
- 8 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Being Incarcerated During The Covid-19 Pandemic Being honest, for awhile I stopped writing. I gave up believing that it was only a waste of ink and paper. With everything going on in the world right now, what difference would it make by writing articles about prison and my experiences? My articles wouldn't be a cure for the virus, bring unity to a divided nation, or create jobs for the jobless. I felt it would only be selfish by writing about my experiences. But as I sat thinking, my min...
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- apw:12361872
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-02-03T16:13:21.384Z
- Title
- Being sane in an insane place
- Author
- Hamilton, Lacino
- Pages
- 2 pages
- State
- Michigan
- Text (O)
- Being Sane In An Insane Place By: Lacino Hamilton Incarceration is not just the concrete, the razor wire, bullet proof glass, or trained assassins watching from gun towers. Incarceration is not just the isolation, the monotony, loneliness, or the assiduous misery. Incarceration is not just the anxiety, the idleness, apathy, or the pent up frustrations characteristic of these dismal crypts. Neither is it just having to always chase after something, having to hide something, or having to hold m...
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- apw:12345538
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-23T23:38:39.477Z
- Title
- Beneath the surface (the somm program & the polygraph)
- Author
- Riley, C.T.
- Pages
- 3 pages
- State
- Indiana
- Text (O)
- Beneath the surface by C.T. Riley (The somm program & the Polygraph) I want to share some research with you on the polygraph exam for which my non-compliance in taking it was utilized to extend my incarceration. Initially I conceded to take a polygraph under the condition that; I would be given adequate time as to being informed beforehand that I may procure counsel to be present during the polygraph exam. But, as I stated earlier I was only given a 24 hour notice; which also violated due...
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- apw:12345431
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-23T22:17:36.216Z
- Title
- Beneathe the surface again (human trafficking: the somm-scheme-scam-sex program)
- Author
- Riley, C.T.
- Pages
- 5 pages
- State
- Indiana
- Text (O)
- Beneath the Surface Again By C.T. Riley (Human Trafficking: The somm-scheme-scam-sex program) H-e-l-p! I am being held hostage at the New Castle Correctional Facility, in the middle of a cornfield camouflaged as woodlands. Despite my ongoing pursuit for post-conviction relief from 2014 up until this present I was still compelled under duress by New Castle Correctional Facility & somm personnel staff to temporarily participate in somm until I was able to resolve grievance contending that s...
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- apw:12345435
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-23T22:17:36.687Z
- Title
- Benevolence
- Author
- Cunningham, Travis
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- "Benevolence" As I sit here contemplating what I would like to share with the masses, I'm left reflecting on years past. Some ask how I've been able to sustain my mental stability in such dismay times. As one must imagine life in captivity and the bellicosity this environment brings can cause a person to feel indifferent from humanity and civility. Prison tends to remove those simply human attributes and instead replace them with an abysmal, diabolic, malicious nature, ess...
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- apw:12353053
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-25T21:47:57.78Z
- Title
- Beyond bars: voices of NLG jailhouse lawyers
- Author
- Lewis, Teddy
- Pages
- 7 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Beyond Bars: Voices of NLG Jailhouse Lawyers By Teddy Lewis This moment feels like a maze which holds many rooms yet only one of them holds the key Lately I notice that so many men like to rip and run to the yard. And try to impose their will on various things, from lifting weights to lifting a telephone. Suddenly I came to notice that my life was without legal balance because my lack of legal know how left me stagnated and without true hope. One day someone came to me and said "why"...
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- apw:12347971
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-11-02T19:54:57.582Z
- Title
- Biographical
- Author
- Dawkins, Bryan
- Date
- 2015-07-14
- Pages
- 6 pages
- State
- Delaware
- Text (TR_WF)
- Biographical Bryan L. Dawkins, Sept. 5, 1964-D.O.B./ South Carolina-P.O.B. graduated: 1983/ high school: Paul M. Dorman in Spartanburg, SC brief stint at Benedict College in Columbia, SC-1983-1984. Attended Brandywine Beauty Academy in Wilmington, DE 1984-1985, received my cosmetology license for the state of Delaware. Worked as a project manager, for Hugh George Company and Advance Office Environments in Wilmington, DE. Open my own hair salon in 1992, "Good Works Beauty and Barber Salon...
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- apw:12343291
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-17T23:54:40.789Z
- Title
- Black Panthers role as a third party
- Author
- Worley, Willie, Jr.
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Black Panthers Role As A Third Party Although 3rd parties in the past focuses were not much in favor of addressing concerns of African American Communities. Third Parties participation in stigmatism was less damaging to our communities then the larger two parties. The history of both major parties continue to alter the progress of our communities. Not to say that both parties do not produce noteworthy candidates, independent or 3rd parties give you better leverage and control to support elect...
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- apw:12346911
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T01:31:47.409Z
- Title
- Black lives have never mattered in the United States of America and never will: a "modern"-day slaves perspective
- Author
- Amen, Asar Imhotep
- Pages
- 5 pages
- State
- California
- Text (O)
- Black Lives Have Never Mattered In The United States of America and Never Willi A "Modern"-Day Slaves Perspective By Asar Imhotep Amen,Ph.D. (aka I.T.Thomas) "One of the most tragic beliefs widely shared by Blacks throughout the world is that white people need or want us or will treat us equally and share societal resources with us. Faith continues to prevail in spite of overwhelming evidence which disputes this belief. Blacks continue to ignore the irrefutable truth that,in a ...
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- apw:12344475
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-21T13:51:15.887Z
- Title
- Bread and circus, juvenal: Prisoners and jobs
- Author
- Abdullah, Ayyub Rahim
- Date
- 43619
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- “Bread and circus,” Juvenal; “Prisons and Jobs.” ARA © “Compartmentalized/Comparable?” ARA © 6-13-19 “In society (out there), durance portrayed, as ‘the dreg’ (of life)! Then, once released, lamented; for recidivating! Yet, the word (society) has an unknown meaning (‘institutions and culture of a distinct self-perpetrating group’); long ignored! And, like war (‘Neither kill the old verging on death nor children and babes nor the females...’), the taboo ‘no longer gain ire’; but – for ‘the bas...
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- apw:12358223
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T18:53:38.226Z
- Title
- Breaking point
- Author
- Bowden, Brandon
- Pages
- 4 pages
- State
- Ohio
- Text (TR)
- Brandon Bowden Ohio "Breaking Point" In Ohio's Department of Rehabilitation - n- Corrections...I've spent the past ten years of my, at times, "seemingly pointless" existence, trapped. Racism, violence, drugs, death, distress, frustration, ... and so many more aspects of the modern day prison environment, are elements that make this place... a living hell! The picture I'm about to paint for you... "the reader"... no matter who, or where you are... I...
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- apw:12343817
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-19T18:32:28.911Z
- Title
- C.P.R. or created problem resolution
- Author
- Knowledge Born 7
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Raymond Springs II "C.P.R. or Created Problem Resolution" Readers this is a disturbing report about a terribly ignorant practice at Kern Valley State Prison on its Delta Yard where I am housed. See Delta Yard is one of California's Sensitive Needs Yard or SYN for short, housing those prisoners who don't want to prison politic, Participate in racial segregation, those prisoners who want to program whether to get back to our families or just to live in an environment less vi...
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- apw:12354992
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-01-16T20:15:02.531Z