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- Title
- COVID-19 and prison overcrowding: Its all in the framing
- Author
- Williams, Dortell
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Dortell Williams P.O. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 COVID-19 and Prison Overcrowding: It's All in the Framing by Dortell Williams I am tremendously grateful to, and for, all of the advocacy organizations that strive to liberate our imprisoned voices, voices that have been so vehemently smothered by tons of aggregate concrete and shackled by miles of cumulative razor wire. In two recent interviews, one organization described the adverse conditions we endure daily during normal circumstance...
- PID
- apw:12360179
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-12-02T18:41:03.164Z
- Title
- Cabin fever in COVID confinement
- Author
- Taylor, Shariff
- Date
- 2020-06-28
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (TR_WF)
- -Submission- Sunday 6-28-2020 "Cabin Fever" in Covid Confinement Let me begin by telling ya'll that we've <prisoners in Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility> been on this modified program since the end of February 2020 an it's almost July 2020 in a few days. So add that up an think how stir crazy a regular person might act, much less a person with mental health problems like I do. They told us <mental health staff> that the program may return to some t...
- PID
- apw:12360380
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-12-02T18:47:02.999Z
- Title
- California
- Author
- Kirk, Justin
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (O)
- Justin Kirk [ID] California The thing about California is that it is both beautiful and heart breaking. The reason we have so many artist, tattoo shops, photographers, musicians and writers is because it has given us a way to share with the world what we have experienced in both the beauty as well as the pain. Sadly not all of us were lucky enough to find our outlets. Many of us just misused our time, and some of us were robbed of ours and that is where we see the pain in California, in i...
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- apw:12357549
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-10-28T20:25:01.198Z
- Title
- California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the California Attorney General's Office lose case after milking California taxpayers for $1,714,520.63
- Author
- Harrison, David Scott
- Date
- 2013-09-13
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (O)
- Only The Guilty Go Quietly To The Gallows. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the California Attorney General's Office Lose Case After Milking California Taxpayers For $1,714,520.63 by Dave Harrison California taxpayers continue to pay the price for the fiscal irresponsibility of state employees who are neither held accountable or responsible. In the aftermath of a major riot, in 2005, between White and Mexican prisoners at Ironwood State Prison, Blythe, Californ...
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- apw:12351233
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T18:28:06.314Z
- Title
- California elegy
- Author
- Villa, C.F.
- Pages
- 13 pages
- State
- California
- Text (O)
- C.F. Villa K-64212 3,520 words D10-215 PO Box 7500 Crescent City, CA 95331 CALIFORNIA ELEGY By C.F. Villa On July 1st, 2011, California inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison ignited a prisoner hunger strike to call attention to the inhumane conditions in the state ’s Security Housing Units (SH Us). At the height of the hunger strike, July 8th, 2013, two-thirds of the state ’s 33 prisons and 4 out-of-state prisons participated: 30,000 inmates refused meals; 2, 300 refused work and school assignm...
- PID
- apw:12345077
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-22T14:33:14.317Z
- Title
- California inmate pay rate schedule
- Author
- Convict, John Q.
- Pages
- 3 pages
- State
- California
- Text (O)
- CALIFORNIA INMATE PAY RATE SCHEDULE One would think that it is well past the time for a increase in prisoner pay rates in the CDCR? I would say yes, however Prisoncrats and Legislators naturally would say no! Never the less, lets examine the facts that over the years have come into play. When one considers the fact that the Department over the past 25 plus years have been authorized in several ways to dig deep into your meager resources and your family and friends wallet! In fact the most sig...
- PID
- apw:12344437
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-21T12:10:23.443Z
- Title
- California taxpayers subsidize prison violence
- Author
- Harrison, David
- Pages
- 2 pages
- State
- California
- Text (O)
- California Taxpayers Subsidize Prison Violence Only The Guilty Go Quietly To The Gallows. Pamphlets For A Better Humankind Addressing The Micro- And Macro-Problems Facing Humankind, And Providing Achievable Solutions; Going Where The Politically Correct Dare Not. (While the solution offered herein may not be a panacea, and may be provocative, it is offered as a positive step to correct the problem presented.) California Taxpayers Subsidize Prison Violence David Scott Harrison, (c) Like killer...
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- apw:12344599
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-21T18:02:07.503Z
- Title
- Caper loves everyone and everyone loves Caper!
- Author
- May, Larry E.
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Larry E. May Caper Loves Everyone and Everyone Loves Caper! By L. Edward May From a distance, it looked like a lion in a cage. I immediately thought of the stories my parents told me regarding traveling circuses. Animals in cages, placed on wagons, pulled by horses, from town to town. Men on the yard stopped talking and exercising as the cart approached. Two women guided it towards our building. There was a brown dog inside the sturdy metal cage. Most of us believed he was vicious because of ...
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- apw:12362914
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:38:57.126Z
- Title
- Cause and effect
- Author
- Poree-Daniels, Tre'Lanzo A. L. Sr.
- Date
- 2018-10-21
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Essay 4 Archive Cause and Effect 10-21-2018 My name is Tre' Lanzo i've been incarcerated for 6 years now because of the evil choice of violence that I allowed to overcome me. This is my first essay for this article and my goal is bring awareness to my people and everyone else; about the importance of knowing the meaning of "cause" and "effect". How important it is to understand the meaning behind what we all do, say and also neglect. To give a solution to conflic...
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- apw:12356258
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T17:14:47.244Z
- Title
- Censorship is alive
- Author
- Convict, John Q.
- Date
- 2019-01-19
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (O)
- The American Prison Writing Archive Hamilton College Digital Humanities Initiative 198 College Hill Road, Clinton New York 13323-1218 19 January 2019 RE: First-Person Non Fiction Essay About My Experiences CENSORSHIP IS ALIVE From time to time, being a prisoner gets to be trying, particu- larly when one seeks to try to enforce the First Amendment Right to receive personal Mail which some Prisoncrats, even though they can open and read most incoming and outgoing mail, some of these petty funci...
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- apw:12356358
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T17:22:29.064Z
- Title
- Center Ring
- Author
- Jarosik, Mark A.
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Center Ring by Mark A. Jarosik Sandwiched between majestic tree topped mountain ranges, a sprawling man-made oval ring bordered entirely by spiral razor wire capped chain link fencing solemnly rests in a lush California coastal valley. The mere sight sparks lost mental images of childhood memories where I spent sultry summer days with my siblings sitting on spectator grandstands fanning away facial perspiration beneath a pennant waving canvas tent. Many years later, far from these exciting an...
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- apw:12353391
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T19:49:19.001Z
- Title
- Change is within us all
- Author
- Williams, Dortell
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Dortell Williams P.O. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 Change is Within Us All I have been teaching my peers for over a decade. Yet I quickly became a student when I came to realize how dynamic human beings can be -- even prisoner human beings. In 2007 I was asked to instruct peer-led classes here on the Progressive Programming Facility, in Lancaster, CA. What I learned is that all of the creativity, intelligence and capacity for innovation I could ever want or need is right here, within reach. O...
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- apw:12361393
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-02-03T16:01:03.562Z
- Title
- Civilized paradox, or hypocrisy
- Author
- Outman, Robert
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Civilized Paradox, or Hypocrisy The sight of a bully, or bullies, continuing to beat a person already down is intolerable, cause for outrage, and social indignation. Schools take bullying serious. Children are taught and disciplined not to bully others: "It's wrong to over-power another and force them to say uncle." Domineering, browbeating, and subjugating, is what tyrants do; definitely not what we want our children to do, or to become. Such behavior is not acceptable in a ci...
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- apw:12361228
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-02-03T15:57:03.731Z
- Title
- Civilized society?
- Author
- Outman, Robert
- Date
- 2015-04-15
- Pages
- 1 page
- State
- California
- Text (O)
- CIVILIZED SOCIETY ? The federal court ruled on elderly in prison: “A civilized society locks up such people until age makes them harmless, but it does not keep them in until they die"; 835 F2d 1195, US v. E. Jackson. Yet, old and sick prisoners continue to die in California's prison system. The U.S. Supreme Court had to rule in 2011, California was conducting cruel and unusual punishment by overcrowding prisons, before the state begrudgingly began to reduce the population of its 34 ...
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- apw:12345003
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-22T13:04:37.906Z
- Title
- Comments on medical services in California prisons
- Author
- Moore, Stan
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Comments on Medical Services in California Prisons Submitted by Stan Moore 12 April, 2019 I have been in California prisons since later summer of 2015, when I was sent to reception at San Quentin. I got off the bus with a urinary catheter and leg bag due to a presumed prostate problem that arose when I was awaiting sentencing at Marin County Jail. At San Quentin they diagnosed a bladder infection and put me on antibiotics for a week. The infection went away, the catheter was removed, and I co...
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- apw:12357677
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-10-28T20:29:21.435Z
- Title
- Concepts and language: Everything that's wrong with the world
- Author
- Torres, Eduardo
- Date
- 2020-02-14
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Concepts and language: Everything that's wrong with the world Eduardo Torres 2-14-20 A-5-129 PO Box 409020 Ione Ca 95640 MCSP Perhaps the general-common folk population have a certain concept that aids them to expirience life more fuffilingly. The difference in education and therefore faith or tools which is and are employed throughout an individual's life, defines that individual's expirience of life which is always important yet the differences are underestimated or overlooke...
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- apw:12361122
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-02-03T15:54:35.458Z
- Title
- Contact
- Author
- Torres, Eduardo
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Contact Today I considered harmony and infinity in death, birth and the concept of contact. Contact for reasons to this essay is defined as expirience. Expirience is rather hard for me to even begin to describe. So for the sake of my time and effort I’ll call it contact. Contact implies reach but can also imply the subtle underlineings that one does not notice. Contact can be strong, weak, or even completely theoretical. I want to develop this essay on theoretical contact, without further due...
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- apw:12361108
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-02-03T15:54:14.908Z
- Title
- Contracted
- Author
- Taylor, Shariff
- Date
- 2020-08-06
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- "Contracted" Thursday 8-6-2020 Well everyone, Covid-19 has finally reached the prison I'm incarcerated at (Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility), so I diligently have to be on guard against catching it by doing all the preventative measures that we are advised to do by medical professionals like...wearing my mask, wearing gloves, distancing myself, disinfecting everything around me regularly, washing anything I wear right away and bathing as much as possible. On 8-4-20, the...
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- apw:12360426
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-12-02T18:48:42.65Z
- Title
- Controversial data provided by two independent sources regarding California's massive life prisoner population
- Author
- Hall, Richard
- Pages
- 6 pages
- State
- California
- Text (O)
- CONTROVERSIAL DATA PROVIDED BY TWO INDEPENDENT SOURCES REGARDING CALIFORNIA'S MASSIVE LIFE PRISONER POPULATION. By: Richard G. Hall,Jr. "The major role of the Press is "to continually recreate a view of reality supportive of the existing social and economic class power. Much of what is reported as "News" is little more than uncritical transmissions of official opinions to an unsuspecting public. What reporters pass off as objectivity, is just a mindless kind of neutra...
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- apw:12344536
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-21T15:42:02.945Z
- Title
- Convict criminology: an Afrikan-centered critique
- Author
- Amen, Asar Imhotep
- Date
- 2014-12-04
- Date
- 2014-12-04, 2014-12-04
- Pages
- 9 pages
- State
- California
- Topics
- slavery, social control, Prison Industrial Complex, profits, socialization, western culture, European culture/nations vs. non-European nations, colonization, role of individualism and individual moral sensibility in justifying a culture of inequality, psychoanalysis, status quo, socially constructed criminal type/criminal profile, the need to focus on society and not on individuals, social reconstruction, parallels between exploitation of social scientists and colonizers
- Text (TR_WF)
- Convict Criminology: An Afrikan-Centered Critique A people already invisible can be easily made to disappear as this is the primary function of ghettos and prisons in Amerika . INTRODUCTION: The United States is predicated upon permanent disparities and inequities in life expectancy, mortality rates, education gaps, incarceration, economic solvency, and counter development burdened upon Afrikans domestically and internationally. Founded in enslavement, these disparities were facilitated by m...
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- apw:283
- Date Uploaded
- 2015-09-16T18:20:56.586Z
- Title
- Conviction
- Author
- Hodgkins, James
- Pages
- 3 pages
- State
- California
- Text (O)
- Conviction I've searched for conviction, but I'm not sure where it lies. I've looked for it in the striving of the passionate, in the eyes of the nodding heads; I've listened for it carefully in the rising octaves of the storytellers and the whispers of those whose homes are shadows; but I never found it until I stopped looking. Maybe because conviction is something only seen in it's absence. Or maybe because so many people have painted their passion and agreement the...
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- apw:12344915
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-22T11:10:11.973Z
- Title
- Coronavirus and prisoner's relationship with death
- Author
- Hooker, Donald
- Date
- 2020-05-07
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Mprisondthotz Thotz From Thotz Mprisond Coronavirus and Prisoner's Relationship with Death by Donald "C-Note" Hooker As a political junkie, Friday's edition of the PBS NewsHour, is always must watch TV for me. On Friday, April 24th, 2020, reporter William Brangham was doing a human interest story on COVID-19. Somehow, he ran across a Facebook post from a New York City, Mount Sinai, ICU nurse, KP Mendoza. The 24-year- https://mprisondthotz.wordpress.com/2020/05/07/coronavir...
- PID
- apw:12360411
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-12-02T18:48:07.893Z
- Title
- Coronavirus while incarcerated has been mentally difficult
- Author
- Taylor, Shariff
- Date
- 2020-06-09
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Submission Tuesday 6-9-2020 Coronavirus while incarcerated has been mentally difficult because I have nothing really to do but think and worry about when this will be over so the program can go back to the way it was. Most of the inmates I've talked to, feel that the Administration will trick us an keep things like they are now or only give us (inmates) certain privileges back. To me, I'm only getting stronger by being forced to deal head-on with my mental thoughts that would usuall...
- PID
- apw:12360302
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-12-02T18:44:46.052Z
- Title
- Correctional psychology
- Author
- Dugger, Philip
- Date
- 2018-04-03
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Correctional Psychology In a system (set up by a few misguided persons before us) where money is made to be the source of everything that is material, you will often find people doing interesting things for money. This concerns those who both find themselves living in a prison, and those working in a prison. The correction of this flawed system I mention in a previous essay entitled Democracy (as opposed, for instance, to something Condolezza Rice, a current professor at Stanford, might say)....
- PID
- apw:12353334
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T18:56:53.415Z