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Title
The focus of this essay concerns the devaluation of human life
Author
Pinson, Jeremy
Date
2014-08-21
Pages
4 pages
Topics
Prisoners writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (TR_WF)
Author: Jeremy Pinson Date: 8-21-14 Essay No. 2 The focus of this essay concerns the devaluation of human life in a prison setting. Human beings have a penchant for division, creating endless us versus them scenarios in the mind to justify any conduct or decision that would be otherwise unacceptable. In the United States the demonization of "the criminals" is longstanding. But we forget that criminals are human beings too. Human beings who broke the law but also who still feel pain,...
PID
apw:12351038
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T17:17:45.336Z
Title
The history of my gambling addiction
Author
Schmidt, John
Pages
3 pages
State
Delaware
Text (O)
The History of My Gambling Addiction By John Schmidt Going back as far as I can remember, my first encounters with gambling occurred when I was about seven or eight years old. I bet horses at Delaware Park with my Dad. I also bet horses at Brandywine Raceway with my Mom. But I remember playing the football tickets with my dad on the weekends the most. I’m not sure which one was first of these three activities, but I remember feeling pretty cool when I did any of them. Particularly, when I was ...
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apw:12345250
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T15:57:08.684Z
Title
The mentality of an incarcerated criminal! part one
Author
Brown, Rahasheem
Pages
12 pages
State
New York
Text (TR_WF)
The Mentality of an incarcerated criminal! Part One The Mentality of my Youth There is a whole mentality behind, both, crime and incarceration. In criminology (the study of the behavior patterns & the mindset of the criminal) one learns how to recognize & apprehend a criminal. When someone is arrested, he is diagnosed, in different ways, as criminally insane (i.e. anti-social, narcissistic, etc.). The mentality of the criminal is acquired at a very young age, in most cases. This is wh...
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apw:12343765
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T17:56:13.595Z
Title
The mysterious book
Author
The Mysterious Book
Pages
2 pages
State
Arizona
Text (TR_WF)
The Mysterious Book I never read an entire book until I came to prison. Or, well, jail actually, when I was going through the trial and sentencing process. I had been in jail for about a week, in a cell by myself in solitary confinement. That first week I basically just slept. On my fifth or sixth day (I'm not really sure which), I woke up to find a book on the floor in the middle of the room. It as Louis L'Amour story, a western. I hated westerns. I remember as a kid my dad was alw...
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apw:12342764
Date Uploaded
2016-10-15T12:35:52.044Z
Title
The need and importance of unity
Author
Brown, Rahasheem
Pages
4 pages
State
New York
Text (O)
The Need and Importance of Unity It is said that: "United we stand; divided we fall". It is also said that: "Two heads are better than one". Where those two heads are focused on one common cause or goal, no statement can be more true. Except, of course, billions of heads are better than one, or "the more heads, the better". Social means to advocate a groupe of men (or women) or a society of men for one common cause. Social is the root-word of the word socialize, ...
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apw:12345884
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T18:13:43.091Z
Title
The office
Author
Rogers, Ramon
Date
2012-12
Pages
1 page
Text (FT)
THE OFFICE For over two years I've gotten up each morning and walked the short distance to my office. This is a special place, exclusive yet ominous, with an odd and interesting history. It had been built several decades ago, a 12' x 12' cage of sturdy metal diamond grating. It was originally an observation post but later reduced to a dark and dusty storage for paperwork and unused furniture. When the office became my own personal work area it was my responsibility to equip acc...
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apw:12346597
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:32:31.199Z
Title
The police of PghPa today
Author
Carroll, Wesley R.
Date
2016
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Wesley Carroll The police of PghPa today in PghPa (and most all other areas), you have three branches of police within its' criminal justice system. Herein after we shall refer to them (each separate branch) as "popo #1", "popo #2", and "popo #3". One day, the so called powers that be of PghPa, decided to give them a test, since they all claim to be the best at apprehending criminals. So the powers that be there, releases a white rabbit into the forest and e...
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apw:12347239
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:48:17.118Z
Title
The politicalization of crime and its consequences
Author
O'Shea, Patrick
Pages
7 pages
Text (O)
Criminal Justice 
 The Politicalization of Crime And Its Unintended Consequences By P.J. O'Shea 
 At approximately 7:00 p.m. in the evening of April 3, 1987 Cliff Barnes, a car salesman in the tiny bucolic town of Oxon Hill, Maryland arrived home from work. While Mr. Barnes was in the process of cleaning up, he heard a strange noise in the home he shared with his fiancée Angela Miller. Later, Mr. Barnes would tell the police that at the time, he did not feel overly concerned about the un...
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apw:12349151
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:47:25.748Z
Title
The prison veil
Author
Marrero, Jamie
Pages
9 pages
Text (O)
Jaime Marrero The Correctional Writer's Initiative BRCI - 330923 Student #2 028 4460 Broad River Rd. Columbia, SC 29210-4012 THE PRISON VEIL An Essay by JAIME MARRERO I am known to the state of South Carolina, as "INMATE #330923", but my given name is Jaime Eduardo Marrero——and I was once known to the Navy as Aviation Machinists Mate Petty Officer Second Class Air Warfare Designee Jaime Marrero --but, I became a "ward" of the South Carolina Department of Corrections a...
PID
apw:12351719
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T01:19:43.43Z
Title
The reentry movement is long overdue
Author
Green, Robbie Switzer
Pages
12 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE The reentry movement is long overdue. In fact, if you review the "prisoner" movies from James Cagney films to Shawshank Redemption, you will see the crucial need for providing help to released prisoners. For years, common sense dictated that this was a problem. However, we didn't have the political will to begin to address the solution that we now call "reentry." President George W. Bush, in his annual State of the Union message, said that people in prison sh...
PID
apw:12355357
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T21:23:59.631Z
Title
The taxpayer's burden
Author
Harris, Larry "Rocky"
Pages
6 pages
State
Illinois
Text (O)
THE TAXPAYER'S BURDEN I am a prisoner housed at the Illinois Department Of Corrections Prison located in Pinckneyville Illinois. If the reader was to punch up this prison on the State website one would find that the current rate of incarceration is at $18,355.00 per one year of my living in prison. This is down from the $30,000.00 price tag that was in place in the early days of the 2000's. One would ask why is is getting cheaper? The budget cuts in the prison system due to the budg...
PID
apw:12345334
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T17:20:47.403Z
Title
Trip to the tropics
Author
Inmate Rauda
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (TR)
Inmate Rauda California Trip to the Tropics Police are crooked so crooked in fact, that they set me up to take psychotropic medications, first of all I have a history of depression, as I sometimes get depressed or low in situations such as incarceration, I don't take medications, I don't feel they work for me. While serving a term in prison I tried to seek a higher level of mental care, after months of counseling, mental staff at the prison approved of a medical transfer to another ...
PID
apw:12343218
Date Uploaded
2016-10-17T20:02:41.956Z
Title
True life series: this could be you or your child!
Author
Carroll, Wesley R.
Date
2016
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
True Life Series: This Could Be You Or Your Child! Copyright (c) 2016 By Wesley Carroll, Investigative Reporter Censored-Redacted Version On or about April 2011, plantiff [name of the incarcerated inmate redacted] (incarcerated within the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections), complained to a Dr. Khatri that he was having trouble sleeping. He also complained of being anxious, and had racing thoughts. Immediately Dr. Khatri prescribed the psychotropic medication ("psych med") Remer...
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apw:12347232
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:48:16.704Z
Title
Up and down this lonely road of faith
Author
Watson, Terry Lynn, Jr.
Pages
15 pages
Text (TR_WF)
No title By Jerry Watson Jr. Huttonsville WV I was first locked up when I was 9 years old. That's when it all went down hill for me. I went from foster homes, to group homes, to boys shelters, to juvenile detention centers. I've been to bootcamps, different placements in and out of the state. Childhood I never had one, a normal family, whats that? Hi my names Terry Lynn Watson Jr. I'm 22 years old and am currently incarcerated in Huttonsville Correctional Center. Doing a 5-50 a...
PID
apw:12347653
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:49:33.729Z
Title
Veteran denied help dies
Author
Chase, T.A.
Pages
4 pages
Text (FT)
Veteran Denied Help Dies By T. A. Chase A veteran died on a Tuesday. He did not die from combat related injuries. Nor did he die as one of the many thousands of veterans who commit suicide each year. This quiet, religious and honorably discharged veteran passed away because of his governments overt action to prevent him from obtaining the assistance he both needed and was due. He was a veteran incarcerated. A disturbing and unknown statistic is that on average approximately 8% of any inmate p...
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apw:12347457
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:10:45.496Z
Title
Visions of the night
Author
Avaloy, Steven
Pages
7 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Steven G. Avaloy #V—44243 Salinas Valley State Prison P.O. Box #1050 Soledad, CA 93960 Word Count: 2,239. Visions of the Night ' “For God may speak in one way, or in another, yet man does not perceive it, In a dream, in vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, While slumbering on their beds, Then He opens the ears of men, And seals their instruction, In order to turn man from his deed, and conceal pride from man. He does so to keep back his soul from the Pit, and his life fro...
PID
apw:12344486
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T13:51:16.565Z
Title
What inmates need in order to make it on the outside
Author
Downing, Curtis
Date
2010-03-07
Pages
7 pages
State
Nevada
Text (TR_WF)
03/07/2010 Curtis L. Downing P.O. Box 208 Indian Springs NV 89070-0208 Voices Through the Walls RE: What Inmates Need in Order to Make it on the Outside What an incarcerated needs in order to make it on the outside, can be resolved in different ways, and in fact must be resolved in different ways. 1. What type of incarcerated person is being assessed to make it on the outside, i.e. a first time convicted person; second time; third time; career criminal; habitual criminal. The things that each...
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apw:12343625
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T00:11:48.997Z
Title
When is it enough
Author
Harris, Larry "Rocky"
Pages
8 pages
State
Illinois
Text (O)
When is it Enough 
 I have 21 years behind these walls. I never figured my life would spin out this way. When I was a young man I was buck wild. I rode the iron horse and lived by no mans rules. Being a free spirit brought me into contact with the prison system at an early age. I bowed to no man. When push came to shove I used whatever means was necessary to protect my family, myself. You can only beat "the man" for so long, then you got to pay the piper. At 24 I took the law into m...
PID
apw:12345318
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T17:20:46.046Z
Title
Why are we a nation of prisons
Author
Hammer, Charles
Date
2010-08-05
Date
2010-08-05, 2010-08-05
Pages
7 pages
State
Oregon
Text (TR_WF)
Why Are We a Nation of Prisons? By Charles Hammer Is our prison system a mystery to the average citizen? An uncomfortable mystery best not to examine too closely? So it was to me until I became intimately involved in its working. No doubt the greatest part of the mystery is: Why does it cost so much? Why are our prisons so full and why do we need more? Unlike what many Americans may think, the justice and correctional systems of this country are built on retribution- not rehabilitation. And, ...
PID
apw:12341573
Date Uploaded
2015-09-29T21:33:28.57Z
Title
Why the United States Supreme Court should make Miller v. Alabama retroactive
Author
O'Shea, Patrick
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
JUVENILE JUSTICE Why the United States Supreme Court Should Make Miller v. Alabama Retroactive P. J. O’Shea inally, after two earlier refusals 1 to revisit its 2012 landmark decision in llliller. v,. Alabama} and much legal uncertainty, the United States Supreme Court has agreed to address the question of Miller’s retroactive application . In the upcoming case of T oca v. Louisiana, 3 which the Court has agreed to consider, the Supreme Court will have the opportunity to move juvenile justice ...
PID
apw:12349164
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:47:26.291Z

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