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16 years since inception.
Author
Martinez, Brandon
Date
2010-08-25
Date
2010-08-25, 2010-08-25
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (TR)
1 Brandon Martinez Word Count: 1,253 August 25, 2010 (NO TITLE) 16 years since inception. Been locked down in the department of correction entered the prison gate. Had no idea what would be my fate. Slangin the rocks from the triple beam. Was just a young buck having fun. Didnt realize what the cost of packing a gun. As I heard the iron gates rattle. Prepared for every twist and turn of the battle. For a life sentence surely I was doomed living in obscurity in a cocoon. Would I lose my mind. ...
PID
apw:176
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T17:52:37.443Z
Title
2020 election candidates need to address prison reform or go home
Author
Spade, David
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
2020 Election Candidates Need to Address Prison Reform or Go Home To understand just how important prison reform is, consider for a moment that in 2016, a prison in St. Clair had a staggering 249 reported inmate on inmate assaults for just that year. Almost an assault a day according to a New York Times press article. This horrific report can not be ignored and is solid evidence that our prison systems are not meant to excessively incarcerate humans. So it’s lost on me why the 2020 electoral ...
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apw:12358697
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:05:40.181Z
Title
452 words on incarceration
Author
Roberts, W.E.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
452 Words on Incarceration Prison is a poisoned environment. It leaves no one untouched. It seeps into the pores like mustard gas. It fouls the very air we breathe, polluting it with anger and hatred and bitterness. It creates unseen lesions on our souls, damages our being, eats away at our minds until we have no choice but to shut down all emotion or risk self-destruction. One cannot "care" for another in here, it is a weakness pounced upon by those who prey on misery, a liability ...
PID
apw:12349593
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T19:34:03.96Z
Title
66 days later
Author
Nolaw97
Pages
4 pages
Text (FT)
66 Days Later Frederick Mason USP Tucson #55487-056 PO Box 24550 Tucson, AZ 85734 The date is August 10th, 2016, 66 days after the incident on Memorial Day Weekend, Sunday, June 5th. I've chronicled various times after the incident in which I accused Officer D. Huffstuttler of discriminating against black inmates. I voiced my concern and contempt of the situation that very night, to see if the prison would fairly and honestly address this issue. And it is of great importance that they do...
PID
apw:12346434
Date Uploaded
2017-08-15T22:00:25.25Z
Title
666
Author
Radford, Frederick L. Sr.
Date
2016-07-11
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
(666) Essay by, Frederick Radford 7/11/2016 One reason I chose to title this essay “666”, is because I’m thirty six years old and 36 = 3 / 6’s = 666. Even though I am a peace maker, I’ve been battling the beast for so long that it has literally put me in beast mode! Like I said, I’m thirty six years old, on this day and I thank God that death hasn’t conquered me yet. From my understanding, I feel like “life” is designed to-program-all of us into pawns. We live in a system that is designed to ...
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apw:12355950
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T17:58:18.397Z
Title
99 days later
Author
Nolaw97
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
99 Days Later Frederick Mason #55487—O56 USP Tucson PO Box 24550 Tucson, AZ 85734 The date (as I write this) is September 12th, 33 days after my last essay titled, "66 Days Later". It was an essay on the continual update of what happened on Memorial Day" Weekend of 2016... now 99 days ago. Since then, I've written numerous essays, chronicling the event, to see what USP Tucson would do in light of an accusation of an officer (Huffstuttler) discriminating against inmates. My...
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apw:12351688
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T01:19:41.807Z
Title
A bad year
Author
Arreygue, Michael
Date
2016-10-02
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Michael Arreyene S.V.S.P. California A Bad Year Any year in prison could be considered a bad year, but for me the past year has been a bad year. Although it is far from the worst because things could always be worse, for instance I probably could not be able to write these thoughts or even be around. By no means do I intend to be morbid, but as we all view the best/worse case scenario this is mine. My bad year began in August 2014 and it came out of nowhere and knocked me out like a suckerpun...
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apw:12347867
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:29.569Z
Title
A bitch slap to Nieztche
Author
Torres, Eduardo
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Bitch Slap to Nietzsche If you don't know who Nieztche is, he's a famous thinker from the late 19th century who is famous for deeming God as Dead and believing immorality is power to those who seek it and morality destroys individual lives. He believes apparantly that humans are not in any kind of spiritual battle exept with morality that "always" destroys people's lives, he must not believe in evil or aliens or supernatural balance is needed for existence He is in ...
PID
apw:12360512
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:36:45.145Z
Title
A brand new beginning awaits us all
Author
Sharpe, Darrell
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A brand new beginning awaits us all By Darrell Sharpe, MA The windows here at the MCI Norfolk Prison-Security Housing unity extend from floor to ceiling, about eight feet high. They're only five inches wide-impossible for anyone to escape through, and the glass is clear. That surprised me. Most segregation units I've landed in have cell windows that are completely frosted over from the outside, making it impossible to look through them. But here at MCI Norfolk we have lots of beauti...
PID
apw:12347958
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:54:56.655Z
Title
A concise history of the prisoners' rights movement: an epic struggle for human dignity
Author
Littek, Thomas
Date
2015-04-13
Pages
19 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Concise History of the Prisoners' Rights Movement: An Epic Struggle for Human Dignity Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it. Historian's maxim. After visiting Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary in 1842 Charles Dickens wrote, "The system is rigid, strict and hopeless...and I believe it to be cruel and wrong....I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the [mind] to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body." Eastern State ...
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apw:12347462
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:10:45.99Z
Title
A crime is anything
Author
Lazar, Steven
Pages
5 pages
Text (O)
Part One Do I agree with Freda Adler’s quote that “[ a] crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit”? In the context of our American democracy, Adler’s quote is pretty close to an exact definition of how an act that is perceived to be wrong is codified into a body of penal laws.1 An elected body of legislators, i.e. the “group in power”, determines what public wrongs should be deemed wrong enough to be labeled a crime and, as such, carry along with them punitive measures. When A...
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apw:12352592
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:37:04.415Z
Title
A criminal end
Author
Glenn, Tracy
Date
2014-03-25
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
"A Criminal End" By: Mr. Tracy "Hollywood" Glenn March 25th 2D1h Prison has a way of sometimes helping one find another path, one that is seemingly reachable that one could not see beforehand from the offense that has one there locked away. If I were to tell you this correspondence is being written by one man who has at 50 years of age no high school diploma or B.E.D. could you believe it? Prison for me today is demoralizing and it has no place in my efforts to fulfill in ...
PID
apw:12349016
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T12:35:30.869Z
Title
A description of who I am
Author
Caraballo, Pedro R.
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
A Description of Who I Am: I have been in prison since 1999. I was 20 years old when I committed my crime. I had never been in any kind of trouble with the law and yet I was sentenced to die in prison in spite of mine being a non—homicide conviction and a first offense. My crime was that I participated in a kidnapping at the urging of the 47 year old man who befriended me at summer camp when I was a child and had been the lone parental figure in my life since bringing me to the United States ...
PID
apw:12356262
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:14:54.935Z
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 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 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
Title
A polygraph nation
Author
Figge, Brian Keith
Date
2017-09-13
Pages
5 pages
Text (O)
A Polygraph Nation "When you fail your polygraph test, we're going to string you by your balls,’ exclaimed police detectives. All that I have ever wanted to do from the first second, when false allegations were made against me, was to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Most shocking, was when I realized that these police detectives were not very happy with me when results came in after my first polygraph saying that I had passed. They simply were pissed off ...
PID
apw:12351603
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T00:31:42.969Z
Title
A prison e-mail to recreation
Author
Nolaw97
Pages
6 pages
Text (FT)
A Prison E-mail to Recreation Frederick Mason USP Tucson #55487-056 PO Box 24550 Tucson, AZ 85734 The following is an e-mail I sent to the Recreation Supervisor following an event that happened on Memorial Day Weekend (2 016) on Sunday. At the point I am sharing this, several things have happened, and I expect a few more before things are resolved... if they are at all. What I am trying to share here is that often times, things happen that are not the inmate's fault. Sometimes officers h...
PID
apw:12346331
Date Uploaded
2017-08-15T20:52:55.068Z
Title
A prisoner's apology
Author
King, Dayshaun
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Essay By Terry Little A Prisoner's Apology Many days I would think of the words that I would say the mother of my victim. Do I give her a simpde sorry? do I explain in detail how regretful I am? Téis tends be a huge burden on my guilt ridden heart. The problem most times isn't about the apologetic feature, rather it's the gesture, and how will it be recieved. There has been many mothers who have lost their children from acts of violence, but how many mothers can actually say th...
PID
apw:12354778
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:35:30.78Z
Title
A psalm from prison
Author
Mason, Frederick
Pages
2 pages
PID
apw:12363153
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:43:09.451Z
Title
A sad truth
Author
Harper, Bednago
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Sad Truth Bednago Harper Black, White, Hispanic, race don't matter. None are exempt. Neither are the countless and rising numbers of innocent misfortunate people who have fallen tragic victim in their wake. The new breed of Grim Reapers are no longer the city gates.... They are in the city! If life was fair, this world wouldn't be such a violent and deadly place to live in. But since life isn't fair, you read about it every day, or hear about it in the news. Every day this ci...
PID
apw:12354697
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:31:44.171Z
Title
A shitty situation
Author
Hastings, William D.
Pages
8 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"A Shitty Situation" by William D. Hastings As if I was observing some kind of sickening and sadistic scientific experiment, I watched the garbage bag I had wrapped around the toilet slowly rise as the unflushed feces emanated methane gas. I was fascinated by the sight of science in action and horrified by the knowledge that soon I would have to remove the plastic covering to take a leak - and in so doing, get a mighty whiff of my own shit. There had been a glut of rain, too much to...
PID
apw:12355261
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T19:52:38.148Z
Title
A short commentary on Nordstrom v. Ryan
Author
Gardner
Date
2014-09-16
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
A SHORT COMMENTARY ON NORDSTROM V. RYAN; THE READING OF LEGAL MAIL BY PRISON STAFF by Gardner, September 16, 2014 The APWA seeks ‘essays’ about personal experiences; a recent Ninth Circuit case reminds me about prison mail improprieties in a related very unpleasant experience. I write to point out what the judges DIDN'T think about in their decision, hoping that my opinion might be pointed out in some future opportunity. The case is Nordstrom v. Ryan, 2014 DJDAR 106131, a federal 1983 (c...
PID
apw:12351281
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T19:07:47.901Z
Title
A sporting chance
Author
Harper, Bednago
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Bednago Harper "A Sporting Chance" Much, much more than just sport and athletics to pass the time, after school activities like football, basketball, and baseball can go a long way in helping to instill responsibility, personal growth and many other life-shaping virtues in young people growing up in troubled areas of inner cities. When a young person knows better, that young person is more likely to do better. Let's just face it. A great many of our young people aren't bei...
PID
apw:12350715
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T15:41:32.966Z

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