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Title
A bottle of contradictions
Author
Williams, Dortell
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
A Bottle of Contradictions by Dortell Williams Is it me, or is the sentence of life without the possibility a bottle of contradictions? Perhaps the bottle should say "Break in case of emergency!" The Legislature wrote the law implying that I am - that we are - incorrigible. So the prison system excludes us from every meaningful rehabilitative program: trades, jobs with career paths, and even some self-help programs. In spite of these impediments, many of us have achieved remarkable ...
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apw:12360743
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:42:57.793Z
Title
A convicts reposte
Author
King, Bradford
Pages
2 pages
PID
apw:12362024
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:23:06.165Z
Title
A day before my 18th birthday
Author
Marshall, Tandy
Date
2017-02-21
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
No Title A day before my 18th birthday I was arrested in Milwaukee WI for possession with intent to deliver. I was sentenced to 9 years under the Wisconsin Truth in Sentencing Act. The judge ordered me to do 3 years inside and 6 years on mandatory supervision. Most of the 3 years was spent at the Robert E. Ellsworth Correctional Center (R.E.E.C.C.). At REECC I obtained my HSED in 2002. To get into the Office Assistant college course through Gateway Tech, I had to steal a cookie. My being empl...
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apw:12347879
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:30.234Z
Title
A day in my life
Author
Murray, B.C.
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
A DAY IN MY LIFE Awakened by the brilliance of 6:00AM lights, I arise, grab my toiletries and walk down the long, stale white corridor toward the restroom. First, I must wade through a bevy of inmates blocking my path while vehemently discussing lat night's televised basketball game. These men do so without any consideration for those still trying to sleep or pass through. I step across the threshold and into a room with two rows of sinks where all sorts of men — white, black, Mexican, t...
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apw:12353162
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:57:52.741Z
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...
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apw:12347831
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:28Z
Title
A professor once asked me
Author
Marshall, Tandy
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
No Title A professor once asked me if I believed in evolution or history repeating itself. I leaned towards history repeating itself, after all evolution just seems to be the same ole same ole with a few tweaks to make a thing modern. Take the U.S. history for instance, the slave trade and indentured servants are today called prisoners. When the Fore Fathers hammered out the Constitution in that hot sweaty room they had to compromise. The southern states wanted to count their slaves in the po...
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apw:12347996
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:54:58.715Z
Title
A voice from inside
Author
Rose, Amber
Date
43726
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
September 18 - 2019 A Voice From Inside Human Kind The rich taking from the poor, a story as old as time. How do the rich get away with what they do? How do we allow these things to continue to happen? The love of money is the route of all evil, money changes people. It sounds crazy doesn't it? I mean, how do you make money off of broke? If it isn't there, it isn't there. You can't squeeze money out of nothing, zero, 0. Let me tell you... Pretend to be doing society a favo...
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apw:12359227
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:19:11.593Z
Title
Addendum to #32392 commutation application: Sylvia Boykin
Author
Boykin, Sylvia
Pages
5 pages
State
Pennsylvania
Text (O)
Addendum to #32392 Commutation Application: Sylvia Boykin In my own Words, these are the detailed facts of my crime and how I was involved: On May 15, 1992 at around 1:30pm in Philadelphia, PA, I drove Aaron Jones and Antwan Blagman to the residence of Mrs. Pope for the purpose of collecting money owed for illegal drugs. We planned to peacefully collect the money. While inside the residence of Mrs. Pope, I asked her for the money and she told me she didn’t have it. I went back to the car to t...
PID
apw:12346101
Date Uploaded
2016-10-25T02:16:13.375Z
Title
Alone
Author
Murray, B.C.
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
ALONE Alas, I am alone and destined to remain so. No longer can the burning, innate longing for love, companionship and re-affirmation of my worth reverberate inside my heart and mind. Is this due to years apart from others? Or is it because of my transgressions that I am left with no choice but to accept the exile society will impose that separates me even from those who ODCG felt affection from and for me? Once thrust back into the world from which I am now ten years removed, it would be fo...
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apw:12356135
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:24:33.952Z
Title
American paradox
Author
King, Bradford
Pages
2 pages
PID
apw:12362078
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:24:04.083Z
Title
An artist behind bars
Author
Cosgrove, Kristine
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"An Artist Behind Bars" by Kristine Cosgrove Let me see if I can try to describe what it's like to be in prison. First, it's every horror story you can imagine if you happen to run up against someone suffering from borderline personality disorder and low self-esteem. I like to imagine I'm only here impersonating a fake prisoner because I'm trying out for the new Scorcese film - and I'm up against Jennifer Connelly, and she beat me out of the role in House of...
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apw:12363082
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:41:51.733Z
Title
An open letter to Congress: National COVID-19 November mail-in voting "We can do better"
Author
Williams, Dortell
Date
2020-04-17
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Dortell Williams P.O. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 April 17, 2020 An Open Letter to Congress National COVID-19-November Mail-In Voting “We Can Do Better" “This is ridiculous! I hope they aren’t playing politics and risking our lives,” to do this, said a Wisconsin voter, on March 7th, during their primary election. The frustration of this senior, female African-American voter was palpable as she stood in the hours-long line waiting; waiting for the only opportunity she was given to exerci...
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apw:12360277
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:44:04.39Z
Title
Anger
Author
Murray, B.C.
Date
2018-01-28
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
Anger Anger for me is unachievable. I am though certainly no pacifist. I don't spurn anger, hostility, or even vindictiveness. Such feelings are simply beyond my reach. Some would regard me as fortunate; say the world would benefit from more like me;‘ or argue that anger holds no value. Such sentiment alas is naive, even risible. There are man like m self. Peo le for whom roactive emotions are lost to a resolve of ho elessness where resorts to _ P gestures preclude the inducement of ange...
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apw:12352774
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:33:45.465Z
Title
Anxiety
Author
Murray, B.C.
Date
2018
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
ANXIETY Like a leaking cistern, anxiety,slowly bleeds all semblance of life from one'sA A being. As soon as a rare detente is reached, another anguishing tempest appears .atop life's mountains of Volatile, tormenting emotions pressing everything below until the-cavity of one's heart is breached further, causing one's will to demit faster, more excruciatingly that before. Eventually, anxiety morphs into a depressed emptiness offering only a teasing, hollow eye in a storm th...
PID
apw:12352669
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:38:32.89Z
Title
Are you in charge?
Author
Kuhn-Brown, Erin
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Are You in Charge? By Erin Kuhn-Brown I almost wrote a kite of concern this morning to our AWD Oliver, and quickly had to remind myself how absolutely pointless that would be. I have found in the course of serving almost 20 years that if a topic matter is of concern, and brought to staffs attention, the focus is not on addressing the matter brought to staff, rather staffs concern is to tell as many of their peers, who pointed it out. (See attached letter - to be included in essay) Warden Oliv...
PID
apw:12360532
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:37:20.319Z
Title
Are you properly trained?
Author
Chambers, Jessica
Date
2019-12-23
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
By: Jessica Chambers Are You Properly Trained? 12-23-19 At FM WCC NDOC Las Vegas, NV on 11-21-19 at approximately 6:35AM I was walking down the stairs in Unit E after just using the restroom, as c/o Logan entered Unit E, stood at the door and yelled my name "Chambers", and said to get properly dressed and grab my cup. I was escorted to the gym to give a U/A "urine analysis" and drank a 8oz cup of water. C/O Palasios was the officer to witness me giving a urine sample and a...
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apw:12360786
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:43:56.934Z
Title
As a black Muslim
Author
Rahmaan, Taryanne Abdullah
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Taryanne Rahmaan, "As a Black Muslim" Coffee Creek Correctional Facility As a Black muslim, in prison where I have three strikes... (one, I am Black, two. I am muslim, three. I am female) everyday is a struggle. As if it isn't enough to just take my freedom, they want to take my dreams, my hope, and my faith I may still have. They refuse to give me pork substitutes or anything resembling a Halal diet. They deny me the right to cover my hair outside of my cell, and each year ram...
PID
apw:12354688
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:31:35.186Z
Title
As she lay
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
As She Lay 9/2/19 "It is with tremendous sadness and under unfortunate circumstances in which this writing arises. However, the deceased no longer have a voice; so I will speak out of respect for the young lady that recently passed away from a drug overdose. At the very moment I sat writing my last essay, there was a young lady in distress. Fighting for the very breath which would become her last before the age of thirty. Right here inside this physical prison. Worse, she was in the ment...
PID
apw:12359024
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:14:11.847Z
Title
Auto biography of an incarcerated sex offender
Author
Senior, Daniel
Date
2016-12-12
Pages
12 pages
Text (TR_WF)
12/12/2016 Autobiography of an incarcerated sex offender This is my first essay for the APWA. I will give some general background of my childhood, then tell of my incarceration experience. My name is Daniel Isaac Senior. I am forthcoming about my own life, but I do ask that my family remains anonymous. Please do not look them up or try to contact them. I recognize the purpose of this archive is to teach and learn about the United States criminal justice system and therefore my personal life i...
PID
apw:12347887
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:30.572Z
Title
Bloom grown from a crack in the wall
Author
Jaynes, Bev
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Bloom grown from a crack in the wall By Beverly Jaynes Reaching light from deceptive darkness, its seed mysteriously nurtured within, imposing walls cannot contain its growth. Breaking free unexpectantly, from bleak, stark surroundings, the bloom, the more beautiful. for its unlikely flourishing. A surprising sign of hope, graced by opportunity. The transformation of transformed individuals - the diseased, debilitated, disadvantaged, addicted, depressed, degraded, disgraced, disillusioned, di...
PID
apw:12347846
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:28.91Z
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...
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apw:12360179
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:41:03.164Z
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...
PID
apw:12361393
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:01:03.562Z
Title
Choices
Author
Huey, Taylor
Pages
8 pages
Text (O)
Taylor Huey-Choices There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you. Elie Wiesel said that “whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.” In the telling of my story, I am giving you my most vulnerable self. My name is Taylor. I am 36 years old and have been incarcerated for the past 17 years. How had I come to commit offenses that brought such a lengthy prison term? I courted danger. I courted danger because danger was one of the few things ...
PID
apw:12356626
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:36:57.669Z
Title
Choosing to love
Author
Kirby-Watts, Courtney
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Choosing to love Betrayal and wounds. I was the one who betrayed and caused wounds. Not an easy thing to live with. How do you rebuild, recreate, begin again once you have caused so much destruction? is it even possible to repair broken relationships? I say yes, God says yes. I say yes because God said yes to me. I gave my nothingness to God who took it and made something. I hurt those closest to me. I betrayed them in the worst way possible. Yet God has brought us back together. My family ha...
PID
apw:12353178
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:58:08.793Z

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