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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
Arboretum
Author
Reed, Karter K.
Pages
1 page
State
Massachusetts
Text (O)
Arboretum by Karter Kane Reed I stood there staring My heart wrenched My feet like anchors Unable to turn away from the horror Behind the double row of fences topped with glistening razorwire Lay the greens and browns of trees Swaying in the majestic beauty And it pains me to see them caged that way Behind those fences Unable to breathe Suffocated It's inhumane! The loudspeaker comes to life, and a Voice tells me It's time to go The trees hardly seem to notice Oblivious to my pain A...
PID
apw:12345491
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T22:17:53.402Z
Title
As a convicted felon in the United States of America
Author
Santos, Angel
Pages
14 pages
PID
apw:12361698
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:08:38.312Z
Title
Ask me about solitary confinement, and the panda bear
Author
Holland, Daniel Leo
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
Ask me about solitary confinement, and the Panda Bear If you were to‘ask me about solitary confinement I could tell you horror stories. But here is an example of how solitary confinement is abused and used as a tool to bully inmates. Here is a guy we will call Stan who has been in prison for the better part of 19 years. Stan has been virtually "ticket" free with only a couple minor disciplinary [tickets] infractions over the years.(On a scale of 1 to 10 on the problem scale- this gu...
PID
apw:12351382
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T19:43:05.099Z
Title
Classified ad: Willing to kill for $22.50
Author
Fisher, Shawn
Date
2013-10-09
Date
2013-10-09, 2013-10-09
Pages
2 pages
State
Massachusetts
Text (FT)
C L A S S I F I E D Willing to kill for $22. 50 Americans have always had a personal affinity for those who have made the sacrafice to defend our freedoms. Everyday we pass by veterans without a second glance, except for those who bare the wounds of their past with scars and missing limbs. Evidence that they continue to fight long after they have left the battlefield. It was not until the Gulf War that we got to witness first hand the the battle these heros face when the conditions at the Wal...
PID
apw:264
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T18:30:48.654Z
Title
Commutation
Author
Fisher, Shawn
Date
2013-10-09
Date
2013-10-09, 2013-10-09
Pages
3 pages
State
Massachusetts
Text (FT)
COMMUTATION An epidemic is slowly taking root throughout the United States prison system. As of 2010, State and federal prisons house more than 26,000 inmates 65+ years old and nearly five times that number 55 and up. 1 The boom is a direct result of the "get tough on crime legislation from the SO's and 90's. These policies have generally caused the nation's inmate prison population to jump from 330,000 in ~980 to over a million by 1995; a tripling of the population repres...
PID
apw:270
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T18:32:41.304Z
Title
Definition of restorative justice
Author
Time, Justin
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Definition of Restorative Justice Thomas "Husky" Flannery Restorative justice is a revolutionary attempt at mitigating the proliferation of procedural justice whos misguided objective to convict, isolate, release has failed as evidenced by recidivism rates. Without the positive return on investment available to investors in the Prison Industrial Complex none of this would be possible. Providing positive return on investment into statistically backed reformation and rehabilitation pr...
PID
apw:12356038
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T18:49:51.752Z
Title
Defund MCI-Norfolk's mainline kitchen!
Author
Holland, Daniel Leo
Pages
1 page
PID
apw:12362449
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:30:36.241Z
Title
Dehumanization session 3
Author
Time, Justin
Date
2018-10-08
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
" Dehumanization Session 3" Flannery 10-8-18 The objective and definition of dehumanization in prison is the breaking of minds through oppressive tactics. Once the mind becomes dehumanized and debased conformity to living a life lower than what exist in the animal kingdom will become normal. Provisions are infrequently made to combat dehumanization as releasing permanently disturbed ex-cons that continue to cost tax-payers is accepted. This equates to undeniable proof that the BOP &...
PID
apw:12356036
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T18:49:49.178Z
Title
Essay on incarcerated grieving
Author
Kostka, Paul Henry Joseph
Pages
13 pages
Text (O)
ESSAY ON INCARCERATED GRIEVING BY PAUL HENRY JOSEPH KOSTKA PAGE ONE Prison Guards, Administrators, and convicts all feel the hurt, emotional pain and heart aches with death of loved ones and friends. I would like to explore in this work the grieving process through my thoughts about the emotionally charged human condition along with my personal grief. How I felt. How I was treated. The strangeness. The out of place. The actual heart pain knowing the finality...of some one not being with us an...
PID
apw:12355361
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T21:24:08.811Z
Title
Far from home
Author
Reed, Karter K.
Pages
1 page
State
Massachusetts
Text (O)
Far FY0111 Home by Karter Kane Reed Welcome home, I think to myself ' The home of the dead Buried just a stone’s throw from your world Yet a world away But I breathe the same air I’m a caged animal No different than you Just a smaller cage Under the same sky Bound to my shadow by the same sun But confined to myself Ostracized from pleasure Alone in contagious misery A life left unlived An unturned stone Under an overcast sky Free to dream... So again I close my eyes Free to dream
PID
apw:12345478
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T22:17:41.624Z
Title
Happy hour in Shirley World
Author
Diorio, Charles N.
Date
2014-03
Pages
8 pages
Text (O)
Copyright 2014 All Rights Reserved March 2014 HAPPY HOUR IN SHIRLEY WORLD A View from the Massachusetts correctional institute at Shirley is typical of the view of most medium security prisons across the country. There's deadly razor wire gleaming in bright sunlight, several low prefabricated buildings housing various programs like library, industry, a barbershop and chapel. Six massive state—of—the-art cell blocks look like Hollywood soundstages painted a rusty clay. It had been a long ...
PID
apw:12351214
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T18:28:05.599Z
Title
I see said the blind man as he looked at his hammer and saw
Author
Bufalino, Darin
Date
2015-01-07
Pages
2 pages
State
Massachusetts
Text (O)
I See Said the Blind Man as He Looked at His Hammer and Saw By Darin Bufalino 1/7/2015 Of the over 2 million men,women and children incarcerated in the United States,85% of those incarcerations are rooted in some sort of alcohol,drug or substance abuse. The numbers you have just read are not fictional nor is the following story.What you have just read is sad,what you are about to read has broken more hardened criminals than any sentence a trial court could handout. This is a familiar story to...
PID
apw:12345459
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T22:17:38.693Z
Title
I've written in past
Author
Santos, Angel
Pages
20 pages
Text (TR_WF)
1st essay Ive written in past, I submitted an up to date story as to current affairs in this facility and they are a mirror of affairs in this state and a mirror of the administrators whom Im viewing from current state of affair forget there duty to constitution of U.S.A. and the critical mandate that our democratic country is for the people by the people. The issue is the sexual predator has infiltrated and now has positions with numerous internal branch of prison which directly again is und...
PID
apw:12350456
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T13:43:39.044Z
Title
In development of a criminal mind
Author
Knippers, Brian D.
Pages
8 pages
Text (O)
Ignorance as a Social Progress Downfall By Christopher Balmer "'The law must be stable, yet it cannot stand still.' The words are those of Roscoe Pound. They refer to the two ideals that must be harmonized and reconciled: stability and change. Stability requires a continuity with the past, and is necessary to permit members of a society to conduct their daily affairs with a reasonable degree of certainty as to the legal consequences of their acts. Change implies a variation or ...
PID
apw:12352549
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:36:14.963Z
Title
Incarcerated tears: Experiencing pain & loss in prison
Author
Throop, Daniel S.
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Incarcerated Tears: Experiencing Pain & Loss in Prison Daniel S. Throop "Alex died". It was a cold Tuesday morning in the Yard when Scotty broke the news about our mutual friend. The December air suddenly felt honest as I rediscovered my breath while reflexively hardening my heart against the pain to come. "He left us on November 24th [Z018], but I just found out about it last night” Scotty explained. "I thought we had more time” I replied in stunned denial. "I ju...
PID
apw:12359480
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:25:37.164Z
Title
It is hard for me to write this
Author
Grier, Patrick
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
It is hard for me to write this. In prison we must hide our emotions. But I am afraid! My toe has been infected for four months. I have seen nurses and doctors and yet I still don't know how my toe became infected nor have I recieved proper treatment for the infection. At first the nurses laughed when I showed them the cut on my toe that wouldn't heal. Then they provided Iodine, Epsom Salt and antibiotics. Finally when none of that worked they became concerned. Still they did nothin...
PID
apw:12350448
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T13:43:37.678Z
Title
Jobs, industry and Shirley World
Author
Diorio, Charles N.
Date
2014-04
Pages
9 pages
Text (O)
April 2014 Jobs, Industry And Shirley World by Charles N. Diorio overcrowding, apathy and waste hinder opportunity here in MCI—Shirley, a medium security prison home to fifteen hundred convicts in Middlesex County a rural area of eastern Massachusetts. "Shirley World," as inmates here call it, offers few prison jobs. Convict workers, referred to as cadre, wait months sometimes years for a chance to push a broom or mop a floor. Inmate cadre is the formal term for that group of crimin...
PID
apw:12351223
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T18:28:06.048Z
Title
Life on the inside
Author
Reed, Karter K.
Pages
2 pages
State
Massachusetts
Text (O)
Life on the Inside by Karter Kane Reed I would like to start by telling you a bit about myself. Like any human being, I am a unique individual with my own eccentricities and idiosyncrasies while also sharing in common with you- and everyone else—many traits, characteristics, and quirks. I am very much different than you. and very much the same. - » Growing up, I was a pretty smart kid and learned readily, something I carried with me into adulthood. I like to think of myself as complex and mul...
PID
apw:12345475
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T22:17:40.846Z
Title
Magic and old Milwaukee
Author
Muise, Timothy J.
Pages
3 pages
State
Massachusetts
Text (O)
Magic and Old Milwaukee by Timothy J. Muise ******* In high school I built dories! That's right, I was in a class for what they called "behavioral problems" and we built 19', lap streak, Cape Banks dories. It was a wonderful class and I learned there about pride and accomplishment; I learned about the soul of a Gloucesterman. Project Adventure did more than limit the trouble I got into, but it afforded me the life skills I would need to survive a very tumultuous life that ...
PID
apw:12345468
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T22:17:39.758Z
Title
Maker greets "his" mobster
Author
Fisher, Shawn
Date
2013-10-09
Date
2013-10-09, 2013-10-09
Pages
2 pages
State
Massachusetts
Text (FT)
Maker Greets "His" Mobster By Shawn Fisher Not to long ago the prisoners at MCI Shirley put a tremendous amount of effort into converting what was once a weight-room into what is now a Christian place of worship. This 44'x48' room now resembles a chapel that would rival any in the outside world. With a handmade Altar a built in Tabernacle and pews donated from the Saint John's seminary, over 117 can sit comfortably as they listen to the Word of God. On September 10, 2...
PID
apw:269
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T18:32:30.046Z
Title
Mission accomplished
Author
Skinner, Michael
Pages
6 pages
State
Massachusetts
Text (O)
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED By Mike Skinner The Event: The Second Annual WALK FOR HUNGER, to raise money for PROJECT BREAD. The Location: Shirley Medium Prison, Shirley, Massachusetts. The Mission: To push my friend Joe Labriola in his wheelchair for twenty miles and set the record for the farthest distance ever done inside a Massachusetts State Prison. The Challenges: To do it on a small, old beat up, dirt track that is riddled with ruts and pot holes and in dire need of repairs. To do it with an o...
PID
apw:12345507
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:33.103Z
Title
My brief escape
Author
Sharpe, Darrell
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
My Brief Escape The day is cold, cloudy, and a blustery spring day. It is wet with rain, devoid of sunlight, and mimics my mind. As I sit staring between the bars of my cell, just past the fence and rolls of constantia razor wire, I gaze upon the still sleeping woods that surround me. All I see is, dismal, dank, dirty brown blemish to the landscape. The rising temperatures and shinning sun of days gone by, as of yet, have not been able to coax the colorful, luscious green leaves to appear. Bo...
PID
apw:12347963
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:54:56.955Z
Title
Never forget
Author
Muise, Timothy J.
Date
2013-10-11
Date
2013-10-11, 2013-10-11
Pages
2 pages
State
Massachusetts
Text (FT)
Never Forget by Timothy J. Muisa When I walk these grounds, I am amazed at how many men are oblivious of the gravity of their circumstances. As life ebbs and flows outside of the razor wire, we worry about what's for chow or who is the latest topic of gossip. When did we forget that it is "Us vs. Them"? The Captor vs. the Jailed? Where did it all go south? How and why - did we forget that we are in PRISON! Prisoner apathy is one true villain holding back the push for humane tre...
PID
apw:311
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T18:22:41.468Z

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