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Title
#Incarcerated lives matter
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
2 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
#Incarcerated Lives Matter By: Lacino Hamilton Just a few years ago, the crises of mass incarceration was largely thought of as an invisible issue. Talked about almost exclusively in abolitionist circles and on prison yards. It is now part of the mainstream discourse. Publications and groups spanning the political spectrum, even presidential hopefuls in both parties, claim support for reducing the incarceration rate. Still, we must not be naive. Elite-level alliances, the dominant voice, tape...
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apw:12345532
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:38.736Z
Title
A convicts reposte
Author
King, Bradford
Pages
2 pages
PID
apw:12362024
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:23:06.165Z
Title
A more complicated framework may yield more decarceration options
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
4 pages
State
Michigan
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A More Complicated Framework May Yield More Decarceration Options By: Lacino Hamilton Many incarcerated people find the sudden message of mass incarceration being a really bad idea, the right message, but the dominate narrative superficial. And therefore distracts from the most immediate challenges of not only decarceration, but ultimately the abolition of prisons. Let's be clear, for the most part, the current national conversation surrounding how to reform mass incarceration policies i...
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apw:12345547
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:40.813Z
Title
Amen-Ra: An example of the doubt most prisoners struggle with
Author
Neal, Deyon
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
"Amen—Ra: An Example of the Doubt Most Prisoners Struggle with" by Deyon Neal A good dude. Unassuming. Sociable. Intelligent. Those were the first impressions that I got from observing him. Everyone in the hole called him Amen-Ra, which was Egyptian for "God". sith such a dominating presence, he could've controlled the unitls criminal activity, but he wasn't into that. He uplifted people. Everyone not only respected Ra, they looked up to him. "what joint you...
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apw:12352578
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:36:49.516Z
Title
America's criminal justice system: rehabilitztion or criminalization?
Author
Pirkel, Daniel
Date
2018-05-13
Pages
12 pages
Text (O)
To: APWA From: Daniel Pirkel 5/13/18 America's Criminal Justice System: Rehabilitation or Criminalization? The US, prison system attempts to prevent people from committing crimes by utilizing the jurisprudential theories of incapacitation, retribution, rehabilitation, and deterrence as the primary goals of incarceration. The manner in which judges, prosecutors, wardens, and other criminal justice experts view the application of these theories of jurisprudence significantly affects the le...
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apw:12353981
Date Uploaded
2018-09-27T14:35:11.473Z
Title
American dream
Author
Milbourn, Matthew A.
Date
2020-02-23
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
American Prison Writing Archive Hamilton College 198 College Hill rd Clinton, NY 13323-1218 2/23/20 'American Dream' In, 1776, the people of the King's America decided to form a new government, "of the people, by the people." Not too long after that the people of that government became self-serving. Meanwhile, the people of and by, became so caught up in living the 'American Dream' that their government was able to pass laws that further propagated its own s...
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apw:12361289
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:58:32.063Z
Title
American paradox
Author
King, Bradford
Pages
2 pages
PID
apw:12362078
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:24:04.083Z
Title
An open letter to prisoner advocacy groups, and people that claim to stand in solidarity with prisoners
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
3 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
An Open Letter To Prisoner Advocacy Groups,And People That Claim To fitand In solidarity with Prisoners By: Lacino Hamilton Incarcerated people are aware that prisoner advocacy groups and people that claim to stand in solidarity with prisoners, are not magicians. Incarcerated people are aware that these groups and individuals do not possess supernatural powers. The same way that incarcerated people are aware that the practice of wizardry did not create the many contradictions that pervade U.S....
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apw:12345559
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:42.438Z
Title
Aramark food corporation scandal
Author
Mack-Lemdon, Mr. L.
Date
2018-07-05
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
7/5/18 Aramark Food Corporation Scandal On May 29, 2018, I sent the Aramark Food Corporation a five (5) page notarized affidavit regarding a possible malfeasance (wrong-doing) regarding their services within the MDOC (Michigan Department of Corrections). Between 2009 and 2015, I grieved and sued the Aramark Corporation regarding my kosher diet and the inappropriate preparing of that diet, however, I never complained about the food, quality of the food or taste, only the repetitiveness and tem...
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apw:12354856
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T18:29:35.309Z
Title
As I sit in my prison cell looking at this picture
Author
Velthuysen, Christopher John
Date
43770
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
APWA Essay By: C. Velthuysen [ID] Nov. 2019 As I sit in my prison cell looking at this picture a friend sent me years ago, I recall all the sandy beaches I used to visit on vacations with my friends & family. Even though I will not ever go to this beach, as its Johannesburg, South Africa; I wish I could, and do because my friend from Virginia has told me all about it in her letters. These are the vacations I now take, that even though are through others, I can let my self go (almost) ther...
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apw:12359705
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:31:16.957Z
Title
As for my experience
Author
Pirkel, Daniel
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
To: The America Prison Writing Archive From: Daniel Pirkel Greetings. I am really excited about your program and I am enclosing an application. Could you send me some more information regarding your program? I am a student in the Calvin Prison Initiative (CPI), a five bachelor's degree program, and I am coordinating a letter writing campaign to reform the prison system. Any information that you can send me to help in this endeavor (including information about your program) will be put on...
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apw:12351761
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T01:52:45.422Z
Title
At what point do we act out our ideas?
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
3 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
At What Point Do We Act Out Our Ideas? By: Lacino Hamilton Been trying to find space to observe and reflect on the world and where I find myself in it. Trying to find a place for the careful working out of ideas. I do not want to form the habit of writing for the sake of being topical. The dialogue being developed is much to important for that. Besides, even reading and writing possess functional limits. There must be recourse to other disciplines, other means of challenging practices that do...
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apw:12345563
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:42.796Z
Title
Barrell of funky's
Author
Mack-Lemdon, Mr. L.
Date
2018-07-02
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
7/2/18 Barrel of Funky's Being raped repeatedly as a young child is a very horrible experience and it will tear the mind to pieces if you fail to deal with it. I am a victim of rape, however, out of shame and embarrassment, I never told anyone. Instead, I self-medicated. In other words, I became a drug addict. Drugs took me for a real ride. They were a "killer in a thriller". 1987-1988 - brain surgery-- mentally ill w/ seizures 1988-1992 - prison 1992-1994 - drugs---->left f...
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apw:12354836
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T18:29:12.663Z
Title
Being sane in an insane place
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
2 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
Being Sane In An Insane Place By: Lacino Hamilton Incarceration is not just the concrete, the razor wire, bullet proof glass, or trained assassins watching from gun towers. Incarceration is not just the isolation, the monotony, loneliness, or the assiduous misery. Incarceration is not just the anxiety, the idleness, apathy, or the pent up frustrations characteristic of these dismal crypts. Neither is it just having to always chase after something, having to hide something, or having to hold m...
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apw:12345538
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:39.477Z
Title
Beyond the wall
Author
Cannon, Robert, Jr.
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
***-Beyond The Wall--*** How do I say it? How do I spit out on paper what I want known to a special someone beyond the wall? Never can simple words, funny little marks on paper, tell of the loneliness, the doubt, the bitterness and frustration; companions of everyone in this gray world; A world away from the world. No one can knew, no one who has not been a blue-clad, faceless, numbered nothing. I can't tell then, but I can try. I can try because when this human meat-grinder spits me bac...
PID
apw:12353110
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:57:01.517Z
Title
Bill Schuette & juvenile lifers: Justice delayed, justice denied
Author
Pirkel, Daniel
Date
2018-08-20
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
To: APWA From: Daniel Pirkel Re: Bill Schuette & Juvenile Lifers - Justice Delayed, Justice Denied Disclaimer: I hereby submit the article below for your publication, and thereby renounce all rights to it, except to publish it in other venues within the public domain. I am not interested in royalties, except that I would like a courtesy copy of the article if you decide to publish it. You can edit it in any fashion that you see fit. One of the most controversial and important issues being...
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apw:12354784
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:35:38.838Z
Title
Can the MDOC be fixed?
Author
Mack-Lemdon, Mr. L.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Can the MDOC Be Fixed? No, this is not a trick question, however, the state of Michigan will never know the answer. The reason why is because its not that the Michigan Department of Corrections cannot be fixed. It is because of what it will take to fix it. Consider Structure The MDOC needs to be more structured. No one is on the same page. Most of their own policies and operating procedures are personally interpreted as the interpreter wants to interpret it. If another staff member says “That...
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apw:12354832
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T18:29:06.737Z
Title
Capitalism creates the need for prison
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
2 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
Capitalism Creates The Need For Prison By: Lacino Hamilton For many people in the U.S., the high hopes of securing a career, or at least a full-time job that pays a living wage, a relatively stable community, or a clean environment with a quality future for their children has been wiped out. More and more people continue to be marginalized and rendered destitute by capitalism, forced by necessity to learn to live outside the formal economy. In this climate the politics of poverty, hunger, hom...
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apw:12345544
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:40.448Z
Title
Censorship in Michigan prisons
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
2 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
Censorship In Michigan Prisons By: Uacino Hamilton Today, another book was rejected. The fifth time in the past two mocks this has happened. All because the book wasn't soot from an "approved vondor." To the unlnformsd public such a requirement may appear on its face rsssonahls, tho Michigan department of Corrsctions should control whore information prisoners are rocsiving is coming from, and what that information is. But in practice, its a form of censorship. A policy that pro...
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apw:12345541
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:39.756Z
Title
Conjugal visits how a husband and wife survive prison
Author
Franklin, David, II
Pages
12 pages
Text (FT)
David Franklin Adrian, MI CONJUGAL VISITS How a Husband and Wife Survive Prison By: David Franklin 4,500 words "I now pronounce you husband and wife." Those seven words triggered so much emotion inside me. The rush was something I'd never experienced before. The love I experienced at that moment was exceptional and it still lives on to this day. Admittedly though, those weren't the only emotions I was feeling. I also felt a lot of anxiety and fear. I was scared that I woul...
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apw:12346715
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:48.365Z
Title
Dear Mr. Unwilling and Reluctant Witness
Author
Nixon, Kenneth Fitzgerald
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Kenneth Nixon Dear Mr. Unwilling and Reluctant Witness, I know that we don't know each other personally, but whether you realize it or not, we are connected. We've never formally met or been properly introduced, but we definitely know of one another. 8 years ago, almost to the day, I was arrested, tried, and convicted of a crime that you watched someone else commit. For every day of the past 8 years, My family and I have been trying to diligently and desperately prove my innocence, ...
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apw:12351146
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T17:50:46.333Z
Title
Denying First Amendment rights: Mail policy in the MDOC
Author
Pirkel, Daniel
Pages
2 pages
PID
apw:12360839
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:45:30.603Z
Title
Discovering the answer to the question: who am I?
Author
Noonan, Bryan
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Airzericcm PIZE072 Wfifing Archive Page I of 2 Discovering the Answer to the Question: Who Am I? The journey of self—discovery begins early in childhood, and it is influenced greatly by a child’s parents, by other influential adults, and by one’s own peers. This desire to answer the question “Who am I?” is often challenged by how others may answer the question for us. For many young children, name—calling cuts deeply. Elementary school meanness starts on the playground and continues into late te...
PID
apw:12359061
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:15:07.276Z
Title
Do you know why there
Author
Mack-Lemdon, Mr. L.
Date
2018-08-12
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
NO TITLE August 12, 2018 To whom it may concern: Do you know why there are so many unsolved crimes in Michigan? I think I do. For more than 30 years I have been running in and out of Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC), therefore, it can be said that I may know something, no everything, but something. During these multiple decades, I have witnessed numerous ex-cons, once released, return for another, then another and then yet another tour inside the MDOC. I am one of those ex-cons. I ha...
PID
apw:12354781
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:35:34.708Z

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