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Title
A brief history of administrative segregation in Texas
Author
Feijoo, Joe
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
A Brief History of Administrative Segregation in Texas By: Joe Feijoo “Ad. Seg.” Is short for Administrative Segregation. (ad-seg). The commonly held understanding of solitary confinement defines ad-seg. It is, at best, the most grim form of incarceration and is reserved for offenders who exhibit behavior that is harmful to themselves, other offenders, staff or prison facilities. It is an enhanced method of punishment within the institution of punishment. The guidelines for putting an offender ...
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apw:12357807
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:33:45.331Z
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 deaf person would probably welcome it
Author
Pitman, Michael Ted
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A deaf person would probably welcome it, but I'm sure that it has driven many men mad at its extreme! Noise; all kinds of and all levels and durations. Music is simply noise of another kind to some and not all singing is truly welcome. On an air craft carrier the noise is not just loud in decibels, but nearly constant with launch and recovery operations around the clock. In prison, the noise is both loud and persistent with a little easing of the din in early morning hours. Normally, the...
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apw:12361403
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:01:17.371Z
Title
A failed intervention?
Author
Remerowski, Eric
Date
2016-12-18
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Sunday, December 18, 2016 A Failed Intervention? "History teaches us that men and nations behave Wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." -- Abba Eban Here's a story I've been wanting to tell for a while now but just figured people wouldn't believe it - - either that or they would think I was nuts. But I'm beyond caring about that anymore and I believe it really is something interesting to consider. So here goes; readers can make of it what they w...
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apw:12351265
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T19:07:47.212Z
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...
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apw:12357692
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:29:52.027Z
Title
A healthy ambition
Author
McCreary, Howard Lewis, III
Date
2019-01-27
Pages
8 pages
Text (TR_WF)
January 27, 2019 Time: 2:15 A.M By: Howard McCreary A Healthy Ambition [Part 1: Mentally Stimulation] I thank you all fore taking time out of your day to connect with my Diamond Thoughts on health. It brings me relief to know that people in society are concern or interested in the "condemn" and my salutation of the highest greeting goes to you all. What you all are embarking on is a three part dialogue on the three essential characteristics that make us human: mentality, physically,...
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apw:12356653
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:37:46.419Z
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 white liberal male federal called me (Fitch) a racist
Author
Fitch, Lamont
Date
43476
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"A White Liberal Male Federal Called Me (Fitch) A Racist" I arrived from a kangaroo court to an awaiting trap here in the federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) over 21 years ago. The thing is for my jailers to pit their inmates against me, as well as their colleagues, and then prosecute me, or attempt to, after I defend myself. This has been the unrelenting hate that has followed me from jail to jail, non-stop. I documented the trap that awaited me at USP Leavenworth in 1999. My so-calle...
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apw:12358934
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:11:52.24Z
Title
Abuse: Webster's Dictionary defines abuse as
Author
Prieto, Francisco
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Texas Prisons Essays Abuse: Webster's Dictionary defines abuse as: "To use wrongly and improperly, misapply, misappropriate, mishandle, misuse, pervert. To take advantage of unfairly, exploit, impose, presume. To hurt, injure through maltreatment, ill-treat." As one who's served 22 consecutive years in the State penal facility of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Division, and who has written these essays from behind said bars, my life has been altered, in some ways...
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apw:12347310
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:54:04.165Z
Title
Actually innocent
Author
Taylor, Albert G.
Pages
9 pages
Text (O)
Albert Taylor- 1 Eastham Unit Lovelady, Tx 75851 "NO TEARS IN THE WRITER, NO TEARS IN THE READER" Robert Frost ACTUALLY INNOCENT Like all other jailhouse lawyers ["writ writers" in prison slang]; I have wished to be able to help someone who is actually innocent, and who was being treated unjustly. When I finally did get the opportunity; it was not a Criminal Law case, as I had expected it would be, but instead, it was a Family Law case, and no one could be more innocent th...
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apw:12353618
Date Uploaded
2018-09-27T01:07:27.797Z
Title
An indecent proposal
Author
Vasquez, Rafael
Pages
8 pages
Text (O)
An Indecent Proposal By Rafael Vasquez 
 Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. -Helen Keller 
 The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper. -Friedrich Nietzsche 
 I wanted to posit a solution to something I find perplexing about today's penitentiary, and its role in society. That is, there seems to be some disconnect between what free world people, i.e. taxpaye...
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apw:12357280
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:15:24.186Z
Title
An unappreciative witness to the execution of Jimmie Jeffers
Author
Greenwald, Jesse M.
Date
1995-09-12
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
An unappreciative witness to the execution of Jimmie Jeffers By: Jesse Greenwald / Arizona State Prison 09-12-95 As I sit and write these words, a few dozen yards away another man sits and waits for those that are preparing to end his life. Various devices designed to certify that all life has been extinguished from one of Gods finest works, are rigorously being tested and arranged. The atmosphere within these walls and within the throats of a thousand silent men, is so thick, that movement h...
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apw:12352694
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:32:07.375Z
Title
Anywhere but here
Author
Cole, Emanuel Andrea
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Anywhere But Here by E. Andrea Cole I'm in prison, so of course I wish I were anywhere but here. The problem with that though, is that I, and all of my woes, are bound to go with me. So I often wish I were anyone but me. And the person I usually wish I was is my little brother. He's peacefully residing in an urn somewhere at my sister's house. No worries. No grieving. No nightmares. Yeah, sometimes, that's where I want to be. At my sister's house. No worries. No griev...
PID
apw:12349792
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T20:36:08.648Z
Title
Are prisoners across the United States
Author
McElvain, Russell
Pages
2 pages
State
Texas
Text (TR_WF)
[No Title] Are prisoners across the United states being discriminated against by a major information clearinghouse? I say yes, and I'm in the beginning research stages of a lawsuit and would welcome your comments. Reader Service Information Cards are those post cards in magazines where you circle or check any of 25 to 100, or more, numbers associated with the advertisers, to receive more information on the location or product you checked. For a couple years, as I would find these cards i...
PID
apw:12343940
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T22:27:53.544Z
Title
As I sit in my cage
Author
Blackstarr
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
As I sit in my cage I wonder when they came up with the idea for this cage were they thinking of animals or human? I feel as if I'm in a chicken coop or a mini walk in closet without the clothes. There is a twin size iron bed mounted to the walls, it takes up half the walking room so you have as much as a door way space to living cycle. All the way at the back of the cell is a toilet with a sink connected. Today is just like any day bored with nothing to do besides think about the things...
PID
apw:12354852
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T18:29:30.946Z
Title
Blowback
Author
Tamez, Brian Christopher
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Tamel, Brian C. Hughes Unit Rt. 2 Box 4400 Gatesville, TX 76597 The Free Stiles Chronicles #2 Blowback Shortly after my first submission to Hamilton College regarding my experiences with T.D.C.J. and its example of the status-quo of itself as an institution, the M. W. Free-Stiles Unit in Beaumont, TX, I was rousted out of my sleep in the late-hour and shipped from the unit. It mattered not, the Hazelwood benefits utilized from my U.SM.C. service, nor the FASFA Federal Pell-Grant I was current...
PID
apw:12354745
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:32:42.203Z
Title
Blue bird
Author
Gallegos, Jason
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
"Blue Bird" by Jason Gallegos The time was drawing near for my departure. I had 13 months built up in the countyjail. I was convicted and sentenced to prison, and I was ready to leave, to start serving out my long-term sentence in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Division. Before my departure, I had the privilege to be laced up by the old-school veterans that had already been in and out of the system most of their adult lives. These convicts prided themselves as they explain...
PID
apw:12352643
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:38:05.997Z
Title
Blurry rights, vivid wrongs
Author
Fuller, Brian D.
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Blurry Rights, Vivid Wrongs I hope this letter finds all of you doing well. My purpose for writing you is to open up a discussion about how people treat each other. Every day, it seems the news has stories about horrible acts of violence. There must be a complete paradigm shift in how this continuing cycle of antagonism/retaliation is perpetuated. If not, then I'm afraid we're only going to see these seemingly endless atrocities escalate. We are facing a worldwide crisis in mental h...
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apw:12360763
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:43:26.012Z
Title
Can we talk?
Author
Hargrove, Jaymes G.
Date
2020-07-28
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Can We Talk? (July 28, 2020) By: Jaymes Hargrove - Beto Have you ever walked into a situation where you knew nothing of what was happeningh? It can be maddeningly frustrating, especially when not knowing might adversely affect your health and well-being. The Texas Prison System is notorious for keeping everyone in the dark about the undercurrents that occur behind its razor wires. As the COVID pandemic continues to ravage the units, there is still little to no coverage of the dire situation. ...
PID
apw:12360438
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:49:06.576Z
Title
Carlosians 8:15-The saga of Sammy Joe
Author
Flores, Carlos C., Jr.
Pages
10 pages
Text (O)
Carlosians 8:l5~The Saga of Sammy Joe There is biblical irony to being not guilty, yet shackled with a life sentence. With an over ambitious, lazy and corrupt police force playing an angry, jealous, vengeful God casting down my audacious, shining and Luciferian belief in truth and justice. Burying me in my own personal hell. I have been able to perseveree, and at least maintain a sense of humor, but I am almost always in a constant crisis of faith. As I wander around the prison world, my spir...
PID
apw:12350115
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T01:36:12.186Z
Title
Cesspit of deviance
Author
Wilson, Victor K.
Pages
10 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Victor Keith Wilson 3201 FM 929 Gatesville, Texas 76597 First North American Serial Rights 2128 Words Cesspit of Deviance by Victor Keith Wilson "Say Dawg, I need you to go down to I-pod and pick something up for me," comes the urgent plea from within the darkened cell. "Ah, sorry! Can't do it. I ain't tryin' to catch no case," mutters the inmate orderly. "What?" jibes the voice, only to sputter on, "don't tell me you're sweatin&apos...
PID
apw:12361773
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:10:50.749Z
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
Title
Continuation of my life
Author
Alexander, Guy S.
Date
43769
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Continuation of My life I want to give more in depth life of what I was like as the 4th child. I did not go to the same schools as my 3 older siblings. I was taken out of the 2nd grade and with some adjustments I was placed across town on a street called Hazaard St. The elementary school was in surrounding shacks as most popular schools had... to accommodate the size of classes. This was called Edgar Allen Poe. I was there 4 years... then I was placed in a Junior High School over on Stella Li...
PID
apw:12359665
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:30:21.147Z
Title
Corruption in corrections
Author
Fuller, Brian D.
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Corruption in Corrections Perhaps the most important facet of my job as a writer is to remain objective. If I ask better questions, I'll get better answers; and yes, eventually, the attention of the people with the right knowledge, authority, and compassion to properly address these issues we so desperately need solved. It's time to do the right thing and tell you what they don't want you to know. If I come across as just another disgruntled inmate asking a platform on which to...
PID
apw:12357685
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:29:34.964Z

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