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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
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
Black lives have never mattered in the United States of America and never will: a "modern"-day slaves perspective
Author
Amen, Asar Imhotep
Pages
5 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Black Lives Have Never Mattered In The United States of America and Never Willi A "Modern"-Day Slaves Perspective By Asar Imhotep Amen,Ph.D. (aka I.T.Thomas) "One of the most tragic beliefs widely shared by Blacks throughout the world is that white people need or want us or will treat us equally and share societal resources with us. Faith continues to prevail in spite of overwhelming evidence which disputes this belief. Blacks continue to ignore the irrefutable truth that,in a ...
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apw:12344475
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T13:51:15.887Z
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
Caper loves everyone and everyone loves Caper!
Author
May, Larry E.
Pages
4 pages
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apw:12362914
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:38:57.126Z
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...
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apw:12361393
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:01:03.562Z
Title
Coronavirus and prisoner's relationship with death
Author
Hooker, Donald
Date
2020-05-07
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Mprisondthotz Thotz From Thotz Mprisond Coronavirus and Prisoner's Relationship with Death by Donald "C-Note" Hooker As a political junkie, Friday's edition of the PBS NewsHour, is always must watch TV for me. On Friday, April 24th, 2020, reporter William Brangham was doing a human interest story on COVID-19. Somehow, he ran across a Facebook post from a New York City, Mount Sinai, ICU nurse, KP Mendoza. The 24-year- https://mprisondthotz.wordpress.com/2020/05/07/coronavir...
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apw:12360411
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:48:07.893Z
Title
Depression on lockdown: Prisoners empathize
Author
Williams, Dortell
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Dortell Williams [ID] P.O. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 DEPRESSION ON LOCKDOWN: PRISONERS EMPATHIZE Depression is debilitating. Depression saps one's energy, induces whole-body numbness, and stimulates streams of negative thoughts. In the extreme, those negative thoughts can provoke suicidal ideation. As a prisoner serving a sentence of life without the possibility of parole, I know about depression from first-hand experience and observation. Fortunately, I've learned to utilize a n...
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apw:12360290
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:44:26.746Z
Title
Due process in the era of me too
Author
Hooker, Donald
Pages
9 pages
Text (O)
Due Process in the Era of Me Too by DOW ‘.“C-N9t¢’.’!”H©1<@ On September 27, 2018, in the United States Senate's Judiciary Committee, the nation heard riveting testimony of an attempted sexual assault, and the denial of that assault. A crime that had occurred 37-years ago with no corroborating witnesses. In a he—say, she—say trial, who gets the benefit of the doubt? The accused, or the accuser? In this era of Me T00, is it guilty until you can prove yourself innocent, or innocent unti...
PID
apw:12356681
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:38:40.953Z
Title
From prison hell to penitentiary heaven
Author
May, Larry E.
Pages
8 pages
PID
apw:12362896
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:38:37.275Z
Title
Hanging on to hope with life without
Author
Williams, Dortell
Pages
4 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Dortell Williams Approximately 1,200 words H-45771 / A2-206 Non-fiction P.O. Box 4430 - ' Lancaster, CA 93539 dortellwilliams@yahoo.com HANGING ON TO HOPE WITH LIFE WITHOUT by Dortell Williams I was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in 1989. I was twenty-three years of age. At that time I could hardly imagine doing a minimum of thirty years before even being considered for a reprieve. For I hadn't even lived thirty years of life yet. Still, I pushed on. I learned t...
PID
apw:12345194
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T14:21:35.651Z
Title
It's a fact: low-risk offenders don't come back
Author
Williams, Dortell
Pages
4 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Dortell Williams CA Approximately 800 words Non-fiction It's a Fact: Low-Risk Offenders Don't Come Back by Dortell Williams I believe it is the goal of every civil and pragmatic society to set its penal system to reform and rehabilitate its miscreants. Indeed, in California, reform and release is the stated goal of the Supreme Court of California, in its 2008 watershed Lawrence decision, delineating a clear criteria for reforming and releasing prisoners. Of course, not everyone is r...
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apw:12345199
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T14:21:36.204Z
Title
Its been 23 years since the dawn of time
Author
Martinez, Brandon
Date
2017-08-06
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Its been 23 years since the dawn of time Its been 23 years since the dawn of time of my incarceration, I often wondered what it would entail to encounter a friend. As I embark on this road of chaos and despair, I make an effort to shake off all the turmoil by engaging in productive means conducive to my humanity. I never could fathom that someday I would cross paths with a absolute genuine authentic friend, certainly the skeptics would be awe struck, perhaps a figment of ones imagination they...
PID
apw:12350786
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T16:16:17.508Z
Title
John Hinckley Jr. committed high treason
Author
Allen, Bruce
Date
2016-09
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
John Hinckley Jr. committed high treason when he shot the president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, and his press secretary Mr. James Brady. An act warranting the death penalty and infamy under United States Constitutional law. Instead, he has been coddled and nurtured through "class-privilege" throughout his temporary incarceration. Hinckley was approximately 26 years of age when he committed his high profile domestic terrorist crimes. In the case of Bruce Allen, he was 19 yea...
PID
apw:12349544
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T19:18:08.736Z
Title
Juvenile emancipaton
Author
Martinez, Brandon
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"Juvenile Emancipation" Looking back over this ole life, a young buck adolescent. Sitting there in front of a judge quite perplexed of my hearing being conducted for emancipation. Often throughout the proceedings I was a bit baffled. As a teen I lacked the intellectual ability to comprehend the magnitude of this decision to be rendered. Although factors were taken into account by the judge at his discretion. Perhaps I should have provided some input. Certainly the task was exclusive...
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apw:12350873
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T16:49:56.687Z
Title
Mass incarceration
Author
Bolton, D'Arsey
Date
2017-05-23
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
MASS INCARCERATION MASS INCARCERATION (The 13th Amendment) SYSTEM: Something made up of many interdependent or related parts. 2. A method worked out in advance for achieving some objective (Plan). 3. The means or procedure for doing something (Method). To understand the significance of mass incarceration you must first understand the word “system”. Mass incarceration is not by accident. A plan was put in place to lock us all up, to destroy us, to control us so we can never be the majority in th...
PID
apw:12350022
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T00:30:32.776Z
Title
Mentacide: the psychological and physical murder of black men, women and children
Author
Amen, Asar Imhotep
Pages
9 pages
State
California
Text (TR_WF)
My name is Troy T. Thomas, Ph.D. (aka Asar Imhotep Amen). I'm a 48 year old African-American man from the San Francisco Bay Area. I'm presently serving a life sentence for murder. I have 20+ years experience as a community/social activist in Berkeley California. My major activist concerns include educational reform, prison/human rights issues, racial justice & equality. My Ph.D. is in Africana Studies which I've earned while incarcerated from Temple University. I am a pries...
PID
apw:12342790
Date Uploaded
2016-10-15T12:49:06.388Z
Title
Money
Author
Lewis, Kevin
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
“Money” Money, some say it is the root of all evil but with the economy the way it is these days even honest American are looking for ways to make quick and easy cash. So for men like myself trapped behind the concrete walls and razor wire wrapped electric fences of Americas prisons, money is more like the root of all joy. For the right amount, slid to the right person, can get some of us just about any of the convenient pleasures the average American has come to take for granted. Such as: MP...
PID
apw:12355064
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T20:16:49.057Z
Title
My obituary
Author
May, Larry E.
Pages
2 pages
PID
apw:12362905
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:38:47.551Z
Title
Persisting: A life under the direct line of gunfire
Author
Robinson, Darren Leon
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Persisting: A life under the direct line of gunfire. No one, nobody, not a single person ever considers the long-term effects of living in the direct line-of-sight of a (mini-14) rifle, while being incarcerated in a prison in the great state of California. It is unimaginable even to the most callous of individuals to think that someone would have to endure this constant threat of imminent death, day in and day out, repeatedly, and forever. That each moment of every day of your life is now at th...
PID
apw:12356075
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:22:55.698Z
Title
Punishment, revenge and torture: the heart of America's criminal "justice" system
Author
Amen, Asar Imhotep
Pages
8 pages
Text (O)
Punishment, Revenge, and Torture: The Heart of America ’s Criminal “Justice” System By T ray T. Thomas (aka Asar I. Amen) Punishment is central to criminal justice practice in the United States. Punishment is the act of making someone suffer for a fault or crime. According to the 1994 Merriam — Webster Dictionary, ”Punishment stresses the giving of some kind of pain or suffering to the wrongdoer rather than trying to reform the person.” Punishment as a response to violation grows out of the r...
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apw:12356617
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:36:39.106Z
Title
Racial integration
Author
May, Larry E.
Pages
5 pages
PID
apw:12362908
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:38:50.615Z
Title
Release lifers or staff in the budget cuts to come?
Author
Williams, Dortell
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Dortell Williams Approximately 160 words H—4577l / A2-206 Non-fiction P.O. Box 4430 ' Lancaster, CA 93539 RELEASE LIFERS OR STAFF IN THE BUDGET CUTS TO COME? Dortell Williams In October, 2008, I shared lament with AVP regarding the unnecessary layoffs of thousands of state workers. The layoffs were predictable after Conservatives refused early releases of prisoners -- who were within 90 days of release anyway. At $49,0000 a year, per prisoner, their release would have saved taxpayers a b...
PID
apw:12345208
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T14:21:37.281Z
Title
Store day
Author
Lewis, Kevin
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Store Day Life, how precious and very fragile it is. A fact never far from your mind if you are unfortunate enough to call prison your home. The day starts like any other, at the level IV state prison, hot! By 8 a.m. I know it's going to be another scorcher, but I take solace in the fact that today starts 3rd draw, store day for me and everyone else here whose last 2 digits of their CDC #'s fall between 66 and 99. As I make my way through the fucked up, inconvenient, and totally use...
PID
apw:12355184
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T19:17:38.036Z

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