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#Incarcerated lives matter
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
2 pages
State
Michigan
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#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
Text (TR_WF)
Bradford King Thumb Correction Facility 3225 John Conley Drive Lapeer, Michigan 48446 email @ Jpay.com A Convicts Reposte I have watched the events in our nation, of late, and that brings to mind a line from a 60's song, "Hate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace." Looking back at my experience of the 60's and 70's, I now wonder, are we in reverse. Voices seem to be that of hate, degradation, and racism. This message is spread by the very people ...
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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
American paradox
Author
King, Bradford
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Bradford King Thumb Correction Facility 3225 John Conley Drive Lapeer, Michigan 48446 email @ Jpay.com American Paradox One day I happened upon this quote, the origins of which I do not know: "I cannot tolerate the fact that a man should be judged not for what he is but because of the group he happens to belong." Reflecting on this, it brings to light that (man for centuries) has more often than not been judging one another predominantly by race not individuality. Given the diversit...
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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
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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
At what point do we act out our ideas?
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
3 pages
State
Michigan
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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
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
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
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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
Education behind bars
Author
King, Bradford
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Bradford King Thumb Correction Facility 3225 John Conley Drive Lapeer, Michigan 48446 email @ Jpay.com Education Behind Bars Arriving at prison with a Masters Degree and college teaching experience, I was appalled by the lack of availability and no interest in college for prisoners. There was talk of some prisoners using PELL Grants through a specific college. I heard stories of days prior to my incarceration, where college instructors came into the prison and some motivated prisoners did obt...
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apw:12362030
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:23:11.344Z
Title
Follow dreams
Author
King, Bradford
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Bradford King Thumb Correction Facility 3225 John Conley Drive Lapeer, Michigan 48446 email @Jpay.com Follow Dreams In the past, more exact a little more than 50 years ago, I wrote a college paper about a Langston Hughes poem. That poem had an unknown affect on me throughout the rest of my life. I had no idea how much until experiencing recent politics. As I looked at my past the obvious is glaring that at times I forgot the true meaning of those short but poignant lines. The obvious example ...
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apw:12362027
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:23:08.618Z
Title
Harsh reality
Author
Brooks, Charles Sr.
Pages
8 pages
State
Michigan
Text (TR_WF)
Harsh Reality Besides short essay pieces such as this, I write a lot of poetry. I have entered a lot of my works into contests which has resulted in two of my pieces being published in the University of Michigan's Prisoner Creative Arts Program's anthology for 2015, as well as the upcoming Volume 8, due out in the spring of 2016. The title of 2015's anthology is, "Build Your Catacomb Anywhere But Here: The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing, Vol. 7". This ye...
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apw:12343396
Date Uploaded
2016-10-18T01:21:37.927Z
Title
Let's bridge the divide and create a transformative learning experience
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
2 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
Let s Bridge The Divide And Create A Transformative Learning Experience By: Lacino Hamilton Much of the criticism pushing the national conversation concerning U.S. mass incarceration appears to come from upper-middle-class politicians, scholars, and media personalities. Most of whom have little or no direct contact with prisons or prisoners. This hardly represents healthy democratic impulses. The message to the general public is that the perspectives, ideas and experiences of incarcerated peo...
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apw:12345535
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:39.1Z
Title
Life or death
Author
King, Bradford
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
BRADFORD KING 228745 Thumb Correction Facility 3225 John Conley Drive Lapeer, Michigan 48446 email @ Jpay.com LIFE OR DEATH Serving a life sentence seems like an insurmountable endeavor. At some point I acknowledge that a change in point of view is necessary. Without a change in my view point, I will fail to adjust and live life, instead of soing time. Finding a job, on that gives me purpose and makes a difference. I first worked as a Law Clerk and taught a class in legal research. Next, I st...
PID
apw:12356382
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:31:42.905Z
Title
No matter how many times...
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Date
2011-02-02
Pages
30 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
February 2, 2011 Dad, No matter how many times, how many ways, I explain the past 37 years of nonfulfillment, you seem to never understand. You did not understand whan I was fifteen when I repeatedly asked for your help. Who advises their child to "hustle harder?" To "get out and get it like you live?" I listened, but you knew better than me the emotional, psychological and social reverberations. But you did not care, or had a peculiar way of showing it. It bothers me know...
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apw:12345572
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T02:04:16.035Z
Title
Preface to a suicide letter to the Michigan parole board
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
2 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
Preface To A Suicide Letter To The Michigan Parole Board By: Lacino Hamilton When I shared with a friend that I was writing a preface to a suicide letter to the parle board he had many questions. First, "what is a preface?" A preface is a preliminary statement, usually in a book, by the author or editor setting forth the book's purpose. Or in this case, the purpose of my suicide letter. Then, he asked over and over again despite the fact that I answered him every time, "ar...
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apw:12345556
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:42.049Z
Title
Solitary confinement: prison within prison
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
3 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
Solitary Confinement: Prison Within Prison By: Lacino Hamilton 
 I was recently reading Zachary Heiden's, When it comes to solitary confinement, U.S. fails the mice standard. Heiden begins by sharing that he learned about a law governing the use of solitary confinement from Dr. Brie Williams at a national gathering on solitary confinement reform. A law he had never heard of before. To be precise, it really isn't a law - more like a very strangely worded guideline, albeit one publish...
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apw:12345552
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:41.388Z
Title
The burden of loss
Author
Brooks, Charles Sr.
Pages
3 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
The Burden of Loss I was five years old when I found out exactly where babies came from. My lesson was provided through the birth of my brother, Jamaar. I wasn't the best brother, but I tried to be. Mostly, I did the things for him that no one did for me. I loved him unconditionally, and he idolized me for it. As we got older, we developed a real friendship. I loved my brother, and I loved my friend, who just happened to be my brother. December 16, 2014 was a balmy winter day. The west c...
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apw:12345524
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:37.55Z
Title
The explosive growth of police with a military orientation
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
2 pages
State
Michigan
Text (TR_WF)
The Explosive Growth of Police With a Military Orientation By: Lacino Hamilton Politicians in the U.S., as well as the mass media, have almost universally ignored the continuous expansion of the police. A significant move in a sea of policies (and absence of policies) which aided the unprecedented expansion of U.S. prisons. Rather than questioning the idea of more and more police doing things that used to be done by neighbors and community groups; rather than questioning has the U.S. reached ...
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apw:12343417
Date Uploaded
2016-10-18T01:39:13.738Z
Title
The glow of false anti-racism
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
4 pages
State
Michigan
Text (TR_WF)
The Glow of False Anti-Racisim A person would have to be living under a rock not to have heard about Jewish-American, LA Clippers owner, Donald Sterling's repugnant comments about not wanting his half Black and half Mexican extramarital love interest, some say mistress, to publicly associate with Black people; and his subsequent life-time ban from the NBA. It will probably go down as one of the biggest scandals ever in professional sports. When President Barack Obama made a cameo appeara...
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apw:12343425
Date Uploaded
2016-10-18T01:39:15.019Z
Title
The real solution to solving "crime" is building strong communities
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
4 pages
State
Michigan
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The Real Solution To Solving "Crime" is Building Strong Communities By: Lacino Hamilton 
 It doesn't require much deliberation to realize that burglary, rape, murder and other harms have reached proportions in some American cities that make literally anyone a potential victim. Take slain 22 year old Detroit woman Christina Samuel, who was fatally shot on the city's east side around 11:45 p.m. on Christmas Eve 2014. She was sitting in a car with her 24 year old friend, when...
PID
apw:12345567
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:43.213Z
Title
The rideout
Author
Brooks, Charles Sr.
Pages
3 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
"THE RIDEOUT" If you listen to the rhetoric of the Michigan Department of Corrections, you may be inclined to believe that they are sincere in their efforts to rehabilitate the prison population. Nothing could be further from the truth. An excerpt of their Mission and Vision Statement: "As Department of Corrections' employees, we maintain high standards of professional conduct. We treat each other, citizens, and offenders with respect. Our mission defines the way we perfor...
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apw:12345528
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:38.251Z
Title
The school to prison pipeline
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
5 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
Ths School To Prison Pipeline By: Lacinq Hamilton Several years ago I hap the. distinct pleasure.. of participating in an "Are Prisons.Qbsolets" workshop at the Macomb Correctional.Pacility in New Hav Michigan. During a bathroom and refreshment break I had an insightful discussion with one of the professors that flew in from Ohio. Some of which I'd like to ,share here. The professor, a twenty year veteran of ths academy, shared with ms an essay wrote by Pedro. A. Moguera, a pro...
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apw:12345603
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T02:04:16.86Z
Title
To determine how people will behave once they enter prison, it is of first importance to know something about administrators and guards
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
3 pages
State
Michigan
Text (TR_WF)
To Determine How People Will Behave Once They Enter Prison, It Is Of First Importance To Know Something About Administrators And Guards By: Lacino Hamilton One of the unforeseen, and certainly unintended consequences of recent discussions of mass incarceration, prison profiteering, restorative justice as an alternative to [incapacitation?] being the center piece of justice is, some critics have come to question the people who operate and staff prisons. Could they have anything to do with why ...
PID
apw:12343408
Date Uploaded
2016-10-18T01:39:12.683Z

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