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Title
A hidden cost
Author
Mehmel, Peter
Date
2009
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Peter Mehmel A Hidden Cost The eve of my son’s fifth birthday seemed especially cruel. I’m sure he woke up excited and happy to celebrate his special day, only to find that his father was gone. I can’t imagine how my wife, six months pregnant with our daughter, managed to find the words to tell him. The party arrangements were done, the cake safely stashed, we’d confirmed who would attend and even had a few bucks left over. That evening friends were playing in a band at a local bar. Maybe eve...
PID
apw:12350037
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T01:01:59.109Z
Title
A lesson in language
Author
Piwowar, Robert
Pages
14 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Lesson in Language Incarceration has forced me to postpone my plans of travelling to the continents of Europe and Asia. Six years into a twenty year sentence for manslaughter, watching Globe Trekker on PBS or flipping through vacation mags in the prison library is the closest I get. My travels into Quebec and Mexico taught me that every street sign, television or radio program, menu, and all product packaging provides a lesson in language. Simply going about a regular routine in a foreign l...
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apw:12347101
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:22:45.331Z
Title
A more perfect union!
Author
Hughes, R.
Pages
5 pages
Text (FT)
Hughes 638 Mr. Ronald (Rashawn) Hughes 92A2940 Clinton Correctional Facility P.O. Box 2000 Dannemora, New York 12929 A More Perfect Union! When you make an observation, you have an obligation. These are words that I try to live by. It's what encouraged this article and hopefully what will inspire the commissioners' on the parole board to open their hearts, minds, and understand that people are capable of changing. In preparation for my December 2010 parole interview, I found myself ...
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apw:12347044
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:22:43.214Z
Title
A prisoner tells his tale
Author
Hattley, Matthew
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
SHAWANGUNK JOURNAL www.shawangunkjournal.com Thursday, September 4, 2014 Inside The Box A Prisoner Tells His Tale Parole Decision: The Breakdown By Matthew Hattley Every person receiving an “indeterminate” sentence will automatically be scheduled to see the Parole Board —- usually four months prior to completing their minimum term. Regardless of which prison they are at when this date arrives, a hearing will be conducted. This is the average parole decision: “Denied — Hold For 24 Months: Next...
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apw:12348965
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T11:14:13.431Z
Title
A sunrise
Author
Germenis, Spyro
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
It was a dimension of my life that was unforeseen. It furnished me with thoughts I would never have considered or experienced the lasting nature of. The rising sun had broken through the heavy gray winter storm clouds. Brisk winds high above the ground opened the hole in the clouds wider and forcefully began to usher the grayness away to another place. I found myself upon a small rise, my eyes drinking in the virgin scenery of the heavy snow atop what was once a cow pasture. As far as my eye ...
Text (O)
It was a dimension of my life that was unforeseen. It furnished me with thoughts I never would have considered or experienced the lasting nature of. The rising sun had broken through the heavy gray winter storm clouds. Brisk winds high above the ground opened the hole in the clouds wider and forcefully began- to usher the grayness away to another place. I found myself upon a small rise, my eyes drinking in the virgin scenery of the heavy snow atop what was once a cow pasture. As far as my eye...
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apw:12359233
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:19:20.39Z
Title
A.V.P.
Author
Brown, Rahasheem
Pages
3 pages
State
New York
Text (TR_WF)
A.V.P. How can violence be reduced in prison? Well, in my own opinion, the answer is simple: support the "Alternative to Violence Project!" This program, started by Quaker's back in the late 1970's right here at Green Haven Correctional Facility, is one which is now being used to combat the spread and use of violence all over the world. The Alternative to Violence Project (from this point on, to be referred to as A.V.P.) is an interactive workshop, that gives insight to it...
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apw:12343778
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T17:56:13.847Z
Title
Abused again
Author
Richter, Robert
Date
2018-07-22
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
July 22, 2018 Robert John Richter For APWA Abused again Yet again, within only one day of being questioned by a senior OSI PREA investigator, I have been subjected to sexual abuse, staff voyeurism, inflicted upon me in order to intimidate, humiliate, and degrade me. The excuse, again, was an outside trip for an OMH (psych) appointment. This was just a cover. This isn't the only retaliation I have suffered. On July 2, OSI PREA investigator Bossman questioned me about my PREA complaints, b...
PID
apw:12355104
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T21:11:02.611Z
Title
Addicted to violence
Author
Richter, Robert
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
March 25, 2018 Robert Johan Richter Title: Addicted To Violence Prison is a great place to witness all kinds of addictions, and how far they drive their victims. Prisoners sell their meals for cigarettes, and their bodies for drugs. The most common addiction doesn't involve drugs, porn, or anything you can buy or sell. Many people, both prisoners and guards, are addicted to violence. There is a big difference, however; the guards almost never face any kind of punishment. Why do people li...
PID
apw:12353267
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T11:00:33.778Z
Title
Adivina
Author
Faiello, Dean A.
Pages
4 pages
State
New York
Text (O)
Dean A. Faiello Adivina Fed up with my wreck-strewn, chaotic life, ricocheting between New York City crises, I decided to liquidate my few urban assets and dee to a Central American rain forest. Rather than face the task of changing my life, I took the easier route. I was lured by the romance of live volcanoes overlooking black sand beaches and banana trees. For two hours, as my Jeep snaked its way through the basaltic mountains of Costa Rica, I had little idea what to expect at each precipit...
PID
apw:12345902
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T18:15:50.675Z
Title
Alone
Author
Harker, Kevin
Pages
1 page
Text (FT)
Alone By: Kevin M. Harker Solitary is the breaker of dreams, the sole cause for lost memories. One does not track time in a timeless land. Here I stand all alone, wishing for voices other than the ones in my head. How many seconds in a year pass by? What about two years, four years or many more? When I think of life inside this box I know I am the master of my thoughts. I am the only ruler in the recesses of my mind. I think thoughts no other could ever think nor comprehend. The sheer thought...
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apw:12347010
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T02:16:36.341Z
Title
Attica on my mind
Author
Rhynes, Michael
Date
2011-06-06
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Michael Rhynes Attica on My Mind My day begins by getting up before the contemporary version of Pavlov's bell rings, a half hour before count, which starts at 7:00 AM. While performing my morning ritual of washing my face, brushing my teeth, and combing my hair, with such mindless devotion it would send a marine sergeant into authoritarian fits of glee, I subconsciously search for a way to affirm my humanity. The breakfast list is being taken, and naturally I sign up. Every morning for t...
PID
apw:12351816
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T01:52:49.829Z
Title
Auschwitz to Attica
Author
MacKenzie, John
Date
2014-08-11
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Auschwitz to Attica - Methodologies of Psychological Abuse By John MacKenzie Preface “Every prisoner with a sensitive nature suflers much more from unjust, malicious and intended psychological abuse than from physical abuse. He perceives it to be much more humiliating and depressing than any physical abuse. ” “They all easily survived the hard part of camp life because they had a “reasonable assurance” that they would be free againiafter their time was up. There was no set prison term for poli...
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apw:12352516
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:35:28.619Z
Title
Behind enemy lines
Author
Stewart, Al-fatah
Date
2015-04-13
Pages
16 pages
Text (O)
Dr. Al-fatah Stewart, D.D. Sullivan Correctional Facility Fallsburg, New York 12733 Date: April 13th 2015 5,301 words 379 lines 16 pages 61 paragraphs BEHIND ENEMY LINES (The untold story of a true fighter) I was born July 5th 1974, in Mount Sidonham hospital located in a part of New York City called Harlem. My father, Wayne Stewart, a humorous, dark cinnamon complexioned black man, about five foot seven in height, weighing a chiseled one hundred and sixty pounds, was a Vietnam veteran, who s...
PID
apw:12351537
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T23:56:39.884Z
Title
Behind these walls
Author
Harewood, Ian
Pages
2 pages
Text (FT)
BEHIND THESE WALLS By Ian Harewood Free will is all about choices. In prison you have no free will. Every day, you have to do what someone tells you. You can't wake up in the middle of the night and go for something as simple as ice-cream or a snack. I remember when I had free will growing up. I wish that my choices had been different. As a kid I was always trying to fit in. But back in those days, the dark-skinned guys were the butt of jokes in school, the ones who weren't popular....
PID
apw:12347004
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T02:16:35.825Z
Title
Better living through editing
Author
Roberts, Adam
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Nonfiction Better Living Through Editing Adam Roberts On a cool Wednesday morning in October, the incarcerated learners of Cornell's Prison Education Program (CPEP's Auburn campus) assembled in the yard, awaiting word over the loudspeakers to enter the chapel, where Cornell University Provost Michael Kotlikoff would be lecturing on human engineering through genetic modification. There was great anticipation for this lecture topic, along with some concern among students that the mate...
PID
apw:12352786
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:33:58.328Z
Title
Beyond bars: voices of NLG jailhouse lawyers
Author
Lewis, Teddy
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Beyond Bars: Voices of NLG Jailhouse Lawyers By Teddy Lewis This moment feels like a maze which holds many rooms yet only one of them holds the key Lately I notice that so many men like to rip and run to the yard. And try to impose their will on various things, from lifting weights to lifting a telephone. Suddenly I came to notice that my life was without legal balance because my lack of legal know how left me stagnated and without true hope. One day someone came to me and said "why"...
PID
apw:12347971
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:54:57.582Z
Title
Bread and water vegan : struggling for health and humanity inside prison
Author
Allah, Intelligent
Pages
4 pages
State
New York
Text (O)
Intelligent Allah 1,014 words #95A4315 Woodbourne Cor. Facility Box 1000 Woodbourne, N.Y. 12788 BREAD AND WATER VEGAN Struggling for Health and Humanity inside Prison By Intelligent Allah Milk and hamburgers are staples of the state prison diet, not almond milk and soy burgers. Processed canned fruit soaked in high fructose corn syrup is a commissary privilege, but there is no fresh fruit. Suede boots are issued by the New York State Department of Correctional Services, yet animal—friendly bo...
PID
apw:12345872
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T18:13:42.242Z
Title
Bullied gay
Author
Prince
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
If you examine and inquire into the nature and psychology of men and their love, list, desire, and relationship with women. You deprive a white correction officer of sex, conversation, and relationship with women up in esp Attica Correctional facility, the officers take their depression, hurt, emotions, and frustration violently out on the inmates. they will kill inmates. Its not a white or black thing. Even the bullies and gangsters get jealous and envy another man who has a woman on their s...
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apw:12349526
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T19:18:07.477Z
Title
Change is coming
Author
Hattley, Matthew
Date
2016-04-14
Pages
1 page
Text (FT)
comments @ sha wangunkj ournal.com SHAWANGUNK JOURNAL THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2016 • 3 Opinion." views & commentary from around the community Change Is Coming By Matthew Hattley Ihe current NY State prison system is in for some reform. Memos are being issued on a monthly basis changing the status quo in the hopes of making the prison system safer. According to an internal memorandum dated February 16, 2016, "Effective Wednesday February 17, Matthew Hattley 2016, inmates will not be ...
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apw:12347040
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:22:42.774Z
Title
Change is coming, part 2
Author
Hattley, Matthew
Date
2016-05-12
Pages
1 page
Text (FT)
comments@shawangunkjournal.coin SHAWANGUNK JOURNAL THURSDAY, MAY 12,2016 • 3 Opinion: Views & commentary from around the community Change Is Coming, Part 2 By Matthew Hattley I f personal safety is really a primary concern of DOCCS, there are much better ways to approach this than eliminating hooded sweatshirts and canned food. First, they should acknowledge that there is corruption and mismanagement within every facility, not excluding the DOCCS's Internal Affairs or Inspector Gener...
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apw:12347042
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:22:43.027Z
Title
Childhood abuse in America
Author
Prince
Date
2017-11-29
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
From: Mr. Prince Backman, Sing Sing Correctional Facility To: Bronx Supreme Court November 29, 2017 Re: Childhood Abuse in America When I was approximately 9 years old. Me and about 7 people from the project housing, went swimming. I was the youngest. Someone pop the lock on my locker, and stole my brand new Puma sneakers. One of the boys who lived in my building made an accident #2 in the pool. He went to clean himself and use my shirt and pants to clean himself, from my broke into locker. I...
PID
apw:12352290
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T18:54:09.418Z
Title
Claims they see no remorse
Author
Prince
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Remorse is not something that a person acted out with like a soap opera. A defendant can articulate a display of remorse in court or at the parole board with crying and the good acting skills. Remorse is seen in a person demeanor his/her action, manners, and character. My respect towards women and men. People tried to rape me when I was 9 years old and 12. I was falsely arrested and jailed 3 days at the age 14. I was spit on as a child, kicked, punched and slapped in my face, cut with glass, ...
PID
apw:12352251
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T18:53:20.595Z
Title
Concrete carnival
Author
Darcleight, Danner
Pages
17 pages
Text (O)
Concrete Carnival By Danner Darcelight (Originally published in the minnesota review, #70) Step right up to the show that never ends...c0me inside, come inside... 'Tis quite a ride, this life inside. One of the scariest shows on earth. A carnival of the bizarre in a fairground of bars and steel, bricks and concrete. Save for the sporadically flickering fluorescents, there are no flashing lights, but we have our bearded women, games of chance, and hustlers lurking around every corner. The ri...
PID
apw:12349239
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:48:05.063Z
Title
Contrapasso
Author
Faiello, Dean A.
Date
2016-08
Pages
17 pages
Text (TR)
Do Faiello Word Count: 4850 Contrapasso In the middle of my life, at the age of forty-four, I found myself on a plane, sandwiched between two DoS* Marshals. I was being extradited from Costa Rica to face charges in New York. The rain forest and live volcanoes gave way to concrete laced with razor wire. After languishing on Rikers Island for a year and a half awaiting trial, I pled guilty to first degree assault. Sentenced to twenty years, I was grateful to leave Rikers. Twenty years of incarc...
PID
apw:12352818
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:34:40.406Z

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