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Title: Did New York State Correctional learn anything after the Attica uprising.
Author: Brown, Melvin
Pages: 2 pages
State: New York
Text (TR): Melvin Brown New York Did New York State Correctional Learn Anything After the Attica Uprising. That is the "Question." This a True Story Well I really dont think so, because some inmate's are being abuse as I speak to you on paper. Please let's us go back, for few minute's; On September 13 1971 it was a sad day for the state of New York, inmate's was being kill by state law enforcement on T.V. by the order of Govern Rockefeller, I was not the age 14 me and my fa...
PID: apw:12343757
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-19T17:56:12.993Z

Title: Easy pickings DOCCS' overtime scams making state coffers dry
Author: Messer, Sheldon
Date: 2014-02-10
Pages: 4 pages
Text (O): Easy Pickings DOCCS' Overtime Scams Milking State Coffers Dry By Sheldon N. Meeser On January 30, 2014, Albany Times Union reporter, Rick Kerlin wrote an article entitled "State overtime. clock hit $611M: Crucial staffing needs blamed for rise; comptroller urges tightening". In the article, karlin reported that the state's overtime bill is increasing and the rise is due to a "smaller workforce" and downsizing of the state's workforce by Gov. Cuomo. What caug...
PID: apw:12350045
Date Uploaded: 2018-03-16T01:01:59.77Z

Title: Living with David Berkowitz in New York State Correctional Facility
Author: Brown, Melvin
Pages: 4 pages
State: New York
Text (TR_WF): Living with David Berkowitz in New York State Correctional Facility By Melvin Brown First I will like to thank all the Brothers who gave me good vice to write this short and true story. "This is a true story" In October 31-2003 I was convicted in Albany County Court for beating up my girlfriend, which I feel very bad about it today. Well I was sentenced to 24 years in prison, I was very upset with my lawyer's and I was angry with myself, also I was angry with the courts. To mak...
PID: apw:12343752
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-19T17:56:12.614Z

Title: My fractured facade
Author: Fromen, ABE
Pages: 3 pages
Text (TR_WF): My Fractured Facade by Abe Fromen, NY I am bi-sexual, I have been since I was about 12 years old. I was turned out when I was 8 years old. By the time I was 9, I could satisfy a grown man. I've had plenty of girlfriends; sex; yes! But there was always the other side of my life; then I came to prison! So I decided to leave that side of my life behind, but I couldn't; Are people like me born this way or are we made; I was made, and I hate myself, every day of my life; but I also love ...
PID: apw:12347872
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-02T19:42:29.812Z

Title: New York State prisons among the safest!
Author: Messer, Sheldon
Date: 2014-02-09
Pages: 6 pages
Text (O): New York State Prisons Among The Safest! By Sheldon N. Messer 0n Tuesday, January 21, 2014, the Albany Times Union published an article by Donn Rowe, President of the New York State Correctional Ufficers & Police Benevolent Association (Dne of New York's most powerful unions) entitled "Prisons Congested, dangerous" which appeared on page 02 in the Safety column. In the article, Mr. Rowe makes some very fictitious yet serious claims, one in which he states that the New York ...
PID: apw:12350050
Date Uploaded: 2018-03-16T01:02:00.066Z

Title: Prison or criminal university
Author: Fromen, ABE
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): Prison or Criminal University by: Abe Fromen The first thing I was taught when I got to prison was: if I am to ever throw hot oil at a correction officer (co.) mix it with honey. I asked why? "So it sticks to their skin"! Really?!! Is this what you really want to teach a 19 year old kid? I then learned how to hide contraband inside my rectal cavity; this was not by choice. Isn't prison the place where you come, when you can't live by society's laws: Yes! Then why do p...
PID: apw:12347876
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-02T19:42:29.998Z

Title: Sharing the word with a serial killer
Author: Brown, Melvin
Pages: 4 pages
State: New York
Text (TR_WF): Sharing the Word with a Serial Killer By Melvin Brown First I will like to thank Our Lord Jesus Christ for this great opportunity "this is a true" "story" I would like for anyone to read this story and I'll pray that someone will be blessed by this story. Our Lord Jesus Christ can change anyone for his glory Living with David Berkowitz in New York State Correctional Facility was a blessing to me. I have gotten to know David Berkowitz very well and I know Our Lord Jesu...
PID: apw:12343760
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-19T17:56:13.355Z

Title: Spinning the yard: Risky therapy
Author: Little, Lamarr
Pages: 9 pages
Text (O): bpi200 Lamarr Little #01A2 31 8 Eastern Corr. Fac . Box 338 Napanoch, N Y 12458-0338 2,980 Words SPINNING THE YARD: Risky Therapy By Lamarr Little "Spinning the yard" means walking around the yard (clockwise or counter-clockwise). Inmates spin the yard every day during each recreational period. Typically the yard is a square, but within that square is a circle. For many, it is an addiction. Continually observed by correctional officers, the yard (260 ft. x 260 ft.) can often feel li...
PID: apw:12359737
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:32:03.831Z

Title: The reality show
Author: Little, Lamarr
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): Lamarr Little The Reality Show By Lamarr Little My cell has a toilet, sink, and cot. The bars encasing this eight by ten broom closet are colder than the toilet-like sink I use for freshening up. Sometimes I feel as if I've been sentenced to a prison studio in one of America's 1000+ warehouses and the world is my audience - an endless season of "Lock-Up". That's the best way to describe my life. After putting on my costume, the show begins. I pretend to be an inmate, ...
PID: apw:12359734
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:32:00.006Z

Title: The therapeutic nature of art in prison
Author: Crawford, Michael
Date: 2010-02-10
Pages: 4 pages
Text (FT): Crawford - 1 Michael Crawford Bard Prison Initiative Drawing I Prof. Griffiths 2/10/10 THE THERAPEUTIC NATURE OF ART IN PRISON My oldest memories of drawing start in grade school. I would mostly draw things I could not have or afford: the latest Jordan sneakers, a nice house, a new limousine. Mostly, the types of things an inner-city kid would see in advertisements, but never actually own. In this sense, drawing helped me cope with my inability to keep up with the Joneses; however, later in l...
PID: apw:12346984
Date Uploaded: 2017-08-16T02:16:35.28Z

Title: The truth about herbs
Author: Bryant, Orlando
Pages: 3 pages
Text (FT): The Truth About Herbs By Orlando Bryant [ID]   While conversing with a colleague, the talk turned to herbs. He claimed that herbs helped only two percent of the people who use them. I took that as an ignorant statement, because my experience with herbs proved differently. As a result, I decided to write an essay to dispel some of the misinformation about the effects of herbs. Herbal medicine is the use of leaves, flowers, fruits, stems, barks and roots of plants to prevent, relieve, and treat...
PID: apw:12346980
Date Uploaded: 2017-08-16T02:16:35.105Z

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