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Title
A look in on the prison performing arts theater and poetry classes
Author
Jaynes, Bev
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
I wish you could be witness to the enrichment and achievement, the intellectual stimulation, and the soulful creative expression going on during the Prison Performing Arts theater and "spoken word" poetry classes in WERDCE, the women's prison in Vandalia, MO and Thursdays and in the men's prison down the road in Bowling Green, MO, on Fridays. PPA is a non-profit organization based in St.Louis, MO, which provides opportunities for personal growth and character development t...
PID
apw:12347831
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:28Z
Title
Bloom grown from a crack in the wall
Author
Jaynes, Bev
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Bloom grown from a crack in the wall By Beverly Jaynes Reaching light from deceptive darkness, its seed mysteriously nurtured within, imposing walls cannot contain its growth. Breaking free unexpectantly, from bleak, stark surroundings, the bloom, the more beautiful. for its unlikely flourishing. A surprising sign of hope, graced by opportunity. The transformation of transformed individuals - the diseased, debilitated, disadvantaged, addicted, depressed, degraded, disgraced, disillusioned, di...
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apw:12347846
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:28.91Z
Title
Collusion
Author
Williams, Edward E.
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
I write on behalf of the prisoners in the State of Missouri and others. I know that there will be retaliation on me for speaking up’, But, I truely feel that someone must speak out to the readers of the State of Missouri and other states. COLLUSION People conspiring together for their own gain or in illegal acti- vities. As you will read in this. In September of 2010, I sent a State Habeas Corpus motion to the courts of Texas County, Houston, Mo. I had the motion logged into : the legal log h...
PID
apw:12353227
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:59:51.478Z
Title
Corizon medical services
Author
Bear, Bobby
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Corizon Medical Services Corizon took over from Correctional Medical Service (CMS) in about 2012. CMS was notorius for delaying treatment, or ignoring symptoms indicating the need for immediate care. Under Corizon things have only gotten worse. Here at Northeast Correctional Center in Bowling Green, MO a lot of the staff that worked here under CMS retained their positions under Corizon. I just saw on CNN in late August where Corizon and the D.O.C. in another state were sued for refusing to tr...
PID
apw:12347729
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:32:39.015Z
Title
Corruption at N.E.C.C.
Author
Bear, Bobby
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Corruption at N.E.C.C. If you look up Northeast Correctional Center in Bowling Green, MO on the internet it will indicate among other things that this camp is air-conditioned. It was designed that way and the central area is air-conditioned, but the housing unit's components somehow disappeared during construction. But that's not the only things that went missing. It was common knowledge among staff that were here when this camp opened that 2 million dollars went missing before it e...
PID
apw:12347724
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:32:38.767Z
Title
Different
Author
JJ
Date
43738
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Title: Different By: Rome 09-30-2019 The difference between Missouri State Prison and Minnesota State Prison. I was always told when I talk about Minnesota is “We’re not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy.” Well its obvious. I remember working as a prisoner in Minnesota Correctional Facility. I was getting $1.00 an hour, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. That is $40.00 a week. We get paid every 2 weeks. Missouri gives you $8.50 a month working in the kitchen. You have to work 90 days in the kitchen, befo...
PID
apw:12359263
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:20:04.605Z
Title
Hope
Author
Williams, Edward E.
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
The intentions of HOPE is a extremely powerful thing. WHY? Because every or most prisomers in the State of Missouri believes in it. The Department of Corrections and the Parole Board depends om it. HOPE. As the prisoners/Offenders hope to go home at some point and time, there is no quarantee. In which I "HOPE" will change. Please let me explain in a thought that I have. Everyday the prisoners of the State of Missouri, get up and goes to work, programs or school. which in the end, me...
PID
apw:12353026
Date Uploaded
2018-09-25T21:47:31.78Z
Title
How solitary confinement has been good for me in prison
Author
Jaynes, Bev
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
How Solitary Confinement Has Been Good for Me in Prison I've been on protective custody and administrative segregation status at the two Missouri women's prisons for almost three years now, liking it and needing its relative safety. Because of being physically harmed by other offenders, I first sought PC status in Nov. of 2011, staying on it in HUSA of WERDCC [?] for 3 months, coming out into general population (GP) for 2 or 3 weeks, only to be harmed again and so miserable that I w...
PID
apw:12347853
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:29.088Z
Title
How state funds are spent on prisons
Author
Jaynes, Bev
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
How State Funds are Spent on Prisons By Beverly Jaynes My wish for the new year is that some public or media entity would investigate how state funds are spent by the Missouri Department of Corrections (MODOC) in its contracts and procurements with private companies such as: CMS/Corizon health care, Mental Health Management, and Missouri Vocational Enterprise, which produces goods in MODOC factories using cheap prisoner labor (mostly earning 50 cents per hour) and sells those goods to MODOC a...
PID
apw:12347838
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:28.434Z
Title
In the killing chamber (revised copy, July 2014)
Author
Jaynes, Bev
Date
2014-07
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
In the Killing Chamber Today, execution by lethal injection is the method used by death penalty states. Until the fall of 2013, a three-drug cocktail of the anesthetic, sodium thiopental, to induce unconsciousness, the paralyzing drug, pancuronium bromide, to halt breathing, and potassium chloride to stop the heart, were the drug mix of choice. Then the only U.S. manufacturer of sodium thiopental had stopped its production. European countries won't supply it to the U.S. per their ethics....
PID
apw:12347841
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:28.706Z
Title
Lost and forgotten
Author
Johnson, Antwann
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Lost and Forgotten by Antwann Johnson My name is Antwann Johnson, and I was born and raised in the inner city of St. Louis, MO. I was the oldest of 9 children, 6 boys and 3 girls. My childhood was filled with many memories that are bittersweet due to the fact that I was forced to mature at a young age to take care of my siblings because my mother battled with addictions. In grade school, I had to wear hand-me-downs from the Goodwill because my mother couldn't afford name-brand clothes an...
PID
apw:12358705
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:05:52.459Z
Title
My experience as a prisoner
Author
Anonymous
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
My Experience as a Prisoner: Dear APWA, My experience as a prisoner in the state of Missouri has been nothing shy of humiliating and torturous. Upon my arrival to a permanent camp and within 6 months of my initial incarceration with the state of Missouri, I was tricked into "tying down" with another offender for safety reasons and raped as an ultimate consequence for not being in compliance with my attackers wishes. I was labeled a rat sometime after, once I got into an intensive th...
PID
apw:12354709
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:31:58.354Z
Title
My time in prison
Author
Arik
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
1 of 2 My Time in Prison My expectations entering prison were largely formed by T.V., movies, and the off-hand remarks of an ex-con. Because I was 39 I believed I knew much about the world, and thus, life behind bars. My impressions weren't all wrong; some were spot on. Like how inmates are little different from correctional officers (C.O.) and staff. Inmates committed crime and are punished. C.O.s commit crimes, too, but escape punishment. That's the distinction between us. While a...
PID
apw:12360558
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:38:08.26Z
Title
Prisoners in the State of Maryland
Author
Williams, Edward E.
Pages
8 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Corizon Killers, Prisoners in the State of Missouri is being killed by the Corizon Medical Departments of departments of Corrections. And the prisoners/inmates are trying to fight to stay alive. As in June of 2007, I suffered a heart-attack, while living with my fiance. It was late one night and the odds fell against me. I was taken to Heartland Hospital in St. Joseph, Mo. I went through surgery and stints was placed in my chest for a blockage of my right side, in the veins. In (3) days the d...
PID
apw:12352480
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T19:45:25.074Z
Title
Protection or destruction
Author
Jaynes, Bev
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Title: Protection or Destruction By: Beverly Jaynes In 2016, when the Missouri Legislature overrode Governor Nixon's veto, to pass a far-ranging firearms deregulatory law, which removed the protective requirements of undergoing background checks, training, and obtaining permits for being able to carry concealed guns into public places, the "New York Times" editorial on this was entitled: "Missouri: The Shoot Me State." Now legislators, who indeed fear being shot with ...
PID
apw:12348068
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T20:07:22.349Z
Title
Psychopaths in charge
Author
Bear, Bobby
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Psychopaths in Charge It's September, 2014. I've been in this camp since November of 2008. When I arrived in 2008 the warden ran this prison according to a regular schedule and had a clear understanding of administrative policy and how it evolved from legal precedent. He understood that respect is earned and cannot be stipulated. Chow was served immediately after count, yard opened exactly on time, inmates were allowed yard and rec 3 times a day which allows them to destress and tak...
PID
apw:12347719
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:32:38.584Z
Title
Spork Nazi
Author
Terry, Benjamin
Date
2014
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
Ben Terry Crossroads Correctional MO Spork Nazi Sporks-- neon orange, soft plastic, tine-lipped spoons-- are what the State provides us to conquer the chow hall gruel, miscellaneous faux meats, and soy-infused-every-other-food-group not already mentioned. (Side note: Do not for a minute assume, because I've said the word soy, that prison offers wholesome, if bland, faire for nutritional sustanance.) These sporks are seldom as clean as one would prefer, and inevitably the one you grab has...
PID
apw:12348994
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T12:35:29.472Z
Title
State-sanctioned vengeance
Author
Jaynes, Bev
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
State-Sanctioned Vengeance By Beverly Jaynes Even in Missouri, the second-most executing state in the nation, legislators are now poised to repeal our law of death - our death penalty. Conservatives and Republicans, now concede that legally killing people runs counter-productively to their credos of pro-life advocacy, fiscal responsibility, and to limiting governmental control over our lives. The number of executions in 2015, by Missouri decreased to only six, rather than the usual twelve or ...
PID
apw:12347827
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:27.752Z
Title
The greatest public threat
Author
Bear, Bobby
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The Greatest Public Threat! Prisons are built for a reason; not only to punish individuals for their crime(s), but to isolate them from the public so they can do no more harm. Most states have Parole Boards which are supposed to determine which offenders pose the "least" risk of reoffending and/or creating more victims of crime. In Missouri the Parole Board (MO Boards of Probation & Parole) has quite effectively reversed that very objective and as a result has certainly endanger...
PID
apw:12347714
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:32:38.343Z
Title
The war within: Release from self bondage
Author
Johnson, Antwann
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The War Within: Release from Self-Bondage "Whats going on?" -Marvin Gaye "I have a dream..." -Martin Luther King "Its a thin line between being educated on HOW to think and WHAT to think..." -Antwann Johnson Hello! My name is Antwann Johnson Sr. As the founder of this program, my mission is to help rectify the thought processes of those who suffer from the day-to-day destructive cycles of internal assault on the mind and soul. Purpose: To magnify the fact that be...
PID
apw:12358700
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:05:44.595Z
Title
This is my story
Author
Jaynes, Bev
Date
2015-08-24
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Beverly Jaynes NO TITLE Dear American Prison Writing Archive, This is my story. It’s about domestic abuse, which led to my crime and then the abuse of power by state officials during my imprisonment. It’s about state sanctioned vengeance and illegal, torturous punishments. It’s about licensing offenders to kill and commit more crime in prison, rather than rehabilitating them. It’s about suppressing truths, even in fraudulent medical records and diagnosing as “delusional”, offenders for tellin...
PID
apw:12347822
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:27.372Z
Title
To fight like a man?
Author
Jaynes, Bev
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
To Fight Like a Man? The NFL bullying scandal has raised questions of conscience: What is the measure of a man? What are the consequences of exalting brutality and violence? How do we define human weakness and strength? How to best protest and deal with abuse? How to best control harmful impulses in us all? We call them "football heroes", but aren't heroes usually more humanitarian than barbarian? NFL defensive lineman, Johnathan Martin, is being held in contempt for breaking t...
PID
apw:12347835
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:28.236Z
Title
Under privileged
Author
Smith, Lawrence
Pages
10 pages
Text (O)
(1) Being born on the cuff of desegregation and later growing up I found that theres a gap in the social fabric that has created a social foundation that has marginal separation in the races once again, establishing the arena of classicism. Classicism: Adherence to traditional standards (as of simplicity, restraint, and proportion) that are universally and enduringly valid. As one who is personally warehoused in the Missouri Department of Correction, andwho is also labeled black, my eyes have...
PID
apw:12355360
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T21:24:07.803Z
Title
While incarcerated in the MO
Author
Swaffar, Gregory
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE While incarcerated in the MO. D.O.C. I was raped within the 1st 6 months of doing my time. I chose to keep silent until I transferred to another facility where I "seemed to have more support" and felt safer. As it turned out those that I once thought supported me began hating on me for "telling on someone" and referred to me as a boy, baby, bitch, and rat. These are terms used in prison to refer to those who voluntarily engage in sexual acts, or are being criticiz...
PID
apw:12358025
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:40:48.259Z

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