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- Title
- 1st amendment under siege
- Author
- Magnific, Roc
- Date
- 2017-03-03
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (TR_WF)
- "1st Amendment Under Siege" Recently last year (May,2016) Arkansas Department of Correction Czarina Wendy Kelly issued a rather fastidious policy that cited newspaper clippings would be banned from prisoner mail, classifying them as (wait for it - with bated breath) "contraband"!? According [ineligible] to ADC (Ay, Carumba! Arkansas Department of Corruption) policy, they are... concerned about drug smuggling but said vitiated policy does not affect newspapers sent directly...
- PID
- apw:12350565
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T14:09:39.949Z
- Title
- 2014 legislative will prove whether policy makers have gotten smart on crime
- Author
- Marshall, Ronald
- Date
- 2014-03-19
- Date
- 2014-03-19, 2014-03-19
- Pages
- 2 pages
- State
- Louisiana
- Topics
- recidivism, mandatory sentencing, minimum sentencing
- Text (FT)
- 2014 Legislative Session Will Prove Whether Policy Makers Have Gotten Smart on Crime By Roland Marshall Only time will reveal whether the 2014 Legislative Session will mark a sincere effort by Louisiana's lawmakers to reform sentencing laws so that offenders can have a meaningful opportunity to get off the count. At the behest of the Jindal administration, four organizations joined in a collective effort to analyze criminal justice data/ statistics and offer options to assist Louisiana l...
- PID
- apw:12341353
- Date Uploaded
- 2015-09-27T14:32:57.658Z
- Title
- 4993 word essay
- Author
- Powers-Wali, Anthony
- Pages
- 16 pages
- Text (FT)
- 4993 Word Essay At the age of sixteen I was incarcerated for First Degree Murder and later sentenced to 77-years in prison. There seemed to be little consideration of the affects it would have on a teenager to be housed with adults. Fortunately for me I was a fighter. There is a strange unwritten rule in prison that if somebody is willing to stick up for himself from day one then other prisoners will be willing to help him. If you don't stand up for yourself then you are left to the wolv...
- PID
- apw:12347577
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T15:26:46.677Z
- Title
- A brief summary of the demise of the Colorado Dept. of Corrections and poor drug offender reform
- Author
- Darris, Stephan
- Date
- 2014-04-28
- Date
- 2014-04-28, 2014-04-28
- Pages
- 6 pages
- State
- Colorado
- Text (FT)
- A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE DEMISE OF THE COLORADO DEPT . OF CORRECTIONS AND POOR DRUG OFFENDER REFORM by: Stephan Darris While incarcerated in the state of Colorado I think it' s fair to say that your past dictates your future . I am not a lifer or a violent offe nder. I am a repeat drug offender that has witnessed some of the most vile atrocity ' s that the system can deliver. I think that most people in this institution live under propaganda, false hope, and make believe promises. It ...
- PID
- apw:288
- Date Uploaded
- 2015-09-16T18:25:24.791Z
- Title
- A day before my 18th birthday
- Author
- Marshall, Tandy
- Date
- 2017-02-21
- Pages
- 7 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- No Title A day before my 18th birthday I was arrested in Milwaukee WI for possession with intent to deliver. I was sentenced to 9 years under the Wisconsin Truth in Sentencing Act. The judge ordered me to do 3 years inside and 6 years on mandatory supervision. Most of the 3 years was spent at the Robert E. Ellsworth Correctional Center (R.E.E.C.C.). At REECC I obtained my HSED in 2002. To get into the Office Assistant college course through Gateway Tech, I had to steal a cookie. My being empl...
- PID
- apw:12347879
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-11-02T19:42:30.234Z
- Title
- A day in the life of time
- Author
- Clemmons-Bey, Eric
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- A Day in the Life of Time My name is Eric. I was born and raised in St.Louis, but for the past 34 years I have been in prison in Missouri. I have been in the South East Correctional Center at Charleston, Missouri for seven years now. When I was 21, I was sentenced to 50 years without the possibility of parole for killing a young man who was trying to rob my younger brother. I did not have a prison record. Very few people have any idea what it is like to be incarcerated for decades. Here is wh...
- PID
- apw:12346733
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T00:44:48.789Z
- 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...
- PID
- apw:12347101
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T14:22:45.331Z
- Title
- A lot has been written
- Author
- Dorotik, Jane
- Pages
- 5 pages
- State
- California
- Text (O)
- A lot has been written Original Dorotik CA A lot has been written about the prison system lately -- why we as a nation incarcerate so many, why the bureauocratic and unweildy system is only expected to make minimal cuts to its 11 billion dollar budget while education and social supports are slashed to the very core, why California's prison system has the highest recidivism rate of any state in the nation? But little is written of the individual suffering that occurs in devastating ways o...
- PID
- apw:12344502
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-21T15:41:58.187Z
- Title
- A perspective on prison
- Author
- Beverley, Michael
- Pages
- 13 pages
- State
- New Hampshire
- Text (O)
- A Perspective on Prison By Michael B. Beverley When I was a boy, my mother often said that one-day people would no longer have names, we would be known only by a number. I know she didn’t mean what I would bring upon myself, yet it is not entirely disingenuous to say I am now known as 78552. That is my inmate ID within the New Hampshire state prison system. However, I would rather be remembered as Michael. Though I am now a felon, it wasn’t how my life began. I was the third of eight children...
- PID
- apw:12345755
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-24T12:49:45.093Z
- Title
- A professor once asked me
- Author
- Marshall, Tandy
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- No Title A professor once asked me if I believed in evolution or history repeating itself. I leaned towards history repeating itself, after all evolution just seems to be the same ole same ole with a few tweaks to make a thing modern. Take the U.S. history for instance, the slave trade and indentured servants are today called prisoners. When the Fore Fathers hammered out the Constitution in that hot sweaty room they had to compromise. The southern states wanted to count their slaves in the po...
- PID
- apw:12347996
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-11-02T19:54:58.715Z
- Title
- A renaissance
- Author
- Whetzel, Stephen
- Date
- 2010-07-20
- Date
- 2010-07-20, 2010-07-20
- Pages
- 12 pages
- State
- Indiana
- Topics
- pen pals, psychiatric aid, confessional, personal story
- Text (FT)
- A Renaissance by Stephen Whetzel Page 1 of 12 It started with a visit to the psychologist. Behind the ominous, gray, concrete wall surrounding the Indiana State Reformatory, not many areas existed where one could go to in order to escape the late summer heat. That old maximum-security prison, a place born of a harsher time, was never known for comforts. Therefore, whether or not I felt the need for a counseling session with Eric, my psychologist and substance abuse counselor, I looked forward...
- PID
- apw:12341322
- Date Uploaded
- 2015-09-27T12:48:43.808Z
- 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...
- PID
- apw:12343778
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-19T17:56:13.847Z
- Title
- American prisons and free-world staff not ready for second wave of COVID
- Author
- Magnitic, Roc
- Pages
- 7 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (TR_WF)
- "American Prisons and Free-World Staff Not Ready for Second Wave of Covid" "When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity." Never before have many would have thought such a [crisis?] as the Covid-19 pandemic would wreck havoc upon all parts of American life. But when it comes to prisons, a lot of the free-world staff (e.g. - guards, medical staff) as well as the residents of t...
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- apw:12361864
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-02-03T16:13:06.874Z
- Title
- An American epidemic
- Author
- Adams, Meagan
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- An American Epidemic Do you remember when you were naive enough to believe you were invincible? Now, imagine yourself as that kid and being told your whole life is being stripped from you before you've even had the opportunity to know what it feels like to live by your own rules. Are you there? Can you see it? Can you feel it? Good! Sadly and tragically this scenario is much more than an image cooked up by one's imagination. American is facing a tragedy of epic proportions; an epide...
- PID
- apw:12356338
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-28T17:21:57.853Z
- Title
- An artist behind bars
- Author
- Cosgrove, Kristine
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- "An Artist Behind Bars" by Kristine Cosgrove Let me see if I can try to describe what it's like to be in prison. First, it's every horror story you can imagine if you happen to run up against someone suffering from borderline personality disorder and low self-esteem. I like to imagine I'm only here impersonating a fake prisoner because I'm trying out for the new Scorcese film - and I'm up against Jennifer Connelly, and she beat me out of the role in House of...
- PID
- apw:12363082
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:41:51.733Z
- Title
- As a black Muslim
- Author
- Rahmaan, Taryanne Abdullah
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Taryanne Rahmaan, "As a Black Muslim" Coffee Creek Correctional Facility As a Black muslim, in prison where I have three strikes... (one, I am Black, two. I am muslim, three. I am female) everyday is a struggle. As if it isn't enough to just take my freedom, they want to take my dreams, my hope, and my faith I may still have. They refuse to give me pork substitutes or anything resembling a Halal diet. They deny me the right to cover my hair outside of my cell, and each year ram...
- PID
- apw:12354688
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-01-16T17:31:35.186Z
- Title
- Assaulted
- Author
- Stompingbear, Happy
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Assaulted StompingBear Files #FreeHappy Let me tell you about a time I got beat up. But to do this let me back up a couple days to give you some background. First off, let me say, I'm a litigator, as in I file grievances and lawsuits, because of this I have acquired a good amount of legal work. So one day I get transferred to this unit in Malvern. When I get here I'm told I can't keep all my legal work and I try to explain that I had active cases but he, the Lt., didn't ca...
- PID
- apw:12358569
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-06-18T19:02:33.092Z
- Title
- Beth in Florida: Letter addressed to Harvard Solitary Confinement Panel
- Author
- Gann, Jennifer
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Text (O)
- Letter addressed to Harvard Solitary Confinement Panel January 2013: Greetings from California! As a transgender woman prisoner and activist, I welcome this opportunity to contribute to the discussion on Solitary Confinement. Initially, I was convicted for the crime of armed robbery and sentenced to seven years in state prison. Subsequently, however, that "7 years" was extended to an indeterminate term of 104 years-to—life under the draconian "Three Strikes" law for prison...
- PID
- apw:12348975
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-11-03T12:35:28.085Z
- Title
- Betrayal
- Author
- Harris, Larry "Rocky"
- Pages
- 6 pages
- State
- Illinois
- Text (O)
- Betrayal By Larry “Rocky " Harris Everyday across America, the innocent are sent to prison. This is an ugly fact that most citizens of this great country do not want to deal with. It is not a topic that will come up over cocktails with friends. I The segment of the American population involved in this nightmare is usually the poor, specifically a poor man sold out by the public defender appointed to the criminal case. The case I write about falls into this category: a poor man raising his...
- PID
- apw:12345327
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-23T17:20:46.928Z
- Title
- Black Lives Matter: Are they ignoring Blacks in prison?
- Author
- Magnitic, Roc
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (TR_WF)
- “Black Lives Matter: Are They Ignoring Blacks In Prison?" Ever since its origin in 2013, the Black Lives Matter movement has… repeatedly stressed it was founded on the idea that Blacks were ad libitum being targeted as well as being murdered by police for being Black indiscriminately. As a Black man who has experienced police paramilitary tactics while (WWB) in the wee hours of the morning, of which such was used to obtain a... search warrant (with affidavit) whereas police lied in their...
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- apw:12363057
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:41:25.707Z
- 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
- C O P S, Pa. style
- Author
- Carroll, Wesley R.
- Date
- 2016
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (TR_WF)
- COPS, Pa. Style By Wesley Carroll Within the courthouse, during a criminal felony trial, the proceedings went as follows. As I was cross examining a police office, it went as follows... I said, "Officer, did you see my client, the accused defendant handcuffed and sitting at my table in the court, in this criminal case, flee the scene of the crime?" The officer said, "No sir, but I subsequently observed a person matching the description of the offender several blocks away."...
- PID
- apw:12347237
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T14:48:16.955Z
- Title
- Cabin fever in COVID confinement
- Author
- Taylor, Shariff
- Date
- 2020-06-28
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (TR_WF)
- -Submission- Sunday 6-28-2020 "Cabin Fever" in Covid Confinement Let me begin by telling ya'll that we've <prisoners in Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility> been on this modified program since the end of February 2020 an it's almost July 2020 in a few days. So add that up an think how stir crazy a regular person might act, much less a person with mental health problems like I do. They told us <mental health staff> that the program may return to some t...
- PID
- apw:12360380
- Date Uploaded
- 2020-12-02T18:47:02.999Z
- Title
- Censorship in Michigan prisons
- Author
- Hamilton, Lacino
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- Eensorship In Michigan Prisons By: Uacino Hamilton Today, another book was rejected. The fifth time in the past two weeks this has happened. All because the book wasn't sent from an "approved vendor." To the uninformed public such a requirement may appear on its face reasonable, the Michigan department of Corrections should control where information prisoners are receiving is coming from, and what that information is. But in practice, its a form of censorship. A policy that pro...
- PID
- apw:12351823
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-17T02:47:33.878Z