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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
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 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
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
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
Chances and choices
Author
Maynard, T. L.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Chances and Choices A memoir By Tabitha Lee Maynard The cinderblocks breathe and sweat, spin and jump, like they have a life of their own. The weight piles on as the volume raises. The screams of ignorance and suffering cannot drown out the noise in my head. The burns, bruises, and cuts do not cover the pain. The ringing of keys, a clink and bang; new sounds in the ocean of noise. Chow’s here, preceded by the nauseating smell of rotten food adding to the constant wet smell of mildew. On the e...
PID
apw:12359723
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:31:43.272Z
Title
Confussed
Author
James, Brittany
Date
2016
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Confussed Brittany James Boggle only there is no words, blank spaces unable to fill, empty an inside out, rung out and hung to dry, here but never fully aware, be in every moment, even if its only fractions, any part is worth hanging onto, my life in a closet, the door opens and you never come out, bleed out to know that your alive, without breath, thickness, you're un-able to catch-22. You never win, Russian roulette, how do you hit and miss, kiss of death, rise above this life, resurre...
PID
apw:12346674
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:42.835Z
Title
Contracted
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-08-06
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"Contracted" Thursday 8-6-2020 Well everyone, Covid-19 has finally reached the prison I'm incarcerated at (Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility), so I diligently have to be on guard against catching it by doing all the preventative measures that we are advised to do by medical professionals like...wearing my mask, wearing gloves, distancing myself, disinfecting everything around me regularly, washing anything I wear right away and bathing as much as possible. On 8-4-20, the...
PID
apw:12360426
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:48:42.65Z
Title
Cornering of the market by TDCJ
Author
Jalomos, Mary Ann
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
For many years our friends, family, and loved ones could purchase items from credited vendors and have them sent to us. Items such as writing paper, note books, journals, stationery, box cards, envelopes, etc. We could even purchase them by direct order with a payment from our Trust Fund Account. 7.1 TDCJ decided it wanted to curb what inmates could get and from whom. Now, we must buy paper, cards, envelopes etc, from the unit commissary. TDCJ made product from TDCJ ran print shops. Our famil...
PID
apw:12353098
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:56:49.827Z
Title
Coronavirus while incarcerated has been mentally difficult
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-06-09
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Submission Tuesday 6-9-2020 Coronavirus while incarcerated has been mentally difficult because I have nothing really to do but think and worry about when this will be over so the program can go back to the way it was. Most of the inmates I've talked to, feel that the Administration will trick us an keep things like they are now or only give us (inmates) certain privileges back. To me, I'm only getting stronger by being forced to deal head-on with my mental thoughts that would usuall...
PID
apw:12360302
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:44:46.052Z
Title
Corrections: An exercise in futility
Author
Bingner, Alice G.
Pages
11 pages
Topics
Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O)
Alice Bingner 3744 Dexter Road Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Category: Personal Essay Word Count: 2,246 Corrections: an Exercise in Futility Currently, in the United States, it costs upwards of $50,000,000,000 plus a year to incarcerate more than 2,000,000 men, women and children. And the expense by no means stops there. While 10 percent of prisoners are menaces from whom the public needs protection, the rest would be better served - and so would society - if there were alternative sentencing for non-v...
PID
apw:12358330
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:56:23.837Z
Title
Covid credits
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Pages
1 page
PID
apw:12362556
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:32:25.892Z
Title
Covid-19 complications in prison
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-04-09
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
pg. 1. - Submission- Thursday 4/9/20 "Covid-19 Complications in Prison" About <2> months ago our prison <Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility> in San Diego, CA. was put on Modified Program with restricted Group Gatherings, which has been hard on me because I'm in a mental health E.O.P. <Enhanced-Outpatient-Program> that usually has me and other inmates going back and forth to at least <10> hours of self-help groups a week, but now we aren't allo...
PID
apw:12360136
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:39:38.402Z
Title
Covid-19 conditions & complications
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-05-09
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Covid-19 Conditions & Complications Pg. 1. Submission Saturday 5-9-20 This letter is in receipt of your letter dated on May 5th, 2020. My first essay to A.P.W.A. talked about coronavirus [an and] how I am dealing with it but I feel it's important to [acurately accurately] report or write what I and others are dealing with it too. To date we <prisoners at R.J.D.C.F.> have been on modified lockdown with only officer escorted medical and mental health appointments like emergency s...
PID
apw:12360212
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:42:18.344Z
Title
Dear Readers, Many of you guys wonder
Author
Magana, Maria Elena
Date
2019-04-28
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Dear Readers, Many of you wonder how the inside of a prison facility is. Maybe many of you guys have an idea. Which is made up of experiences from a male that was incarcerated. Only if you guys knew that our image of being able to smoke, inmates sticking together, food being good, and one thing above all of that is once you get out your time time given to you: you do it and get out. How wrong we were! Not only that it gets so much worse for a female inmate. My name is Maria Elena Magana and I...
PID
apw:12357958
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:38:40.408Z
Title
Descriptions of sources of stress, and ways of copin
Author
Lawless, Arline
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Descriptions of sources of stress, and ways of coping. Where can I start about the sources of stress in here? There are so many forms of stress from the guards screaming at the top of their lungs to your family not being able to come to see you because they were 2 minutes late for the check in. That is complete bullshit if you ask me especially when your family drives 2 % hours to see you. In fact, there are a few women in here where their family members drive over 7 hours to come and see the...
PID
apw:12351574
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T23:56:41.124Z
Title
Different
Author
James, Brittany
Date
2016
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Different view, different you, different sight, touch, and feel, wheel me in center stage and have a quick glance, lance open your perception and see what keeps the thought whole; always falling apart, domino effect, we all fall down - a well and never come out, drowned by your own selfish ways, spoon yourself to death because there is no sharps, safety proof, always guarded, no concern for any rule, regulation, or even request, a test of my attitude and unstable thoughts, a constant accelera...
PID
apw:12346670
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:42.106Z
Title
Employment
Author
Lawless, Arline
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
EMPLOYMENT There are a few jobs that are available to the women here. The paying jobs are two librarians, two computer lab workers, 7 industry workers, then the cook, the baker is paid from each shift, and there are two shifts. Then there are nonpaid jobs which these people receive goodies like drink mix and what not. There are the rest of the kitchen workers that are not paid. I believe that there are 3 to 4 people in the kitchen who isn't paid. In addition, a floor crew does the floors...
PID
apw:12351700
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T01:19:42.759Z
Title
Fifteen minutes
Author
Geri Q
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
'Fifteen Minutes' G. Allen Erwin I sit wooden, staring at my x-slashed calendar, calculating the days remaining. Prison is peppered with waiting, twenty plus years of maximum security captivity has habituated me to this reality. But this is different, this wait is for a pending HIV test. A critical screening, precipitated by a sexual assault. A tacit insult heaped atop an acute injury, regardless of endgame result. The consequences of a positive reading weigh heavily upon me. I know...
PID
apw:12357335
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:17:31.289Z

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