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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
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
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
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
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
Title
I'm a 37 year old mother of 6
Author
Hunt, Rosalinda
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
I'm a 37 year old mother of 6, wife of a institutionalized convict. Married 11 years he's been home 2-3 years of the 11 years. I myself just recently began to rebel now I find myself here in the Fresno County Jail doing 16 months for posession of a firearm. I now fit the quote "Your not doing time alone". Meaning my husband, considering you feel like your locked up, if married to a person who stays incarcerated. I married him knowing he was a criminal, with the hopes and o...
PID
apw:12356159
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:25:12.965Z
Title
Pagan rights
Author
Stompingbear, Happy
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Pagan Rights StompingBear Files #FREEHAPPY This essay is about religious rights, or rather, the lack of my religious rights. I'm eclectic Pagan, mainly Wicca, and I'm Native American. I am not allowed to practice my religion. In fact only Christians and Muslims are allowed to have services. Muslims only because they have previously won a lawsuit. Arkansas prisons gear everything toward Christian, programs, special events, the only people allowed to be in the band have to play only C...
PID
apw:12358567
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:02:29.976Z
Title
Rainbows: A transgender prisoner's emergence
Author
Geri Q
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Rainbows: A Transgender Prisoner's Emergence - Geri Q My chosen name is Geri, I am a 48 year old, Queer and transgender persyn*. I was out, and comfortable in my identity, but in 1994, a 25-to-life prison sentence changed the rules, and my life. Handcuffed, chained and shackled - I was shipped, like cattle, to the upstate New York gulag, and tossed into the deep end of the prison pool - maximum security. I was young, bright and bold, but in evaluating this oppressive environment - intell...
PID
apw:12357332
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:17:25.407Z
Title
Running
Author
Maynard, T. L.
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Running A poem/memoir by Tabitha Lee Maynard I don't even remember the time before running. It's all an empty space filled with stories and dark holes. I ran to the TV; escaped into the land of make believe. I learned to read and ran to books; a more transportable land of fantasy. When the books and movies were not enough I ran into the deepest, darkest hole I could find. Inside of closets, cabinets, basements, attics, under the stairs, inside the walls - even drain pipes where the ...
PID
apw:12359726
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:31:47.653Z
Title
Texas is an institutionalized industry
Author
Jalomos, Mary Ann
Date
2017-10-12
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
No Title 10/12/17 Texas is an institutionalized industry. I have been here since 1999. Arrested 2-11-98, hit TDCJ 6/99. Going on 20 flat, next year. I am not innocent, I agree that I should have gotten time for my part in my crime. I do not agree with the amount of time I received. 99 yrs. A hard life, abuse galore. Physical, emotional and mental. I believe if I had recevied the psychological help I needed I may not have been in the position I was, when I did what I did. That's long past...
PID
apw:12349894
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T21:23:31.105Z
Title
The challnges of physical and psychological survival
Author
Jarnigan, Shannon L.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[no title] Shannon Jarnigan Nashville, TN The challenges of physical and psychological survival are a major problem in prison. The physical survival is challenging due to numerous of reasons. To be physically fit you have to be mind strong, working your body out on your own time. The prison were I reside barely offers any recreation time for the gym, ballfield, or exercise programs. It is all a show for inspectors or, to meet ACA standards which is federal fundings. The State of Tennessee fai...
PID
apw:12356147
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:24:51.464Z
Title
The poem as grounds for resistance
Author
O'Brien, Colleen
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Poetry as a language is a way to express myself with the veil of a hidden meaning behind each word. Because poetry uses symbolic language, I feel safe in expressing myself since whoever reads my words can interpret it however they want. At times when I write poetry and re-read it at a later date, I can't always remember what prompted me to write the words I wrote, nor, know exactly what I meant by them. Many times, the words that come out of me came from a place that I am not aware of. T...
PID
apw:12359661
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:30:15.74Z
Title
The prison veil
Author
Marrero, Jamie
Pages
9 pages
Text (O)
Jaime Marrero The Correctional Writer's Initiative BRCI - 330923 Student #2 028 4460 Broad River Rd. Columbia, SC 29210-4012 THE PRISON VEIL An Essay by JAIME MARRERO I am known to the state of South Carolina, as "INMATE #330923", but my given name is Jaime Eduardo Marrero——and I was once known to the Navy as Aviation Machinists Mate Petty Officer Second Class Air Warfare Designee Jaime Marrero --but, I became a "ward" of the South Carolina Department of Corrections a...
PID
apw:12351719
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T01:19:43.43Z
Title
The redemptive power of yoga
Author
Mazzarella, Eve
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
The Redemptive Power of Yoga Redeem: to regain possession; to pay off; to turn in and receive something in exchange; to fulfill: to rescue or ransom; to make up for. In 2009 an experience transformed me from casual practitioner to fully committed yogi.’ It was the Summer Solstice in the heart of Manhattan .at the annual Yoga in Times Square event. Several thousand miles from my home on the west coast, the allure of finding peace in the midst of madness had a deeply personal meaning at this stag...
PID
apw:12354664
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T16:05:58.607Z
Title
Transcendence: Passing through fire to fly high
Author
Geri Q
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Transcendence: Passing through fire to fly high - Geri Q A twenty-five to life sentence - my fate at age twenty-six, appeals fruitless, I finally dug in and chipped away at that stark monolith of time. My chosen name is Geri - as a Queer and gender non-conforming (GNC) persyn*, coming of age in the 70’s, I’d become politically radicalized in my early teens. Becoming a captive in the Prison Industrial Complex forced me to face a fresh set of challenges and issues to overcome and advocate on. T...
PID
apw:12357328
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:17:12.54Z
Title
Transgender issue
Author
Stompingbear, Happy
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
StompingBear Files #FREEHAPPY Transgender Issue In this essay I will write about trans issues, well one of them anyway. This issue, an injustice to me, is if the mental health decide you don't have gender dysphoria then to them, the unit admin, to all of them, you are not trans and you can not trans. Nothing is available. For me, I've always been feminine, but it seems the older I get the more woman I feel, like I have grown into a woman. I feel... I feel constricted like I'm i...
PID
apw:12358564
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:02:26.327Z
Title
Unjust justice in a racial world
Author
Jarnigan, Shannon L.
Date
43699
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Shannon Jarnigan [ID] TPFE 1EA32 3881 Stewarts Ln. Nashville, TN 37218 August 22, 2019 "Unjust Justice in a Racial World" In life we are given choices. What choice we make results on our life good or bad. Although we make a choice we do not always know nor expect the outcome that came by what we chose. Allow me to explain a choice I made and now pay a dearly price with cruel and unusual punishment, and a system that failed me due to that one choice. As I grew to a young lady wanting...
PID
apw:12358959
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:12:33.659Z