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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
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
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
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
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
Hope in humanity
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-07-22
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
- Submission - pg. 1. Wednesday 7-22-2020 "Hope in Humanity" About two months ago, I began receiving mail from pen pals from different states on the streets who unknowingly helped me revive my faith in humanity at a point in my life when I was losing hope in humanity and today’s society. What I mean by saying “today’s society” is that; people in general seem to have lost their sense of empathy and sympathy for other humans from what I see on the news, which depresses me. Without peo...
PID
apw:12362817
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:37:10.985Z
Title
Keeping calm in the crisis of Covid-19
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Submission for A.P.W.A. "Keeping Calm In the Crisis of Covid-19," Truthfully, keeping calm is really difficult for me because I only have my Mom by my side throughout my prison incarceration, plus she's the only one who takes care of my needs, whether emotionally, mentally, or financially. I worry about me catching, then dying from Covid-19 but the prison officials or powers-that-be, doesn't tell her an lies as to the real cause of my demise. Then on the flip side, what if...
PID
apw:12360253
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:43:23.85Z
Title
Light through darkness
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2021-03-04
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
- Submission - pg. 1. Thursday 3-4-2021 "Light through Darkness" Hello everyone! I’m sorry that I haven’t written any essays or stories in awhile but I’ve been experiencing some unforeseen highs and lows due to Covid-19. After all I’ve told you about being careful and practicing the necessary precautions, I still contracted Covid-19 and had to be placed inside the gym where they <the administration and medical staff> set up bunk beds for about a hundred (100) to be housed for ...
PID
apw:12363335
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:46:28.363Z
Title
Meagans story of living as a M to F transsexual in society and in a California max security mens prison & conditions within
Author
Calvillo, Meagan Breanne Lupe Mendoza, III.
Pages
18 pages
PID
apw:12362233
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:26:53.045Z
Title
Misunderstood
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-06-17
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
- Submission - 1. Wednesday 6-17-2020 "Misunderstood" My life in a California Prison has been exceptionally hard, due to being misunderstood by my peers because they don't know anything about the different spectrums of sexual orientation and identity in the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community, so trying to explain this to everyone is difficult, but I feel is worth it to maybe stop people from hating us or pre-judging my people. Although the prison system only has two destinations, male and t...
PID
apw:12362365
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:29:07.324Z
Title
My first year in a women's prison
Author
Langan, Bella Donna
Pages
6 pages
PID
apw:12363192
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:43:54.057Z
Title
My second year in women's prison
Author
Langan, Bella Donna
Date
2018-01-11
Pages
6 pages
PID
apw:12363199
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:44:01.779Z
Title
My third year in a women's prison
Author
Langan, Bella Donna
Date
2019
Pages
2 pages
PID
apw:12363206
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:44:09.239Z
Title
On June 30th, 2016 on a hot and humid night
Author
Bowman, Randy
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE On June 30th, 2016 on a hot and humid afternoon, I killed my lover while we both were in prison. I did not know what else to do, and if I had of known what to do, I don't know if I would have been strong enough psychologically to do anything different. As I write this, I am still in a sensory deprivation cell, as if that's the answer. "For Kentucky it is." Because I was a lonely 62 year old man who'd been locked up since 1977, I did not see until it was too l...
PID
apw:12347924
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:54:55.617Z
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
Progress through pain
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-08-17
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
pg. 1 -Submission- "Progress through Pain" Monday 8/17/2020 We’ve been on modified lock-down status for <6> months now with no definite end in sight, which is driving me crazy! Me and my cellmate are beggining to argue about little things that wouldn’t have even popped up on our radar before this prolonged Covid-19 lock-down. To top it off, the Canteen Supervisor quit due to too many grievances filed on him, so we haven’t been able to order store, as we call it. I honestly don...
PID
apw:12360429
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:48:49.072Z
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
Thoughtful hearts
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-08-02
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
pg. 1 Submission Sunday 8-2-2020 "Thoughtful Hearts" About a month or so ago, I was blessed with not one but two pen pals, from two different states who wanted to show their support to fellow L.G.B.T.Q.+ inmates who're going through this Coronavirus Pandemic and to maybe become friends in the near future if we continue to bond. They came into my life at a time that I was feeling the most depressed that nobody cared, especially my so-called family. Now that I have someone to exp...
PID
apw:12360423
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:48:33.907Z
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