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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
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
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
Graduation speech 9/1/17
Author
Mazzarella, Eve
Date
2017-09-01
Pages
4 pages
PID
apw:12361233
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:57:09.584Z
Title
Hello, my name is Laura
Author
Purviance, Laura L.
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Laura Purviance 11/6/2017 Hello, my name is Laura and I'm currently serving my 50-life sentence in the largest womens prison in the world, CCWF. When I commited my crime at 24 years old, I was totally ignorant to our justice system and the conditions of confinement people face in jail and prison. I have a terrible knack for learning things the hard way. I'm 29 now, and next year when I turn 30 I'll have both an elderly parole date and a youth offender parole date. Either way I ...
PID
apw:12352323
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T18:54:51.874Z
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
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
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
LiT-uPP is a transformational program
Author
Judith
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
APWA: I have a prior submission on file with you, but I want to replace it with this one. Thank you. Judith Barnett LiT-uPP is a transformational program based on “The Lioness Tale,” a powerful little allegorical book about a Lioness who spends her entire life in captivity and yet moves toward the light of forgiveness, acceptance, and love anyhow. The Lioness learns how to take this journey with the help of her friend, the Panther. She can then turn inward to face memories, floating away when t...
PID
apw:12351623
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T00:31:44.462Z
Title
Lifers with optimistic progress
Author
Kilgore, Ivan
Date
2019-02
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
Lifers With Optimistic Progress Truth as told by those in power has been formatted to fit into the scheme of their agenda, which makes it a product propaganda. Truth as told by the powerless is a truth unscathed by such distortion, which makes it a reality. As such, the truth as told by the powerless becomes a scepter and reference point in all matters of controversy between these two groups.... Written by Ivan Kilgore February 2019 ecently, the Lifers With Optimistic Progress (L.W.O.P., herea...
PID
apw:12357702
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:30:14.954Z
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
Most of us believe the parole board
Author
Dorotik, Jane
Date
2010-01-21
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Most of us believe the parole board Jane Dorotik Most of us believe the Parole Board Commissioners have a very serious job in determining who should stay in prison and who should be released. After all, the burden of public safety would seem to lie squarely on their shoulders. If a prisoner can t, after years of incarceration, prove to these commissioners they are not a menace to public safety, then maybe they shouldn't be released. My guess is this is what the public generally thinks......
PID
apw:12344508
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T15:41:59.185Z
Title
Poverty and crime
Author
Criminally Violent Felon
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[Poverty and Crime] 7/14/2018 Hello, I am a product of society. I robbed that bank because I am poor. Homeless shelters and jobs I had were always temporary. I never had enough money to keep me off the streets of Downtown Los Angeles. At least prison takes care of me. But I'll eventually get out. And what then? I heard I got 6 months at a halfway house during which I must find a job that is able to support me. But I couldn't do that following the rules of society. How can I succeed?...
PID
apw:12354733
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:32:28.188Z
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
Rediscovering humanity's voice through the walls of darkness
Author
Williamson, Jimmy
Date
2010-02-17
Pages
16 pages
State
California
PID
apw:12343253
Date Uploaded
2016-10-17T20:19:48.923Z
Title
Reflections from the cement coffin (short-wave-frequency-transmission)
Author
Nobody
Date
2015-01-24
Pages
5 pages
State
California
Text (TR_WF)
Reflections From the Cement Coffin (Short-Wave-Frequency-Transmission) Dear Editors, I have already written and shared the basic framework of (vision) earthvibe. My intention is to heavily invest in sharing my reflections through the APWA, but I think it may be in my best interest that I first communicate with you a little more about it. Since my arrest on the night of December 29,1990, I unknowingly began to seek a logical analysis of the nature of the prison system and the root cause of mas...
PID
apw:12343165
Date Uploaded
2016-10-17T17:34:27.199Z

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