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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
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
Focus on your life
Author
Anderson, Jennifer
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Focus on Your Life By jennifer Anderson sunset is such a beautiful and amazing thing to watch. I get lost in the magic of the stunning colors streaking across the sky. As it sets down past the razor-wire and I hear the guards shout to corral us all back inside for the night, I snap back to reality. The smile melts from my face as I remember where I am. I am in a Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas. Entering the tremendously loud unit, which houses two hundred twenty—five girls/women, a diverse...
PID
apw:12351618
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T00:31:44.296Z
Title
I want to make this letter long
Author
Moore-Ethridge, Nycole
Date
2018-08-27
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[no title] 8-27-18 Dear APWA I want make this letter long. I write in hopes you may assist me in the right direction I am currently incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice I am doing a 4 year sentence for theft (stealing clothes out of Dept. stores) Texas parole is sucks! Toward the women. They do not utilize they parole system but the criminal justice always claim they need money. There are women here that have been awaiting 8-12 months to get in a program That is there answ...
PID
apw:12356087
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:23:15.786Z
Title
I was arrested on June 7
Author
Richardson, Shannon G.
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[no title] (1) Shannon Guess Richardson I was arrested on June 7, 2013. I was 20 weeks pregnant. I was placed in general population in Titus County (Texas) where I never had a strike against me. On June 12, 2013, I was taken to the hospital for contractions. I have a history of premature deliveries, but thankfully I received medical attention in time and this was avoided. On June 21, 2013, I was transferred to Gregg County (Texas). By the time I got there, I was in pain and spotting. I inform...
PID
apw:12354930
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T19:26:41.428Z
Title
Last week a baby died
Author
Marshall, Tandy
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Last week a baby died Last week a baby died. She was 21 years old with a child at home she would soon be with in the summer. I imagine her a beautiful spirit that was giving and caring. From what I've been told she was small and timid. After being used and abused here in prison and asking repeatedly for help, to be removed from her abusers and being repeatedly refused, she hung herself. She died while I walked the rec yard between the 6-7 o clock hours. When I was told we weren't to...
PID
apw:12348002
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:54:58.887Z
Title
Lost hope
Author
Marshall, Tandy
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Lost Hope Tandy Marshall I allowed myself to hope. After 12 years I started to hope I'd make parole. I hoped to make my daughter's 5th grade graduation. I imagined laying on my son's bedroom floor watching him play video games. I dreamed of relieving some of the burden off of my mother and step father. I imagined taking my step dad to a jazz concert on Father's Day because he is so under appreciated by his own children and he is now raising mine. Although hope seemed like ...
PID
apw:12347990
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:54:58.455Z
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
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
Unlike some inmates who expect
Author
Richardson, Shannon G.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Shannon Guess Richardson Unlike some inmates who expect prison to be the Ritz Carlton, I understand where I am and my expectations are extremely limited. One of the things I do expect, however, is to eat bug-free food in a sanitary setting. Working in the kitchen at FMC Carswell opened my eyes to new horrors I was not previously aware of. There are so many roaches in the kitchen, there is no hope of controlling the situation, short of fumigation - which Food Service Manager Mr. Simpson refuse...
PID
apw:12354739
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:32:35.177Z