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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: First amendment under attack in Illinois' prisons: the price of dissent
Author: Peter, George, Jr.
Pages: 11 pages
State: Illinois
Text (O): FIRST AMENDMENT UNDER ATTACK IN ILLINOIS’ PRISONS: THE PRICE OF DISSENT Exercising one's first amendment rights is analogous to breathing; we only learn to appreciate it when our capacity to I do either is impinged upon. However, there are certain events which serve to heighten an individual's awareness to particular circumstances, and for those of us who are incarcerated, we quickly discover how tenuous our ability is to engage in first amendment activities that the average person ...
PID: apw:12345356
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-23T17:20:49.235Z

Title: I want to call your attention
Author: Bogomolova, Anastasia
Date: 2018-01
Pages: 3 pages
Text (TR_WF): Anastassia Bogomolova Coleman FL A copy of this letter has been mailed to 32 members of congress who support the sentencing reform in January/February 2018. No action followed. NO TITLE Dear Senator, I want to call your attention to the rarely discussed issue of the collateral damage to the families and young children of the non-violent first-time offenders, who are currently serving time in federal prisons and prison camps. This damage is a direct result of the existing law, 28 U.S.C.S. 994(...
PID: apw:12356222
Date Uploaded: 2019-05-28T17:13:41.499Z

Title: Inspiration
Author: W., Diana
Date: 2010-02-24
Date: 2010-02-24, 2010-02-24
Pages: 7 pages
State: Alaska
Text (TR): 1 Word Count: 2,079 Diana Waggy, Alaska INSPIRATION Everyone talked quietly among themselves as we waited for her to arrive. Two hundred women were seated in the gym, with a dozen guards stationed around the perimeter of the room. Long gray curtains partitioned off part of the room, and behind them the old creaky bleachers and various cabinets, athletic gear, and other detritus usually found in the prison’s gymnasium. I knew this because I was in charge of getting everything moved and cleaned...
PID: apw:211
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:14:07.028Z

Title: Mass incarceration- What is it costing us and our children?
Author: Bogomolova, Anastasia
Date: 2017-12-01
Pages: 4 pages
Text (O): MASS INCARCERATION — WHAT IS IT COSTING US AND OUR CHILDREN? I. WHAT IS IT COSTING US: Former Attorney General Eric Holder stated in 2013 that the problem with the federal sentencing system is the "outsized, unnecessary large prison population", and that "too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason" /1/. Four years later, we are still waiting for the prison reform. The House Judiciary Committee cannot move ahead ...
PID: apw:12355895
Date Uploaded: 2019-05-23T17:56:47.706Z

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: 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: What is life like in an Alabama prison?
Author: Battles, Jennifer
Pages: 5 pages
Text (TR_WF): What is life like in an Alabama prison? The answer for thousands of men and women is simple: Hell. The State of Alabama has for decades proved its inability to operate safe and humane prisons for the amount of people it wants to incarcerate. For the first time in the history of the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, the Department of Justice found the entire Alabama men's prison system in violation of the Constitution. The DOJ report details everything from crumbling infrastr...
PID: apw:12361190
Date Uploaded: 2021-02-03T15:56:12.034Z

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