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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: 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 am a female incarcerated
Author: Tammy
Pages: 4 pages
Text (TR_WF): Dear APWA, I am a female incarcerated at Logan Correctional Center (LCC). I am detain on a unit that they refer to as housing unit that is full of asbestos, lead, and mold. There is even a raccoon that is crapping and peeing in the attic that staff will not capture. Upon starting out there were 3 raccoons. 2 were captures by a trap. Yet the one left has been in the attic over 6 months. Even though several has grieved it nothing has been done. Some ladies even took it upon themself to literarl...
PID: apw:12352489
Date Uploaded: 2018-06-15T19:45:37.962Z

Title: My only problem is that as we speak I am lying under a toilet
Author: Mister Yemen
Date: 2017-07
Pages: 4 pages
Text (TR_WF): To: The American Prison Writing Archive C/O Hamilton College: 198 College Hill Road Clinton, NY 13323-1218 From: Dr. Laverne Ware II AKA "Mister Yemen" Pen Name The Dodge County Detention Facility 216 West Center Street Juneau, WI 53039 RE: Did you in fact, receive my first essay/writing? Dear A.P.W.A: I got a report that you were informed of my query. Only I am confused at the fact that it is July and I wrote you sometime in April!? Please let me know if you did get my letter? Did ...
PID: apw:12350679
Date Uploaded: 2018-03-16T14:43:28.705Z

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: Prior to my incarceration
Author: Forster, Seth
Pages: 3 pages
Text (TR_WF): Biography Prior to my incarceration I was a business manager and family man. A US Navy Vet who served up to just after 9/11 and was in the Gulf when everything went down. After that I went to work for the family business, married a beautiful woman and had two of the most wonderful children I could ever conceptualize. As years progressed I became disillusioned with life and ignored my PTSD and health issues connected to my life in the service. Eventually I took most of my life for granted and ...
PID: apw:12347900
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-02T19:42:30.763Z

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: 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: 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: Who is nonviolent?
Author: Hall, George N.
Pages: 2 pages
Text (O): WHO IS NONVIOLENT? By George Norris Hall Whatever l have done, it was done over 40 years ago at a minimum, and in some cases 59 or 59 years ago, under circumstances that even i don't remember clearly today, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the person i am today. How do we define "violent"? is it a person who has never, ever, committed a violent act, no matter how far removed in time? Across the board, statistics prove in every State and Federal jurisdiction, paroled first-...
PID: apw:12356192
Date Uploaded: 2019-05-28T17:12:52.82Z

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