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Title
A lesson in language
Author
Piwowar, Robert
Pages
14 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Lesson in Language Incarceration has forced me to postpone my plans of travelling to the continents of Europe and Asia. Six years into a twenty year sentence for manslaughter, watching Globe Trekker on PBS or flipping through vacation mags in the prison library is the closest I get. My travels into Quebec and Mexico taught me that every street sign, television or radio program, menu, and all product packaging provides a lesson in language. Simply going about a regular routine in a foreign l...
PID
apw:12347101
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:22:45.331Z
Title
Adivina
Author
Faiello, Dean A.
Pages
4 pages
State
New York
Text (O)
Dean A. Faiello Adivina Fed up with my wreck-strewn, chaotic life, ricocheting between New York City crises, I decided to liquidate my few urban assets and dee to a Central American rain forest. Rather than face the task of changing my life, I took the easier route. I was lured by the romance of live volcanoes overlooking black sand beaches and banana trees. For two hours, as my Jeep snaked its way through the basaltic mountains of Costa Rica, I had little idea what to expect at each precipit...
PID
apw:12345902
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T18:15:50.675Z
Title
Attica on my mind
Author
Rhynes, Michael
Date
2011-06-06
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Michael Rhynes Attica on My Mind My day begins by getting up before the contemporary version of Pavlov's bell rings, a half hour before count, which starts at 7:00 AM. While performing my morning ritual of washing my face, brushing my teeth, and combing my hair, with such mindless devotion it would send a marine sergeant into authoritarian fits of glee, I subconsciously search for a way to affirm my humanity. The breakfast list is being taken, and naturally I sign up. Every morning for t...
PID
apw:12351816
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T01:52:49.829Z
Title
Behind these walls
Author
Harewood, Ian
Pages
2 pages
Text (FT)
BEHIND THESE WALLS By Ian Harewood Free will is all about choices. In prison you have no free will. Every day, you have to do what someone tells you. You can't wake up in the middle of the night and go for something as simple as ice-cream or a snack. I remember when I had free will growing up. I wish that my choices had been different. As a kid I was always trying to fit in. But back in those days, the dark-skinned guys were the butt of jokes in school, the ones who weren't popular....
PID
apw:12347004
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T02:16:35.825Z
Title
Euphemism
Author
Gottsche, Marcus
Date
2020-02-08
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Euphemism A publication of the Attica Institute for Advanced Penological Studies Visiting professor Marcus Gottsche, author and lead researcher Euphemism. Noun. From the Greek eu- (good) + pheme (speech). 1. The use of a word or phrase that is less expressive or direct but considered less distasteful, less offensive, etc. than another. 2. A word or phrase so substituted. (Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4 Ed., 2005) Pro Se, the free publication of Prisoners' Legal Services o...
PID
apw:12361098
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:54:01.504Z
Title
How to feed and care for your prisoner: A manual in two parts
Author
Gottsche, Marcus
Pages
9 pages
Text (TR_WF)
How To Feed And Care For Your Prisoner A Manual in Two Parts comprising An Essay of the Same Name and A Shorter Piece, Its Compliment presented by Marcus Gottsche for the Edification and Diversion of the Public. 1 How to Feed and Care for Your Prisoner Commiserations and condolences on your loved one's recent imprisonment. As a proud and/or ashamed participant in an existing relationship with a New York State prisoner, you may feel a little lost as you contemplate your change of social s...
PID
apw:12359912
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:32:34.908Z
Title
I broke the law
Author
James
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
I broke the law. And in breaking the law I was aware that I will be sentence to a prison term. What I wasn't aware of in serving that prison term is the constant physical, verbal, and mental abuse. Also the constant racism this is why it is easy to say that the prison system is modern day slavery. I dont want to complain and not take responsibility for my actions. That is not case. The prison system is a cesspool of perpetual negativity. The average prisoner has to be on guard from both ...
PID
apw:12354700
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:31:47.563Z
Title
I shout, ergo, I be
Author
Faiello, Dean A.
Date
2012-09
Pages
11 pages
State
New York
Text (O)
I Shout, Ergo, I Be Word count: 3000 D. Faiello Attica CF I Shout, Ergo, I Be August heat and hatred swirled around me. Men hollered between cells, filling the bricks and concrete of Attica with vented steam. They had few outlets except shouting, or fighting. "I’ll stab ya face, punk." "Come over here *n say that, you bitch ass nigga." "Hey yo, last nigga talk to me like that was part a my indictment." "You don't like it? Pop, nigga." I sat in my c...
PID
apw:12345907
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T18:15:51.116Z
Title
Learning to grow inside a prison cell
Author
Brown, Jamel Lamont
Date
2014-11-10
Pages
6 pages
State
New York
Text (TR)
Jamel Brown New York ESSAY Learning to Grow Inside a Prison Cell My nightmare begins in 1988 when a Latino man living around the corner from where I reside was murdered The investigating Detective and Bronx district Attorney office put my name in the mix after I had a domestic dispute I was put in a mock line-up and told I was identified by a person I never seen before I confess to my Judge that I had no knowledge of the crime the Judge said I know but that's everybody's line in the...
PID
apw:12343745
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T17:56:12.266Z
Title
Memento
Author
Faiello, Dean A.
Pages
2 pages
State
New York
Text (O)
Memento The African sun, a shimmering orange disc, heated the Serengeti plain on the morning that Olivia's mother gave birth to a girl, Tamika. As the sun descended that night, providing relief from the sweltering heat, Olivia began to dig a single grave for both her mother and new-born sister. Their faceless identities were added to the list of two million lives claimed by HIV that year, and every year. Olivia's father watched the burial, shaded by the canopy of an African mahogany...
PID
apw:12345899
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T18:15:49.891Z
Title
Metanoia
Author
Faiello, Dean A.
Pages
9 pages
State
New York
Text (O)
Dean A. Faiello Word Count: Approx. 3000 Attica CF Metanoia I watched Richard Robles, sitting just outside his cell, create a lush, stately oak tree using watercolors and a small, inexpensive brush. I could see the details of each leaf. Yet Richie has been nowhere near a tree for fifty years. The closest tree is far beyond Attica's massive concrete wall, in a world in- accessible to Richie. The last time Richard enjoyed freedom, the Beatles were on tour in the U.S., and LBJ was in the Wh...
PID
apw:12345889
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T18:13:43.488Z
Title
On quiet
Author
Gottsche, Marcus
Pages
5 pages
Text (O)
On Quiet In the public discourse concerning prisons and prisoners, much attention is given to the issue of recreation -- meaning physical. activity. Little or no attention is paid the other side of rec: like physical activity, mental "activity" can be facilitated under certain conditions, and these conditions can be created by spatial design and maintained by institutional commitment to a philosophy that values the life of the mind. Physical recreation is a social activity for most ...
PID
apw:12355028
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T20:15:55.467Z
Title
Reparative therapy
Author
Faiello, Dean A.
Date
2013-09
Pages
16 pages
State
New York
Text (O)
Reparative Therapy D. Faiello Word Count: 4500 Attica CF‘ Reparative Therapy Everyone who loved me told me I needed to change, to give up what I was doing to myself. But I refused. Spoiled and stubborn, I clung to my hedonistic life -- drinking, partying, blowing coke up my nose. I didn't like change, and I wanted no part of it. As a result, a judge sentenced me to twenty years. I sat in the back of an antiquated prison classroom listen- ing to a community college professor conjugate Spa...
PID
apw:12345919
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T19:55:26.853Z
Title
The hearts of men
Author
Gilmore, Jamar
Date
2015-09-03
Pages
4 pages
State
New York
Text (TR_WF)
September 3rd 2015 Author: Jamar Frank Gilmore Title: The Hearts of Men Every man has a point of no return when it seems to be to much. Whether its war or prison it has been proven through medical research that after five years in prison, inmates start to suffer or show signs of P.T.S.D. (Post. Traumatic. Stress. Disorder). Violence is a cycle, violent past, violent communities, violent homes creates more violence. Upon arriving at this prison my life changed dramatically today I am a Christi...
PID
apw:12343787
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T18:32:25.819Z
Title
The modern plantation
Author
Gottsche, Marcus
Pages
14 pages
PID
apw:12363227
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:44:30.512Z
Title
The waiting room
Author
Faiello, Dean A.
Date
2011-09
Pages
20 pages
State
New York
Text (O)
The Waiting Room With the barrel of a drug rep's pen, I crushed hard rocks of cocaine in a mini--ziplock. My next patient, a laser face- lift, sat in the waiting room. I was tired. I had already per- formed with no lunch break three tattoo removals, a scar revi- sion, and five laser hair removals. It was 5:00 pm, and I needed a lift. My assistant's Voice erupted from the phone intercom. "Your patient wants to know if she can drink tea while she waits." "Herbal, no caf...
PID
apw:12345936
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T19:55:27.871Z
Title
This morning as I was reading
Author
Gilmore, Jamar
Date
2015-06-18
Pages
4 pages
State
New York
Text (TR_WF)
[NO TITLE] This morning as I was reading my daily bread during my devotional time. The chow bell went off I didn’t go, I get fed in. The title was “Failure is not Fatal” there was a brief narrative about prime minister Winston Churchill “Hitler knows that he will have to break us… or lose the war… Let us therefore brace… and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire lasts for a thousand years men will still say, This was their finest hour! Then I here guys comeing back from the morning ch...
PID
apw:12343782
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T18:32:24.862Z
Title
Trump L'oeil
Author
Faiello, Dean A.
Pages
5 pages
Text (O)
Trump L'oeil D. Faiello Cayuga CF Dreaming of the world beyond the concrete walls that encircle Attica, I often fantasized about once again being an American citizen: voting; enlisting support for social justice issues like gender equality, and civil rights. Watch- ing CNN on an eight inch TV during the Democratic National Convention, I teared as I listened to Mothers of Black Lives Matter who lost children. Their unarmed sons and daughters were shot by police during traffic stops. I had...
PID
apw:12351521
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T23:11:35.937Z
Title
Untitled
Author
Gilmore, Jamar
Date
2015-08-29
Pages
7 pages
State
New York
Text (TR_WF)
Author: Jamar Frank Gilmore, NY Title: Untitled Reason: Theoretic View Prison is a place of groups, clicks, and clans. Big groups all the way down to micro groups sticking together because they either have the same interest or common goal. However in any group race is a big deal and inside a prison if a group feels that they are not properly represented racially, whether it is a job placement or a place to call their own in the yard, can lead to a catastrophic encounter. Not long ago me and a...
PID
apw:12343792
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T18:32:26.169Z
Title
What system!?
Author
Sital, Frans
Pages
4 pages
State
New York
Text (O)
WHAT SYSTEM !? Whether society acknowledge it or not, the prison/jail industries are part of the system we call society. So the question that I pose to society as a whole : What is the purpose of incarcerating people ? -Is it to cover up or justify abusive authority ? -Is it: to control a particular race or people ? (Population Control) -Is it the price one has to pay for being unfit for society ? (I won't say breaking the law or committing a crime. because those who make the law break t...
PID
apw:12345989
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T21:23:35.297Z
Title
White noise
Author
Faiello, Dean A.
Date
2009-04
Pages
17 pages
State
New York
Text (O)
Dean A. Faiello Attica CF White Noise I opened my dresser drawer and stared into a pile of socks. I was confused and afraid. My mother had told us to pack quick- ly. We were leaving the suburban home I had lived in all my twelve years. My father stood beside me in a gray suit, tie loosened, collar open. His dark eyes were fixed on my dresser. He asked me if I needed help packing. The question infuriated me. How could he force us to leave our home, late at night, yet ask if we needed help pack...
PID
apw:12345957
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T19:55:28.642Z
Title
Why did this happen and now what?
Author
Sital, Frans
Date
2015-05-08
Pages
3 pages
State
New York
Text (O)
WHY DID THIS HAPPEN AND NOW WHAT? MAY 8, 2015, during the late evening hours of the yard recreation in A-Block at the Beast known as ATTICA; another senseless Murder occurred. But not at the hands of the prison guards/staff, not directly, but from a puncture wound through his chest or delayed inadequate medical assistance. At this time the name of the brother who died is unknown to me. My condolences goes out to his family & friends. May he Rest In Peace . Why did this brother lose his li...
PID
apw:12345994
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T21:23:35.83Z
Title
Years in between
Author
Di Lenola, Jose Lauriano
Date
2013
Date
2013, 2013
Pages
10 pages
State
New York
Text (TR)
The Years In Between by Jose Lauriano Di Lenola The tall gray wall encircles fifty-five acres of land. Spired towers with narrow steel doors, loop-hole windows and floodlights straddle the wall, like spines on a fearsome dragon. Rolling farm land, dotted with copses, comprises the surrounding landscape. The tops of a red brick village are visible inside the wall. A keep, infirmary, cafeteria and other structures provide the inhabitants' needs. The keep, the highest building, supports a f...
PID
apw:172
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T17:51:46.62Z