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1st amendment under siege
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Author
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Magnific, Roc
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Date
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2017-03-03
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Pages
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3 pages
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Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
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Text (TR_WF)
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"1st Amendment Under Siege" Recently last year (May,2016) Arkansas Department of Correction Czarina Wendy Kelly issued a rather fastidious policy that cited newspaper clippings would be banned from prisoner mail, classifying them as (wait for it - with bated breath) "contraband"!? According [ineligible] to ADC (Ay, Carumba! Arkansas Department of Corruption) policy, they are... concerned about drug smuggling but said vitiated policy does not affect newspapers sent directly...
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apw:12350565
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-16T14:09:39.949Z
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Title
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4993 word essay
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Author
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Powers-Wali, Anthony
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Pages
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16 pages
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Text (FT)
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4993 Word Essay At the age of sixteen I was incarcerated for First Degree Murder and later sentenced to 77-years in prison. There seemed to be little consideration of the affects it would have on a teenager to be housed with adults. Fortunately for me I was a fighter. There is a strange unwritten rule in prison that if somebody is willing to stick up for himself from day one then other prisoners will be willing to help him. If you don't stand up for yourself then you are left to the wolv...
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apw:12347577
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Date Uploaded
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2017-08-16T15:26:46.677Z
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A day in the life of time
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Author
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Clemmons-Bey, Eric
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Pages
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3 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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A Day in the Life of Time My name is Eric. I was born and raised in St.Louis, but for the past 34 years I have been in prison in Missouri. I have been in the South East Correctional Center at Charleston, Missouri for seven years now. When I was 21, I was sentenced to 50 years without the possibility of parole for killing a young man who was trying to rob my younger brother. I did not have a prison record. Very few people have any idea what it is like to be incarcerated for decades. Here is wh...
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apw:12346733
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Date Uploaded
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2017-08-16T00:44:48.789Z
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Title
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A lesson in language
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Author
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Piwowar, Robert
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Pages
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14 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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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...
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apw:12347101
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Date Uploaded
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2017-08-16T14:22:45.331Z
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A perspective on prison
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Author
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Beverley, Michael
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Pages
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13 pages
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State
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New Hampshire
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Text (O)
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A Perspective on Prison By Michael B. Beverley When I was a boy, my mother often said that one-day people would no longer have names, we would be known only by a number. I know she didn’t mean what I would bring upon myself, yet it is not entirely disingenuous to say I am now known as 78552. That is my inmate ID within the New Hampshire state prison system. However, I would rather be remembered as Michael. Though I am now a felon, it wasn’t how my life began. I was the third of eight children...
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apw:12345755
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Date Uploaded
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2016-10-24T12:49:45.093Z
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A renaissance
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Author
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Whetzel, Stephen
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Date
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2010-07-20
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Date
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2010-07-20, 2010-07-20
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Pages
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12 pages
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State
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Indiana
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pen pals, psychiatric aid, confessional, personal story
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A Renaissance by Stephen Whetzel Page 1 of 12 It started with a visit to the psychologist. Behind the ominous, gray, concrete wall surrounding the Indiana State Reformatory, not many areas existed where one could go to in order to escape the late summer heat. That old maximum-security prison, a place born of a harsher time, was never known for comforts. Therefore, whether or not I felt the need for a counseling session with Eric, my psychologist and substance abuse counselor, I looked forward...
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apw:12341322
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Date Uploaded
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2015-09-27T12:48:43.808Z
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A.V.P.
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Author
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Brown, Rahasheem
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3 pages
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State
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New York
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A.V.P. How can violence be reduced in prison? Well, in my own opinion, the answer is simple: support the "Alternative to Violence Project!" This program, started by Quaker's back in the late 1970's right here at Green Haven Correctional Facility, is one which is now being used to combat the spread and use of violence all over the world. The Alternative to Violence Project (from this point on, to be referred to as A.V.P.) is an interactive workshop, that gives insight to it...
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apw:12343778
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Date Uploaded
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2016-10-19T17:56:13.847Z
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American prisons and free-world staff not ready for second wave of COVID
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Author
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Magnitic, Roc
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Pages
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7 pages
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Topics
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Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
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"American Prisons and Free-World Staff Not Ready for Second Wave of Covid" "When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity." Never before have many would have thought such a [crisis?] as the Covid-19 pandemic would wreck havoc upon all parts of American life. But when it comes to prisons, a lot of the free-world staff (e.g. - guards, medical staff) as well as the residents of t...
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apw:12361864
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Date Uploaded
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2021-02-03T16:13:06.874Z
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As of today July 31st 2017
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Author
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Pineda, April Dawn
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Date
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2017-07-31
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Pages
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11 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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NO TITLE By: April Dawn Pineda As of today July 31st 2017, I sit in my 10 by 4 concrete cell with a blue steel door, with no visability out a purposely fogged out window, (so we can't see the sky, for what reason I do not know) with a hatch for our meals in a maximum level 4 unit locked down for 23 hours a day to the beat of commercials, banging, clanging and screaming at all hours of the day. I'm at Elmwood Correctional facility in Milpitas California and have been in maximum level...
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PID
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apw:12350750
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-16T15:41:34.754Z
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Title
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Assaulted
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Author
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Stompingbear, Happy
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Pages
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2 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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Assaulted StompingBear Files #FreeHappy Let me tell you about a time I got beat up. But to do this let me back up a couple days to give you some background. First off, let me say, I'm a litigator, as in I file grievances and lawsuits, because of this I have acquired a good amount of legal work. So one day I get transferred to this unit in Malvern. When I get here I'm told I can't keep all my legal work and I try to explain that I had active cases but he, the Lt., didn't ca...
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PID
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apw:12358569
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Date Uploaded
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2020-06-18T19:02:33.092Z
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Title
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Betrayal
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Author
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Harris, Larry "Rocky"
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Pages
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6 pages
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State
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Illinois
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Betrayal By Larry “Rocky " Harris Everyday across America, the innocent are sent to prison. This is an ugly fact that most citizens of this great country do not want to deal with. It is not a topic that will come up over cocktails with friends. I The segment of the American population involved in this nightmare is usually the poor, specifically a poor man sold out by the public defender appointed to the criminal case. The case I write about falls into this category: a poor man raising his...
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apw:12345327
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Date Uploaded
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2016-10-23T17:20:46.928Z
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Title
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Bread and water vegan : struggling for health and humanity inside prison
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Author
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Allah, Intelligent
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Pages
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4 pages
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State
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New York
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Intelligent Allah 1,014 words #95A4315 Woodbourne Cor. Facility Box 1000 Woodbourne, N.Y. 12788 BREAD AND WATER VEGAN Struggling for Health and Humanity inside Prison By Intelligent Allah Milk and hamburgers are staples of the state prison diet, not almond milk and soy burgers. Processed canned fruit soaked in high fructose corn syrup is a commissary privilege, but there is no fresh fruit. Suede boots are issued by the New York State Department of Correctional Services, yet animal—friendly bo...
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apw:12345872
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Date Uploaded
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2016-10-24T18:13:42.242Z
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Title
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C O P S, Pa. style
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Author
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Carroll, Wesley R.
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Date
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2016
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Pages
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1 page
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Text (TR_WF)
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COPS, Pa. Style By Wesley Carroll Within the courthouse, during a criminal felony trial, the proceedings went as follows. As I was cross examining a police office, it went as follows... I said, "Officer, did you see my client, the accused defendant handcuffed and sitting at my table in the court, in this criminal case, flee the scene of the crime?" The officer said, "No sir, but I subsequently observed a person matching the description of the offender several blocks away."...
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PID
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apw:12347237
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Date Uploaded
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2017-08-16T14:48:16.955Z
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Title
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Censorship in Michigan prisons
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Author
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Hamilton, Lacino
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Pages
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3 pages
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Topics
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Prisoners writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
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Eensorship In Michigan Prisons By: Uacino Hamilton Today, another book was rejected. The fifth time in the past two weeks this has happened. All because the book wasn't sent from an "approved vendor." To the uninformed public such a requirement may appear on its face reasonable, the Michigan department of Corrections should control where information prisoners are receiving is coming from, and what that information is. But in practice, its a form of censorship. A policy that pro...
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PID
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apw:12351823
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-17T02:47:33.878Z
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Title
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Chances and choices
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Author
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Maynard, T. L.
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Pages
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2 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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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...
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PID
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apw:12359723
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Date Uploaded
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2020-06-18T19:31:43.272Z
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Title
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Christmas - Thanksgiving on going discriminations
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Author
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Carroll, Wesley R.
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Date
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2015
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Pages
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2 pages
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S.C.I. WAYMART, Waymart, Pa. 18472 CHRISTMAS - THANKSGIVING ON GOING DISCRIMINATIONS Apparently since my win of grievance #596611, nothing was corrected nor did defendants comply. Defendants even went further by somehow getting the inmate accounting dept. (and others) to take all my monies from Oct., Nov., Dec. 2015, and continuing. This means as well that I continued to work hard on my kitchen job for all these months, yet get NO PAY. Thruout Nov., Dec. and ongoing, I have been denied all co...
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PID
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apw:12347229
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Date Uploaded
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2017-08-16T14:48:16.501Z
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Title
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Criminal justice system, hypocrisy
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Author
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Carroll, Wesley R.
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Date
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2016
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Pages
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2 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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Criminal Justice System, Hypocrisy By Wesley Carroll Isn't it amazing? I and many thousands of others have been saying for many years, that the so called entire criminal justice system, is totally broken. Not until after so many of us have been wrongfully passively injured by it, and much public protest, officials now say the same thing. It has been a proven fact for many years that it is totally ineffective, broken, discriminatory, and in many cases has killed. Where is the real crimina...
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PID
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apw:12347248
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Date Uploaded
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2017-08-16T14:48:18.292Z
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Title
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Egyptian days for one gallimaufry enterprise
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Author
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Magnific, Roc
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Pages
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5 pages
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Topics
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Prisoners writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
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Text (TR_WF)
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Egyptian Days for One Gallimaufry Enterprise If you operate an enterprise built upon desiring and getting the gold of Tolash (e.g., ill-gotten wealth will do no one good) that's not worth a tinker's damn, you will be a business many consider "ne touchez pas, nole me tangere" (e.g., one not to be touched). This is what's facing the Kakistrecratic Arkansas Department of Correction as it finds itself stricken with one gey case of "blue flu" and increasing inmat...
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PID
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apw:12351169
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-16T17:50:48.359Z
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Title
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Fifteen minutes
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Author
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Geri Q
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Pages
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4 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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'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...
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PID
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apw:12357335
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Date Uploaded
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2019-10-28T20:17:31.289Z
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