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Title: Easy pickings DOCCS' overtime scams making state coffers dry
Author: Messer, Sheldon
Date: 2014-02-10
Pages: 4 pages
Text (O): Easy Pickings DOCCS' Overtime Scams Milking State Coffers Dry By Sheldon N. Meeser On January 30, 2014, Albany Times Union reporter, Rick Kerlin wrote an article entitled "State overtime. clock hit $611M: Crucial staffing needs blamed for rise; comptroller urges tightening". In the article, karlin reported that the state's overtime bill is increasing and the rise is due to a "smaller workforce" and downsizing of the state's workforce by Gov. Cuomo. What caug...
PID: apw:12350045
Date Uploaded: 2018-03-16T01:01:59.77Z

Title: New York State prisons among the safest!
Author: Messer, Sheldon
Date: 2014-02-09
Pages: 6 pages
Text (O): New York State Prisons Among The Safest! By Sheldon N. Messer 0n Tuesday, January 21, 2014, the Albany Times Union published an article by Donn Rowe, President of the New York State Correctional Ufficers & Police Benevolent Association (Dne of New York's most powerful unions) entitled "Prisons Congested, dangerous" which appeared on page 02 in the Safety column. In the article, Mr. Rowe makes some very fictitious yet serious claims, one in which he states that the New York ...
PID: apw:12350050
Date Uploaded: 2018-03-16T01:02:00.066Z

Title: Spinning the yard: Risky therapy
Author: Little, Lamarr
Pages: 9 pages
Text (O): bpi200 Lamarr Little #01A2 31 8 Eastern Corr. Fac . Box 338 Napanoch, N Y 12458-0338 2,980 Words SPINNING THE YARD: Risky Therapy By Lamarr Little "Spinning the yard" means walking around the yard (clockwise or counter-clockwise). Inmates spin the yard every day during each recreational period. Typically the yard is a square, but within that square is a circle. For many, it is an addiction. Continually observed by correctional officers, the yard (260 ft. x 260 ft.) can often feel li...
PID: apw:12359737
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:32:03.831Z

Title: The reality show
Author: Little, Lamarr
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): Lamarr Little The Reality Show By Lamarr Little My cell has a toilet, sink, and cot. The bars encasing this eight by ten broom closet are colder than the toilet-like sink I use for freshening up. Sometimes I feel as if I've been sentenced to a prison studio in one of America's 1000+ warehouses and the world is my audience - an endless season of "Lock-Up". That's the best way to describe my life. After putting on my costume, the show begins. I pretend to be an inmate, ...
PID: apw:12359734
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:32:00.006Z

Title: The therapeutic nature of art in prison
Author: Crawford, Michael
Date: 2010-02-10
Pages: 4 pages
Text (FT): Crawford - 1 Michael Crawford Bard Prison Initiative Drawing I Prof. Griffiths 2/10/10 THE THERAPEUTIC NATURE OF ART IN PRISON My oldest memories of drawing start in grade school. I would mostly draw things I could not have or afford: the latest Jordan sneakers, a nice house, a new limousine. Mostly, the types of things an inner-city kid would see in advertisements, but never actually own. In this sense, drawing helped me cope with my inability to keep up with the Joneses; however, later in l...
PID: apw:12346984
Date Uploaded: 2017-08-16T02:16:35.28Z

Title: The truth about herbs
Author: Bryant, Orlando
Pages: 3 pages
Text (FT): The Truth About Herbs By Orlando Bryant [ID]   While conversing with a colleague, the talk turned to herbs. He claimed that herbs helped only two percent of the people who use them. I took that as an ignorant statement, because my experience with herbs proved differently. As a result, I decided to write an essay to dispel some of the misinformation about the effects of herbs. Herbal medicine is the use of leaves, flowers, fruits, stems, barks and roots of plants to prevent, relieve, and treat...
PID: apw:12346980
Date Uploaded: 2017-08-16T02:16:35.105Z

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