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Title
A day before my 18th birthday
Author
Marshall, Tandy
Date
2017-02-21
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
No Title A day before my 18th birthday I was arrested in Milwaukee WI for possession with intent to deliver. I was sentenced to 9 years under the Wisconsin Truth in Sentencing Act. The judge ordered me to do 3 years inside and 6 years on mandatory supervision. Most of the 3 years was spent at the Robert E. Ellsworth Correctional Center (R.E.E.C.C.). At REECC I obtained my HSED in 2002. To get into the Office Assistant college course through Gateway Tech, I had to steal a cookie. My being empl...
PID
apw:12347879
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:30.234Z
Title
A professor once asked me
Author
Marshall, Tandy
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
No Title A professor once asked me if I believed in evolution or history repeating itself. I leaned towards history repeating itself, after all evolution just seems to be the same ole same ole with a few tweaks to make a thing modern. Take the U.S. history for instance, the slave trade and indentured servants are today called prisoners. When the Fore Fathers hammered out the Constitution in that hot sweaty room they had to compromise. The southern states wanted to count their slaves in the po...
PID
apw:12347996
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:54:58.715Z
Title
As a black Muslim
Author
Rahmaan, Taryanne Abdullah
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Taryanne Rahmaan, "As a Black Muslim" Coffee Creek Correctional Facility As a Black muslim, in prison where I have three strikes... (one, I am Black, two. I am muslim, three. I am female) everyday is a struggle. As if it isn't enough to just take my freedom, they want to take my dreams, my hope, and my faith I may still have. They refuse to give me pork substitutes or anything resembling a Halal diet. They deny me the right to cover my hair outside of my cell, and each year ram...
PID
apw:12354688
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:31:35.186Z
Title
As she lay
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
As She Lay 9/2/19 "It is with tremendous sadness and under unfortunate circumstances in which this writing arises. However, the deceased no longer have a voice; so I will speak out of respect for the young lady that recently passed away from a drug overdose. At the very moment I sat writing my last essay, there was a young lady in distress. Fighting for the very breath which would become her last before the age of thirty. Right here inside this physical prison. Worse, she was in the ment...
PID
apw:12359024
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:14:11.847Z
Title
End the suffering
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Date
2018-12-28
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
12/28/18 End The Suffering “The prison population continues to rise at an alarming rate. And sadly, many of those entering the system for the first time, and repeat offenses alike, suffer from mental illness. Some cases more severe than others; but they are all suffering nonetheless. In reality, sometimes some of the crimes committed are by those with mental illnesses. Unfortunately there is not much help for them out there, and definitely not within the jails or prisons. So when they commit ...
PID
apw:12356585
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:12:56.701Z
Title
Hello my APWA friends
Author
White, Mia L.
Date
43790
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Hello My APWA Friends 11-21-19 It's Mia L. White again [ID], from Union Grove WI at Robert E. Ellsworth Correctional Center. Today is 11-21-19 and 9:02 am. The inmates here have been woken up at 8:00 am for a mandatory cleaning day due to the Madison and much higher authorities coming into the center doing a thorough exspection of the center today. We the inmates have been threatened with tickets or seg. for not cleaning. I feel this is unconstitutional and we the inmates should have a c...
PID
apw:12359838
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:34:42.214Z
Title
Hello, my name is Robin
Author
Farris, Robin
Date
2019
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
2019 Hello, My name is Robin, I am an inmate housed at the Denver Women's Correctional Facility in Denver Colorado. I graciously ask for a few moments of your time. to see what could be the changing face of incarceration. This story is not merely about myself it is an inclusive chronicle of numerous incarcerated women in the state of Colorado. For years, I have been unrecognized, unheard, and unseen in a system that accentuates banishment and gender disparity. My situation involves an ac...
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apw:12358619
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:03:50.189Z
Title
How could I forget?
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
How Could I Forget? The other day I had to tell my mother to dry her eyes, to please stop crying as I read her the letter I wrote to the Governor begging for my freedom after serving fifteen years of a twenty-two year sentence for second-degree murder, and a felony hit-and-run. All for something that I honestly did not mean to do. Something that should never have been labelled murder. But it was. And for this, I received a total sentence of thirty years with eight suspended to serve out in a ...
PID
apw:12362429
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:30:17.49Z
Title
I am Mia L. White
Author
White, Mia L.
Date
43737
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
9.29.19 To: Whom it may concern; I am Mia L. White [ID]. I am currently serving out a sentence for revocation on a robbery charge and possession with intent charge in which I am innocent of and the evidence prove's it. Though I was a victim to a sailing system that continues to fail me and I'd like to share my story. Now here on revocation and a new charge of misdemeanor battery, I Mia L. White has not only grown into a woman; but has discovered a new light of understanding and just...
PID
apw:12359316
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:21:23.566Z
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
I came to prison January 15, 2018
Author
Harris, Rojonah
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE I came to prison January 15, 2018. Four days before coming to prison, I found out I was 4 weeks pregnant. Both bittersweet moments, but for the most part, I had to plan for my stay. I called my probation officer and alerted her. She called the prison to see if they had any reasonable accommodations to ensure that I would be safe in a medium security being pregnant. Now, this may sound crazy. Medium prison, first time offender, nonviolent charge, but okay. I was admitted into prison a...
PID
apw:12355176
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T19:17:28.68Z
Title
I want to make this letter long
Author
Moore-Ethridge, Nycole
Date
2018-08-27
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[no title] 8-27-18 Dear APWA I want make this letter long. I write in hopes you may assist me in the right direction I am currently incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice I am doing a 4 year sentence for theft (stealing clothes out of Dept. stores) Texas parole is sucks! Toward the women. They do not utilize they parole system but the criminal justice always claim they need money. There are women here that have been awaiting 8-12 months to get in a program That is there answ...
PID
apw:12356087
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:23:15.786Z
Title
I'm here because I was denied
Author
Jones, Pearline
Date
43581
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
I’m using this paper format so I have a record and I can write more people at once. Pearline Jones I’m here because I was denied the right 2 represent myself or hire a lawyer. The conditions here r bad. Lots of civil rights violations. Appeals and grievances do no good. They just reject them so there is no record of them on file. To get a rejection back has taken up 2 45 days. I’m still trying 2 resolve a grievance I filed Dec 27, 18. They reject them 4 senseless reasons 2 detour the inmates ...
PID
apw:12358545
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:01:57.293Z
Title
In 2017 Harold Clarke
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
8 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[No Title] 1 In 2017, Harold Clarke, the Director of the Department of Corrections for the state of Virginia, appeared on the Charlottesville news station stating that the institutions in this state were five hundred officers short than what is necessary to maintain order within the prisons. Five hundred officers! That is a farcical amount! It makes one curious to know the reason for such a shortage. Is there a quandary within Virginia's Department of Corrections? There must be something...
PID
apw:12355252
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T19:52:24.725Z
Title
Last week a baby died
Author
Marshall, Tandy
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Last week a baby died Last week a baby died. She was 21 years old with a child at home she would soon be with in the summer. I imagine her a beautiful spirit that was giving and caring. From what I've been told she was small and timid. After being used and abused here in prison and asking repeatedly for help, to be removed from her abusers and being repeatedly refused, she hung herself. She died while I walked the rec yard between the 6-7 o clock hours. When I was told we weren't to...
PID
apw:12348002
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:54:58.887Z
Title
Lights out
Author
Knox, Jamilah L.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Lights out & one hundred eighty prison yard design, PSU shorterm, silence in the air, little fear pumps through my blood, only from not knowing who's around me or what to expect next The cell opens. I walk through, door to cell closes, not touching anything, theres so many germs & disrespect shown by spitting, buggers, body fluids & graffiti placed all about the cell, I turn and yell for the corrections officer, "CO" "CO," I need a bed roll & cleaning ...
PID
apw:12362304
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:28:06.028Z
Title
Lost hope
Author
Marshall, Tandy
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Lost Hope Tandy Marshall I allowed myself to hope. After 12 years I started to hope I'd make parole. I hoped to make my daughter's 5th grade graduation. I imagined laying on my son's bedroom floor watching him play video games. I dreamed of relieving some of the burden off of my mother and step father. I imagined taking my step dad to a jazz concert on Father's Day because he is so under appreciated by his own children and he is now raising mine. Although hope seemed like ...
PID
apw:12347990
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:54:58.455Z
Title
My name is Chanell Burnette
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
My name is Chanell Burnette To whom it may concern: My name is Chanell Burnette and I am currently an offender at Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women. I write to you in regards to the inadequate medical care that we women are receiving here at this institution. l have been housed at this facility since 2006 and am aware of the class action lawsuit filed against this facility and, and to date have seen no improvements in the quality of care that we have been receiving. For some of us, this ...
PID
apw:12353447
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T19:50:20.278Z
Title
My story
Author
Porter, India
Pages
8 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
MY STORY by INDIA PORTER My name is India Porter and I am currently incarcerated with The Michigan Department of Corrections. I was sentenced to 25 to 40 years for 2 counts of Assault with intent to Murder, felony firearm and felon in possession of a Firearm. As of August 28, 2015 I have served 13 years on that sentence Am I guilty of my crime? Yes. Had someone asked me that question almost 9 years ago I would have probably blamed everyone and everything else before I took responsibility for ...
PID
apw:12345633
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T11:07:04.231Z
Title
No response for the unresponsive
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
No Response for the Unresponsive "Why do people use drugs?" Maybe the inescapable pain of reality. Maybe past hurts or regrets. Maybe reasons unknown to anyone but themselves. Could be a combination; a myriad of things. We have each had our ups and downs. Our own trials and tribulations. Our own experiences; be they good or bad, we've all had them. That is part of being human. That is part of life, for which there is no escape. Or, maybe there is. Not any one of us can escape t...
PID
apw:12358658
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:04:43.788Z
Title
The agony of defeat
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Date
2020-08-27
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"The Agony of Defeat" 8/27/20 How many have ever had feelings of despondency? Defenselessness? Vulnerability? Well, these feelings are not at all uncommon amongst prisoners. We are all too familiar with them, unfortunately. These feelings have solidified into a harsh reality for those of us within these concrete prison walls. However great our needs may be, we are brushed aside and our needs made microscopic, or even invisible altogether. We no longer matter as all we have become is...
PID
apw:12363087
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:41:56.364Z
Title
The call for reformation
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"The Call for Reformation" I have experienced firsthand, the need for criminal justice and prison reform within the state of Virginia during the fifteen years of my incarceration. Were I to list the many complaints of offenses done to us, the number would be too great. And yet they call us "the offenders." What of the offenses we suffer at the hands of this so-called justice system? Is it really justice? Or just-us? Just us, against them? And I speak not presently in the t...
PID
apw:12361530
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:04:25.487Z
Title
The dreary weapon
Author
Johnson, Jennifer
Pages
13 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The Dreary Weapon It was the morning of August 14, 1998 the beginning of starting my life sentence in jail. Oh my God it was a rough night. I laid under my blanket all night crying. I would just mumble slightly under my breath, I don't even know what happened to my son. I would like to know, Lord. Show me, Lord I would pray. Next thing I hear count time and wake up at 5:00 am. We had to stand beside our beds as the jailers counted us. After they counted us we remained up. Getting ready f...
PID
apw:12346618
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:32:32.701Z
Title
The force
Author
Knox, Jamilah L.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The Force California Department of Corrections. Its not what it seems like. Its actually the oppisite. Rehabilitation doesnt exist. The Programs available are not available in every Prison. While incarcerated Ive had to learn things myself. Through self helping educational books such as Nolo Business Book. The jobs pay so low that Restitution eats pretty much your whole check. But thats not the worst of all the current situations in prison. The Force is. The Force is a prison gang made up of ...
PID
apw:12363068
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:41:36.545Z

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