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Title
A sad truth
Author
Harper, Bednago
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Sad Truth Bednago Harper Black, White, Hispanic, race don't matter. None are exempt. Neither are the countless and rising numbers of innocent misfortunate people who have fallen tragic victim in their wake. The new breed of Grim Reapers are no longer the city gates.... They are in the city! If life was fair, this world wouldn't be such a violent and deadly place to live in. But since life isn't fair, you read about it every day, or hear about it in the news. Every day this ci...
PID
apw:12354697
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:31:44.171Z
Title
A sporting chance
Author
Harper, Bednago
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Bednago Harper "A Sporting Chance" Much, much more than just sport and athletics to pass the time, after school activities like football, basketball, and baseball can go a long way in helping to instill responsibility, personal growth and many other life-shaping virtues in young people growing up in troubled areas of inner cities. When a young person knows better, that young person is more likely to do better. Let's just face it. A great many of our young people aren't bei...
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apw:12350715
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T15:41:32.966Z
Title
An excerpt from my novel "neutral"
Author
Harper, Bednago
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Bednago Harper An excerpt from my novel "Neutral" The Journey Manifest Book I "Not that it really matters, but I find myself very, very, Very disturbed by many of the things that I have witnessed during this time. I hope and I pray that this will be the last time that I will ever be incarcerated. I've grown to suspect that my incarceration was preordained by my Higher Power as a sacrificial expenditure for me to gain the COSTLY knowledge of which to measure the PRICELESS v...
PID
apw:12349638
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T19:51:39.919Z
Title
For as long as I could remember, life has always provided me with not just unedited truth
Author
Scott, Jovon
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
For as long as I could remember, life has always provided me with not just an edited truth of false perceptive depictions of society. But it enabled me to fail and armed me with the tools to fall victim to circumstances that prepared me for prison. I never wanted to indulge in the depths of society that was made up of drugs, violence and wild gangs. But, I was never given an opportunity to chose my path either. I'm being judged for survival and struggle, where your everyday life consist ...
PID
apw:12353126
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:57:17.893Z
Title
Full isolation for c-graders
Author
Ewing, DeMarreo
Pages
8 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Full Isolation for C-Graders In Hill Correctional Center, the punishment for inmates who reach C-grade level status due to disciplinary incidents is worse than serving time in segregationed solitude. All inmates who are placed on C-grade status are housed on one unit which holds them altogether regardless if inmates are known to not be around certain other inmates in the institution. These C-graders are not allowed any electronics as they are confiscated for the duration of their C-grade stat...
PID
apw:12358417
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:58:32.975Z
Title
Get out of our own way
Author
Freedom Sun
Pages
3 pages
State
Illinois
Text (O)
Get Out of Our Own Way by "F'K*E‘E:"C> mw sum ['m not trying to be an American Idol like Reuben Studdard, Or glorify the streets to prove I'm gully. ['m simply trying to cut into young brothers out there thuggin' in the hustle, And show'em there's something better for'em than them gutters. The struggle turns like the dice roll Ice cold: Cold nights, cold cells, cold cases by hot shells from cold pipes. Jail's revolving door is absurb b...
PID
apw:12345374
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T20:47:42.594Z
Title
Hidden in transparency
Author
Scott, Jovon
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
I have previous work filed Hidden in Transparency Written By: Jovon Scott Forever the Writer Prison creates a disdain of aptitude in the terms of adapting – a crucial aspect in regards to creating that balance to exist in an abnormal environment of controlled chaos. The up hill battle in efforts to sustain the conclusive elements in rehabilitation is at a high disadvantage, because there’s no pattern of reward for the individual subjected to the criminal state of mind since the adolescence of...
PID
apw:12353041
Date Uploaded
2018-09-25T21:47:45.713Z
Title
How long is it necessary
Author
Freedom Sun
Pages
5 pages
State
Illinois
Text (O)
Marvin Alexis #R—O7621 2600 N. Brinton Ave. Dixon, Il 61021 Pen: Freedom Sun APWA 198 College Hill Road Clinton, NY 13323-1218 How long is it necessary for a person to be incarcerated before they are considered rehabilitated? 5 years? 10 years? 15? 20? Does it depend on the nature of the offense? This is the essence of my essay. The structure of sentencing and incar- ceration is one which nee to be gutted, re-analyzed, then reapplied effectively. If the purpose of incarceration is applied &qu...
PID
apw:12345378
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T20:47:42.92Z
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 am an African-American male
Author
Jones, A.L.
Pages
6 pages
State
Illinois
Text (O)
I am an African~American male convicted in trial for a non-violent drug conspiracy charge. Convicted from the testimony of co~conspirators who were proffered by the government to agree to law enforcement's version of alleged violations of federal laws, in exchange for a sentence reduction for supplying prosecution with uncorroborated JG 2/ hearsay testimony. I want to inform.enrwsommunrny about what I’ve witnessed in my experience being processed through the American criminal justice sys...
PID
apw:12345341
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T17:20:48.18Z
Title
I grew up in the slum society of Chicago
Author
Scott, Jovon
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
From: Soran "Forever the White" Scott I grew up in the slum society of Chicago, Illinois. My mother fell victim to crack cocaine and my father wasn't much of an influence that I followed. Rules are what create order out of chaos and I lacked the mental and constructural ability to ground me morally and socially. I never truly had any supportive family members except my older sister, Celeste Radcliffe, so I formed to the next thing that made me feel whole, the gang culture. Soci...
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apw:12352410
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T19:43:50.776Z
Title
I received a visit from
Author
Taylor, Toola Oding
Date
2018-10-05
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Journal Entry Friday October 5, 2018 I received a visit from Momz, today! I had been looking forward to it, these last four—or-five-days-or-so; ever since I got the message (for- warded to me by Timmy, one of my associates) to add one of my aunts to my Visitor's List, in anticipation of their arrival, today..! I was surprised, I must admit, that this pparticular auntie wanted to come and visit with me, I've probably seen or talked to her, in the last 20 years, a grand total of five ...
PID
apw:12356096
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:23:33.004Z
Title
I was born January 23rd, 1993
Author
Watson, Kevin
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE I was born January 23rd, 1993 in Chicago, Illinois on the southeast side to a crack addict and a alcoholic. I grew up in Chicago's 2nd worse neighborhood-Woodlawn. I was raised by my grandmother who if it wasn't for her genuity and concern I would have been in foster care and wouldn't have the benefit of knowing a 8th of my family. To be quite honest I don't know if it is a benefit of knowing my family because the majority of family members I know don't seem ...
PID
apw:12348123
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T20:07:50.211Z
Title
I've been incarcerated for 10 years
Author
Williams, Willie
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE Willie Williams Menard, IL 62259 I've been incarcerated for 10 years and has spent 7 of those years in Illinois Department of Corrections (I.D.O.C.) in Menard Correctional Department. I am unjustly convicted of a crime I truly did not commit based upon lies, inconsistencies, hearsay and circumstantial evidence. I must admit that my drug addiction put me in a compromising position many times but I never imagined being sentenced to 42 years wrongly and being subjected to some of t...
PID
apw:12357907
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:36:59.875Z
Title
Isolation causes one to fester in anger and resentment
Author
Scott, Jovon
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE Jovon Scott Isolation causes one to fester in anger and resentment. It's an environment which teaches you to hate and be aggressive. You identify with the very hostile mechanics that lead you into isolation. Life within the confines of prison walls would never be understood by those who've never experienced the degree of solitude that drive most people insane. Your mental conditioning starts to get rewired and programmed on a frequency that only identify with the chaotic wa...
PID
apw:12353106
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:56:57.572Z
Title
Least likely places
Author
Enis, Tony
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Least Likely Places At the age of 20, I found myself arrested and charged with a crime I did not commit. A year or so later, I was sentenced to die by lethal injection for someone else's crime. That was over 30 years ago, and obviously, I am still alive and still fighting to prove my innocence, but that's another story for another day. This story is about the joy and beauty of discovery in the least likely place. It was on death row that I discovered a deep love and appreciation for...
PID
apw:12361253
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:57:36.832Z
Title
Letter to George Floyd
Author
Gresham, Preston
Pages
1 page
PID
apw:12362726
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:35:26.464Z
Title
Like father, like son?
Author
Winters, Romell
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Like Father, Like Son? My story is like a lot of others who grew up the way I did. I grew up in poverty in a single-parent home with four older sisters. My father went to prison when I was very young, so he wasn't in my life at all when I was growing up. Sometimes, I would get letters and birthday cards from him, but that was the extent of our relationship. When my mother lost her job, we moved from a bad neighborhood to a worse one where at the age of 9 I learned about gangs and soon af...
PID
apw:12350451
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T13:43:38.139Z
Title
Misplaced
Author
Moore, Joseph L.
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
As I lie in the bunk reading, I am torn away from the pages by the unmis- takable sound of gum shoes squeaking, property boxes bumping against the wall, and the thuds of fists crashing against bare skin. The occupants in the cell above mine are fighting. With my thumb between the pages of the book, I lay it on my chest and listen to the altercation. As the fight intensifies, I sit up and put my feet on the floor, and the book slides diagonally across my chest and onto the bed. I am staring up...
PID
apw:12350174
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T01:36:14.8Z
Title
My experience in prison has been brutal
Author
Foxx, Darnell
Pages
5 pages
State
Illinois
Text (TR)
Darnell Fox Illinios [No Title] My Experience in prison has been brutal on my Mental. Being away from my family is hard. My free will has been Stripped Away. I Am Not able to have sex, Eat properly, bath, guide my sibling, help my mother & Auntee. This Creates stress. I personally struggle Everyday because I would Rather be dead than live in my current conditions. Menard C.C. 10 [qal.?] East cell house. Two shower a week. Two Yard days A week. In the summer time It's gets extremely h...
PID
apw:12343348
Date Uploaded
2016-10-18T00:54:16.935Z
Title
My legal name is Robert West
Author
West, Robert
Date
2015-07-23
Pages
11 pages
State
Illinois
Text (TR)
Robert West Illinois No Title My legal name is Robert West and I'm an inmate in the United States of America and of the State of Illinois and presently I am incarcerated in the Illinois Department of Corrections ("IDOC") under their alphabetical numerical identification system as B-03903. I was sentenced to an aggregate 60 years @ 50% for armed robberies and I have been in continuous incarceration since August 19, 1991, and there was no violence in those cases or my background....
PID
apw:12343354
Date Uploaded
2016-10-18T00:54:17.697Z
Title
Our families are victims too!
Author
Winters, Romell
Pages
3 pages
State
Illinois
Text (TR_WF)
Our Families Are Victims Too! One way or another, our crime and eventually incarceration has made our families victims as well. Due to our actions, it has created all kinds of turmoil-emotional, psychological, financial. It may have come as a sudden shock, or it may have come as one more thing in a long series of dealing with us. Either way, our families has been through a lot, - shame and guilt because they sometimes don’t want to show their face around other people. They’re tired of being k...
PID
apw:12343366
Date Uploaded
2016-10-18T00:54:18.631Z
Title
Out of time
Author
Gresham, Preston
Pages
2 pages
PID
apw:12362723
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:35:23.647Z
Title
Prison is no place for innocent people or mentally ill people
Author
Evans, Lorenzo
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Prison is no place for innocent people or mentally ill, people. Greeting from behind Menards. barbed, wired, fence, My current residence entails a twenty-three-hour stay in a very small cell. My body is being held captive but my mind and thinking are beyond this cell but I still suffer on a daily basis. My suffering comes from being convicted of a crime that I didn't commit. Having already lost 15yrs of my freedom, it hasn't been easy. How does an innocent man stay sane inside the i...
PID
apw:12354910
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T19:26:11.314Z

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