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Title
A heartfelt thank-you
Author
Chatman-Bey, Tony
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
A HEARTFELT THANK-YOU I am an inmate presently housed at the Medium Security ECI-East Prison in Westover, Maryland. It is the largest prison in the state however, being located on the Eastern Shore it often feels like being in another country. I have been incarcerated for 30 years and in that time I have seen the health care providers go from very good to very bad, to what it is now “Mediocre”. As you can guess just about any inmate can give you some horror stories about the medical care in p...
PID
apw:12351349
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T19:43:02.764Z
Title
A introduction into the impulsive journey of highs is how I feel
Author
Cox, Christopher R.
Date
2020-04-13
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
1# April 13 2020 Dear reader(s) A introduction into the impulsive journey of highs is how I feel. A recipient of 24 hour lock down with this Covid-19 viral pandemic has my fear and paranoia at an all time high. No alternative it seem is made to those of us who need to vent that we truely fear for the 1st time. This fear is spoken in the confessional booth aka the vent that connects our vents. I express them when APWA gives my body a voice and a chance to ask for help. The world should see thi...
PID
apw:12360176
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:40:57.328Z
Title
A message to the incarcerated Muslim
Author
Mujahid, Shakkir T.
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful By Shakkir Talib Muj ahid A Message to the Incarcerated Muslim I am sad today, for the Message I bring has been shouted through the halls and walls of these universities for years. “Say, You Believe in Allah and Stand firm on it.” .1 don’t know that many of you know what this actually means. It appears that you have let your life of anger, deceit, distrust, hate, greed and lust for power, control and fame make you b...
PID
apw:12351403
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T20:58:46.03Z
Title
Cabin fever? You are not alone
Author
Harris-El, D.
Date
2020-04-03
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Cabin fever? You are not alone. Think about this: currently we are experiencing a world wide crisis due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Our elected leaders have been constantly emphasizing the vital importance of people staying inside their homes (self-isolating and self-quarantining) in order to contain, slow down and stop the spread of this deadly virus. It was initially recommended that people stay in for a period of 14 days to help flatten the curve of the virus. However, people, es...
PID
apw:12360269
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:43:52.362Z
Title
Coping with stress in prison
Author
Elliott, Andre
Date
2015-07-01
Pages
3 pages
State
Maryland
Text (TR_WF)
Coping with Stress in Prison Living a restrained life in prison is very stressful and takes a toll on my mental well-being. I never imagined as a youth growing up in the Bronx that I would be sitting in prison serving a 55 year de facto life sentence for a crime I had no involvement in. The state of Maryland judicial system is categorically infected with unrepentant racism. The laws are enforced unequally, the courts are inherently racist, and the prison population illustrates the disproporti...
PID
apw:12343386
Date Uploaded
2016-10-18T01:21:36.098Z
Title
For members of the mobile society to possess any care or concern…
Author
Cooper, Gary
Date
2014-04-16
Date
2014-04-16, 2014-04-16
Pages
6 pages
State
Maryland
Topics
general discussion of debilitating effects of prison, esp. incorproation of CO's into culture of abuse, belittling prisoners.
Text (TR)
Gary Jonathan Cooper Maryland No Title For members of the mobile society to possess any care or concern for the treatment of the modernday prisoner existing within the penal systems across the country. They first must understand the secret society of the modernday prisons and all of its clandestine factors and agenda?s. In how and why they work and why do they exist. As well as people must understand that the care or desire to want to transform the design of the united states penal systems. D...
PID
apw:12341542
Date Uploaded
2015-09-29T21:20:27.879Z
Title
From North Branch these words are being wrote
Author
Cox, Christopher R.
Date
2020-03-30
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Page 1# Dear Reader(s), March, 30, 2020 From North Branch these words are being wrote. The message that we wish to demand is protection from this time of crisis. Is it to much for us as convicted criminals to ask for help? Has the world forgotten that we exist? Maybe a cry that a unqualified mental health professional should get. It is us who have to watch the world suffer, and be met with fears that our next phone call will go unanswered because they have contracted "C19". It was m...
PID
apw:12360172
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:40:48.544Z
Title
Greetings from this side of the wall
Author
Cox, Christopher R.
Date
2020-05-14
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Dear Reader(s), Greetings from this side of the wall. So far we have yet to feel the full rate of this Covid 19 virus. The worries are real. No free 15 minute phone call can change that I don't want to pick up the phone. No Skype visit can make me feel safe when I have to explain to my love ones why I am inside of a dogs kennel. 5 foot 7 inches I stand. 179 pounds I weigh. A crime I was convicted of, yet do I deserve the description of a animal? I and everybody who resides in north branc...
PID
apw:12360232
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:42:52.804Z
Title
Health care or health scare?
Author
Collins, Jaquane
Pages
9 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Prison Health Care or Health Scare? As a writer speaking from a first hand experience I am not asking you to put yourself in my shoes for prison is something I wouldn't want anyone to experience. Not even my worst enemy for not many are able to withstand the amount of physical, mental and emotional torture we go through on a daily basis. The fact that I'm still focused and strong today doesn't take away the pain I've endured over the years and the experience I still experi...
PID
apw:12356701
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:44:14.136Z
Title
Hello wassup greetings
Author
Cox, Christopher R.
Date
2020-05-30
Pages
2 pages
PID
apw:12362265
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:27:29.916Z
Title
How does one tell an officer hi
Author
Cox, Christopher R.
Date
2020-06-06
Pages
2 pages
PID
apw:12362298
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:28:00.258Z
Title
I have not wanted to wake up in the morning for fear that I would get sick
Author
Cox, Christopher R.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Dear Reader(s), I have not wanted to wake up in the morning for fear that I would get sick. Today was now the same as it was yesterday. A day in the Present in which I now am afraid of the Corona Virus as much as the audio hallucinations that I have battled my whole adult life. Today feels of yesterday, and of the day before. This time is scary for me also. I've wrote to speak with the vacant Psychology department. I seen the head of the Psychology department today walk pass my window to...
PID
apw:12361808
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:11:46.832Z
Title
I must say I am glad to be given a chance
Author
Cox, Christopher R.
Date
2020-02-29
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Page 1# Dear Reader(s) (2nd essay) I must say I am glad to be given a chance to give others a chance to see inside of the Maryland Prison System. I'm not sure if compassion, anger, or doubt will be the end result. I care in a sense that I wish you would believe me, then on the other hand I don't because it is I who... Play the mental health professional to those who I consider to be a friend. It is me who hears my friends with worse issues than me banging their heads to stop the tho...
PID
apw:12361376
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:00:40.054Z
Title
I sit closer to the day that I will soon be released back into general population
Author
Cox, Christopher R.
Date
2020-06-07
Pages
2 pages
PID
apw:12362301
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:28:03.066Z
Title
It is from the cold cell of North Branch Correctional Institution
Author
Cox, Christopher R.
Date
2020-02-28
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Page #1 Dear Reader(s), (1st essay) It is from the cold cell of North Branch Correctional Institution that I pen these words. It is on this day of February.28.2020 that I sit on administrative segregation. It is the coming of my 29th birthday this March that I realize it will be a day longer because of it being "leap year". It is 9:15 pm that I reveal myself as a fighter and journey-man who goes by the name Christopher Cox. 1st hand experiences in my opinion are the ones that will b...
PID
apw:12361372
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:00:36.202Z
Title
It's May 31, 2020
Author
Skinner, Tracy L.
Date
2020-05-31
Pages
2 pages
PID
apw:12362268
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:27:32.453Z
Title
Part 2: essay submission
Author
Cooper, Gary
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE Part 2: Essay Submission - By: Gary Jonathan Cooper After mildly examining a few infrastructural factors of the mentality that exist within the prison environment in my first essay. There is a fact that must be spoken on before I continue to build upon the social, political, judicial and ethnic cultural chaos. That creates the environment that most define as prison, concentration camp or even "Hell". My goal or agenda is not to demonize the prison officials and depict the p...
PID
apw:12347769
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:32:40.347Z
Title
The awakening
Author
Mujahid, Shakkir T.
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
The Awakening By Shakkir Talib Mujahid In the darkest depths and deepest shadows of the black hole of unconsciousness; a Man’s soul can fall to the valleys of the soulless and the illusions of a distorted consciousness. He thinks he can see but his vision is nothing more than illusions, deceptions, fantasies, nightmares and delusional dreams... He has eyes, yet he cannot see. He has been so blinded by the emotions and desires of envy, jealousy, lust, hate, power and greed; that he doesn’t und...
PID
apw:12351412
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T20:58:46.826Z
Title
The black lives matters movement is a complete waste of time
Author
Elliott, Andre
Pages
2 pages
State
Maryland
Text (TR)
Andre Elliott Maryland The Black Lives Matters Movement is a Complete Waste of Time Micheal Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri at the hands of a white police officer last year served as the catalyst for the birth of the Black Lives matter movement. Subsequent to Brown's death there have been other high-profile police involved killings of Black citizens at the hands of white police officers. As an African-American male from the Bronx, N.Y. I sincerely understand the deep mistrust of...
PID
apw:12343390
Date Uploaded
2016-10-18T01:21:36.709Z
Title
The debriefing proposal
Author
Mujahid, Shakkir T.
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
The Debriefing Proposal By Shakkir Talib Muj ahid In the prison systems all over America there has been an average rate of 50% to 67% recidivism of men who have been incarcerated. Many studies have shown that this recidivism has taken place as early as within 30 days of release up to within 3 years. It has also been shown that many of the crimes in our communities are committed by these repeat offenders over and over again. This may be true, but the prison system and society must accept their ...
PID
apw:12351408
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T20:58:46.432Z
Title
The magnitude of character
Author
Mujahid, Shakkir T.
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
The Magnitude of Character By Shakkir Talib Mujahid Many of us wonder why our lives always seem to be in a shamble. We seem to always be on a fast road going nowhere and success seems to be elusive and when it does appear to be within our grasp, our hands reach right through it like it was an illusion or a senseless and fruitless gamble... Have you asked yourself, why? Why does it always seem that I can’t get a break or get by? We seem to easily find all the excuses, situations, circumstances...
PID
apw:12351418
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T20:58:47.48Z
Title
The truth is for those who think and reflect
Author
Mujahid, Shakkir T.
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
The Truth is for those who Think and Reflect By Shakkir Talib Mujahid I am always amazed at the simplicity and reality of Truth. Many times we allow the situations and circumstances of our lives to rush and overwhelm us that we never take time to “Think and really reflect”. We forget that though we were given emotions to feel, to love and to have compassion and sympathy; that Allah gave us a mind to rationalize, analyze, visualize with the ability to accomplish mental and spiritual telepathy.....
PID
apw:12351414
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T20:58:47.25Z
Title
Would it make sense if I told you that I recieve praise
Author
Cox, Christopher R.
Pages
2 pages
PID
apw:12362262
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:27:27.109Z