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Title
#Incarcerated lives matter
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
2 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
#Incarcerated Lives Matter By: Lacino Hamilton Just a few years ago, the crises of mass incarceration was largely thought of as an invisible issue. Talked about almost exclusively in abolitionist circles and on prison yards. It is now part of the mainstream discourse. Publications and groups spanning the political spectrum, even presidential hopefuls in both parties, claim support for reducing the incarceration rate. Still, we must not be naive. Elite-level alliances, the dominant voice, tape...
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apw:12345532
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:38.736Z
Title
A more complicated framework may yield more decarceration options
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
4 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
A More Complicated Framework May Yield More Decarceration Options By: Lacino Hamilton Many incarcerated people find the sudden message of mass incarceration being a really bad idea, the right message, but the dominate narrative superficial. And therefore distracts from the most immediate challenges of not only decarceration, but ultimately the abolition of prisons. Let's be clear, for the most part, the current national conversation surrounding how to reform mass incarceration policies i...
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apw:12345547
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:40.813Z
Title
Amen-Ra: An example of the doubt most prisoners struggle with
Author
Neal, Deyon
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
"Amen—Ra: An Example of the Doubt Most Prisoners Struggle with" by Deyon Neal A good dude. Unassuming. Sociable. Intelligent. Those were the first impressions that I got from observing him. Everyone in the hole called him Amen-Ra, which was Egyptian for "God". sith such a dominating presence, he could've controlled the unitls criminal activity, but he wasn't into that. He uplifted people. Everyone not only respected Ra, they looked up to him. "what joint you...
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apw:12352578
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:36:49.516Z
Title
An open letter to prisoner advocacy groups, and people that claim to stand in solidarity with prisoners
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
3 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
An Open Letter To Prisoner Advocacy Groups,And People That Claim To fitand In solidarity with Prisoners By: Lacino Hamilton Incarcerated people are aware that prisoner advocacy groups and people that claim to stand in solidarity with prisoners, are not magicians. Incarcerated people are aware that these groups and individuals do not possess supernatural powers. The same way that incarcerated people are aware that the practice of wizardry did not create the many contradictions that pervade U.S....
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apw:12345559
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:42.438Z
Title
Aramark food corporation scandal
Author
Mack-Lemdon, Mr. L.
Date
2018-07-05
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
7/5/18 Aramark Food Corporation Scandal On May 29, 2018, I sent the Aramark Food Corporation a five (5) page notarized affidavit regarding a possible malfeasance (wrong-doing) regarding their services within the MDOC (Michigan Department of Corrections). Between 2009 and 2015, I grieved and sued the Aramark Corporation regarding my kosher diet and the inappropriate preparing of that diet, however, I never complained about the food, quality of the food or taste, only the repetitiveness and tem...
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apw:12354856
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T18:29:35.309Z
Title
At what point do we act out our ideas?
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
3 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
At What Point Do We Act Out Our Ideas? By: Lacino Hamilton Been trying to find space to observe and reflect on the world and where I find myself in it. Trying to find a place for the careful working out of ideas. I do not want to form the habit of writing for the sake of being topical. The dialogue being developed is much to important for that. Besides, even reading and writing possess functional limits. There must be recourse to other disciplines, other means of challenging practices that do...
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apw:12345563
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:42.796Z
Title
Barrell of funky's
Author
Mack-Lemdon, Mr. L.
Date
2018-07-02
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
7/2/18 Barrel of Funky's Being raped repeatedly as a young child is a very horrible experience and it will tear the mind to pieces if you fail to deal with it. I am a victim of rape, however, out of shame and embarrassment, I never told anyone. Instead, I self-medicated. In other words, I became a drug addict. Drugs took me for a real ride. They were a "killer in a thriller". 1987-1988 - brain surgery-- mentally ill w/ seizures 1988-1992 - prison 1992-1994 - drugs---->left f...
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apw:12354836
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T18:29:12.663Z
Title
Being sane in an insane place
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
2 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
Being Sane In An Insane Place By: Lacino Hamilton Incarceration is not just the concrete, the razor wire, bullet proof glass, or trained assassins watching from gun towers. Incarceration is not just the isolation, the monotony, loneliness, or the assiduous misery. Incarceration is not just the anxiety, the idleness, apathy, or the pent up frustrations characteristic of these dismal crypts. Neither is it just having to always chase after something, having to hide something, or having to hold m...
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apw:12345538
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:39.477Z
Title
Beyond the wall
Author
Cannon, Robert, Jr.
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
***-Beyond The Wall--*** How do I say it? How do I spit out on paper what I want known to a special someone beyond the wall? Never can simple words, funny little marks on paper, tell of the loneliness, the doubt, the bitterness and frustration; companions of everyone in this gray world; A world away from the world. No one can knew, no one who has not been a blue-clad, faceless, numbered nothing. I can't tell then, but I can try. I can try because when this human meat-grinder spits me bac...
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apw:12353110
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:57:01.517Z
Title
Can the MDOC be fixed?
Author
Mack-Lemdon, Mr. L.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Can the MDOC Be Fixed? No, this is not a trick question, however, the state of Michigan will never know the answer. The reason why is because its not that the Michigan Department of Corrections cannot be fixed. It is because of what it will take to fix it. Consider Structure The MDOC needs to be more structured. No one is on the same page. Most of their own policies and operating procedures are personally interpreted as the interpreter wants to interpret it. If another staff member says “That...
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apw:12354832
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T18:29:06.737Z
Title
Capitalism creates the need for prison
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
2 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
Capitalism Creates The Need For Prison By: Lacino Hamilton For many people in the U.S., the high hopes of securing a career, or at least a full-time job that pays a living wage, a relatively stable community, or a clean environment with a quality future for their children has been wiped out. More and more people continue to be marginalized and rendered destitute by capitalism, forced by necessity to learn to live outside the formal economy. In this climate the politics of poverty, hunger, hom...
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apw:12345544
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:40.448Z
Title
Censorship in Michigan prisons
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
2 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
Censorship In Michigan Prisons By: Uacino Hamilton Today, another book was rejected. The fifth time in the past two mocks this has happened. All because the book wasn't soot from an "approved vondor." To the unlnformsd public such a requirement may appear on its face rsssonahls, tho Michigan department of Corrsctions should control whore information prisoners are rocsiving is coming from, and what that information is. But in practice, its a form of censorship. A policy that pro...
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apw:12345541
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:39.756Z
Title
Conjugal visits how a husband and wife survive prison
Author
Franklin, David, II
Pages
12 pages
Text (FT)
David Franklin Adrian, MI CONJUGAL VISITS How a Husband and Wife Survive Prison By: David Franklin 4,500 words "I now pronounce you husband and wife." Those seven words triggered so much emotion inside me. The rush was something I'd never experienced before. The love I experienced at that moment was exceptional and it still lives on to this day. Admittedly though, those weren't the only emotions I was feeling. I also felt a lot of anxiety and fear. I was scared that I woul...
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apw:12346715
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:48.365Z
Title
Dear Mr. Unwilling and Reluctant Witness
Author
Nixon, Kenneth Fitzgerald
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Kenneth Nixon Dear Mr. Unwilling and Reluctant Witness, I know that we don't know each other personally, but whether you realize it or not, we are connected. We've never formally met or been properly introduced, but we definitely know of one another. 8 years ago, almost to the day, I was arrested, tried, and convicted of a crime that you watched someone else commit. For every day of the past 8 years, My family and I have been trying to diligently and desperately prove my innocence, ...
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apw:12351146
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T17:50:46.333Z
Title
Do you know why there
Author
Mack-Lemdon, Mr. L.
Date
2018-08-12
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
NO TITLE August 12, 2018 To whom it may concern: Do you know why there are so many unsolved crimes in Michigan? I think I do. For more than 30 years I have been running in and out of Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC), therefore, it can be said that I may know something, no everything, but something. During these multiple decades, I have witnessed numerous ex-cons, once released, return for another, then another and then yet another tour inside the MDOC. I am one of those ex-cons. I ha...
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apw:12354781
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:35:34.708Z
Title
First day out
Author
Neal, Deyon
Pages
7 pages
Text (O)
First Day Out by Deyon A. Neal They feared I would be a problem. It took them three days to actually follow through with the decision. whenever they brought a convict an army- green duffle bag and told him to pack up, he left in a few hours tops. I had seen hundreds of guys released from administrative segregation at Baraga Max (henceforth, sag’) and I'd never seen the staff tell any of them that their Friday release had been rescheduled until the following Monday morning. The radio in m...
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apw:12350136
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T01:36:13.508Z
Title
Grandaddy, come home
Author
Carter, Larry R.
Date
2019-06-03
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Larry R. Carter "Grandaddy, Come Home" There is a dichotomy in America that pits our much-ballyhooed "love of freedom" against our disdain for it. In the past, it was people of color - African-American slaves, Native Americans forced onto reservations, Japanese-Americans forced into internment camps - who suffered the indignities of this split personality. Today, it is the families of America's prisoners. For 250 years, this American nation imprisoned an entire race o...
PID
apw:12358136
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:44:06.615Z
Title
Harsh reality
Author
Brooks, Charles Sr.
Pages
8 pages
State
Michigan
Text (TR_WF)
Harsh Reality Besides short essay pieces such as this, I write a lot of poetry. I have entered a lot of my works into contests which has resulted in two of my pieces being published in the University of Michigan's Prisoner Creative Arts Program's anthology for 2015, as well as the upcoming Volume 8, due out in the spring of 2016. The title of 2015's anthology is, "Build Your Catacomb Anywhere But Here: The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing, Vol. 7". This ye...
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apw:12343396
Date Uploaded
2016-10-18T01:21:37.927Z
Title
Homosexuality
Author
Mack-Lemdon, Mr. L.
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Is The Michigan Department of Corrections Promoting Homosexuality? Logically: If any woman works in a men's correctional facility, do you believe that she knows or should know that there is a great possibility that she may, at some point, see a male prisoner's private parts or maybe in some manner exposed? Possibly. Why then do female staff look into areas such as the men's rest room, showers, and other places where males are possibly exposed? In a men's facility, there ar...
Text (O)
IS THE MICHIGAN OF ODRRECTIONS PRCMIIING logically: If any woman works in a mm's correctional facility, do you believe that she knows or should know that there is a great possibility that she may, at some point, see a male prisoner's private parts or maybe in some manner exposed? Possibly. my then do fmale staff look into areas such as the men's test room, showers, and other places where males are possibly exposed? In a men's facility, there are 335 female prisoners, there...
PID
apw:12356056
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T18:50:13.66Z
Title
How long-term incarceration effected me as a juvenile
Author
Bellamy, Lasan
Pages
8 pages
Text (FT)
"How Long-Term Incarceration Effected Me As A Juvenile" By! Lasan Bellamy #250213 There's a saying, "in aggressive behavior there is a form of compensation for feelings of inadequacy." To feel inadequate is a hurtful feeling in itself. It leaves many of us who are stuck in an immature childlike mindstate to act out negatively. For with intelligence we know how to address our problems properly to achieve our desired outcome; but yet, since we lack understanding, we act...
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apw:12346701
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:44.462Z
Title
Is it a cost or profit center?
Author
Mack-Lemdon, Mr. L.
Date
2018-07-01
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
7/1/18 Is It a Cost or Profit Center? There is no precise figure for the cost of housing someone in a Michigan prison. The cost vary depending upon the security level, health care needs, programming needs, etc. One of the latest figures I have seen is $38,809.00 per year for a Michigan prisoner. (Some families do not earn this amount per year). Corrections cost the state of Michigan $2 billion per year. There is no way to view that as a profit center. It cost tax payers mightily. The fact tha...
PID
apw:12354905
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T19:26:04.043Z
Title
Lakeland C.F. rodeo clown(s) dealing with the coronavirus
Author
Favors, Gene T.
Date
2020-04-21
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Dt: 4-21-20 To: (APWA) Fr: Gene T. Favors SuB: Essay Lakeland C.F. Rodeo Clown(s) Dealing with the Coronavirus It go(s) pass the power of my words to express the Rodeo Clown(s) at Lakeland C.F. herein the State of Michigan. However its only a small number of Clown(s) at Lakeland that can understand that they could be the next Coronavirus prey. I am witnessing Clown(s) dying and being hospitalized and being quarantine to stop the Respiratory Emission(s). The State have issue Clowns 3 Face Mask...
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apw:12360159
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:40:22.348Z
Title
Let's bridge the divide and create a transformative learning experience
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
2 pages
State
Michigan
Text (O)
Let s Bridge The Divide And Create A Transformative Learning Experience By: Lacino Hamilton Much of the criticism pushing the national conversation concerning U.S. mass incarceration appears to come from upper-middle-class politicians, scholars, and media personalities. Most of whom have little or no direct contact with prisons or prisoners. This hardly represents healthy democratic impulses. The message to the general public is that the perspectives, ideas and experiences of incarcerated peo...
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apw:12345535
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T23:38:39.1Z
Title
MDOC health care
Author
Mack-Lemdon, Mr. L.
Date
2018-06-30
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
MDOC Health Care 6/30/18 Besides the money, I always had this belief that the reason any person that chose to be a nurse, doctor or be in any part of the medical field was because of the level of compassion, care and love they had for people. I was wrong, not completely wrong, however, wrong. I admit, I have met several people in the medical field that not only have a great level of compassion, care and love for people, but also a great attitude. This is not true regarding the "medical s...
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apw:12354712
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:32:01.997Z

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