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Title
A criminal end
Author
Glenn, Tracy
Date
2014-03-25
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
"A Criminal End" By: Mr. Tracy "Hollywood" Glenn March 25th 2D1h Prison has a way of sometimes helping one find another path, one that is seemingly reachable that one could not see beforehand from the offense that has one there locked away. If I were to tell you this correspondence is being written by one man who has at 50 years of age no high school diploma or B.E.D. could you believe it? Prison for me today is demoralizing and it has no place in my efforts to fulfill in ...
PID
apw:12349016
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T12:35:30.869Z
Title
A definition of freedom
Author
Burley, Keith
Date
2016-02-10
Date
2016-02-10, 2016-02-10
Pages
4 pages
State
Pennsylvania
Text (TR)
Keith Burley Pennsylvania A Definition of freedom One form of freedom is the ability to recognize the truth. For when someone has the ability to recognize the truth, he is free from an intellectual perspective, and a rational perspective. It is a form of "MENTAL ENSLAVEMENT" when someone knows the truth, yet does not recognize it. Consider someone with an addiction to cigarette's. He knows that they are poisonous in that they cause cancer and other ailments. However, if this pe...
PID
apw:12342369
Date Uploaded
2016-06-20T01:29:29.808Z
Title
An organization that matters
Author
Grote, Danny Russell
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
An Organization That Matters By Dan Grote I'm not very good at robbing banks. I wasn't all that great of a father and, for numerous reasons, a failure as a husband, son, friend and brother. I would have no problem filling volumes with my faults, shortcomings and mistakes, but turns out getting locked up was something I had a knack for. February, 2013. I'm estranged from a wife who hates me, two young boys who will learn to. I'm homeless, I'm desperate and it's ge...
PID
apw:12352797
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:34:13.059Z
Title
Apostasy
Author
Garner, Curtis
Date
2015-04-01
Pages
1 page
State
Pennsylvania
Text (TR)
Curtis Garner PA Apostasy Those privileged to reside in our great nation are imputed a reasonable and prerequisite expectation of liberty. We look to God for faith and hope. We look to our government for justice. Judgement and Justice do not share the same bed; though they frequently work together and are often seen in each others company. In the minds of babes, the seeds of Justice are planted; along with the directions on where and how to find it. In this country as children, we grow and le...
PID
apw:12343884
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T20:31:49.522Z
Title
Attempt to exhaust administrative remedies
Author
Garner, Curtis
Date
2015-01-21
Pages
2 pages
State
Pennsylvania
Text (TR)
Curtis Garner Pennsylvania Attempt to Exhaust Administrative Remedies 1-21-15 Wednesday After writing several grievances concerning clean sheets and towels and receiving no response, formal or informal, within the established procedural time period, the staff and administration of this facility has clearly exhibited a standard of "deliberate indifference" as outlined by the Supreme Court. Administration is aware of the potential danger of spreading infectious diseases within this fa...
PID
apw:12343864
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T20:31:40.258Z
Title
Cellmate violence encourage/allowed
Author
Noble, Ricardo
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Ricardo Noble S.C.I. - Greene 175 Progress Drive Waynesburg, PA. 15370 Cellmate Violence Encouraged/Allowed Long Before August 8, 2014, I sent copies of this letter and attached documents to Head of Pennsylvania's Dept. of Corrections (John Wetzel), PA Deputy Secretary of D.O.C. Mr. Burns, Dan Caro (Western Region), and others. 09/23/2014 Dear APWA Readers: This is a serious issue that affects many prisoners and needs to be addressed. S.C.I. - Greene staff encourage and allow cellmate-on...
PID
apw:12350179
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T12:18:09.59Z
Title
Choices and alternatives
Author
Glenn, Tracy
Date
2014-06-23
Date
2014-06-23, 2014-06-23
Pages
3 pages
State
Pennsylvania
Topics
personal choices
Text (FT)
* CHOICES & ALTERNATIVES By Hr. Tracy Glenn * June 22, 2014 There are many alternatives to the choices I've made of the past. Easily, I made them living the way I lived in another lane that was taught to me. So free, yet so far from reality, it tends to make me sick to my stomach today as I sit & write now. An understanding now that I have where before I make a choice there has to be a moment or some time before I make the choice which leads to the action that could be a fatal on...
PID
apw:12341464
Date Uploaded
2015-09-27T16:36:36.967Z
Title
Circumstances of incarceration
Author
Tai, Tafari
Date
2016-08-12
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Circumstance of Incarceration By Tafari Tai I would say good day, except mines has been anything but. This is my attempt at trying to express my circumstances of incarceration through written words. I hope my description of being a prisoner in the modern day plantation which is more currently known as the United States of America's Prison System, is as insane, miserable, negative, oppressive and lonely as the reality of living it. I mean it can't be all that hard writing about here,...
PID
apw:12347258
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:48:18.904Z
Title
Drowning in my skin
Author
Spencer, Patel
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
Drowning in My Skin 
 Drowning, fighting for attention - The more I fought, the weaker I became - Overwhelming, the weight of the pressure - Superior, the power of the opposition - The deeper I fell into my habitual development - Darkness, my eyes adapted - Coldness, my heart became - Eternal suffocation - I should of did what I didn't, didn't what I did, I SHOULD BE DEAD! ...but I didn't... die - Perhaps I did... Did I??? - 
 Death is not only defined as the execution or extin...
PID
apw:12357753
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:31:59.945Z
Title
Ex-convicts
Author
Garner, Curtis
Date
2015-07-16
Pages
1 page
State
Pennsylvania
Text (TR)
Curtis Garner Pennsylvania Ex-convicts Images in the newspaper of "former convicts" reveal the prevailing mindset of those who have never spent more than a night in jail. Those "convicts" are people before, during, and after their incarceration. Their DNA strand does not reveal origin from some alternate ancestral entity, specific abhorrent mutation, or hidden mysterious galaxy. For the most part, they look, act, and feel, just as we do. The most transparent difference is ...
PID
apw:12343895
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T20:31:52.268Z
Title
Grievance [1]
Author
Garner, Curtis
Date
2015-02-07
Pages
1 page
State
Pennsylvania
Text (TR)
Curtis Garner Pennsylvania Grievance Of what purpose is a grievance policy where all concerns are summarily dismissed in favor of facility administration? The same persons who implement policy, sit in judgment of prisoners opposition to said policy. This is akin to taking your wife to court, and finding you mother in law is the judge. Any legitimate, effective procedure in which prisoners may hope to obtain judicial re-dress must be framed in this validity of impartiality; for all persons con...
PID
apw:12343870
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T20:31:41.094Z
Title
Grievance [2]
Author
Garner, Curtis
Date
2015-02-13
Pages
2 pages
State
Pennsylvania
Text (TR_WF)
Grievance 2-13-15 Friday Due to the continued practice of "triple celling" within this facility, in combination with erratic linen/towel exchanges, uniform exchanges, and the lack of a regular scheduled cell cleaning procedure; in addition to sporadic access to showers for kitchen workers, MRSA, and inadequate number of staff for supervision of inmates; a hazardous condition has evolved here that inevitably precedes a tragic event. The "tour"s implemented by administration...
PID
apw:12343872
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T20:31:41.555Z
Title
Hope
Author
Brown, James
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
Hope by James Brown This pope is our best advocate for life without the possibility of parole! His Holiness Pope Francis, visited the Curran Fromhold Correctional facility in Philadelphia, that speech he gave, gives lifers renewed hope for the cruel and harsh sentences of life without parole, he said "Never take away hope from human beings!" These are very powerful words that directly confront L.W.O.P. sentences in Pennsylvania - L.W.O.P. takes away hope of freedom, hope of the natu...
PID
apw:12352978
Date Uploaded
2018-09-25T19:49:34.791Z
Title
Human rights / prisoners rights
Author
Lee, David
Date
2014-08-04
Date
2014-08-04, 2014-08-04
Pages
3 pages
State
Pennsylvania
Topics
US imperialism
Text (FT)
Human rights/ prisoners rights Today's human rights issues must encompass a broad range of issues. These issues must include decent employment in which workers have a relevant voice, decent and safe housing, quality medical care, elder care and participation in societal issues, child care and development, overall youth development, an educational process geared toward empowering all people, giving people a political voice with the capacity to direct the political system in a communal ori...
PID
apw:12341468
Date Uploaded
2015-09-27T16:38:32.739Z
Title
I am destined for greatness
Author
Royster, Telly Robert
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
I AM DESTINED FOR GREATNESS That is a bold statement coming from a 37 years old African American man who is serving a life without parole sentence, little education above a General Equivalency Dipolma and minimal support from family or the outside community. Yes, that is a bold statement yet one I do not retract. Do I have your attention? You see, I consider myself a late developer sort of like wine: the longer the time the Finer the wine; Growing up I'm sure I squandered an opportunity ...
PID
apw:12351527
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T23:11:36.341Z
Title
I am writing of my experiences in prison
Author
Ingram, Shariff
Date
2017-03-22
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Shariff Ingram SCI. Fayette Box. 9999 LaBelle, PA 15450 Date: 3/22/17 I am writing of my experiences in prison, after being incarcerated in close to half of the state Prisons in the state of Pennsylvania for almost 2 decades. I have been incarcerated since 1998. I was 15 years old at the time of my arrest. I was charged with 1st degree murder and certified as an adult. The person I was charged with killing I sold drugs for, he was 24, made numerous attempts on my own life, including chasing m...
PID
apw:12347935
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:54:56.012Z
Title
I often wonder how differently
Author
Ingram, Shariff
Pages
8 pages
Text (TR_WF)
In the name of Allah, the most merciful, the bestower of mercy. All praise is due to Allah, prayers & peace be upon the messenger of Allah. As for what follows... Aug. 16, 2017 I often wonder how differently many view the world we live in today. Those in here from one inside looking out, verses those who are out there caught up in the many different struggles in life. I heard someone tell a guard the other day, a white man "yall enslaved us. And yall continue to enslave us." The...
PID
apw:12351110
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T17:50:44.731Z
Title
In da sky
Author
Allen, Nate
Date
2015-03-05
Date
2015-03-05, 2015-03-05
Pages
1 page
State
Pennsylvania
Text (TR)
In Da Sky! By Nate A I can't sit back, I just wanna cry. I remember those dayz with you by my side, and all the pain that you had went through. God took you away and I still miss you. We can't reverse the handz of time, so I'm just gonna pray for you mom. You made a man without no father, and now dat you gone I just wanna cry. He takes the best I just don't know why~ But one day will meet againe in the sky (3x) In the sky- Dear mom it'z Nate I really miss you, and som...
PID
apw:12341555
Date Uploaded
2015-09-29T21:25:58.532Z
Title
Ineffective counsel
Author
Garner, Curtis
Date
2015-03-28
Pages
2 pages
State
Pennsylvania
Text (TR)
Garner Curtis Pennsylvania 3-28-15 Saturday Ineffective Counsel All agents and agencies involved in the criminal justice system of Philadelphia county are aware of the overcrowded unconstitutional conditions within the Philadelphia prison system. To wit, a concerted endeavor to ensure citizens rights should be assumed by this municipality. ..."the duty to intercede is heightened in a prison setting, where the state has restrained an individuals liberty to such a degree that he can no lon...
PID
apw:12343881
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T20:31:48.415Z
Title
LWOP and a cage/cell mate?!
Author
Camara, Bayé
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
LWOP and a CAGE/CELL MATE?! In Pennsylvania's prisons prisoners are made to double cage /cell, unless they're crazy, anti-social, aggressive homosexuals, handicapped, or just know somebody of authority. This makes it a problem for Lifers such as myself. I have thirty-nine years served and counting, and I've seen the good, bad, and ugly when it comes to sharing a modern day cage/cell with another man. It's frustrating and even more dangerous to say the least. Lifers having ...
PID
apw:12359546
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:27:25.4Z
Title
Life inside the penitentiary
Author
Justice
Date
2017-07-02
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
07-02-2017 'Life Inside the Penitentiary' Well first we all got to come and believe that we are all human no one is perfect. So even by officers having a badge or more power than us inmates "that doesn't mean that there better or perfect than us. It's so much that goes on behind these walls" but everyone on the outside looking in always assume it's the inmates. Some of our actions is behind what a officer say or do to us. For I being locked up is not a norma...
PID
apw:12350569
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T14:09:40.323Z
Title
Life without parole is torture
Author
The Lone Wolf
Date
2014-08-01
Date
2014-08-01, 2014-08-01
Pages
3 pages
State
Pennsylvania
Text (FT)
•LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE IS TORTURE•PAGE tl In today' s world where there are major advancements in technology, biology, and many other arts and sciences, there seems to also be many retrogressions in humanity. One case in point I'll delve into is the American punishment of LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE. LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE is a sentence most often given for the crime of murder in the first degree. In some states, Pennsylvania in particular, it is an automatic sentence. Lets consider wh...
PID
apw:12341445
Date Uploaded
2015-09-27T16:20:49.898Z
Title
Memorandum of law in support of plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction
Author
Garner, Curtis
Date
2015-02-25
Pages
1 page
State
Pennsylvania
Text (TR_WF)
Memorandum of Law in Support of Plaintiff's Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction 2-25-15 The men of A2 pod 2 have not had a simultaneous linen/blues exchange in over 10 weeks. On Monday, February 23, linen and blues were exchanged. On Tuesday, February 24, a "shakedown" crew sent by facility administration confiscated our clean blues, threw our clean sheets and towels on the filthy floors and walked on them. As kitchen workers, we supply a valid s...
PID
apw:12343875
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T20:31:42.846Z
Title
My love, my passion
Author
Nelson, Purnell R.
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Purnell R. Nelson The American Prison Writing Archive My Love, My Passion Purnell R. Nelson is disrupter, his ambitious effort to change himself and people in prison bad decision making into positive changes that connects with one another. Purnell as an poet and artist, I can connect with my fans. That is phenomenal. I don’t know what the future holds, but I bet Purnell is a big part of it. Purnell is a true poet and artist. Through his poetry, his poems has transform the way people read poet...
PID
apw:12359901
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:32:24.721Z

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