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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 healthy ambition
Author
McCreary, Howard Lewis, III
Date
2019-01-27
Pages
8 pages
Text (TR_WF)
January 27, 2019 Time: 2:15 A.M By: Howard McCreary A Healthy Ambition [Part 1: Mentally Stimulation] I thank you all fore taking time out of your day to connect with my Diamond Thoughts on health. It brings me relief to know that people in society are concern or interested in the "condemn" and my salutation of the highest greeting goes to you all. What you all are embarking on is a three part dialogue on the three essential characteristics that make us human: mentality, physically,...
PID
apw:12356653
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:37:46.419Z
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
A white liberal male federal called me (Fitch) a racist
Author
Fitch, Lamont
Date
43476
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"A White Liberal Male Federal Called Me (Fitch) A Racist" I arrived from a kangaroo court to an awaiting trap here in the federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) over 21 years ago. The thing is for my jailers to pit their inmates against me, as well as their colleagues, and then prosecute me, or attempt to, after I defend myself. This has been the unrelenting hate that has followed me from jail to jail, non-stop. I documented the trap that awaited me at USP Leavenworth in 1999. My so-calle...
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apw:12358934
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:11:52.24Z
Title
Anywhere but here
Author
Cole, Emanuel Andrea
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Anywhere But Here by E. Andrea Cole I'm in prison, so of course I wish I were anywhere but here. The problem with that though, is that I, and all of my woes, are bound to go with me. So I often wish I were anyone but me. And the person I usually wish I was is my little brother. He's peacefully residing in an urn somewhere at my sister's house. No worries. No grieving. No nightmares. Yeah, sometimes, that's where I want to be. At my sister's house. No worries. No griev...
PID
apw:12349792
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T20:36:08.648Z
Title
As I sit in my cage
Author
Blackstarr
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
As I sit in my cage I wonder when they came up with the idea for this cage were they thinking of animals or human? I feel as if I'm in a chicken coop or a mini walk in closet without the clothes. There is a twin size iron bed mounted to the walls, it takes up half the walking room so you have as much as a door way space to living cycle. All the way at the back of the cell is a toilet with a sink connected. Today is just like any day bored with nothing to do besides think about the things...
PID
apw:12354852
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T18:29:30.946Z
Title
Cesspit of deviance
Author
Wilson, Victor K.
Pages
10 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Victor Keith Wilson 3201 FM 929 Gatesville, Texas 76597 First North American Serial Rights 2128 Words Cesspit of Deviance by Victor Keith Wilson "Say Dawg, I need you to go down to I-pod and pick something up for me," comes the urgent plea from within the darkened cell. "Ah, sorry! Can't do it. I ain't tryin' to catch no case," mutters the inmate orderly. "What?" jibes the voice, only to sputter on, "don't tell me you're sweatin&apos...
PID
apw:12361773
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:10:50.749Z
Title
Cultural awareness
Author
McCreary, Howard Lewis, III
Pages
10 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Cultural Awareness By: Howard Mecreary, III Everything in existence has a cultura. It's own set of Laws that governs this culture. It's own system of defining the Culture and , a certain mentality that shapes the development of it's culture In prison, there's no difference. Inside the walls of a penological institution, the cultural mind state can be warped, tarnished, polished, or refined based on the individual. This culture is a world within it's own. A world that&...
PID
apw:12355363
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T21:24:14.371Z
Title
Dishonorable
Author
Fitch, Lamont
Date
43686
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Dishonorable I (Fitch) realize how important it is to publicly publish my facts with exhibits. You must guard your facts and your proof. People, the public, have a blasphemous tendency of accepting court memorandums and "opinions" of judges as the gospel. The publicly printed "word" of so-called "honorable" officials can be very powerful to the average layman who is unfamiliar with, or forgetful of, the fact that judges are nothing more than lawyers with black ro...
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apw:12358931
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:11:47.444Z
Title
From the horse's mouth
Author
Barker, Petey
Pages
7 pages
PID
apw:12358316
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:56:02.969Z
Title
Headed down south
Author
Edwards, B.
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Headed Down South "Edwards! pack ya stuff ya on tha TDC chain," said the soft spoken boss lady then pointed at me. Her voice echoed throughout the Pod making other inmates look around in hopes it was or wasn't their name being called. Reality already set in my mind from the moment that I signed for my time at the Harris County Court House. Now 34 day's later my name was being called over the intercom for me to catch chain to my new place of residence. From my outer appeara...
PID
apw:12358364
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:57:17.739Z
Title
Here in Texas there is
Author
Dyer, Clarence
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
APWA, Here in Texas there is a saying that goes "Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time." Ironically, Texas has over a hundred prisons. Prisons where prisoners are not paid for working in industries that the prison systems profits majorly from. Prisons do however receive worktime/goodtime while incarcerated. Yet before they are released, prisoners must sign both of these away totally contradicting the point if calculations are further questioned by the institution. P...
PID
apw:12354730
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:32:23.381Z
Title
I almost completed school
Author
Cole, Emanuel Andrea
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
I almost completed school. I almost found my groove in many good jobs. I almost got married, which is probably the best "almost" I've ever (not) done. I almost graduated the Men of Nehemiah program. That would've been a helluva accomplishment. But, alas, it didn't pan out. Every time I'm close to getting past almost, something in me says "screw up" and, like a mindless zombie, I always obey. There's a few things I didn't almost do, though. I d...
PID
apw:12349620
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T19:51:38.552Z
Title
I am an inmate at a Texas prison
Author
Dyer, Clarence
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
American Prison Writing Archive, I am an inmate at a Texas prison I've been incarcerated since August 2004. My experiences and passions truly reflect my understanding of my position in life. Here in Texas we battle with first a non-conforming slave mentality, that is colorblind! Traditionally, you are to follow what's been passed on to you with no objection, investigation or the least bit of rebuttal. Even in a situation that isn't morally just, people "roll with the punch...
PID
apw:12353050
Date Uploaded
2018-09-25T21:47:54.802Z
Title
I have always wanted to
Author
Blackstarr
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
I have always wanted to do something with my ability to relate my thought on all the book I have read. Let me explain when I came to prison 2012 the only book I ever read was the bible. I cant remember reading in school because I never like the subject. After about the 100th book I stoped reading novels and begin to read nothing but auto, or self help book. As time passed I begin to think about the people just like me who didnt read or the ones who only liked urban novels were the same future...
PID
apw:12354742
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:32:38.781Z
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 would like to write
Author
Ardie, Danyelle Eugene
Date
2018-06-25
Pages
12 pages
Text (TR_WF)
6.25.18 A.P.W.A., I would like to write to you about TDCJ's administrative segregation (Ad Seg) housing. The information I'm about to share with you is true, taken from my experiences, doing time on the Polunsky Unit. First, in general population, but for the last four years and eight months, in (Ad Seg). A.P.W.A., Administrative segregation is designed to break you. To break your will and to crush your spirits. Administrative segregation is designed to correct ones' behavior b...
PID
apw:12355346
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T21:23:13.802Z
Title
I'm a prisoner in the
Author
Ardie, Danyelle Eugene
Date
2018-06-17
Pages
15 pages
Text (O)
NO TITLE 6-17-18 A.P.W.A., I’m a prisoner in the Texas department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), and I’ve been incarcerated in this prison system just days short of twenty flat years. So I’ve seen it all. Thus, I have a deep understanding of how TDCJ functions and operates (officer’s and offender’s). Inasmuch, there’s two major problems concerning TDCJ which I would like to address (gang affiliation & administrative segregation). So I plan to write two separate essays. However, in this first...
PID
apw:12355341
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T21:22:46.88Z
Title
It start now
Author
McCreary, Howard Lewis, III
Date
2019-01-07
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
It Start Now! Written: Jan 7,2019 @ 10:37pm By: Howard "Amin" McCreary I sit in administrative segregation amongst the deadliest, most dangerous men that are housed in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Or so they say... "They" being the people behind this growing, cancerous, detrimental caste system we recognize as "prison rehabilitation". "They", being the power seeking society that gain satisfaction by keeping men - and I'm sure women as ...
PID
apw:12356509
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:10:16.558Z
Title
It was all a dream
Author
Blackstarr
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
It was all a dream Not every black man that had a dream can see positive come out of it similar to Doctor Martin King. In my dream I was every where I wanted to be. Life was finally in my favor I had my own house sitting on a couch alone with my thoughts. In front of me all the things I needed to take over the world sat on my table. No it was a cup of coffie, the Wall Street Journal and my phone. Instead it was a brick of cocaine, a few guns even tho I perfer not to use volence because hey al...
PID
apw:12354694
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:31:41.094Z
Title
Journal entry
Author
Barnes, Arnold, III
Date
2017-11-04
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Arnold Barnes III -Journal entry- Often when reading articles about imprisonment we may learn the harmful psychological effects of solitary confinement on prisoners like their social phobia once released. And when reading about experiments on young monkey's who's mothers were purposely replaced by a bottle & a few wires wrapped in a blanket (were mothers), we find that they grow up unable to interact normally with other monkey's & are often extremely aggressive. Studies...
PID
apw:12352332
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T18:55:01.599Z
Title
Justice awry
Author
Netter, Sam
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Justice Awry The criminal justice system is a necessary element in the modern American form of government; acting as a deterrent to drug use, petty thieves and keeping us safe from murders, rapers, kidnappers and their ilk. To state it plainly, the criminal justice system is necessary. An unknown fact about our system is the District Attorney General's Office has unparallel discretion to prosecute a case to the "fullest extent of the law." Although there are safe-guards in this...
PID
apw:12349632
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T19:51:39.368Z
Title
Keep it simple
Author
Mr. G. Mays
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"KEEP IT SIMPLE" I come to realize that things in life is relevantly simple, man make things hard by his own design. I said that to say this, a lot of times what is recommended and what we do is two different things. When a man says he is a man of God! He is accepted, and he should be. But when it's find out that his walk is different then theirs, then he is rejected without a chance. The book says when you come together each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue or ...
PID
apw:12359358
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:22:30.773Z
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

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