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Title
Abruptly transferred from Buckingham Correctional Center to Sussex 2 State Prison
Author
Rowe, Uhuru B.
Date
2016-09-14
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Conscious Prisoner ~ the Evolution of Uhuru Abruptly transferred from Buckingham Correctional Center to Sussex 2 State Prison By Uhuru B. Rowe September 5, 2016 uhururowe76@yahoo.com Greetings to all of you. I pray that all of you are well and that you remain full of love and hope as we struggle to survive and thrive in a system which seeks to spread fear, hate, distrust and division among the people of the Earth. This post is somewhat of an extension of my August 27th post titled "Deja ...
PID
apw:12351675
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T01:19:40.363Z
Title
Are you just as guilty...for ignoring Americas prison conditions?
Author
Armstrong-El, Lennox K.
Date
2016-03-01
Pages
20 pages
State
Virginia
Text (TR_WF)
Are You Just as Guilty... For Ignoring Americas Prison Conditions? By Lennox Armstrong-El My name is Lennox Armstrong- El. I'm a prisoner in a level 1-2 facility in Virginia. This is my first time in prison. The following is an account of my experiences since I entered the Department of Corrections in 2012. My word count is limited so I'll stick to the facts without the fluff. It is my hope that the title of this work gets your attention. Because if you have turned a blind eye to Am...
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apw:12343994
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T21:34:20.852Z
Title
As she lay
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
As She Lay 9/2/19 "It is with tremendous sadness and under unfortunate circumstances in which this writing arises. However, the deceased no longer have a voice; so I will speak out of respect for the young lady that recently passed away from a drug overdose. At the very moment I sat writing my last essay, there was a young lady in distress. Fighting for the very breath which would become her last before the age of thirty. Right here inside this physical prison. Worse, she was in the ment...
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apw:12359024
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:14:11.847Z
Title
Deja vu: Total lockdown #2
Author
Rowe, Uhuru B.
Date
2016-09-13
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
6/23/2017 Deja vu: Total Lockdown #2 I Conscious Prisoner Conscious Prisoner~ The Evolution of Uhuru Deja vu: Total Lockdown #2 lg Taesdap Sep 2016 POSTED BY BOBDYLAN14 IN WRITINGS FROM UHURU == LEAVE A COMMENT Tags black on black violence, Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC), lockdown, prison, prison industrial slave complex, prison labor, September 9th, slavery, Uhuru B. Rowe Deja vu: Total Lockdown #2 By Uhuru B. Rowe August 25, 2016 A little over a month has elapsed between t...
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apw:12351669
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T00:56:58.698Z
Title
Different prison, same old abuse (part 1)
Author
Rowe, Uhuru B.
Date
2016-12-19
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
6/23/2017 Different Prison, Same Old Abuse (Part 1) I Conscious Prisoner Conscious Prisoner~ The Evolution of Uhuru Different Prison, Same Old Abuse (Part 1) 13 Monday Dec 2016 POSTED BY BOBDYLAN14 IN WRITINGS FROM UH; 1RU -« LEAVE A COMMENT Tags lockdown, raid, Shakedown, Uhuru B. Rowe By Uhuru B. Rowe November 22, 2016 e—mail: uhururowe76@yahoo.com I couldn't believe was I was seeing. I was bearing witness to the most horrible sight one could imagine. On 11 / O9 / 16 at approximately 6...
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apw:12351657
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T00:56:57.754Z
Title
Different prison, same old abuse (part 2)
Author
Rowe, Uhuru B.
Date
2016-12-20
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
6/23/2017 Different prison, same old abuse (Part 2) I Conscious Prisoner Conscious Prisoner~ The Evolution of Uhuru Different prison, same old abuse (Part 2) z_()_ Tuesday Dec 2016 POSTED BY BOBDYLAN14 IN UNCATEGORIZED = LEAVE A COMMENT Tags Behavior modification, group punishment, lockdown, racism, raid, Shakedown, Uhuru B. Rowe Part #2 Behavior modification- made famous by psychologists like B.F. Skinner and John B. Watson- is defined as a form of psychotherapy that is concerned with the treat...
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apw:12351660
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T00:56:58.08Z
Title
Dying in a concrete garden of life
Author
Majeed, Azeem Shakur
Date
2015-07-24
Pages
3 pages
State
Virginia
Text (TR_WF)
Azeem Shakur Majeed Keen Mountain Correctional Center Dying in a Concrete Garden of Life Why kill the rose before it gets the chance to grow? The rose didn’t choose to be cultivated in a hostile and non-hospitable environment…Where proper nourishing was almost an impossible feat to accomplish. The rose began growing wildly, with thorns, and rough edges because it adapted to and adopted the characteristics and qualities of the blighted soil and dilapidated environmental circumstances around hi...
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apw:12344034
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T21:34:25.797Z
Title
End the suffering
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Date
2018-12-28
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
12/28/18 End The Suffering “The prison population continues to rise at an alarming rate. And sadly, many of those entering the system for the first time, and repeat offenses alike, suffer from mental illness. Some cases more severe than others; but they are all suffering nonetheless. In reality, sometimes some of the crimes committed are by those with mental illnesses. Unfortunately there is not much help for them out there, and definitely not within the jails or prisons. So when they commit ...
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apw:12356585
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:12:56.701Z
Title
Exploiting and extorting prisoners in Virginia for profit
Author
Rowe, Uhuru B.
Date
2017-04-16
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
6/23/2017 Exploiting and Extorting Prisoners in Virginia for Profit I Conscious Prisoner Conscious Prisoner~ The Evolution of Uhuru Exploiting and Extorting Prisoners in Virginia for Profit _1_6 Sunday Apr 2017 POSTED BY BOBDYLAN14 IN WRITINGS FROM UHURU z LEAVE A COMMENT Tags 85% law, Capitalism, defacto life without parole, inhuman conditions, recidivism, truth-in-sentencing laws, Virinia DOC By Uhuru B. Rowe February 1, 2017 Email: uhururowe76@yahoo.com Imagine this: You have slaved hard on...
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apw:12351679
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T01:19:41.062Z
Title
Hope: More important than food, water & air
Author
Clardy, MarQui, Sr.
Date
2017-09-19
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Hope: More Important Than Food, Water & Air "My clemency petition will be granted! I will be going home next year! I Will be going home next year!" These words are written in large, black letters on the back of an institutional request form taped to the foot of my bunk. Ever since I received my letter from the governor's office a few weeks ago, confirming that my clemency petition has been received and is being reviewed, those words have become my mantra. Throughout my 9 1/...
PID
apw:12349746
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T20:16:19.57Z
Title
How could I forget?
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
6 pages
PID
apw:12362429
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:30:17.49Z
Title
I kind of dont know what to say
Author
Vines, Calvin J.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
By Vines, Calvin J. I kind of dont know what to say, or I dont know how to say what I want to say, or maybe I simply just dont know where to start. I mean, I feel so bitter and mad and helpless and stupid and hurt and rageful and confused and crazy and scared and ashamed and lonely that its troubling because I feel this way all the time. All the fucking time. My brain wont stop, my emotions wont stop, and my release date is nowhere in sight. Pretty safe to say that Im a depresed person, which...
PID
apw:12348152
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T20:21:24.338Z
Title
In 2017 Harold Clarke
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
8 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[No Title] 1 In 2017, Harold Clarke, the Director of the Department of Corrections for the state of Virginia, appeared on the Charlottesville news station stating that the institutions in this state were five hundred officers short than what is necessary to maintain order within the prisons. Five hundred officers! That is a farcical amount! It makes one curious to know the reason for such a shortage. Is there a quandary within Virginia's Department of Corrections? There must be something...
PID
apw:12355252
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T19:52:24.725Z
Title
Life at Sussex 2 State Prison
Author
Rowe, Uhuru B.
Date
2016-12-20
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
6/23/2017 ‘ Life At Sussex 2 State Prison I Conscious Prisoner Conscious Prisoner~ The Evolution of Uhuru Life At Sussex 2 State Prison 2;; Tuesday Dec 2016 POSTED BY BOBDYLAN14 IN WRITINGS FROM UHURU z LEAVE A COMMENT Tags Mumia Abu-lamal, September 9th, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, sussex two state prison, Uhuru B. Rowe By Uhuru B. Rowe December 12, 2016 e-mail: uhururowe76@yahoo.com Its been 95 days since I was transferred to Sussex 2 State Prison, which opened in 1998 to house what the stat...
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apw:12351650
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T00:56:57.007Z
Title
My appeal to citizens of conscience
Author
Rowe, Uhuru B.
Date
2016-10-28
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Conscious Prisoner ~ The Evolution of Uhuru SOS: My Appeal to Citizens of Conscience By Uhuru B. Rowe October 23, 2016 E-mail: uhururowe76@yahoo.com This past October 15th marked my 40th Birthday. But rather than talk about how old I am getting and how I'm experiencing some sort of real or imagined mid-life crisis, I want to talk about something more important. What I write, express, and relate to you via my blog posts concerning my experiences in prison aren't just gripes or compla...
PID
apw:12351663
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T00:56:58.264Z
Title
My name is Chanell Burnette
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
My name is Chanell Burnette To whom it may concern: My name is Chanell Burnette and I am currently an offender at Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women. I write to you in regards to the inadequate medical care that we women are receiving here at this institution. l have been housed at this facility since 2006 and am aware of the class action lawsuit filed against this facility and, and to date have seen no improvements in the quality of care that we have been receiving. For some of us, this ...
PID
apw:12353447
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T19:50:20.278Z
Title
No response for the unresponsive
Author
Burnette, Chanell R.
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
No Response for the Unresponsive "Why do people use drugs?" Maybe the inescapable pain of reality. Maybe past hurts or regrets. Maybe reasons unknown to anyone but themselves. Could be a combination; a myriad of things. We have each had our ups and downs. Our own trials and tribulations. Our own experiences; be they good or bad, we've all had them. That is part of being human. That is part of life, for which there is no escape. Or, maybe there is. Not any one of us can escape t...
PID
apw:12358658
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:04:43.788Z
Title
On total lockdown
Author
Rowe, Uhuru B.
Date
2016-08-15
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
6/23/2017 On Total Lockdown I Conscious Prisoner Conscious Prisoner~ The Evolution of Uhuru On Total Lockdown 15 Monday Aug 2016 POSTED BY BOBDYLAN14 IN WRITINGS FROM UHURU z LEAVE A COMMENT Tags collective punishment, lockdown, Uhuru B. Rowe By Uhuru B. Rowe Iuly 22, 2016 Email: uhururowe76@yahoo.com On the 18th of July, 2016, at around 7pm, a physical altercation occurred among a group of prisoners outside on the recreation yard. Whenever there is a group fight, those of us who are not invol...
PID
apw:12351666
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T00:56:58.466Z
Title
Over-sentencing and over-incarceration: The dehumanization of criminal justice
Author
Clardy, MarQui, Sr.
Date
2018-12-20
Pages
7 pages
Text (O)
"Over-Sentencing and Over-Incarceration: The Dehumanization of Criminal Justice" Maroui Clardy, Sr. 
 12/20/2018 
 February 20, 2009 is a day I'll never forget. That's the day I stood in Norfolk Circuit Court before Judge Norman A. Thomas as he sentenced me to five consecutive LIFE terms plus 53 years in prison. Yes, you read that correctly. Five consecutive LIFE terms... plus fifty-three years... with no time suspended! I'm not a mass murderer, serial rapist, terroris...
PID
apw:12357195
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:12:47.966Z
Title
Paroled into paradise
Author
Majeed, Azeem Shakur
Pages
6 pages
State
Virginia
Text (TR_WF)
Paroled into Paradise The Father and Mother of all mankind, Adam and Eve (May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon them both), were created as ADULTS by Allahs' own hands from the soils of Earth and in the Womb of Al-Hayantud- Dunlyaa' (The life of this world). Soon thereafter, they both were allowed entrance into paradise (Firdaus) to roam freely and to dwell there in for enternity with one condition or exception. That one condition or exception was that neither of them were to...
PID
apw:12344027
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T21:34:25.327Z
Title
Stress
Author
Burrell, Joel A.
Date
2017-06-25
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
6/25/2017 The American Prison Writing Archive: I would like to include an article of stress. "STRESS" I'm in an environment, which is very stressful especially for those that have been convicted and awaiting trial. The more serious your offense is the more careful you've got to be because inmates will ruin your life, by trying to gain leniency through framing an individual for crimes they never committed. Dealing with grief of my father's loss, family and friends betr...
PID
apw:12350480
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T13:43:39.494Z
Title
Sussex 2 state prison is a Potemkin prison
Author
Rowe, Uhuru B.
Date
2018-05-27
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Sussex 2 State Prison is a Potemkin Prison By Uhuru Baraka Rowe May 27, 2018 How many of you have ever heard of a Potemkin Village? According to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th Edition), a Potemkin Village is "an impressive facade or show designed to hide an undesirable fact or condition." It is named after Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin (1739-1791), a Russian field marshal and statesman, who supposedly built impressive fake villages along the route that Catherin...
PID
apw:12354950
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T19:27:10.42Z
Title
Systemic torture and abuse @ Red Onion
Author
Peek, Talib
Pages
12 pages
State
Virginia
Text (TR)
Talib Peek Virginia Systemic Torture and Abuse @Red Onion After a grueling nearly nine hour prison bus ride across Virginia handcuffed and shackled we finally arrived to be processed through the intake sally port of southwestern Virginia's Red Onion State Prison. Red Onion or "the onion" as it's referred to by most prisoners, their friends and family is Virginia's designated Super Maximum Security Prison. On paper it's classified as security level 6/high 5 with a...
PID
apw:12344038
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T23:52:12.906Z
Title
The "non-review" of parole reinstatement by the parole review commission
Author
Rowe, Uhuru B.
Date
2016-03-14
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
Conscious Prisoner - The Evolution of Uhuru The "Non-Review" of Parole Reinstatement by the Parole Review Commission By Uhuru B. Rowe February 18, 2016 "The Commission did not specifically address reinstating discretionary parole due to the limited time for the Commission and the interrelated and complex issues (including incomplete data), which made this issue difficult to address in the time period allowed...," Governor Terry McAuliffe revealed about the Commission on Paro...
PID
apw:12351653
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T00:56:57.406Z

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