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Title: A major hang-up
Author: Walker, Curtis Lee
Pages: 8 pages
Text (O): A MAJOR HANG-UP Ilve spent 22 years in maximum security facilities where the culture has a texture unique to that environment. Extremes are embraced when moderation would prove the more productive path. Violence, dominance and emasculation are the languages which most cons come to believe that they must be fluent in to communicate our strength and declare our manhood. I've been here in New Lisbon, a medium security facility for 2 years now. It's not nearly as yiolent as max because ...
PID: apw:12355270
Date Uploaded: 2019-01-21T19:52:50.221Z

Title: A model of futility: The PLRA and Wisconsin's Inmate Complaint System
Author: Taliaferro, Robert
Pages: 9 pages
Text (O): Robert Taliaferro, 150555 JCI P.O. Box 233 Black River Falls, WI 54615-0233 A.MODEL OF FUTILITY: The PLRA and Wisconsin's Inmate Complaint System by Robert E. Taliaferro, Jr. Introduction In 1996 Congress passed the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) in response to a few highly publicized--but isolated and over—exaggerated--instances of prisoner abuse of the judicial process. The PLRA was designed as a tool to curb those abuses by making it more diffi- cult for prisoners to seek judicia...
PID: apw:12349215
Date Uploaded: 2017-11-03T14:47:30.513Z

Title: At this writing, I am now into
Author: Bracey, Larry
Date: 2017-08-29
Pages: 3 pages
Text (TR_WF): "No person is a criminal, a person is taught to be a criminal" (ala, Mandela) At this writing, I am now into the twenty-eighth year of this incarceration, and I say, this length of time I'm sure it must constitute me as being certified, qualified to say something of major importance and of validity about prison due to my experience. The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre said that, "Freedom" could not help but to be Free, which throughout all these years, I have come...
PID: apw:12350917
Date Uploaded: 2018-03-16T16:50:00.905Z

Title: Benevolence
Author: Cunningham, Travis
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): "Benevolence" As I sit here contemplating what I would like to share with the masses, I'm left reflecting on years past. Some ask how I've been able to sustain my mental stability in such dismay times. As one must imagine life in captivity and the bellicosity this environment brings can cause a person to feel indifferent from humanity and civility. Prison tends to remove those simply human attributes and instead replace them with an abysmal, diabolic, malicious nature, ess...
PID: apw:12353053
Date Uploaded: 2018-09-25T21:47:57.78Z

Title: Hello my APWA friends
Author: White, Mia L.
Date: 43790
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): Hello My APWA Friends 11-21-19 It's Mia L. White again [ID], from Union Grove WI at Robert E. Ellsworth Correctional Center. Today is 11-21-19 and 9:02 am. The inmates here have been woken up at 8:00 am for a mandatory cleaning day due to the Madison and much higher authorities coming into the center doing a thorough exspection of the center today. We the inmates have been threatened with tickets or seg. for not cleaning. I feel this is unconstitutional and we the inmates should have a c...
PID: apw:12359838
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:34:42.214Z

Title: I am Mia L. White
Author: White, Mia L.
Date: 43737
Pages: 4 pages
Text (TR_WF): 9.29.19 To: Whom it may concern; I am Mia L. White [ID]. I am currently serving out a sentence for revocation on a robbery charge and possession with intent charge in which I am innocent of and the evidence prove's it. Though I was a victim to a sailing system that continues to fail me and I'd like to share my story. Now here on revocation and a new charge of misdemeanor battery, I Mia L. White has not only grown into a woman; but has discovered a new light of understanding and just...
PID: apw:12359316
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:21:23.566Z

Title: Juvenile justice
Author: Walker, Curtis Lee
Pages: 8 pages
Text (O): Juvenile Justice? There has been a shift in the dispensation of juvenile justice. Everyone saw it coming. Many people demanded it. While some, not blinded by their pain and anger, were more thoughtful than others and asked the questions that others would be forced to asked years later after the die had been cast. For as long as I can remember, adults in the hood had sought to have young kids either take the rap for offenses which the adults themselves had committed, or have the kids actually ...
PID: apw:12355279
Date Uploaded: 2019-01-21T19:53:03.575Z

Title: Let brotherly love continue
Author: Terry, James
Pages: 8 pages
State: Wisconsin
Text (TR_WF): APWA Advocates Let brotherly love continue. Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. Remember the prisoners as if chained with them * those who are mistreated * since you yourselves are in the body also. Hebrews 13:1-3. Authors biography 7/14/64 DOB phonetic spelling St. Marie, Evereuxe, France first five years of my life. French/American dual citizenship raised in United States Air Force military households at McGuire AFB New Jersey, Sem...
PID: apw:12344058
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-19T23:52:14.38Z

Title: Liberating toxic masculinity (a prisoner's narrative)
Author: Gilliam, Marquis
Date: 2018-06-05
Pages: 4 pages
Text (O): To: The American Prison Writing Archive Attn: Chelsea From: Mr. Marquis O Gilliam 330190 Re: Submitting a new perspective. Liberating Toxic Masculinity (A Prisoner's Narrative) Science tells us that each of us has enough energy within himself to run a universe if we knew how to release and control. - Reflect Flee, fleet, and run from the dilapidated mind swimming unconsciously, in lost unfulfilled dreams. One must break free and refuse the grasp of immured hands, looking to wring out any...
PID: apw:12353307
Date Uploaded: 2018-09-26T11:02:15.886Z

Title: My name is Andrae L. Bridges...
Author: Bridges, Andre L.
Pages: 9 pages
State: Wisconsin
Text (O): My name is Andrae L. Bridges and I currently reside at the Fox Lake Correctional Institution here in Fox Lake, Wisconsin. I'm a 39 year old African American man who entered the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (WDOC) as an angry, hateful, self—destructive, misguided, 16 year old little boy. In 1992, just six days after my 16th birthday I was arrested and charged with First Degree Intentional Homicide—Party to a Crime. I was waived into adult court and subsequently sentenced to life wi...
PID: apw:12345101
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-23T00:46:19.241Z

Title: Your true character is revealed
Author: Gilliam, Marquis
Date: 2018-03-07
Pages: 3 pages
Text (O): 3/7/18 Your true character is revealed not by how you act when life goes your way, but how you act when the bottom falls out. — Reflection The American Prison Writing Archive... To Whom It May Concern Thank you for reaching out and letting me know my previous writing wasn't the perspective you'll were looking for. I do apologize on my end for being so callow in my representation, far as offering something like that. I have personally taken some much needed reflection on my current e...
PID: apw:12353118
Date Uploaded: 2018-09-26T10:57:09.704Z

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