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Title: I received your letter on 8/8/17
Author: Clerk, Cedric
Date: 2017-08-13
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): APWA 8/13/17 I received your letter on 8/8/2017. Once again thank you for allowing us ( the forgotten men and women in America's penal system). I want to say this and give you guys a certain perspective. 95% of prisoners suffer from some sort of metal illness. 85% go undiagnosed. Physical incarceration only enhance the symptoms. Imagine taking a human who already has a fragile existence then depriving him of the simplest of human comforts ie. a sincere smile, a hug, concern an intimate t...
PID: apw:12350837
Date Uploaded: 2018-03-16T16:16:20.766Z

Title: In the garden
Author: Bostic, Bobby
Pages: 4 pages
Text (O): essay by Bostic Bobby In the Garden As a young teenager at 19 years old I wondered how did I journey from the concrete city jungle streets of St. Louis city and end up working in the garden inside of prison. I signed up for volunteer garden duty just to get out of my cell at the maximum 20 hour lockdown prison where I am currently housed at Crossroads Correctional Center in Cameron Missouri. But to my amazement I found the peace of mind and tranquillity that I craved for the right here in thi...
PID: apw:12352750
Date Uploaded: 2018-06-16T02:33:14.467Z

Title: Lost and forgotten
Author: Johnson, Antwann
Pages: 3 pages
Text (TR_WF): Lost and Forgotten by Antwann Johnson My name is Antwann Johnson, and I was born and raised in the inner city of St. Louis, MO. I was the oldest of 9 children, 6 boys and 3 girls. My childhood was filled with many memories that are bittersweet due to the fact that I was forced to mature at a young age to take care of my siblings because my mother battled with addictions. In grade school, I had to wear hand-me-downs from the Goodwill because my mother couldn't afford name-brand clothes an...
PID: apw:12358705
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:05:52.459Z

Title: Prisoners lives matter
Author: Bostic, Bobby
Pages: 1 page
Text (O): Prisoners Lives Matter People don't stop being humans when the offend society and commit crime ON the contrary we loose some of our best citizens at their prime In fact it is inside their cell that many prisoners rehabilitate themselves Coming out into society as reformed people having left the older version of their lives behind on prison shelves Instead of breaking the fallen down we should pick them back up Let them drink from the fountain of change till they do away with their hiccup...
PID: apw:12352748
Date Uploaded: 2018-06-16T02:33:12.27Z

Title: Some of the world's greatest minds are in prison
Author: Bostic, Bobby
Pages: 3 pages
Text (O): Some of The World's Greatest Minds Are In Prison By Bobby Bostic Prison is a place where you can find a scholar of every kind. The system can lock up a person's body, but they can't incarcerate our minds. Right here in this very room we have some of the world's greatest minds. We have scientists, mathematicians, preachers, right here in front of us. In fact, many of you have excelled in the most difficult of all politics, prison politics. These politics can get real messy....
PID: apw:12352744
Date Uploaded: 2018-06-16T02:33:07.176Z

Title: The 'sickness and suffering' in prison
Author: Fields, Orlando
Pages: 10 pages
Text (TR_WF): Title: The "Sick and Suffering" in Prison, an Essay on: By: Orlando Fields, #[ID]/Mo. D.O.C. When I came into the adult-world of incarceration, I was a 16-year old, certified-juvenile. As is the case with most adolescents, I was very naive and out of touch with reality. I was still searching for my identity amongst the men who were satisfied with the selfish, loser outlaw lifestyle. My adolescences and the reckless abandon with which I lived, ultimately let me to the halls of Missou...
PID: apw:12358037
Date Uploaded: 2019-10-28T20:41:11.152Z

Title: The rain that didn't stop falling
Author: Clerk, Cedric
Pages: 4 pages
Text (TR_WF): The Rain That Didn't Stop Falling They say that concrete can drain a man's physical energy, but what about his soul? I ponder this fact as I lay naked and shivering on the concrete slab that protuded from the wall of my cell. Angry abrasions burn my hips from laying here. The rectangle window above my head is spray painted black. Letting no light in letting no light out. The clanking of handcuffs can be heard in the sallyport. The idle chit-chat of correctional officers is loud, but...
PID: apw:12350706
Date Uploaded: 2018-03-16T15:41:32.074Z

Title: The war within: Release from self bondage
Author: Johnson, Antwann
Pages: 4 pages
Text (TR_WF): The War Within: Release from Self-Bondage "Whats going on?" -Marvin Gaye "I have a dream..." -Martin Luther King "Its a thin line between being educated on HOW to think and WHAT to think..." -Antwann Johnson Hello! My name is Antwann Johnson Sr. As the founder of this program, my mission is to help rectify the thought processes of those who suffer from the day-to-day destructive cycles of internal assault on the mind and soul. Purpose: To magnify the fact that be...
PID: apw:12358700
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:05:44.595Z

Title: We can's just throw our children away
Author: Bostic, Bobby
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR): We Can't Just Throw Our Children Away Written by: Bobby Bostic "All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass- what values we must live by. Instead I see us doing what we've always done- pretending that these children are somehow not our own." Barack Obama (excerpt from "Dreams From My Father") Has society reached the point o...
PID: apw:12352815
Date Uploaded: 2018-06-16T02:34:36.116Z

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