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Title: I'm writing this, of course
Author: Moore, Robert
Pages: 4 pages
State: California
Text (TR_WF): Greetings; I'm writing this, of course to state my opinions, but also because of a sentence in the Questionaire which explains the submissions are to help people understand American prison conditions and the prison's practical effects and place is society. I'm writing from the San Francisco County Jail, where i've been held for twenty months. I'm 61 years old and have served three prison terms in California. In no way am I proud to say it, but i've been involved ...
PID: apw:12342918
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-17T12:59:54.11Z

Title: My own prison
Author: Bailey, Willie III
Date: 2013
Pages: 1 page
State: California
Text (O): My own prison LIKE A DISEASE, A PLAGUE, NO ONE WANTS TO CATCH, NO ONE WANT'S TO KNOW, TOUCH, FEEL, OR EVEN LOVE. WORTHLESS AND UNWANTED TO THE WORLD. I AM NO LONGER A HUMAN BEING TO SOCIETY. NO MEANS NECESSARY FOR YOU TO EVER ACKNOWLEDGE MY EXISTENCE. THESE CHAINS, THE CUFFS, THOSE WALLS, THIS CONCRETE TOMB IS MY REALITY. I AM THE WALKING DEAD, TO FEEL LIKE I EXIST EVEN FOR A DAY, I THIRST KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, STRENGTH. REFUSING TO BE INSTITUTIONALIZED BY MY CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS UNJUSTLY SY...
PID: apw:12344494
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-21T13:51:16.796Z

Title: The shaping of a convict
Author: Humphrey, Julius Kimya, Sr.
Pages: 13 pages
State: California
Text (O): HUMPHREY/1. ¥T%ﬁ THE SHAPING OF A CONVICT Introduction (non-fiction) "Boy...what'cha doin' back there?" "Nuttin' mama," I yelled in response to her calling out to me from the living room that also served as her bedroom. This was an arrangement made in 1961, when I was four years old. In a jealous rage, my father shot her several times one night at a club, leaving her paralyzed with two options: she could either lie in her bed or sit in her wheelchair. Unfort...
PID: apw:12344927
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-22T11:10:13.048Z

Title: Understanding the effect from not understanding the concept of the sociological imagination
Author: Humphrey, Julius Kimya, Sr.
Pages: 3 pages
State: California
Text (O): Understanding The Effect From Not Understanding The Concept Of Sociological Imagination By Kimya   On one end of the breakfast table sat a plate with scrambled eggs, sausage, two slices of toast, and one tall glass of milk for my girlfriend. On the other end there was a plate with one gram of heroin, a spoon, one cotton ball, a syringe, one home-made tourniquet, a Bic lighter, and one tall glass of water for me. Off and on for over 30-years that is the way I began my day. Heroin was my breakf...
PID: apw:12344923
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-22T11:10:12.681Z

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