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Title
2nd class citizens assert 1st Amendment rights
Author
Arroyo, Bryant
Date
2015-10-31
Date
2015-10-31, 2015-10-31
Pages
2 pages
State
Pennsylvania
Topics
Tom Corebett, Victim Crimes Act, HB2533, SB508, first amendment
Text (TR_WF)
2nd Class Citizens Assert 1st Amendment Rights Col. Writ. 11/14/14 Copyright Bryant Arroyo In the dead of the night Gov. Tom Corbett huddled with the choir of the legislature and the rest of his cronies (FOP) whom introduced an invidious, unconstitutional 'Chilling Effect' tantamount to a 'civil choke hold.' Gov. Corbett signed both HB2533 & SB508 on Oct. 3, 2014, which is legally unprecedented and has far-reaching implications that specifically targets and impacts for...
PID
apw:12341601
Date Uploaded
2015-09-29T21:47:08.573Z
Title
A brief history of administrative segregation in Texas
Author
Feijoo, Joe
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
A Brief History of Administrative Segregation in Texas By: Joe Feijoo “Ad. Seg.” Is short for Administrative Segregation. (ad-seg). The commonly held understanding of solitary confinement defines ad-seg. It is, at best, the most grim form of incarceration and is reserved for offenders who exhibit behavior that is harmful to themselves, other offenders, staff or prison facilities. It is an enhanced method of punishment within the institution of punishment. The guidelines for putting an offender ...
PID
apw:12357807
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:33:45.331Z
Title
A description of who I am
Author
Caraballo, Pedro R.
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
A Description of Who I Am: I have been in prison since 1999. I was 20 years old when I committed my crime. I had never been in any kind of trouble with the law and yet I was sentenced to die in prison in spite of mine being a non—homicide conviction and a first offense. My crime was that I participated in a kidnapping at the urging of the 47 year old man who befriended me at summer camp when I was a child and had been the lone parental figure in my life since bringing me to the United States ...
PID
apw:12356262
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:14:54.935Z
Title
A plea for attention to an injustice
Author
Navarro, Robert R.
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
A Plea for Attention to an Injustice — Robert Navarro Where do I even begin and what do I say? Let me begin with some general questions and observations about ourjustice system today and how it works: Justice is defined as: 1) Just conduct, 2) Fairness, 3) Exercise of authority in the maintenance of right, 4) Judicial proceedings, 5) Magistrate, Judge. 1-3: uprightness, righteousness, decency, correctness, fair playing, lawfulness, equity Yet when you look at my conviction one will wonder whe...
PID
apw:12353138
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:57:29.365Z
Title
Accident in the prison in Idaho
Author
Prisoner of Idaho
Pages
1 page
State
Idaho
Text (TR)
Translated by Santos Accident in the Prison of Idaho Three weeks ago in the month of November, an accident happened inside the cell. About 5 am, a black race person got in the cell and asked for the person he was going to hit. He found him in his bed and hit him. He left calmly and right away to the place where he lived. Later, they found him and put him in the hole. It was his punishment. Soon the injured person asked for help to the security official and they put him in the hospital for his...
PID
apw:12344280
Date Uploaded
2016-10-20T20:38:50.884Z
Title
An indecent proposal
Author
Vasquez, Rafael
Pages
8 pages
Text (O)
An Indecent Proposal By Rafael Vasquez 
 Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. -Helen Keller 
 The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper. -Friedrich Nietzsche 
 I wanted to posit a solution to something I find perplexing about today's penitentiary, and its role in society. That is, there seems to be some disconnect between what free world people, i.e. taxpaye...
PID
apw:12357280
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:15:24.186Z
Title
As a convicted felon in the United States of America
Author
Santos, Angel
Pages
14 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Angel Santos D.C.C.C Prison Commonwealth of Massachuchets As a convicted felon, in the United States of America the very land of exuberance the land of possibitie's expounded, compounded, expanded, as to every American born be of oppertunitys, that he/she has, futher will have options and tools and enablements, that are of America only, exclusive and without compare in America and only of America has liberty, freedom, justice as guarantee, longed as a fabric inplaced as a promise every c...
PID
apw:12361698
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:08:38.312Z
Title
Blue bird
Author
Gallegos, Jason
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
"Blue Bird" by Jason Gallegos The time was drawing near for my departure. I had 13 months built up in the countyjail. I was convicted and sentenced to prison, and I was ready to leave, to start serving out my long-term sentence in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Division. Before my departure, I had the privilege to be laced up by the old-school veterans that had already been in and out of the system most of their adult lives. These convicts prided themselves as they explain...
PID
apw:12352643
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:38:05.997Z
Title
Carlosians 8:15-The saga of Sammy Joe
Author
Flores, Carlos C., Jr.
Pages
10 pages
Text (O)
Carlosians 8:l5~The Saga of Sammy Joe There is biblical irony to being not guilty, yet shackled with a life sentence. With an over ambitious, lazy and corrupt police force playing an angry, jealous, vengeful God casting down my audacious, shining and Luciferian belief in truth and justice. Burying me in my own personal hell. I have been able to perseveree, and at least maintain a sense of humor, but I am almost always in a constant crisis of faith. As I wander around the prison world, my spir...
PID
apw:12350115
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T01:36:12.186Z
Title
Cease intense force
Author
Mendieta, Napoleon
Pages
13 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Luis Paz First Serial Rights Approximately 4,940 words Cease Intense Force By Napoleon Mendieta Most people talk themselves out when it comes to stopping violence, but the only true form to cease this intense force that destroys human lives around the globe is with a thought. Thoughts are things and I'm the man who used thoughts as a way out of the violence. This idea to use my thoughts was created when I mixed a purpose, persistence, and a burning desire to build a new life. I was remin...
PID
apw:12356734
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T18:32:51.631Z
Title
Counting Pictures segment
Author
Martinez, F.R.
Date
2017-04
Pages
13 pages
Text (O)
‘Counting Pictures'Segment What follows is a segment from my book ‘Counting Pictures‘. It is currently (4/2017) unpublished. It's about my personal experience being accused, indicted and convicted as a 'sex offender’, a term that is loaded down with negative connotations in our society. In many cases the connotations and inferences have little or nothing to do with the offense itself or with the laws now being employed to prosecute ‘offenders’. There is in the Federal Legal Sys...
PID
apw:12351506
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T23:11:35.502Z
Title
Criminal' considered
Author
Theus-Roberts, E.C.
Pages
9 pages
Text (TR_WF)
'Criminal' Considered, by E. C. Theus-Roberts In our current social climate defining 'criminal' is unnecessary. Everybody carries a mental image of what a criminal looks like, their behavior and so on. Debating laws and criminal codes that dictate what is or is not criminal is useless because, these change every generation, if not more often. Instead, our focus will be on how our individual and collective conceptions of 'criminal' affect our interactions, relatio...
PID
apw:12359406
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:23:44.144Z
Title
Fallacies
Author
Theus-Roberts, E.C.
Pages
16 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Fallacies by E.C. Theus-Roberts genre: critical essay (nonfiction) word count: 3.220 words appx. page count: 15 pages Author's Information: E.C. Theus-Roberts Colorado State Penitentiary P.O. Box 777 Cañon City, CO 81215 telephone: n/a email: none Fallacies, by E.C. Theus-Roberts page 1 I suppose the first most important thing to understand is prison is different. To comprehend just how it differs it's necessary to explore some of its long, convoluted history because, here in the Un...
PID
apw:12363159
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:43:14.985Z
Title
First time in Idaho State Prison
Author
Jaramillo, David
Pages
1 page
State
Idaho
Text (TR)
David Jaramillo Idaho First time in Idaho State Prison I started in R.d.u going through the process of being housed. It takes about a month to be housed. There are several housing areas but I was placed at I.C.C. I went through another intake process of recieving my stuff (property) and getting my clothes and Id. They housed me, when I first arrived, in west wing, the living situation sucked, it was open dorm, so it was crowded, very noisy, no privacy in the shower, and someones always poopin...
PID
apw:12343346
Date Uploaded
2016-10-18T00:18:13.362Z
Title
Food for thought
Author
Jacobs, B. G.
Date
2010-08-10
Date
2010-08-10, 2010-08-10
Pages
17 pages
State
New York
Text (TR)
1 Word Count: 2347 B.G. Jacobs New York Food For Thought Lying on an uncomfortable, two-inch vinyl mattress, in a stifling prison cell, I was at peace for the first time in a long time. Eyes closed, my mind was centered on one thought: what can I use for an ersatz flour to make dough? (Pastelios were in my immediate future.) I was finally away from the stress and madness of prison and safely locked away in my thoughts of food. Cooking is a way for me to both relieve stress and express myself....
PID
apw:181
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T17:53:21.317Z
Title
Freedom is priceless
Author
Caraballo, Pedro R.
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
FREEDOM IS PRICELESS To the Youth of the World: When you commit a violent crime, the victims could easily die, and you, the offender, could die too, or sooner or later, you will be arrested and sent to prison for many decades (20, 30, 40 years) or the rest of your life. In society, our lives may not always be easy with all the problems we may face in this world, but there is nothing even close to being as bad as prison. Think of all the suffering that victims can feel regardless of how small ...
PID
apw:12357470
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:22:17.835Z
Title
Hello! My name is Anthony
Author
Prisoner of Idaho
Date
2016-04-26
Date
2016-04-26, 2016-04-26
Pages
1 pages
State
Idaho
Text (TR)
Hello! Well, my name is Antony and since I've been here for very little time. I don't have much to say. The truth is and the only problem here is that I miss my family too much. Since I arrived here, that is the only thing that won't leave me in peace. I also feel uncomfortable because I have never been in prison. Even though I came with people who are good and I try to entertain myself playing soccer, but I still return to where I sleep and the sadness continues. For now, that...
PID
apw:12342237
Date Uploaded
2016-06-19T23:52:44.292Z
Title
Hello. This time I will tell you about my life in the prison
Author
Ortunes, Homero
Date
2016-04-26
Date
2016-04-26, 2016-04-26
Pages
2 pages
State
Idaho
Text (TR)
Homero Ortune 12/4/14 Hello. This time I will tell you about how my life is in prison. I can't be complaining because I committed the mistake but I think that everyone deserves fair treatment and in the 5 years that I have been in prison I have seen many injustices; for example, when you feel bad you put in a "call" for the doctor and they don't see you until you are almost dying. Another is with several officials who make your life impossible just because they want you to...
PID
apw:12342334
Date Uploaded
2016-06-20T01:01:47.324Z
Title
Here is another brief overview into the drastic conditions...
Author
Sherman, Ken
Date
2016-01
Pages
3 pages
State
Wisconsin
Text (O)
Ken Sherman Wisconsin Department of Corrections Hamilton College\The American Prison Writing Archive (APWA) Here is another brief overview into the drastic conditions and behavior is that us as inmates and offenders have to suffer thru. This last year has been Hell for others and me. First off, the WI.DOC has been severely overcrowded. I have had to file a legal action on behalf of others and myself for a transfer that was against state laws and codes. I've watched the medical system her...
PID
apw:12345111
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T00:46:19.603Z
Title
I am 37 years old
Author
Garcia, Antonio Andres
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Antonio A. Garcia Beeville TX I am 37 years old. Ive been in prison since I have been 19 years old. Got convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison. I escaped my first month in prison and didn’t get too far. Since then (2001) I have been living in administrative segregation. I want to share with you a couple of things. One is the mental health issue of living in segregation. Some states call this control units, security housing units, solitary confinement, isolation units. Its...
PID
apw:12354960
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T19:27:25.51Z
Title
I am advocating for me
Author
Patmos, Lillys
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
No Title Dear APWA: I am advocating for me and the women imprisoned in TDCJ-Texas Prisons. We are women that would like to see "Rehabilitative Programs" for first 1st time offenders such as ourselves. We are not given an opportunity, because the state labels us "aggravated" charges - so we do not get any kind of help, rehabilitation, advocacy or opportunity. We are not allowed to receive any type of significant or recognizable constructive programs to help us get a time re...
PID
apw:12349510
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T19:18:06.073Z
Title
I am currently residing in the Arizona Department of Corrections
Author
Franc, Les B.
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Page 1 NO TITLE I am currently residing in the Arizona Department of Corrections, located in Tucson, Arizona. I am serving a sentence of 9.25 yrs, and will not be released until 2024. After having served 3 prior terms in D.O.C I have unfortunately become accustomed to the living conditions and way of life for those who experience incarceration in the Arizona Department of Corrections. The system itself has always been divided by the way that it is meant to be run, how it is ran, and the way t...
PID
apw:12356432
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T14:51:56.286Z
Title
I am just doing some time
Author
Lock's, Froggy
Date
2016-04-26
Date
2016-04-26, 2016-04-26
Pages
1 page
State
Idaho
Text (TR_WF)
[No Title] I am just doing some time don't worry it's about life in prison. it's been 5 years My first 3 years I was in Max. for alcohol. Some job's here, but they don't pay very much in here, up to thirty cents an hour. I Freso Froggy have only known since on or about April 22nd 2007 when I.N.S served me with the the papers for deportation, that I was not an American citizen. I was raised in Fresno California until the age of 10 at which time I move to Brewster Washi...
PID
apw:12342326
Date Uploaded
2016-06-20T00:56:53.326Z
Title
I am named Jesus.
Author
Calvo, Jesus
Pages
2 pages
State
Idaho
Text (TR)
Translated by Collantes and Potzernitz My name is Jesus. I have been in the Boise prison for a crime that I committed. They sentenced me a few years. I have already been a prisoner for 2 and a half years. In these two years I have learned many things. At the beginning, I was very sad and angry at the same time. But with time, I realized that I have to get rid of that sadness and resentment. Then, I realized that I have to be very strong and intelligent to survive in the prison because here, i...
PID
apw:12344289
Date Uploaded
2016-10-20T20:48:29.456Z

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