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Title
A lesson in language
Author
Piwowar, Robert
Pages
14 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Lesson in Language Incarceration has forced me to postpone my plans of travelling to the continents of Europe and Asia. Six years into a twenty year sentence for manslaughter, watching Globe Trekker on PBS or flipping through vacation mags in the prison library is the closest I get. My travels into Quebec and Mexico taught me that every street sign, television or radio program, menu, and all product packaging provides a lesson in language. Simply going about a regular routine in a foreign l...
PID
apw:12347101
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:22:45.331Z
Title
A more perfect union!
Author
Hughes, R.
Pages
5 pages
Text (FT)
Hughes 638 Mr. Ronald (Rashawn) Hughes 92A2940 Clinton Correctional Facility P.O. Box 2000 Dannemora, New York 12929 A More Perfect Union! When you make an observation, you have an obligation. These are words that I try to live by. It's what encouraged this article and hopefully what will inspire the commissioners' on the parole board to open their hearts, minds, and understand that people are capable of changing. In preparation for my December 2010 parole interview, I found myself ...
PID
apw:12347044
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:22:43.214Z
Title
A.V.P.
Author
Brown, Rahasheem
Pages
3 pages
State
New York
Text (TR_WF)
A.V.P. How can violence be reduced in prison? Well, in my own opinion, the answer is simple: support the "Alternative to Violence Project!" This program, started by Quaker's back in the late 1970's right here at Green Haven Correctional Facility, is one which is now being used to combat the spread and use of violence all over the world. The Alternative to Violence Project (from this point on, to be referred to as A.V.P.) is an interactive workshop, that gives insight to it...
PID
apw:12343778
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T17:56:13.847Z
Title
Abused again
Author
Richter, Robert
Date
2018-07-22
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
July 22, 2018 Robert John Richter For APWA Abused again Yet again, within only one day of being questioned by a senior OSI PREA investigator, I have been subjected to sexual abuse, staff voyeurism, inflicted upon me in order to intimidate, humiliate, and degrade me. The excuse, again, was an outside trip for an OMH (psych) appointment. This was just a cover. This isn't the only retaliation I have suffered. On July 2, OSI PREA investigator Bossman questioned me about my PREA complaints, b...
PID
apw:12355104
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T21:11:02.611Z
Title
Addicted to violence
Author
Richter, Robert
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
March 25, 2018 Robert Johan Richter Title: Addicted To Violence Prison is a great place to witness all kinds of addictions, and how far they drive their victims. Prisoners sell their meals for cigarettes, and their bodies for drugs. The most common addiction doesn't involve drugs, porn, or anything you can buy or sell. Many people, both prisoners and guards, are addicted to violence. There is a big difference, however; the guards almost never face any kind of punishment. Why do people li...
PID
apw:12353267
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T11:00:33.778Z
Title
Adivina
Author
Faiello, Dean A.
Pages
4 pages
State
New York
Text (O)
Dean A. Faiello Adivina Fed up with my wreck-strewn, chaotic life, ricocheting between New York City crises, I decided to liquidate my few urban assets and dee to a Central American rain forest. Rather than face the task of changing my life, I took the easier route. I was lured by the romance of live volcanoes overlooking black sand beaches and banana trees. For two hours, as my Jeep snaked its way through the basaltic mountains of Costa Rica, I had little idea what to expect at each precipit...
PID
apw:12345902
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T18:15:50.675Z
Title
Attica on my mind
Author
Rhynes, Michael
Date
2011-06-06
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Michael Rhynes Attica on My Mind My day begins by getting up before the contemporary version of Pavlov's bell rings, a half hour before count, which starts at 7:00 AM. While performing my morning ritual of washing my face, brushing my teeth, and combing my hair, with such mindless devotion it would send a marine sergeant into authoritarian fits of glee, I subconsciously search for a way to affirm my humanity. The breakfast list is being taken, and naturally I sign up. Every morning for t...
PID
apw:12351816
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T01:52:49.829Z
Title
Auschwitz to Attica
Author
MacKenzie, John
Date
2014-08-11
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Auschwitz to Attica - Methodologies of Psychological Abuse By John MacKenzie Preface “Every prisoner with a sensitive nature suflers much more from unjust, malicious and intended psychological abuse than from physical abuse. He perceives it to be much more humiliating and depressing than any physical abuse. ” “They all easily survived the hard part of camp life because they had a “reasonable assurance” that they would be free againiafter their time was up. There was no set prison term for poli...
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apw:12352516
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:35:28.619Z
Title
Behind these walls
Author
Harewood, Ian
Pages
2 pages
Text (FT)
BEHIND THESE WALLS By Ian Harewood Free will is all about choices. In prison you have no free will. Every day, you have to do what someone tells you. You can't wake up in the middle of the night and go for something as simple as ice-cream or a snack. I remember when I had free will growing up. I wish that my choices had been different. As a kid I was always trying to fit in. But back in those days, the dark-skinned guys were the butt of jokes in school, the ones who weren't popular....
PID
apw:12347004
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T02:16:35.825Z
Title
Better living through editing
Author
Roberts, Adam
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Nonfiction Better Living Through Editing Adam Roberts On a cool Wednesday morning in October, the incarcerated learners of Cornell's Prison Education Program (CPEP's Auburn campus) assembled in the yard, awaiting word over the loudspeakers to enter the chapel, where Cornell University Provost Michael Kotlikoff would be lecturing on human engineering through genetic modification. There was great anticipation for this lecture topic, along with some concern among students that the mate...
PID
apw:12352786
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:33:58.328Z
Title
Beyond bars: voices of NLG jailhouse lawyers
Author
Lewis, Teddy
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Beyond Bars: Voices of NLG Jailhouse Lawyers By Teddy Lewis This moment feels like a maze which holds many rooms yet only one of them holds the key Lately I notice that so many men like to rip and run to the yard. And try to impose their will on various things, from lifting weights to lifting a telephone. Suddenly I came to notice that my life was without legal balance because my lack of legal know how left me stagnated and without true hope. One day someone came to me and said "why"...
PID
apw:12347971
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:54:57.582Z
Title
Bread and water vegan : struggling for health and humanity inside prison
Author
Allah, Intelligent
Pages
4 pages
State
New York
Text (O)
Intelligent Allah 1,014 words #95A4315 Woodbourne Cor. Facility Box 1000 Woodbourne, N.Y. 12788 BREAD AND WATER VEGAN Struggling for Health and Humanity inside Prison By Intelligent Allah Milk and hamburgers are staples of the state prison diet, not almond milk and soy burgers. Processed canned fruit soaked in high fructose corn syrup is a commissary privilege, but there is no fresh fruit. Suede boots are issued by the New York State Department of Correctional Services, yet animal—friendly bo...
PID
apw:12345872
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T18:13:42.242Z
Title
Concrete carnival
Author
Darcleight, Danner
Pages
17 pages
Text (O)
Concrete Carnival By Danner Darcelight (Originally published in the minnesota review, #70) Step right up to the show that never ends...c0me inside, come inside... 'Tis quite a ride, this life inside. One of the scariest shows on earth. A carnival of the bizarre in a fairground of bars and steel, bricks and concrete. Save for the sporadically flickering fluorescents, there are no flashing lights, but we have our bearded women, games of chance, and hustlers lurking around every corner. The ri...
PID
apw:12349239
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:48:05.063Z
Title
Crazy, right?
Author
Hughes, R.
Pages
12 pages
Text (FT)
Hughes 1 Mr. R. (Rashawn) Hughes The Art of the Short Story This piece is written for all the children who suffer as a result of a parent's wrong choice. The author, R. (Rashawn) Hughes 92A2940, who has been locked up for most of his two daughters' lives, in attempt lo express what his own conscience echocs to him about what he feels his daughters are going through, decided to compose a letter in their honor, giving them and all children in similar shoes—a voice. "Crazy Right?&...
PID
apw:12347054
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:22:43.77Z
Title
Criming wave
Author
Richter, Robert
Date
2018-02-04
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Feb. 4, 2018 Robert Johan Richter For American Prison Writing Archive Criming Wave I saw on the news that prisoners in New York are getting free tablets. How nice, maybe we'll get some basic human rights next! Let's see, NYS DOCCS officials have told me in writing that I will be retaliated against if I even try to access the courts, threatened me with physical force (again, in writing) if I report their crimes to the FBI, and stolen my property and refused to compensate me. Oh, did ...
PID
apw:12352413
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T19:43:54.643Z
Title
Cuomo doesn't care
Author
Richter, Robert
Date
2019-01-03
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Cuomo Doesn't Care On July 3, 2018, I was called out to the Tier Office, where I was angrily confronted by Captain Raczkowski. He had copies of articles I wrote for APWA:"#MeToo? Not Me!", "Cuomo Allows Rape". I subsequently wrote about this in "What Cuomo Did". How did Raczkowski get my writings? Did Cuomo retaliate by sending my complaints to the very people I was complaining about, or was my outgoing mail stolen? I haven't received a single response ...
PID
apw:12355965
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T17:58:45.768Z
Title
Currently I am faced with a dilemma
Author
Borden, Chavelo
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Dear A.P.W.A. Currently I am faced with a dilemma for which I truly believe must be addressed. My name is Minister Chavelo Borden #[ID] & recently I become the victim of an injustice for which I am in question of the matter being silenced. From 10/3/19 to 10/19/19 my person was illegally detained & unlawfully imprisoned to the SHU/Box for false allegations of a cutting incident. The allegations were dismissed! After being released from the SHU/Box, I was informed that the alleged pris...
PID
apw:12359586
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:28:28.481Z
Title
Dehabilitation
Author
Richter, Robert
Date
2017-03-12
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Dehabilitation I have been in prison for more than 23 years, serving a life sentence for a crime that never happened. Supposedly, I'm being rehabilitated, but in fact the exact opposite has occurred. I have developed a deep and abiding hatred for prison officials, the State government, the people of New York, and humans generally. Perhaps hate is the wrong word, despise is better. You all disgust me. Humans are insane. I apparently, am not human, because I am not insane. Prison allegedly...
PID
apw:12350531
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T14:09:38.653Z
Title
Despite the new
Author
Malachi
Date
2020-05-14
Pages
2 pages
PID
apw:12361974
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:22:13.334Z
Title
Did New York State Correctional learn anything after the Attica uprising.
Author
Brown, Melvin
Pages
2 pages
State
New York
Text (TR)
Melvin Brown New York Did New York State Correctional Learn Anything After the Attica Uprising. That is the "Question." This a True Story Well I really dont think so, because some inmate's are being abuse as I speak to you on paper. Please let's us go back, for few minute's; On September 13 1971 it was a sad day for the state of New York, inmate's was being kill by state law enforcement on T.V. by the order of Govern Rockefeller, I was not the age 14 me and my fa...
PID
apw:12343757
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T17:56:12.993Z
Title
Easy pickings DOCCS' overtime scams making state coffers dry
Author
Messer, Sheldon
Date
2014-02-10
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Easy Pickings DOCCS' Overtime Scams Milking State Coffers Dry By Sheldon N. Meeser On January 30, 2014, Albany Times Union reporter, Rick Kerlin wrote an article entitled "State overtime. clock hit $611M: Crucial staffing needs blamed for rise; comptroller urges tightening". In the article, karlin reported that the state's overtime bill is increasing and the rise is due to a "smaller workforce" and downsizing of the state's workforce by Gov. Cuomo. What caug...
PID
apw:12350045
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T01:01:59.77Z
Title
Euphemism
Author
Gottsche, Marcus
Date
2020-02-08
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Euphemism A publication of the Attica Institute for Advanced Penological Studies Visiting professor Marcus Gottsche, author and lead researcher Euphemism. Noun. From the Greek eu- (good) + pheme (speech). 1. The use of a word or phrase that is less expressive or direct but considered less distasteful, less offensive, etc. than another. 2. A word or phrase so substituted. (Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4 Ed., 2005) Pro Se, the free publication of Prisoners' Legal Services o...
PID
apw:12361098
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:54:01.504Z
Title
Fifteen minutes
Author
Geri Q
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
'Fifteen Minutes' G. Allen Erwin I sit wooden, staring at my x-slashed calendar, calculating the days remaining. Prison is peppered with waiting, twenty plus years of maximum security captivity has habituated me to this reality. But this is different, this wait is for a pending HIV test. A critical screening, precipitated by a sexual assault. A tacit insult heaped atop an acute injury, regardless of endgame result. The consequences of a positive reading weigh heavily upon me. I know...
PID
apw:12357335
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:17:31.289Z
Title
Finding famiy: Volunteer programs bring about lasting rehabilitation in prison
Author
Roberts, Adam
Pages
5 pages
Text (O)
Finding Family: Volunteer Programs Bring About Lasting Rehabilitation in Prison By Adam Roberts The several reporters who’ve written about the Phoenix Players Theatre Group began by describing the imposing gray wall that surrounds Auburn Correctional Facility. But, as a prisoner, I don’t get to see the outer facade; I walk through the yard to attend our gatherings. And this isn’t about the group so much as it’s about one of my peers, Jim Ryant, a golden retriever of a guy. Let me note at the ...
PID
apw:12352791
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:34:04.515Z

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