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Title
Angry man [baby] syndrome
Author
Givens, F.
Pages
8 pages
Text (TR_WF)
March 20, 2019 Angry Man [Baby] Syndrome by F. Givens Throughout my years of incarceration, I have sought to gain insight into who I really am. Through my efforts, it is now easier for me to identify many of my character defects, which allows me to correct some defects. As a corollary of self-awareness, I can now recognize traits of my own maladaptive behaviors exhibited in others. Such recognition allows me to have empathy towards these persons. One of the most demonstrative behaviors I have...
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apw:12357352
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:18:09.887Z
Title
Bridging the gap
Author
Stuckey, Andre
Pages
30 pages
PID
apw:12362083
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:24:09.16Z
Title
Criminalization and punishment in the United States
Author
Stuckey, Andre
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
Stuckey 1 Andre Stuckey Word Count: 1856 Criminalization and Punishment in the United States: Reconciliation and Remedies President Trump, California Governor Gavin Newson, the Federal Bureau of State Prison Officials, county and city jail officials are violating our state and United States Constitutional rights with the intent of breaking down and destroying men and women prisoners, family bonds, and moral ethics. Take a good look at the facts and see them for what they truly are. One would h...
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apw:12358163
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:51:58.739Z
Title
Death
Author
Cunningham, Al
Date
2010-10-29
Pages
1 page
State
California
Text (O)
A1 Cunningham E-22600 Oct. 29, 2010 D E A T W Death is an enigmatic ambiguity filled with mystifications to abstrused to decipher. Death is the only game a person cannot win. Death is what every living thing must eventually experience. Death i something which at first we try to ignore, then we fear, then we question, expect, rid eventually look forward to. Death is the one perplexing mystery we haven't any information —derived knowledge about beyond the grave. Death can happen at any mom...
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apw:12344447
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T12:10:27.005Z
Title
Freedom for a day
Author
Cunningham, Al
Date
2005-02-18
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Al Cunningham E—226OO 2/18/05 FREEDOM FOR A DAY In the past, I have expressed my sadness at not being able to see any forms of plant life growing and nature as a whole, as well as other such conditions and experiences which each and every person sees and endures within the activities and travels of their everyday lives on the outside. Often people don't even take the time to open up their eyes and appreciate the beauty which surrounds them, but for me, today was a day filled with wonder,...
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apw:12344451
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T12:10:28.27Z
Title
Hello there and how are you all doing
Author
Primes, Otis
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Full name of facility where I now reside: Mule Creek State Prison P.O. Box 409040 Ione, Calif. 95640 To: American Prison Writing Archive Publishers and Staff, Hello there and how are you all doing and feeling at this time today out there in the free society? I do hope that you all are in good health and care and enjoying of your lives out there in the free society with your dear family and friends? I'm doing okay for myself at this time today in health and mind besides being in a Calif. ...
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apw:12358797
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:08:13.16Z
Title
Hello: We are in a time
Author
Joe Boy
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Jessie James Harris Hello: We are in a time today in which nothing is right. In which we have government rules and laws we have to live by every day right or wrong. For instant... in my case I received sixteen years for an assault for trying to defend myself. Not known in California they don't have a self-defense laws. I should have knew from being in jail before. If you been in jail and prison like I have. before you sure to go back until they find the right rule or law and then you may...
PID
apw:12358665
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:04:54.091Z
Title
I'm here because I was denied
Author
Jones, Pearline
Date
43581
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
I’m using this paper format so I have a record and I can write more people at once. Pearline Jones I’m here because I was denied the right 2 represent myself or hire a lawyer. The conditions here r bad. Lots of civil rights violations. Appeals and grievances do no good. They just reject them so there is no record of them on file. To get a rejection back has taken up 2 45 days. I’m still trying 2 resolve a grievance I filed Dec 27, 18. They reject them 4 senseless reasons 2 detour the inmates ...
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apw:12358545
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:01:57.293Z
Title
Institutionalized racism perpetuate racial hatred, not just hatred towards other races, but hatred towards certain characteristic within ones own race.
Author
Dugma, Mutope
Pages
18 pages
State
California
Text (TR)
Mutope Duguma California Institutionalized Racism Perpetuate Racial Hatred, Not Just Hatred Towards Other Races, But Hatred Towards Certain Characteristic Within Ones Own Race. "Table of Contents" Human elements of institutionalized racism the 13th Amendment Part One 1. Prison politics 2. The Malthus plan 3. CCPOA-union 4. Conspiracy theory 5. Diabolical plan 6. Counter insurgent 7. Cannibalizing 8. Art of racism "Introduction" In this work I named five social characterist...
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apw:12342829
Date Uploaded
2016-10-17T10:53:00.376Z
Title
Life & death
Author
Cunningham, Al
Date
2008-06-13
Pages
1 page
State
California
Text (O)
A1 Cunningham E-22600 June 13, 2008 LIFE & DEATH It is said that a baby is born every minute of the day (24 hours). Some even say "every second." At any degree, its a lots of babies, and when you picture those cute little beings, a smile has to come to your face. As a matter of fact, everything about babies represent the beauty of life, of family, of love & happiness. It is the world ‘you’ live in, see and experience. Unfortunately, 'my' world is the complete oppos...
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apw:12344449
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T12:10:27.851Z
Title
Lights out
Author
Knox, Jamilah L.
Pages
2 pages
PID
apw:12362304
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:28:06.028Z
Title
No more death penalty
Author
Cunningham, Al
Pages
1 page
State
California
Text (O)
Al Cunningham Box E—22600 San Quentin, CA 94974 NO MORE DEATH PENALTY After a A year study, the independent, non-partisan California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice published their findings on the death penalty system in CA. It concluded that the “system is plagued with excessive delays in the appointments of counsel for direct appeals and habeas corpus petitions...and that the failures 511 the administration of California's death penalty law create cynicism and disrespe...
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apw:12344445
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T12:10:26.483Z
Title
Once againt I bring my
Author
Joe Boy
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Once again I bring my sergeant to you. I know in my first letter it was kind of hard to understand my writting, from my misspelling. I has a little help from a friend in this one. In doing my research on the Justice System. And my understand is, and I (quote) "there are fore proceeding. (1) arraignments, (2) preliminary (3) court, and trial. I went through the motion of going to court, only to hear my name and postponed for another date. Court is a legal proceeding by which a case is bro...
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apw:12357627
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:27:40.411Z
Title
Prisons were created to punsih, deter, and rehabilitate
Author
Owens, Michael L.
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Prisons were created to punish, deter, and rehabilitate, Presumibly, society holds rehabilitation as the most important of these functions because it is the only, one of them able to prevent future offenses. Even here in California, homeof the nation's most dysfunctional prison system, administrations have begun bending policy in a more rehabilitative direction. Providing reentry programs to a small number of inmates at select prisons has at last become a priority. Though far too limited...
PID
apw:12351532
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T23:11:36.775Z
Title
Revolutionary greetings!
Author
Watu, Ajamu
Date
2014-05-19
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (TR_WF)
Revolutionary Greetings! This letter is for Doran Larson or any associate of his. After reading my S.F. Bayview May issue I came across your article that I read and couldn't help but want to also express my thoughts on this paper so you can use this brief notation as another archive project you can share with others. Please! Be mindful that I'm a SHU (security housing unit) inmate and even though I don't have life without, 22 years in solitary confinement can and does drive som...
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apw:12343245
Date Uploaded
2016-10-17T20:19:41.55Z
Title
Safety and security
Author
Delaney, Ebony
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Essay: Safety and Security Often when people think of individuals being incarcerated, they rarely give thought to the concept of safety and security. It is generally believed that once handcuffs are placed on a suspect, the community is made safer, the person being detained will be safe in police custody and once actually incarcerated, in jail, state or federal prison, those charged with ensuring the safety and security, will adhere to their professional ethics. Nothing can be further from th...
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apw:12352092
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T17:43:23.989Z
Title
Teach the children
Author
Alexander, Earnest
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
"TEACH THE CHILDREN" GROWING UP IN SOUTH CENTRAL L.A. ON 68TH STREET AS A YOUNG BLACK MAN, I OFTEN WONDERED WHETHER I WOULD LIVE TO SEE THE AGE OF 50. A NUMBER OF MY HOMIES WAS GUNNED DOWN BEFORE THE AGES OF 21. THIS IS THE TYPE OF ENVIRONMENT I GREW UP IN WHICH IS SIMILAR TO MANY OTHER BLACK MEN AROUND THIS COUNTRY. MANY GROW UP IN POVERTY AND STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE. MANY OFTEN FALL VICTIM TO THE CYCLE OF POVERTY, LACK OF EDUCATION, UNEMPLOYMENT, BEING IN PRISON, BEING INVOLVED IN GAN...
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apw:12356346
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:22:09.912Z
Title
Thank you all for allowing me
Author
Watu, Ajamu
Date
2014-06-19
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (TR_WF)
Title: Thank you all for allowing me Greetings APWA program 6-19-14 Thank you for allowing me this opportunity to send in an essay for your program. I am one of many New Afrikkkans who languish behind enemy lines, known as the SHU, (Security Housing Unit) which is an oppressive [illegible] that is designed to break the will of political prisoners who struggle to end long term isolation, in solidarity with others of the different ethnicities, and who all come from the inner cities. As you may ...
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apw:12343249
Date Uploaded
2016-10-17T20:19:44.856Z
Title
The death penalty cost $$$
Author
Cunningham, Al
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Al Cunningham Box E—22600 San Quentin, CA 94974 THE DEATH PENALTY COST $$$ The death penalty costs millions of dollars yearly and may do little to make citizens safer, according to a report released by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. In its 43—page report "The Hidden Death Tax," the organization estimates that Californian taxpayers pay at least $117 million a year seeking the executions of those already on death row. This averages out at roughly $175,000 a...
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apw:12344441
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T12:10:25.953Z
Title
The economy of prisons
Author
Cunningham, Al
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (O)
A1 Cunningham Box E~226OO San Quentin, CA 94974 THE ECONOMY OF PRISONS Imprisonment is usually justified by appeals to one of two philosophies; protecting the public or rehabilitating the prisoner. By either standard, however, the evidence is overwhelming that prisons do not work. According to the Department of justice (Just Us), those states that have the highest budget for law enforcement — including courts, prisons, probation and parole - also have the highest levels of crime. If there is ...
PID
apw:12344454
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T12:10:30.483Z
Title
The force
Author
Knox, Jamilah L.
Pages
2 pages
PID
apw:12363068
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:41:36.545Z
Title
The world always seemed so small to me
Author
Smith, George KL
Date
43682
Pages
12 pages
PID
apw:12358801
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:08:20.511Z
Title
To be a California health care facility
Author
Joe Boy
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Jessie James Harris [ID] To be a California Health Care Facility (C-H-C-F). The spent $820 million or more to build the 6-year-old facility. To have problems that it has. They should have known, but didn’t provide a test of the water system to make a preliminary test, survey before entering on a course of action. In the Inspector General report; he did ten inspections on (C-H-C-F) and eight out of ten it felled. With no consideration for people life, health, and safety. I feel that custody an...
PID
apw:12358226
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:53:42.039Z
Title
Underneath my bed - a monster waits
Author
Cunningham, Al
Date
2000-01-01
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Al Cunningham Box E-22600 San Quentin, CA 94974 Jan. 1, 2000 
 Underneath My Bed - A Monster Waits 
 It is not uncommon that children often tend to believe that a monster lives underneath their beds. For me, the latest transformation in my present existence is something which is an everyday belief in the face of the reality which confronts me. Equally terrifying and destructive in my present state of mind is the fact that for me, this monster really does exist, because just five floors below ...
PID
apw:12344458
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T12:10:31.36Z

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