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Title
37
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
37 by Danny Cherry 37 by Danny Cherry pg. 1 My thirty-seventh birthday – February 18, 2020 – had been quite memorable; All things considered. The goddess Audrey Hepburn and I had eaten "Breakfast at Tiffany's" five days before. The pass I received on my birthday to the infirmary provided an opportunity for me to promote my work published in the Archive. The dentist entered urgent care just as I was exiting. "Did you enjoy reading the piece I gave you sir?" He had made...
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apw:12361313
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:59:07.805Z
Title
A Pollyanna in the penitentiary
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Pollyana in the Penitentiary by Danny Cherry As I sat reading Executive Regional Director Michael Osburn's response, I just shook my head and chuckled. I was way beyond the point of disgust given all that had happened up until that point. Writing the commissioner had always proven itself to be an exercise in futility, however, my conscious reasoning would never allow me to rest unless I dissented from the recidivistic conditioning of the Indiana State Reformatory. Initially, I became d...
PID
apw:12356553
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:11:52.048Z
Title
A brief summary of the demise of the Colorado Dept. of Corrections and poor drug offender reform
Author
Darris, Stephan
Date
2014-04-28
Date
2014-04-28, 2014-04-28
Pages
6 pages
State
Colorado
Text (FT)
A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE DEMISE OF THE COLORADO DEPT . OF CORRECTIONS AND POOR DRUG OFFENDER REFORM by: Stephan Darris While incarcerated in the state of Colorado I think it' s fair to say that your past dictates your future . I am not a lifer or a violent offe nder. I am a repeat drug offender that has witnessed some of the most vile atrocity ' s that the system can deliver. I think that most people in this institution live under propaganda, false hope, and make believe promises. It ...
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apw:288
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T18:25:24.791Z
Title
A cesspool full of drecks
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
10 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Cesspool Full of Drecks by Danny Cherry As I lay there in excruciating agony caused by the severe infection that had resulted from my untreated burns, I tried very hard not to cry. My salted tears only exacerbated the wounds on the left side of my face. The pain was crippling; it paralyzed me. My wounds bled profusely and oozed puss incessantly. My sheet and blanket were ruined -- stained with the essence of my tortured being. I wondered how much more that my body could bear before it yield...
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apw:12356723
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T18:32:42.239Z
Title
Advanced recidivism conditioning
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Advanced Recidivism Conditioning by Danny Cherry I had been torn from my sleep again by the continuous music that had blared from multiple offender's tablets, since they had been introduced into the Indiana State Reformatory - I was exhausted and sleep deprived. I would not have cared too much if the surrounding offenders had elected to blast symphonies, but they had chosen to broadcast toxic rap songs that promoted illegal drug distribution, illegal drug use, violence and sexual promisc...
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apw:12356408
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T14:51:08.819Z
Title
An erudite's antirecidivism medications
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
An Erudite's Antirecidivism Medications by Danny Cherry As the virulence of recidivism continued to run rampant through the Indiana Department of Correction, I did not cease from combating it with cultural medicines; I refused to allow myself to become infected. Although I was exceeding poor, I still made financial sacrifices in order to positively maintain my intellectual and emotional health. Pendleton's staff's refusal, for well over three months, to send money that I had tr...
PID
apw:12359685
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:30:49.881Z
Title
Beautiful enemies
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Beautiful Enemies by Danny Cherry pg. 1 I finally understood how sane women could have loved men like Christopher Columbus and Adolf Hitler; I had strong physical attractions to a few of Pendleton's tyrants. The equilibrium of love and lust I felt for them was a by-product of my loneliness -- great solace came whenever I saw or though of sexually clandestined escapes with those forbidden lovers. Cruel despots -- the most handsome men I had ever seen, consumed me in my moments of despair;...
PID
apw:12361147
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:55:10.528Z
Title
Cabin fever in COVID confinement
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-06-28
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
-Submission- Sunday 6-28-2020 "Cabin Fever" in Covid Confinement Let me begin by telling ya'll that we've <prisoners in Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility> been on this modified program since the end of February 2020 an it's almost July 2020 in a few days. So add that up an think how stir crazy a regular person might act, much less a person with mental health problems like I do. They told us <mental health staff> that the program may return to some t...
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apw:12360380
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:47:02.999Z
Title
Concentration camp
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Concentration Camp by Danny Cherry I imagined the inhumanity that Anne Frank witnessed and endured, as we chronic care prisoners were being herded through Pendleton's cafeteria to receive flu shots. Indescribable fear paralyzed me; medical staff threw used syringes onto tables where we would be eating later; I had HIV, my blood alone was a deadly weapon. Rapid thoughts raced in my mind, as I pondered what infectious diseases flowed through the veins of the remaining multitude. I requeste...
PID
apw:12359695
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:31:03.818Z
Title
Contracted
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-08-06
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"Contracted" Thursday 8-6-2020 Well everyone, Covid-19 has finally reached the prison I'm incarcerated at (Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility), so I diligently have to be on guard against catching it by doing all the preventative measures that we are advised to do by medical professionals like...wearing my mask, wearing gloves, distancing myself, disinfecting everything around me regularly, washing anything I wear right away and bathing as much as possible. On 8-4-20, the...
PID
apw:12360426
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:48:42.65Z
Title
Coronavirus while incarcerated has been mentally difficult
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-06-09
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Submission Tuesday 6-9-2020 Coronavirus while incarcerated has been mentally difficult because I have nothing really to do but think and worry about when this will be over so the program can go back to the way it was. Most of the inmates I've talked to, feel that the Administration will trick us an keep things like they are now or only give us (inmates) certain privileges back. To me, I'm only getting stronger by being forced to deal head-on with my mental thoughts that would usuall...
PID
apw:12360302
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:44:46.052Z
Title
Covid credits
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Pages
1 page
PID
apw:12362556
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:32:25.892Z
Title
Covid-19 complications in prison
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-04-09
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
pg. 1. - Submission- Thursday 4/9/20 "Covid-19 Complications in Prison" About <2> months ago our prison <Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility> in San Diego, CA. was put on Modified Program with restricted Group Gatherings, which has been hard on me because I'm in a mental health E.O.P. <Enhanced-Outpatient-Program> that usually has me and other inmates going back and forth to at least <10> hours of self-help groups a week, but now we aren't allo...
PID
apw:12360136
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:39:38.402Z
Title
Covid-19 conditions & complications
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-05-09
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Covid-19 Conditions & Complications Pg. 1. Submission Saturday 5-9-20 This letter is in receipt of your letter dated on May 5th, 2020. My first essay to A.P.W.A. talked about coronavirus [an and] how I am dealing with it but I feel it's important to [acurately accurately] report or write what I and others are dealing with it too. To date we <prisoners at R.J.D.C.F.> have been on modified lockdown with only officer escorted medical and mental health appointments like emergency s...
PID
apw:12360212
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:42:18.344Z
Title
Dreadnought
Author
Fleming, Lance
Pages
8 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Fleming/Dread/1 ESSAY DREADNOUGHT Being in prison is like swimming in shark infested waters; you might navigate safely back to shore, but, then again, you might not——you could get eaten alive before you reach the beach. The first time I laid eyes on Folsom Prison my heart nearly stopped beating“ Seeing that massive wall of solid granite rock felt like the closing of a concrete casket. As the prison bus slowly moved up the hill, what little hope that remained in my veins seemed to hem» orrhage...
PID
apw:12344515
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T15:42:00.026Z
Title
Every member of the human
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Date
2019-02-13
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Danny Cherry IN 2-13-19 Dear APWA Editors, Every member of the human race is entitled to dignity and equality. That being said, I am not an "incarcerated [writer]," I am a writer who is incarcerated. To expound—without a doubt—would be an exercise in futility, especially to marginalized people suffering from delusions of superiority over members of the population whom have been disenfranchised by crime. Such prejudice against prisoners is unbecoming, degrading, but worst of all segr...
PID
apw:12356189
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:12:47.905Z
Title
Felo-de-se
Author
Fleming, Lance
Pages
5 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Felo-de-se Fleming Characters: Ulysses Washington -- a Black male, educated, multiple murderer. Leroy Jones -- a Black male, illiterate, robber. Scene: A four-by-ten foot cell in a maximum security prison. It is occupied by two men dressed in prison clothes. Leroy ]ones is lying on the bottom bunk reading a Players magazine. Ulysses Washington, dressed only in his underwear, is standing in the back of the cell tying a noose around a ceiling light fixture. The noose is made of torn, braided be...
PID
apw:12344530
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T15:42:02.255Z
Title
Haters and hypocrisy
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Haters and Hypocrisy by Danny Cherry The terror I felt when I rose and saw that my mail had been placed on my door’s port was so potent that it quickened me from my somnambulistic trance. I was appalled by the fact that Sergeant Prater had done such an unethical thing. I was even more disgusted that our range detail or anyone who went to med line had not the decency to either have woken me or- at the very least- to have thrown my correspondences on my cell’s floor. Out of my naïveté, I had fo...
PID
apw:12356495
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T14:53:54.804Z
Title
Hope in humanity
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-07-22
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
- Submission - pg. 1. Wednesday 7-22-2020 "Hope in Humanity" About two months ago, I began receiving mail from pen pals from different states on the streets who unknowingly helped me revive my faith in humanity at a point in my life when I was losing hope in humanity and today’s society. What I mean by saying “today’s society” is that; people in general seem to have lost their sense of empathy and sympathy for other humans from what I see on the news, which depresses me. Without peo...
PID
apw:12362817
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:37:10.985Z
Title
I broke the law
Author
James
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
I broke the law. And in breaking the law I was aware that I will be sentence to a prison term. What I wasn't aware of in serving that prison term is the constant physical, verbal, and mental abuse. Also the constant racism this is why it is easy to say that the prison system is modern day slavery. I dont want to complain and not take responsibility for my actions. That is not case. The prison system is a cesspool of perpetual negativity. The average prisoner has to be on guard from both ...
PID
apw:12354700
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:31:47.563Z
Title
Immortality becomes him
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
3 pages
PID
apw:12361143
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:55:03.413Z
Title
Keeping calm in the crisis of Covid-19
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Submission for A.P.W.A. "Keeping Calm In the Crisis of Covid-19," Truthfully, keeping calm is really difficult for me because I only have my Mom by my side throughout my prison incarceration, plus she's the only one who takes care of my needs, whether emotionally, mentally, or financially. I worry about me catching, then dying from Covid-19 but the prison officials or powers-that-be, doesn't tell her an lies as to the real cause of my demise. Then on the flip side, what if...
PID
apw:12360253
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:43:23.85Z
Title
Light through darkness
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2021-03-04
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
- Submission - pg. 1. Thursday 3-4-2021 "Light through Darkness" Hello everyone! I’m sorry that I haven’t written any essays or stories in awhile but I’ve been experiencing some unforeseen highs and lows due to Covid-19. After all I’ve told you about being careful and practicing the necessary precautions, I still contracted Covid-19 and had to be placed inside the gym where they <the administration and medical staff> set up bunk beds for about a hundred (100) to be housed for ...
PID
apw:12363335
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:46:28.363Z
Title
Misunderstood
Author
Taylor, Shariff
Date
2020-06-17
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
- Submission - 1. Wednesday 6-17-2020 "Misunderstood" My life in a California Prison has been exceptionally hard, due to being misunderstood by my peers because they don't know anything about the different spectrums of sexual orientation and identity in the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community, so trying to explain this to everyone is difficult, but I feel is worth it to maybe stop people from hating us or pre-judging my people. Although the prison system only has two destinations, male and t...
PID
apw:12362365
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:29:07.324Z

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