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Title
16 years since inception.
Author
Martinez, Brandon
Date
2010-08-25
Date
2010-08-25, 2010-08-25
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (TR)
1 Brandon Martinez Word Count: 1,253 August 25, 2010 (NO TITLE) 16 years since inception. Been locked down in the department of correction entered the prison gate. Had no idea what would be my fate. Slangin the rocks from the triple beam. Was just a young buck having fun. Didnt realize what the cost of packing a gun. As I heard the iron gates rattle. Prepared for every twist and turn of the battle. For a life sentence surely I was doomed living in obscurity in a cocoon. Would I lose my mind. ...
PID
apw:176
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T17:52:37.443Z
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 baby brings changes
Author
AMOM
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (TR)
Alberto Otiniano California A Baby Bring Changes The Milk This story remember me to the milk, when a loving mother bring to nourishing to your baby, and the parents take care of him, even before to birth when the mother go to the doctor, sometimes the parents not planning to have a baby, not can't afford to have a baby. The mother will to quit work when the baby is born, and the parents are upset, but the month pass and she feel the baby kicking! The father put his hands on your wife abd...
PID
apw:12342730
Date Uploaded
2016-10-15T02:19:47.037Z
Title
A bitch slap to Nieztche
Author
Torres, Eduardo
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Bitch Slap to Nietzsche If you don't know who Nieztche is, he's a famous thinker from the late 19th century who is famous for deeming God as Dead and believing immorality is power to those who seek it and morality destroys individual lives. He believes apparantly that humans are not in any kind of spiritual battle exept with morality that "always" destroys people's lives, he must not believe in evil or aliens or supernatural balance is needed for existence He is in ...
PID
apw:12360512
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:36:45.145Z
Title
A boy who was lost, and grew up fast
Author
Carabajal, Ray Morin Fuentes
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Title: "A Boy Who Was Lost and Grew Up Fast (Faith in Believing; God is Waiting for Us)" From [Car BA] Hall: Never learned this world's education. Never knew English. He only spoke in Mexican and was given and gifted voice. He didn't know his purpose of why he was born and it took 35 years of street life to become known, to of why he was born. He was given the test of time and to perform every sinful act on this earth and only five sinful acts he was forbidden to do: 1. mu...
PID
apw:12352270
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T18:53:43.354Z
Title
A brief comment on prison reform in de-Christianized society
Author
Quintero, John
Date
2009-02-22
Pages
5 pages
State
Nevada
Text (O)
A Brief Comment on Prison Reform in De-Christianized Society St Thomas More once wrote a letter to console his daughter before his execution. He drew out a lengthy allergy of prison—like nature of life, and God-as- the-executioner, given the fact of certain pain of death. He argues that the degree of restriction while waiting for execution does not change the fact of the punishment at the end. The man in prison has limited physical freedom, but none the less enjoys the same freedom to meet hi...
PID
apw:12345823
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T15:52:55.611Z
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 double standard system of justice
Author
Pulgoso
Pages
8 pages
State
California
Text (TR)
Santiago Soto California "A Double Standard System of Justice" According to the political propaganda I belong to the worst of the worst human beings that deserves to be locked up for the rest of my life. Once, the prison system was incorporated to the country's economy (i.e. created jobs); all rehabilitation went out of the picture. The lockdowns became longer, riots, attempt to murders, and murder became regular and normal. All of California's level four maximum security ...
PID
apw:12343209
Date Uploaded
2016-10-17T18:54:15.914Z
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
Alchemy
Author
Torres, Eduardo
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Alchemy Alchemy brings up a set of insinuances like the fact its famous for turning metals into gold, and that now it is called chemistry. But I'm here to tell you its magical laws live on. From parenthood to personal wisdom and philosophy, alchemy lives on. It exists as the transference of energy. Alchemy is a term that brings people to edge, but it is relevant to life whether we recognize it or not. In our emotions, intelligence, and lifestyles alchemy exists as their mediator and the ...
PID
apw:12361324
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:59:21.981Z
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
Angels have names
Author
Quintero, John
Date
2009-02-15
Pages
4 pages
State
Nevada
Text (O)
Angels Have Names there are many things which are evident according to the senses, for which an explanation cannot be given on the basis of what Aristotle teaches... certain phenomena which do not seem capable of taking place except through some intellectual substance.” Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Separate Substances, 2,11 broc-/(16.5 5 We were doing bodies in the dirt of the parking lot in front of the cathedral, when my companion stopped and noticed our third party was gone. We were looking...
PID
apw:12345829
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T15:52:56.186Z
Title
Anger is
Author
Martinez, Brandon
Date
2010-08-17
Date
2010-08-17, 2010-08-17
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (TR)
NO TITLE Brandon Martinez, California Aug 17, 10 Anger is such a vicious lil seed that can wreck havoc in any given situation. If you allow it to spring fourth. Theyll come a point of no return. In the heat of the moment theyll be no turning back. With your mind in a stage of rage. It often becomes too difficult to process anything by that viciousness. Lord have mercy. One episode, one scenario will be all it will take. The such tragic atrocities that will have become as a result of anger. Th...
PID
apw:178
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T17:53:01.726Z
Title
Anger is such a vicious lil seed
Author
Martinez, Brandon
Date
2010-08-17
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (TR_WF)
Anger is Such a Vicious Lil Seed Anger is such a vicious lil seed that can wreck havoc in any given situation. If you allow it to spring fourth. They’ll come a point of no return. In the heat of the moment theyll be no turning back. With your mind in a state of rage. It often becomes too difficult to process anything but that viciousness. Lord have mercy. One episode, one scenario will be all it will take. The such tragic atrocities that will have become as a result of anger. Things seem to o...
PID
apw:12342896
Date Uploaded
2016-10-17T11:30:39.719Z
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
Barnicles
Author
Torres, Eduardo
Date
2020-04-26
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
4-26-20 PO Box 409020 Ione CA 95640 Barnicles Something's up with life, especially when you notice it's robbing you blind. Some people commit spiritual suicide while others stop believing in God's existence in their life altogether, but live devilishly. I'm amazed to know that everything I've ever heard about myths, religion, and me tell myself is true on some level. And to think I didn't believe it in the first place is equally amazing. It wasn't until I ca...
PID
apw:12361820
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:12:03.772Z
Title
Binary laws first became apparent to me
Author
Torres, Eduardo
Date
2020-02-24
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
2/24/20 Torres Eduardo Ione CA 95640 PO Box 409020 Binary laws first became apparent to me late in my teens like at age 18 or 19, I learned there is at least two sides to a speculation, but I knew it wasn’t always true or really something I should pay attention to. Now that I’m 24 I can see the matrix of subjectivism as a myraid in “God’s Kingdom”. The realm of God where we live in a box and only can be presented to out of the ordinary ideas by scarce hand-me-down knowlege. Delusions have it,...
PID
apw:12361336
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:59:38.036Z
Title
Blown out of proportion
Author
Morales, Efrain, Jr.
Date
2016
Pages
2 pages
Topics
Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O)
Efrain Morales, Jr. CT Approx. 670 words One-Time Rights + Electronic (COPYRIGHT 2016, By: Efrain Morales, Jr.) "Blown out of Proportion" By: Efrain Morales, Jr. Many citizens of free-world society are of the sentiment that sex offenders are crazed deviants who create new victims upon release from prison, even though Federal Bureau of Justice statistics prove otherwise. The overstated premise being "hidden crimes." This postulation is rarely challenged even by lucid-minded...
PID
apw:12350072
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T01:14:16.74Z
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
Brief biography and other information
Author
The Devil's Advocate
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Brief Biography and Other Information I am 51 years old originally from Chicago Illinois the youngest of six children born from 1947-1964. Parents both Hispanic, speak Spanish fluently but none of us kids ever learned. Moved to a south suburb in 1973 called Burnham where I grew up mostly from January 1973 to June 1981. Burnham was and still is a shithole of a town that was very racist and where my views and opinions of life and the world was formed and am currently paying the consequences for...
PID
apw:12352120
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T17:44:01.987Z
Title
Brown persuasion
Author
Manitas
Pages
4 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Title: Brown Persuasion Mi linda raza: Since ancient times we've suffered and withstood torrents of conquerers and invaders on our tierra. The affects we've suffered have almost disintegrated the social order of our brown culture. We must attempt to fully understand and recognize what this perpetual turmoil did to our raza's character. But of course, it's one thing to understand and another to feel, and not allow our positions to lead us to become just another addition of ...
PID
apw:12344962
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T13:04:34.928Z
Title
California elegy
Author
Villa, C.F.
Pages
13 pages
State
California
Text (O)
C.F. Villa K-64212 3,520 words D10-215 PO Box 7500 Crescent City, CA 95331 CALIFORNIA ELEGY By C.F. Villa On July 1st, 2011, California inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison ignited a prisoner hunger strike to call attention to the inhumane conditions in the state ’s Security Housing Units (SH Us). At the height of the hunger strike, July 8th, 2013, two-thirds of the state ’s 33 prisons and 4 out-of-state prisons participated: 30,000 inmates refused meals; 2, 300 refused work and school assignm...
PID
apw:12345077
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T14:33:14.317Z

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