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Title: All I have
Author: Valentine, Alex
Pages: 3 pages
State: California
Text (O): AFWA Essay Submission All I Have Pay attention. Parents and teachers say those words over and over, and it is so easy not to understand what they mean; to be annoyed by then; to reject them. They are, unfortunately, two of the most important words that you will ever hear when you are young, if not the most important. They do not mean ,iobeyn. If whoever says them includes that in their tone, then thay also misunderstand what it means to pay attention. And they suffer for it. Knowing that, rat...
PID: apw:12345073
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-22T14:32:48.285Z

Title: It's become as American as apple pie
Author: Sierra, Peter
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): It's become as American as apple pie. We catch glimpses of it on our favorite-shows; in our theaters and in our music. Yet it's a conversation most Americans feel uncomfortable having, and when we do have the conversation, it is so riddled with one sided union propaganda we can never get to the core of it or grasp the depth to which it touches so many of our fellow citizen's lives. Police corruption is an existent component of the penal system, rooted in the propaganda that pro...
PID: apw:12359658
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:30:11.153Z

Title: My name is Marquise (Louis) Drumwright
Author: Drumwright, Marquise L.
Pages: 1 page
Text (TR_WF): 7-30-19 To: A.P.W.A. c/o Hamilton College Hello!! & Warm welcomes! :), I want to first thank A.P.W.A. for giving me a chance to submit a true dialogue an experience of prison happenings. This is my essay: [Feel free to write me!] My name is Marquise (Louis) Drumwright, here (in prison) they call me "CDC #[ID] Mr. Drumwright!!" - *Loud obstructive voice*, I'm a only child raised through foster care an group homes: until I became older around 19-20, is when I found my birth p...
PID: apw:12359067
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:15:15.782Z

Title: Social chemistry
Author: Saenz, Anthony J.
Date: 2020-02-21
Pages: 7 pages
Text (TR_WF): Social Chemistry 2/21/20 In a not too extended format I will lay out where the social arena from maybe the early 1900s until now in 2020 have gone and developed. What sets the stage is no doubt multiflavored coming from many cultures and a few countries. In the suburban and outter cities of Los Angeles I would see so many different sorts of people and styles it was mind boggling. Not much of a traveler myself I cant say what a community in the more dormant mid-states would look like. Social c...
PID: apw:12361220
Date Uploaded: 2021-02-03T15:56:52.762Z

Title: Soledad
Author: Redwine, Raymond Allen
Date: 2019-03-24
Pages: 16 pages
Text (O): Raymond Allen Redwine G-13142 Essay for The American Prison Writing Archive by akaymond Allen Redwine SOLEDAD The official name of Soledad Prison is Correctional Training Facility (CTF). Located in Soledad; California, this prison was ‘ built in 1946 but is far from being run like the 72-year-old institution it is. One would think that such a mature facility would have worked out all the challenges necessary to run a prison efficiently and proficiently by now, yet this is not at all what we e...
PID: apw:12357569
Date Uploaded: 2019-10-28T20:25:39.426Z

Title: Tehachapi: An essay
Author: Redwine, Raymond Allen
Date: 2019-12-25
Pages: 22 pages
Text (TR_WF): American Prison Writing Archive @ The Digital Humanities Initiative Hamilton College 198 College Hill Road Clinton, NY 13323 apw.dhinitiative.org December 25, 2019 Tehachapi An Essay by Raymond Allen Redwine I've been here at Facility "E" in the California Correctional Institution (CCI) of Tehachapi, California, for a year now, so I thought it was time to enter a second essay into the American Prison Writing Archive. I'm unsure how many eyes will actually see my words but ...
PID: apw:12360813
Date Uploaded: 2021-02-03T15:44:42.83Z

Title: The tiers of LA County's Men's Central Jail
Author: Sierra, Peter
Pages: 3 pages
Text (TR_WF): NO TITLE The tiers of La County's Men's Central Jail. 3100 and 3300 high power modules were held in suspense and terror of the consequences that were going to fall upon the population of inmates that night. The terror was in-their-face personal as the screams of their peers echoed through out the entire module. It was mentally petrifying and heart achingly antagonizing to be any of the ones after the first the deputies would extract out their cells brutalizing harshly. The ethos of ...
PID: apw:12358689
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:05:28.699Z

Title: What ya life like?
Author: MC Twist Baugettez
Pages: 2 pages
Text (TR_WF): Song: What Ya Life Like? By MC Twist Baugettez Chorus: What ya life like? This is mine, a grown man locked in a cage confined, I went through manhood in a prison, still got love for my Brothers that’s locked up sittin, All I can say is when you come home try to shine, I’m out here on the streets tryin to survive, sometimes I find myself fallin off track, -n- I almost find myself comin right back Verse 1: It’s about to be my year You lookin at a Brother already did 9 years inside of the pen -n...
PID: apw:12358542
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T19:01:53.123Z

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