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Title
4993 word essay
Author
Powers-Wali, Anthony
Pages
16 pages
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4993 Word Essay At the age of sixteen I was incarcerated for First Degree Murder and later sentenced to 77-years in prison. There seemed to be little consideration of the affects it would have on a teenager to be housed with adults. Fortunately for me I was a fighter. There is a strange unwritten rule in prison that if somebody is willing to stick up for himself from day one then other prisoners will be willing to help him. If you don't stand up for yourself then you are left to the wolv...
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apw:12347577
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:26:46.677Z
Title
A recent study read that
Author
Rupert, Bob G.
Pages
2 pages
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Editor: College Hill A recent study read that there is over 1.7 million children effected by incarcerated parent. The incarceration of these children statistics show increases to an incredible level. Historical levels, the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals clearly disproved the myth that decreasing crime rates have anything to do with increasing incarceration and announced that prisons unmistakably create crime rather than prevent it. Out of control incarcer...
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apw:12357792
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:33:17.288Z
Title
An ordeal
Author
Sandy
Pages
3 pages
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An Ordeal I'm a prisoner serving consecutive life terms here in Washington State. I'm also a Christian. In the late 1980's another inmate, who was serving Life without the Possibility of Parole, told me about two rape/murders that he'd committed that he'd never been caught for. This inmates name was Michael. I asked him if anyone had been charged or convicted for the crimes. He told me not that he knew of. I thought about what Michael had shared with me. He professed ...
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apw:12347594
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:26:47.236Z
Title
Crime in black community
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Crime in Black Community Crime first originates in the mind which encompasses many factors that, across all social, economic and racial barriers. Its causes and effects have racial barriers. Its causes and effects have long been studied by sociologist and debated by scholars abroad, but it all derives from the wrong application of thought. There is no crime free communities, but in most tight knitted communities crimes are more infrequent and less violent as a child growing up in the inner ci...
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apw:12358380
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2020-06-18T18:57:41.779Z
Title
Free my mind
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
2 pages
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Free My Mind You may have incarcerated my body, but you’ll never arrest my mind. With each passing day I am free though different recessed of time. I am able to spend time with my deceased mother, hug and kiss my loving granny, play ball with my child, and visit the rest of my extended family. Where if I so choose, I can even visit other states, or travel up to the moon to see the aliens face to face. You’ll never be able to blind my spirit, therefore I remain free on this slave plantation. N...
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apw:12358410
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2020-06-18T18:58:22.55Z
Title
Gangstas lifestyle
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
3 pages
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Gangstas Lifestyle What it about "gangsta lifestyle" that's so alluring and enticing, that draws and pulls so many youths to commit their lives to a world of disorder and destruction? That compels them to defy their parents? That enables them to become disrespectful and belligerent towards those that care about them? How can it so easily steal youth from normal lives, involving them in a path criminal activities, alcohol and drug use? What does it possess that makes it a very p...
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apw:12358403
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2020-06-18T18:58:12.731Z
Title
Hello, I am writing in response
Author
Phelps, Rufus Andrew, III
Date
2014-02-26
Pages
3 pages
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2.26.2014 The American Prison Writing Project 198 College Hill Road Clinton, NY Dear APWA, Hello, I am writing in response to your ad in the Prison Legal News. I want to actively participate in the project. Right now, I am currently incarcerated in the Washington State Department of Corrections. I am here on a First Degree Robbery charge. I robbed a bank in Elma, WA, (with a note), went to a jury trial and received 14 and a half years for my bad judgement. I hate it when that happens...Such i...
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apw:12347570
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2017-08-16T15:26:45.771Z
Title
Here is my submission
Author
Keller, Paul
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE May 31, 2016 Here is my submission I am writing this in the hopes that all the efforts of staff and inmates, who have long provided factual insights, who've long been ignored and dismissed, will finally be heard. For the purpose of this letter, "DOC" is a generic reference to individual prison administrations and centralized ("headquarters") prison overseers, including those under both public and private management. I am 23 and a half years into a life senten...
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apw:12347539
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2017-08-16T15:26:44.896Z
Title
I am currently incarcerated
Author
Shelley, Edward C.
Pages
11 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE I am currently incarcerated in a Washington State Correctional Institution serving a 129 month sentence of which I have just completed 5 years. I have spent 8 of my last 11 years in an incarcerated situation. Looking back over my life, it is hard to believe I have come to this point. Yet in retrospect, I can clearly see where my alcoholism and drug addiction led me to make some poor choices in my life, and I certainly didn't heed the warning signs that are so clear to me now. Pr...
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apw:12347904
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:31.091Z
Title
I had opportunity to see
Author
Rupert, Bob G.
Date
2019-04-17
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[No title] Editor Hill College 4-17-19 I had opportunity to see a article on Al Sharpton. Supporting criminal justice reform. As a 2020 presidential running platform. Apparently... It's Mr. Sharpton's position that there exist a voter's base that can be utilized. Due to the over 2.24 million incarcerated. Over 4.8 million under some form of supervision. This is a obvious hyper-incarceration crisis. The calling of America This is mass incarceration is on a scale of historical le...
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apw:12357795
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:33:22.324Z
Title
I have seen the angel death
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
1 page
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I Have Seen the Angel Death I have seen the face of life and I have seen the grip of death and I have seen interesting sights in between and I have seen good times in the world I have seen bad times on those street corners I have seen time of death’s life fly by I have seen the red sun rise high and I have seen the orange sun set low and I have seen the full moon and I have seen the eclipse of the moon and I have seen the clouds cover the whole sky I have seen the seasons change One hundred f...
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apw:12358388
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2020-06-18T18:57:53.24Z
Title
I would like to first express my gratitude
Author
Nermirttan, Ni
Date
2010-03-28
Pages
11 pages
Text (FT)
Essay Submission for: Voices Through the Wall: Prisoners Write About Prisons Submitted by: Robin A. Rittermann - 884465 Airway Heights Correction Center P.O. Box 2049 M-Unit Airway Heights, WA. 99001 I would like to first express my gratitude to everyone who has made it possible for we as prisoners to have this unique opportunity. There are many men in prison who are smarter than I and have had much more diverse and profound experiences in prison than I have. I am still fairly new to prison. ...
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apw:12347558
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:26:45.581Z
Title
Imprisonment blacks
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
3 pages
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Imprisonment Blacks Does it have to be a waste of time? I posed this poignant to myself after a recent exchange with a fellow prisoners whom I hold enormous respect. On this particular day, I overheard him lamenting having spent the last 20 years in prison. A recent sentence reduction leaves him with less than two years remaining. However, what caught my attention was his statement that, “all of this time has been wasted. At this point, I was moved to interject my perspective. I stressed to h...
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apw:12358384
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2020-06-18T18:57:47.807Z
Title
In 1974, when I was nine years old
Author
Barstad, James
Pages
3 pages
Text (FT)
James Barstad [#759730] MONROE CORRECTIONAL COMPLEX P.O BOX 111; WSRU-B123 Monroe, Washington [98272] In 1974, when I was nine years old, I was molested at Camp Cowles, BSA, a Boy Scout camp at Diamond Lake, Washington. The offenders were members of the Spokane Sheriffs Department. It came to light that members of the Sheriffs and the clergy operating the Momingstar Boy's Ranch had been victimizing boys and young adults for many decades. The scandal included Jim West, who eventually rose...
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apw:12347498
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2017-08-16T15:18:13.706Z
Title
Incarcerated inmates lives matter
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Minister Khalil Shabazz Muhammad AKA Mr. Dewayne Lee Harris #[ID] The system as well the Civil Rights Movement illustrates the potential of a coalition between a disadvantaged group working with allies from a wide range of people colors. Everyone brought their own perspective and moral commitment to the struggle; and willingness to risk their own perspective and moral commitment to the struggle; and willingness to risk their lives that forced American society as a whole to confront the ugly t...
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apw:12358371
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:57:27.638Z
Title
Institutional enlightenment
Author
Bartholomew, Steven
Pages
14 pages
Text (FT)
by Steve Bartholomew Institutional Enlightenment "You're institutionalized," she said. Silence crackled along the phone wires while I decided precisely where on the scale of mistakenness she was and how I might say as much without sounding defensive. Ue'd fallen off, she and I, a decade ago. Prison will do that. Ue'd recently begun writing again, but you can't proofread a phone call, and the immediacy of conversation thrummed my nervous system like a guitar strin...
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apw:12347516
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:18:14.945Z
Title
My justice experience, so far...
Author
Barstad, James
Pages
5 pages
Text (FT)
M Y .n JSTTCF FXPKRTENCR, S O FAR... Coming to prison actually saved my life. Due to sexual abuse as a child, I started to drinl<: and abuse drugs very early in my life, at age nine. I don't remember any real childhood in which drugs and alcohols did not play a part. The road of my life was inevitably leading to one of two conclusions. One was prison, the other one death. It is quite possible that I actually did die in the five-car collision that was the beginning of my present ordeal...
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apw:12347492
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:18:13.27Z
Title
No choice
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The American Writing Archive 198 College Hill RD Hamilton College Clinton, NY 13323 To Whom this Letter May Concern: My name is Minister Khalil Shabazz Muhammad A Washington State prisoner. I am writing concerning your writing program. I am interested in your writing program itself. No Choice: I feel the restraints that society brings the sorrow, pains and the extreme chaos it gains why do we “the misunderstood” stand accused of these things labeled as incorrigible then locked up in chains? I...
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apw:12358395
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:58:02.607Z
Title
One
Author
Barstad, James
Pages
3 pages
Text (FT)
James Barstad ONE "Life sucksr That was the one thought going through my head, when I realized that I was in a mental institution. I had bounced off of a couple cars, cut myself a couple times, and my girlfriend's dad thought I was suicidal. Of course, I wasn't. I was just upset, and expressing myself in the only way I knew how. I wasn't crazy\ Regardless, I was tricked into going to the hospital with him. Once there, I was locked in a room. Then, since they didn't ha...
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apw:12347502
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:18:13.94Z
Title
Oregon/Louisiana non-unanimous v. unanimous verdicts un-constitutional
Author
Rupert, Bob G.
Date
43721
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A.P.N.A Re: Oregon/ Louisiana non-unanimous v. unanimous verdicts *un-constitutional* Recently... the issue of nun-unanimous jury verdicts have become a hot legal topic in Oregon/ Louisiana's, Judicial system. The United States Supreme court is set to make a ruling 10/2019. "Only", two states utilize non-unanimous jury verdicts. Apparently... in *acknowledgement* of a constitutional violation of a very fundamental right. The Louisiana law maker's and the judicial system co...
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apw:12359147
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2020-06-18T19:17:10.654Z
Title
Our voices
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Our Voices The word “innocent in the criminal justice system” is often mentioned when one individual is telling another individual about someone they know who did not commit a crime individual have been accused of. When an individual innocent is exonerated for being wrongfully convicted, he or she gets the public’s sympathy - which they should - but those individuals who are seeking help to prove theirs get ignored. To allow someone you know is innocent to linger in on the slave prison planta...
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apw:12358492
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:00:31.839Z
Title
Parole, the path forward
Author
Moody, James C.
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Parole: The Path Forward by James C. Moody In 1983, the state of Washington passed the sentencing reform act (SRA) which, among other things did away with parole here in our state. The unintended consequence of this, the inmates behavior, good or bad, was no longer a deciding factor when it came to setting their respective release dates. Parole incentivized and rewarded good behavior. Now, the state legislative is considering a bill which would bring parole back to our state, a much needed re...
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apw:12353358
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T18:57:19.335Z
Title
Re: Mr. Lamonte McIntyre
Author
Rupert, Bob G.
Pages
8 pages
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Mr. Berg 10/20/17 Re: Mr. Lamonte McIntyre KC. Star 10/12/17 I've read a series of articles regarding the *wrongful conviction* of Mr. McIntyre. I noted, there is no mention of his Criminal Defense Counsel - at the original trial process - there clearly, were horrid deficiencies and absolutely an unconstitutional level of representation. *Obviously* [de-mining?] of his 6th Amendment Rights as well... As other rights - Clearly... This wrongfully convicted fellow... Would have spent his &q...
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apw:12351100
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T17:50:44.125Z
Title
Re: the politics of monopolies within WA DOC
Author
Phelps, Rufus Andrew, III
Date
2014-04-26
Pages
2 pages
Text (FT)
4.26.2014 The Aiiiierican Prison V/riting Project 198 College Hill Koad Clinton,NY 13323-1218 Re: The Politics of Monopolies within WA DOC Dear APV/A, Hello again. 1 am writing about the conditions that are so very prevalent within this organization that is the Washington Department of ^Corruption^. They practice «very monopoly action that they feel that they can get away with or justify. For example, they are in with a subsidiary that they are promoting and shoving down our throats is called...
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apw:12347574
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:26:46.117Z

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