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- Title
- 1st amendment under siege
- Author
- Magnific, Roc
- Date
- 2017-03-03
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (TR_WF)
- "1st Amendment Under Siege" Recently last year (May,2016) Arkansas Department of Correction Czarina Wendy Kelly issued a rather fastidious policy that cited newspaper clippings would be banned from prisoner mail, classifying them as (wait for it - with bated breath) "contraband"!? According [ineligible] to ADC (Ay, Carumba! Arkansas Department of Corruption) policy, they are... concerned about drug smuggling but said vitiated policy does not affect newspapers sent directly...
- PID
- apw:12350565
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T14:09:39.949Z
- Title
- 4993 word essay
- Author
- Powers-Wali, Anthony
- Pages
- 16 pages
- Text (FT)
- 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...
- PID
- apw:12347577
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T15:26:46.677Z
- Title
- A day in the life of time
- Author
- Clemmons-Bey, Eric
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- A Day in the Life of Time My name is Eric. I was born and raised in St.Louis, but for the past 34 years I have been in prison in Missouri. I have been in the South East Correctional Center at Charleston, Missouri for seven years now. When I was 21, I was sentenced to 50 years without the possibility of parole for killing a young man who was trying to rob my younger brother. I did not have a prison record. Very few people have any idea what it is like to be incarcerated for decades. Here is wh...
- PID
- apw:12346733
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T00:44:48.789Z
- Title
- A lesson in language
- Author
- Piwowar, Robert
- Pages
- 14 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- A Lesson in Language Incarceration has forced me to postpone my plans of travelling to the continents of Europe and Asia. Six years into a twenty year sentence for manslaughter, watching Globe Trekker on PBS or flipping through vacation mags in the prison library is the closest I get. My travels into Quebec and Mexico taught me that every street sign, television or radio program, menu, and all product packaging provides a lesson in language. Simply going about a regular routine in a foreign l...
- PID
- apw:12347101
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T14:22:45.331Z
- Title
- A perspective on prison
- Author
- Beverley, Michael
- Pages
- 13 pages
- State
- New Hampshire
- Text (O)
- A Perspective on Prison By Michael B. Beverley When I was a boy, my mother often said that one-day people would no longer have names, we would be known only by a number. I know she didn’t mean what I would bring upon myself, yet it is not entirely disingenuous to say I am now known as 78552. That is my inmate ID within the New Hampshire state prison system. However, I would rather be remembered as Michael. Though I am now a felon, it wasn’t how my life began. I was the third of eight children...
- PID
- apw:12345755
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-24T12:49:45.093Z
- Title
- A renaissance
- Author
- Whetzel, Stephen
- Date
- 2010-07-20
- Date
- 2010-07-20, 2010-07-20
- Pages
- 12 pages
- State
- Indiana
- Topics
- pen pals, psychiatric aid, confessional, personal story
- Text (FT)
- A Renaissance by Stephen Whetzel Page 1 of 12 It started with a visit to the psychologist. Behind the ominous, gray, concrete wall surrounding the Indiana State Reformatory, not many areas existed where one could go to in order to escape the late summer heat. That old maximum-security prison, a place born of a harsher time, was never known for comforts. Therefore, whether or not I felt the need for a counseling session with Eric, my psychologist and substance abuse counselor, I looked forward...
- PID
- apw:12341322
- Date Uploaded
- 2015-09-27T12:48:43.808Z
- Title
- A.V.P.
- Author
- Brown, Rahasheem
- Pages
- 3 pages
- State
- New York
- Text (TR_WF)
- A.V.P. How can violence be reduced in prison? Well, in my own opinion, the answer is simple: support the "Alternative to Violence Project!" This program, started by Quaker's back in the late 1970's right here at Green Haven Correctional Facility, is one which is now being used to combat the spread and use of violence all over the world. The Alternative to Violence Project (from this point on, to be referred to as A.V.P.) is an interactive workshop, that gives insight to it...
- PID
- apw:12343778
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-19T17:56:13.847Z
- Title
- American prisons and free-world staff not ready for second wave of COVID
- Author
- Magnitic, Roc
- Pages
- 7 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (TR_WF)
- "American Prisons and Free-World Staff Not Ready for Second Wave of Covid" "When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity." Never before have many would have thought such a [crisis?] as the Covid-19 pandemic would wreck havoc upon all parts of American life. But when it comes to prisons, a lot of the free-world staff (e.g. - guards, medical staff) as well as the residents of t...
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- apw:12361864
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-02-03T16:13:06.874Z
- Title
- Betrayal
- Author
- Harris, Larry "Rocky"
- Pages
- 6 pages
- State
- Illinois
- Text (O)
- Betrayal By Larry “Rocky " Harris Everyday across America, the innocent are sent to prison. This is an ugly fact that most citizens of this great country do not want to deal with. It is not a topic that will come up over cocktails with friends. I The segment of the American population involved in this nightmare is usually the poor, specifically a poor man sold out by the public defender appointed to the criminal case. The case I write about falls into this category: a poor man raising his...
- PID
- apw:12345327
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-23T17:20:46.928Z
- Title
- Black Lives Matter: Are they ignoring Blacks in prison?
- Author
- Magnitic, Roc
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (TR_WF)
- “Black Lives Matter: Are They Ignoring Blacks In Prison?" Ever since its origin in 2013, the Black Lives Matter movement has… repeatedly stressed it was founded on the idea that Blacks were ad libitum being targeted as well as being murdered by police for being Black indiscriminately. As a Black man who has experienced police paramilitary tactics while (WWB) in the wee hours of the morning, of which such was used to obtain a... search warrant (with affidavit) whereas police lied in their...
- PID
- apw:12363057
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:41:25.707Z
- Title
- Bread and water vegan : struggling for health and humanity inside prison
- Author
- Allah, Intelligent
- Pages
- 4 pages
- State
- New York
- Text (O)
- Intelligent Allah 1,014 words #95A4315 Woodbourne Cor. Facility Box 1000 Woodbourne, N.Y. 12788 BREAD AND WATER VEGAN Struggling for Health and Humanity inside Prison By Intelligent Allah Milk and hamburgers are staples of the state prison diet, not almond milk and soy burgers. Processed canned fruit soaked in high fructose corn syrup is a commissary privilege, but there is no fresh fruit. Suede boots are issued by the New York State Department of Correctional Services, yet animal—friendly bo...
- PID
- apw:12345872
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-24T18:13:42.242Z
- Title
- C O P S, Pa. style
- Author
- Carroll, Wesley R.
- Date
- 2016
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (TR_WF)
- COPS, Pa. Style By Wesley Carroll Within the courthouse, during a criminal felony trial, the proceedings went as follows. As I was cross examining a police office, it went as follows... I said, "Officer, did you see my client, the accused defendant handcuffed and sitting at my table in the court, in this criminal case, flee the scene of the crime?" The officer said, "No sir, but I subsequently observed a person matching the description of the offender several blocks away."...
- PID
- apw:12347237
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T14:48:16.955Z
- Title
- Censorship in Michigan prisons
- Author
- Hamilton, Lacino
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- Eensorship In Michigan Prisons By: Uacino Hamilton Today, another book was rejected. The fifth time in the past two weeks this has happened. All because the book wasn't sent from an "approved vendor." To the uninformed public such a requirement may appear on its face reasonable, the Michigan department of Corrections should control where information prisoners are receiving is coming from, and what that information is. But in practice, its a form of censorship. A policy that pro...
- PID
- apw:12351823
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-17T02:47:33.878Z
- Title
- Christmas - Thanksgiving on going discriminations
- Author
- Carroll, Wesley R.
- Date
- 2015
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (FT)
- S.C.I. WAYMART, Waymart, Pa. 18472 CHRISTMAS - THANKSGIVING ON GOING DISCRIMINATIONS Apparently since my win of grievance #596611, nothing was corrected nor did defendants comply. Defendants even went further by somehow getting the inmate accounting dept. (and others) to take all my monies from Oct., Nov., Dec. 2015, and continuing. This means as well that I continued to work hard on my kitchen job for all these months, yet get NO PAY. Thruout Nov., Dec. and ongoing, I have been denied all co...
- PID
- apw:12347229
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T14:48:16.501Z
- Title
- Criminal justice system, hypocrisy
- Author
- Carroll, Wesley R.
- Date
- 2016
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Criminal Justice System, Hypocrisy By Wesley Carroll Isn't it amazing? I and many thousands of others have been saying for many years, that the so called entire criminal justice system, is totally broken. Not until after so many of us have been wrongfully passively injured by it, and much public protest, officials now say the same thing. It has been a proven fact for many years that it is totally ineffective, broken, discriminatory, and in many cases has killed. Where is the real crimina...
- PID
- apw:12347248
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T14:48:18.292Z
- Title
- Egyptian days for one gallimaufry enterprise
- Author
- Magnific, Roc
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (TR_WF)
- Egyptian Days for One Gallimaufry Enterprise If you operate an enterprise built upon desiring and getting the gold of Tolash (e.g., ill-gotten wealth will do no one good) that's not worth a tinker's damn, you will be a business many consider "ne touchez pas, nole me tangere" (e.g., one not to be touched). This is what's facing the Kakistrecratic Arkansas Department of Correction as it finds itself stricken with one gey case of "blue flu" and increasing inmat...
- PID
- apw:12351169
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T17:50:48.359Z
- Title
- First amendment under attack in Illinois' prisons: the price of dissent
- Author
- Peter, George, Jr.
- Pages
- 11 pages
- State
- Illinois
- Text (O)
- FIRST AMENDMENT UNDER ATTACK IN ILLINOIS’ PRISONS: THE PRICE OF DISSENT Exercising one's first amendment rights is analogous to breathing; we only learn to appreciate it when our capacity to I do either is impinged upon. However, there are certain events which serve to heighten an individual's awareness to particular circumstances, and for those of us who are incarcerated, we quickly discover how tenuous our ability is to engage in first amendment activities that the average person ...
- PID
- apw:12345356
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-23T17:20:49.235Z
- Title
- From public enemy to enemy of the state
- Author
- Holbrook, Robert Saleem
- Date
- 2008-05-30
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- Page 1 of 4 From Public Enemy To Enemy of The State by Robert Saleem Holbrook When I was a child I used to often walk past the old Eastern State Penitentiary on Fairmount Avenue in North Philadelphia and stare in awe at its high walls and ramparts seemingly towering into the sky believing naivety that the old prison was an ancient castle from the days of knights and kings. There were times myself and other kids my age used to try and scale the walls to get a glimpse of what was inside, how ir...
- PID
- apw:12351243
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T18:28:07.223Z
- 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...
- PID
- apw:12347904
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-11-02T19:42:31.091Z
- Title
- Interview of Lacino Hamilton by the opening statement (2)
- Author
- Hamilton, Lacino
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- INTERVIEW OF LACINO HAMILTON BY THE OPENING STATEMENT OS: What is the first thing you want people to know about living in prison? LACINO: That prison is an emotional and psychological torture that is far worse than any torture to the body, by design. Days and weeks and months and years of being told up is down and right is left, punished for not acquiescing, for not showing extreme deference, influences the oven/vhelming majority of imprisoned men and women to give up or give in, and become mer...
- PID
- apw:12357190
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-10-28T20:12:38.51Z
- Title
- Is the American deus ex machina in trouble?
- Author
- Magnific, Roc
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (TR_WF)
- "Is the American Deus Ex Machina in Trouble?" For years billions of taxpayer... dollars have been spent building state and federal human warehouses to "combat crime and protect John and Jane Q. Public from crime." Many politicians have been elected because of advocating "get tough on crime: build more prisons - it'll mean more jobs and security for concerned citizens." Furthermore: "Let's punish repeat offenders by increasing existing or let's...
- PID
- apw:12353384
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T19:49:11.037Z
- Title
- Knowing where we have been in order to know where we are going: From protest to politics
- Author
- Hamilton, Lacino
- Date
- 2017-07-08
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (O)
- Atrium Press July 6, 2017 KNOWING WHERE WE HAVE BEEN IN ORDER TO KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: FROM PROTEST TO POLITICS By Lacino Hamilton As activists fighting for racial equality encounter crises similar to crises activists experienced in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, being aware of those similarities can provide a framework for questioning today’s activism. That awareness can catalyze desperately needed new approaches when inevitable problems of reaction, cooptation, insufficient knowledge and changin...
- PID
- apw:12351839
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-17T02:47:34.59Z
- Title
- Massive corruption again within the Pennsylvania judicial system
- Author
- Carroll, Wesley R.
- Date
- 2016
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (TR_WF)
- Massive Corruption Again Within the Pennsylvania Judicial System Copyright (C) 2016 by Wesley R. Carrol In Feb. 2016 a Philadelphia Pennsylvania judge overturned 51 cases brought by a tainted Philadelphia Drug Unit. Some described this as "rapid fire dismissals of old narcotics convictions...". The tainted Drug Unit had six of its officers from the citywide narcotics squad, who were themselves criminally charged of federal corruption charges, as a result of suspects they arrested an...
- PID
- apw:12347241
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T14:48:17.459Z
- Title
- My greatest fear
- Author
- Daugherty, Jason
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Text (FT)
- My Greatest Fear Jason Daugherty One of my greatest fears in life is becoming a statistic. There are currently an estimated seven million people in some form of correctional custody in the United States. Of those, two million and three hundred thousand are in jail or prison (Ross and Richards xi). Unfortunately, I am already counted among those over two million souls already in jail or prison. It is another, far more disturbing, statistic that worries me. Each year, six hundred and fifty thou...
- PID
- apw:12347616
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T15:49:31.08Z