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Title
Caged view - April 10, 2015
Author
Vitality, Prison
Date
2015-04-10
Pages
3 pages
Text (FT)
Caged View -- April 10, 2015 The demented cement wall I open my eyes to every morning is more than a century old and bleeds tear gas when it gets really humid. Some of the white paint from its last paint-job remains and has been scorched with black soot from recent fire -- no doubt set in protest from a dissatisfied resident. The wall is pockmarked with multicolored scabs from years of paint-jobs, has crude gang graffiti painstakingly carved with paperclips, and bears battle scars from the co...
PID
apw:12347357
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:03:32.838Z
Title
Dancing daydreams - March 11, 2015
Author
Vitality, Prison
Date
2015-03-11
Pages
3 pages
Text (FT)
Dancing Daydreams - March 11, 2015 My balance teeters as I land, spinning on one foot atop of the abrasive concrete, preparing for another leap. I don't bite it, but man... it's close. I feel a shot of adrenal relief seize my body, and I bite back an impetuous smile as my body springs into a final landing of a five-piece pirouette... umm... I mean, tornado-kick. I'm gasping for oxygen, my muscles tensed, and I feel the stares of unwelcome eyes. Of course, in prison, unwelcome e...
PID
apw:12347361
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:03:33.046Z
Title
Everybody your color, isn't your kind
Author
Akbar, Ismail
Date
2016-02-05
Date
2016-02-05, 2016-02-05
Pages
2 pages
State
Florida
Text (TR)
Ismail akbar Florida "everybody you'r color, isn't you'r kind" Brother's or sister's may be as dark as the night, they may have the hair, the lip's and the look's. But before you go calling them brother's and sister's, you had better check them out. Because it is a fact black people, that everyone you'r color isn't you'r kind. These day's, it has become fashionable to say, people look like me. Well friend's, i hav...
PID
apw:12342312
Date Uploaded
2016-06-20T00:56:49.295Z
Title
Fresh breeze
Author
Carroll, Richard W.
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Fresh Breeze A Leviathan tyrin to apprehend, Ones whole mind again, Even though it's hard headed porcelain. ...tries to be your companion, This band of legion demons, Forging weapons against and then, Using the same styled regimen. Break in then spread the poison, Modern day garden of eden, But here in lies the comparison. ...was stripped of freedom, Feeling the shame of a heathen, To catch ones own breathin, Freezin on nothin but thievin. So now in treating the villain, Beating up onese...
PID
apw:12348944
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T11:14:07.268Z
Title
Happy meals
Author
Vaughn, Don
Date
2016-02-10
Pages
2 pages
Text (FT)
Vaughn 1 Donald Vaughn English 1010 Professor Catherine Randall 10 February 2016 Happy Meals At four and three years old, when anyone asked me and my younger brother Brandy what we wanted to eat, it was always a very enthusiastically loud "happy meal." The cheap prizes inside always distracted us from the reality of sleeping in an uncomfortable back seat, and the fact that our nineteen year old single mother struggled to provide us with this great luxury. One night, as we crouched t...
PID
apw:12347266
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:54:02.457Z
Title
Killing the poor tonight: A Copernican revolution in racial politics
Author
Chyatte, D. Joseph
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
D. Joseph Chyatte SID# 22150296 Killing the Poor Tonight: A Copernican Revolution in Racial Politics “I remember the day I became colored.” — Zora Neale Hurston, “How it Feels to be Colored Me” I was retching and gagging, physically ill, as I watched the video of Philando Castile’s summary execution play over-and-over on the television. My eyes blurring with tears and my teeth clenched, impotent rage consumed my body . . . thinking of Philando’s partner—that strong, savvy, woman—and their sma...
PID
apw:12349945
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T21:58:43.195Z
Title
Looking through the windows
Author
Vaughn, Don
Pages
7 pages
Text (O)
Vaughn 1 Looking Through the Windows It was an early spring morning in 1990, and as usual I was late for work. Every morning I drove to dads house and from there he and I would ride to work together. I had been working for him for several months, but it seemed to me that instead of teaching me about work he was more interested in lecturing me about slowing down with the partying and self medicating. I was eighteen years old that spring — and I was as wild as the fields that surrounded the neig...
PID
apw:12355160
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T19:17:08.005Z
Title
Man versus beast - January 30, 2015
Author
Vitality, Prison
Date
2015-01-30
Pages
2 pages
Text (FT)
Man Versus Beast - January 30, 2015 I stare at my freshly washed T-shirt hanging from a string clothesline against the wall. I've seen this sight a thousand times yet never seen it at all. What a pathetic shirt. Would anyone in the freeworld wear it? Probably not. Wearing it would be frowned upon, especially in a public place like a store or restaurant. Not that I think much about what's acceptable in public, but every once in a while I allow myself a little role-playing game to fil...
PID
apw:12347365
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:03:33.288Z
Title
Naked destiny
Author
Vitality, Prison
Pages
3 pages
Text (FT)
Naked Destiny I feel instead of hear a squeaky groan come from my chest in reaction to the sharp pain penetrating my eardrums. They fixed the loudspeaker last night. The same loudspeaker I paid Dennis 4 Ramen noodle soups to disable a couple of weeks ago. I was hoping for a longer reprieve, but over all the money was well spent. My cage is located in such a manner as to perfectly convey the demon speaker's scream from hell. One can avoid the resulting pain with a pair of earplugs, but I ...
PID
apw:12347368
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:03:33.489Z
Title
Newswrap raw...9-11...U.S.A....2016
Author
Carroll, Richard W.
Date
2016
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Newswrap raw...9-11...U.S.A....2016 ... 8:45 a.m ... bell rings ... " ... ding ... a moment of silence, in memory please ..." * - Daren Seals, the Ferguson (St. Louis) activist who spoke out about the killings of black males by the police; was himself killed (shot) and burned to death inside his car, found in some rural suburban area. This is the same pattern of six other black males killed in that area, the same way within the last year. Facts further show that just a few days earl...
PID
apw:12351240
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T18:28:06.979Z
Title
No longer silent
Author
Carroll, Richard W.
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
No Longer Silent Copyright (C) 2016 By W.R. Carroll No longer silent, I ain’t never gonna shut up! The devil keeps trying, As he does with constant lying, But guess what, I ain’t never gonna shut up No matter what happens, No matter what does go down, Whatever is put in my way, Or even when things get tough, Guess what? I am no longer silent, and Still, I ain’t never gonna shut up. When we think we have, All of what we deserve, Burning and dieing, Was there waiting on us, Within lifes curve. ...
PID
apw:12348938
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T11:14:06.468Z
Title
On this is the case they game me, ...
Author
Carroll, Richard W.
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Title: On this is the case they gave me,... Copyright (C) 2015 by Wesley R. Carroll Six foot eleven, so the state says, /Straight out of heaven./ Two hundred forty, the state says again,/Like Old [8?] glory./A daughter to [illegilbe] acting quite dizzy,/Another close friend loving to pretend, That is all quite well and [illegible] swell. When in Virginia, orange dirt and all,/They saw me run the track from daylight to sunset./ Many wonder to this very day,/ "Just how does he do it...How ...
PID
apw:12348942
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T11:14:06.99Z
Title
Praise the Name of Yahweh (Lord!)
Author
Russell, Stephen
Pages
3 pages
State
North Carolina
Topics
violation of privacy, prison guards, NCOPS, DHO
Text (TR_WF)
Dear APWA: 1 May 2014 Praise the Name of [illegible] (Lord)! I pray this find you well and blessed. Enclosed is a hand written copy of a grievance I tried to file on the prison I was housed before being shipped to Hyde in retaliation for my attempting to stand on my Rights. According to policy, officers have 3 days to process a grievance. This grievance was filed by me on 18 Nov 2013, received at Mountain View [Corr?] Inst on 22 Nov 2013. It was not processed at all at MVCI. On 4 Dec 2013 I f...
PID
apw:12341584
Date Uploaded
2015-09-29T21:39:25.884Z
Title
Preparing the way
Author
Carroll, Richard W.
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Preparing the Way By Wesley Carroll Prepare the way for the Lord, And don't mess around, Get on board. Everything that is taken in, Is gonna be horde, So now it is you know. We have been restored, By that almighty sword, And by the blood of the lamb, Yet some still don't understand. Just note when Paul was persecuted, When he preached the truth, Nothing diluted its so stupid, How polluted minds get, When the ears become muted. There's a fire in the mouth, And these words are ge...
PID
apw:12348940
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T11:14:06.774Z
Title
Pride gets in your way
Author
Strack, Kevin
Pages
7 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Kevin Strack California Pride Gets in Your Way 
 I sit here trying to think of what great picture I can paint in your mind to keep you reading, and not just pass this over thinking that it is just another lame story, so let me tell you this. I love to make people laugh. When I write things I hope that the person reading this will go away with a smile on their face. My second goal is to reach out to that one person that seems to be stuck on what to do next. So let me get on with this so I can ...
PID
apw:12345065
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T14:32:45.544Z
Title
Prison writings
Author
ID
Pages
3 pages
Text (FT)
Singh 1 Tony Singh 90-B-0467 Woodbourne Correctional Facility 99 Prison Rd., Box 1000 Woodbourne, N.Y. 12788 December 1, 2009 "Voices Through the Wall" Hamilton College 198 College Hill Road Clinton, New York 13323 Prison Writings A great philosopher said once, "Prisons are a reflection of society." With all the hype about criminals and prisons, people in society do not realize how they are affected by what goes on inside a prison. As a person cuiTcntly incarcerated, I wil...
PID
apw:12347067
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:22:43.994Z
Title
Sentencing manipulation miscalculation
Author
Reilly, Sean
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Sentencing Manipulation Miscalculation by Sean Reilly While working in the prison law library, the prisoner, Christopher Nelson, out of Santa Rosa County, Florida, approached me requesting assistance with a post conviction motion regarding a potential scoresheet error. Mr. Nelson received the bottom of the guidelines sentence of the 45.3 months in the Florida Department of Corrections. As it turns out, there was a kidnapping charge on his scoresheet that he wasn't convicted of and other ...
PID
apw:12347856
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:29.233Z
Title
Skeletons in our closets: Part I
Author
Hudson, Bert
Pages
11 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Skeletons in our Closets by A Skeleton in a Closet Preface "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." ---Martin Luther King, Jr. Since an average of 15 years imprisonment for a non-capital first-degree murder was considered ample punishment to satisfy justice here in Pennsylvania since the founding of our nation over 200 years ago, would you say it is justice or injustice for Pennsylvanians convicted of non-capital first-degree murder to serve twice that much time, 30 y...
PID
apw:12359951
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:33:37.025Z
Title
Skeletons in our closets: Part II
Author
Hudson, Bert
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Skeleton’s Part II? 10 The Only Statutorily Authorized and Individualized Sentence for Second Degree Murder since 1974 In accordance with these new sentencing statutes enacted in response to Furman, courts were required by 18 Pa.C.S. §1102(b), 42 Pa.C.S. §9721(a)(4), and 42 Pa.C.S. §9756(a) to specify life imprisonment as the mandatory maximum period of total confinement authorized by law for cases of second degree murder and impose a required individualized minimum sentence of total confinem...
PID
apw:12359963
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:33:55.391Z
Title
Skeletons in our closets: Part III
Author
Hudson, Bert
Pages
10 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Skeletons Part III? Tyranical Tripe 17 Disingenuous Pennsylvania courts are now abusing their power again by slicing up and severing our duly enacted statutory laws like a Thanksgiving Day turkey to unnecessarily remove the minimum height ceiling at 42 Pa.C.S. §9756(b) as if it were impossible of execution and also cut out the "life imprisonment" exception at 61 Pa.C.S. §6137(a)(1) to ostensibly provide our Parole Board with the power to parole juveniles serving life imprisonment. W...
PID
apw:12359971
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:34:09.971Z
Title
Stay, strong my black sister
Author
Akbar, Ismail
Date
2016-02-05
Date
2016-02-05, 2016-02-05
Pages
2 pages
State
Florida
Text (TR)
Ismail Akbar Florida "Stay, Strong my Black Sister" My loving precious and beautiful black sister... I want to share a few word's of brotherly love and encouragement with you." No matter what tomorrow may bring, please alway's look ahead with faith, hope and self-confidents it is in you'r nature to be strong spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically as well. You are a descendant of king's, Queen's and worriors who were master builders in every f...
PID
apw:12342315
Date Uploaded
2016-06-20T00:56:50.036Z
Title
Systematic population control
Author
Brown, Akil
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (TR)
Akil Brown California Systematic Population Control My name is Akil Brown. I am of African American, Indian and Latin descent. I'm 29 years old, going into the 9th year of a 13 year sentence and I have two strikes. My ethnicities, age, and two strikes hold prominence with my, and thousands of others, situation due to a very clear reason: population control. In 2012 between the months of June and December I was being carted off to court weekly from prison to face possession of marijuana c...
PID
apw:12342805
Date Uploaded
2016-10-15T13:38:15.718Z
Title
Veteran denied help dies
Author
Chase, T.A.
Pages
4 pages
Text (FT)
Veteran Denied Help Dies By T. A. Chase A veteran died on a Tuesday. He did not die from combat related injuries. Nor did he die as one of the many thousands of veterans who commit suicide each year. This quiet, religious and honorably discharged veteran passed away because of his governments overt action to prevent him from obtaining the assistance he both needed and was due. He was a veteran incarcerated. A disturbing and unknown statistic is that on average approximately 8% of any inmate p...
PID
apw:12347457
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:10:45.496Z