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Title
A bottle of contradictions
Author
Williams, Dortell
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
A Bottle of Contradictions by Dortell Williams Is it me, or is the sentence of life without the possibility a bottle of contradictions? Perhaps the bottle should say "Break in case of emergency!" The Legislature wrote the law implying that I am - that we are - incorrigible. So the prison system excludes us from every meaningful rehabilitative program: trades, jobs with career paths, and even some self-help programs. In spite of these impediments, many of us have achieved remarkable ...
PID
apw:12360743
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:42:57.793Z
Title
A day in my life
Author
Murray, B.C.
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
A DAY IN MY LIFE Awakened by the brilliance of 6:00AM lights, I arise, grab my toiletries and walk down the long, stale white corridor toward the restroom. First, I must wade through a bevy of inmates blocking my path while vehemently discussing lat night's televised basketball game. These men do so without any consideration for those still trying to sleep or pass through. I step across the threshold and into a room with two rows of sinks where all sorts of men — white, black, Mexican, t...
PID
apw:12353162
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T10:57:52.741Z
Title
Alone
Author
Murray, B.C.
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
ALONE Alas, I am alone and destined to remain so. No longer can the burning, innate longing for love, companionship and re-affirmation of my worth reverberate inside my heart and mind. Is this due to years apart from others? Or is it because of my transgressions that I am left with no choice but to accept the exile society will impose that separates me even from those who ODCG felt affection from and for me? Once thrust back into the world from which I am now ten years removed, it would be fo...
PID
apw:12356135
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:24:33.952Z
Title
An open letter to Congress: National COVID-19 November mail-in voting "We can do better"
Author
Williams, Dortell
Date
2020-04-17
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Dortell Williams P.O. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 April 17, 2020 An Open Letter to Congress National COVID-19-November Mail-In Voting “We Can Do Better" “This is ridiculous! I hope they aren’t playing politics and risking our lives,” to do this, said a Wisconsin voter, on March 7th, during their primary election. The frustration of this senior, female African-American voter was palpable as she stood in the hours-long line waiting; waiting for the only opportunity she was given to exerci...
PID
apw:12360277
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:44:04.39Z
Title
Anger
Author
Murray, B.C.
Date
2018-01-28
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
Anger Anger for me is unachievable. I am though certainly no pacifist. I don't spurn anger, hostility, or even vindictiveness. Such feelings are simply beyond my reach. Some would regard me as fortunate; say the world would benefit from more like me;‘ or argue that anger holds no value. Such sentiment alas is naive, even risible. There are man like m self. Peo le for whom roactive emotions are lost to a resolve of ho elessness where resorts to _ P gestures preclude the inducement of ange...
PID
apw:12352774
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:33:45.465Z
Title
Anxiety
Author
Murray, B.C.
Date
2018
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
ANXIETY Like a leaking cistern, anxiety,slowly bleeds all semblance of life from one'sA A being. As soon as a rare detente is reached, another anguishing tempest appears .atop life's mountains of Volatile, tormenting emotions pressing everything below until the-cavity of one's heart is breached further, causing one's will to demit faster, more excruciatingly that before. Eventually, anxiety morphs into a depressed emptiness offering only a teasing, hollow eye in a storm th...
PID
apw:12352669
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:38:32.89Z
Title
Auto biography of an incarcerated sex offender
Author
Senior, Daniel
Date
2016-12-12
Pages
12 pages
Text (TR_WF)
12/12/2016 Autobiography of an incarcerated sex offender This is my first essay for the APWA. I will give some general background of my childhood, then tell of my incarceration experience. My name is Daniel Isaac Senior. I am forthcoming about my own life, but I do ask that my family remains anonymous. Please do not look them up or try to contact them. I recognize the purpose of this archive is to teach and learn about the United States criminal justice system and therefore my personal life i...
PID
apw:12347887
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:30.572Z
Title
COVID-19 and prison overcrowding: Its all in the framing
Author
Williams, Dortell
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Dortell Williams P.O. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 COVID-19 and Prison Overcrowding: It's All in the Framing by Dortell Williams I am tremendously grateful to, and for, all of the advocacy organizations that strive to liberate our imprisoned voices, voices that have been so vehemently smothered by tons of aggregate concrete and shackled by miles of cumulative razor wire. In two recent interviews, one organization described the adverse conditions we endure daily during normal circumstance...
PID
apw:12360179
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:41:03.164Z
Title
Change is within us all
Author
Williams, Dortell
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Dortell Williams P.O. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 Change is Within Us All I have been teaching my peers for over a decade. Yet I quickly became a student when I came to realize how dynamic human beings can be -- even prisoner human beings. In 2007 I was asked to instruct peer-led classes here on the Progressive Programming Facility, in Lancaster, CA. What I learned is that all of the creativity, intelligence and capacity for innovation I could ever want or need is right here, within reach. O...
PID
apw:12361393
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:01:03.562Z
Title
Cold days in purgatory
Author
Murray, B.C.
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
COLD DAYS IN PURGATORY BY B.C. Murray The divergent distractions that exists inside a prison compound are often enough to hoard away feelings of hopelessness and despair. Nothing though is cogent enough to overcome the morose feelings to which every prisoner eventually succumbs. As hard as one may try; loneliness, despair, insufficiency, and shame supercede all other emotions regardless of efforts to the contrary. Just as on the outside, the weather dictates emotions. When cold, wintry, days ...
PID
apw:12352662
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:38:26.465Z
Title
Confusion
Author
Murray, B.C.
Date
2018-02-06
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
Confusion Would life be worth living without confusion? What purpose would then require our rising from bed each day? Or maneuvering for legions of hours along life's jagged pathways? lf content, then what would be our impetus for confronting, waging war with all that perplexes, and even exhilarates us? Our hubris endeavors to put confusion to rest once and for all. We pray to awake without ambiguities, issues to confront and coerced into contesting. The child naively relishes adulthood&...
PID
apw:12352776
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:33:47.132Z
Title
Depression on lockdown: Prisoners empathize
Author
Williams, Dortell
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Dortell Williams [ID] P.O. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 DEPRESSION ON LOCKDOWN: PRISONERS EMPATHIZE Depression is debilitating. Depression saps one's energy, induces whole-body numbness, and stimulates streams of negative thoughts. In the extreme, those negative thoughts can provoke suicidal ideation. As a prisoner serving a sentence of life without the possibility of parole, I know about depression from first-hand experience and observation. Fortunately, I've learned to utilize a n...
PID
apw:12360290
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:44:26.746Z
Title
Directed towards the Medical, Programing and Parole Board
Author
Kamrowski, Kenneth R.
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[no title] (1) My essay will be directed to the policies of the medical, programing, and parole board. First the medical charging us wards of the state so much in medical bills. For over 5 years they of taken thousands of dollars of just my money that I received from working or family. We have a co-pay for every doctor visit here of $5.00. We pay $2.00 each month for every medication we receive. Mine ar 8 for congestive failure which comes to $16.00 per month. Same for dental or eye doctor. S...
PID
apw:12350234
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T12:18:13.515Z
Title
Educate me - please
Author
West, Kenneth
Pages
3 pages
Text (FT)
Educate Only in a p r i s o n been proven Such is t h e s a d According to s t a s t i c s and all other Education AA d e g r e e s recidivate percent A while that (come back would inmate fighting I can behind even entangled journal dedicated to p r i s o n ) a t over education and to the transformative a 8th g r a d e dropout like no m i s t a k e my initial state it ignorance would the think in benefits tool/but power who a I was new ever left had crime ignorance to e x t r a d i t e educat...
PID
apw:12347382
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:03:34.439Z
Title
Fences
Author
Murray, B.C.
Date
2018
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
FENCES Fences: Society's artisan of salvation and refuge. Fences prohibit interruptions and distractions for those seeking freedom, fecundity. Their impregnable strands of wire offer sanctuary from the unholy, impure, and all that impugns thoughts and actions of those protected therein. Fences provide unfettered isolation adn disincentive to venture beyond civilization's Cloister of all deemed favorable and championed. Consequently, from across the divide, fences spawn a flourishing...
PID
apw:12352726
Date Uploaded
2018-06-16T02:32:46.195Z
Title
Hanging on to hope with life without
Author
Williams, Dortell
Pages
4 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Dortell Williams Approximately 1,200 words H-45771 / A2-206 Non-fiction P.O. Box 4430 - ' Lancaster, CA 93539 dortellwilliams@yahoo.com HANGING ON TO HOPE WITH LIFE WITHOUT by Dortell Williams I was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in 1989. I was twenty-three years of age. At that time I could hardly imagine doing a minimum of thirty years before even being considered for a reprieve. For I hadn't even lived thirty years of life yet. Still, I pushed on. I learned t...
PID
apw:12345194
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T14:21:35.651Z
Title
I committed a crime
Author
Anonimo
Date
2016-04-11
Date
2016-04-11, 2016-04-11
Pages
1 page
State
Idaho
Text (TR)
Anonymous I committed a crime, which I regret. I arrived to the county 22 months ago; I got in prison after 8 months of being in the county. Here I find myself, well, the life. Here it is very different from life outside, because here is sadder because of the freedom that one was used to. You eat less; everything is different from the outside, lots of restrictions. From what you see here, there are different races of people. Here there are problems daily that you have to know to dodge them to...
PID
apw:12342320
Date Uploaded
2016-06-20T00:56:51.4Z
Title
I. CDCR's "unhealthy and danger-created anti-rehabilitation incentive environment: 'when prisoners of war aren't subject to such prolonged depriving and debilitating inhumane living conditions as our own American citizen prisoners' "
Author
Winters, Robert
Date
2010-04-01
Pages
11 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Robert Anthony Winters California 
 I. CDCR's "Unhealthy and Danger-Created Anti-Rehabilitation Incentive Environment: 'When Prisoners of War Aren't Subject to Such Prolonged Depriving and Debilitating Inhumane Living Conditions as Our Own American Citizen Prisoners'" 
 On September 6, 2006 a facility transfer housing of general inmate Southern hispanics from 3B to 3A facility plan of operations was implemented from the promulgated approval of the Director Suzan ...
PID
apw:12345218
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T14:21:39.559Z
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...
PID
apw:12347498
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:18:13.706Z
Title
Insight into my future
Author
Murray, B.C.
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
INSIGHT INTO MY FUTURE My detainment behind these federal prison fences is coming to an end. After nearly ten years I am finally able to foresee a life elsewhere that heretofore was seemingly a fantasy never to come true. Certainly, I knew I would eventually leave. Comprehending such a stupendous transition was simply impossible to grasp. After evading calendars and annual celebrations for years, I find myself reaching the point to where days not years stand between my freedom and me. As I me...
PID
apw:12356114
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:23:58.71Z
Title
It's a fact: low-risk offenders don't come back
Author
Williams, Dortell
Pages
4 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Dortell Williams CA Approximately 800 words Non-fiction It's a Fact: Low-Risk Offenders Don't Come Back by Dortell Williams I believe it is the goal of every civil and pragmatic society to set its penal system to reform and rehabilitate its miscreants. Indeed, in California, reform and release is the stated goal of the Supreme Court of California, in its 2008 watershed Lawrence decision, delineating a clear criteria for reforming and releasing prisoners. Of course, not everyone is r...
PID
apw:12345199
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T14:21:36.204Z
Title
Labeling theory
Author
Vance, John
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Labeling Theory Like most prisoners, I could go on a tirade about the multitude of problems that exist within the confines of prisons. But, most of those problems are merely symptomatic of a greater issue: the way in which prisoners are viewed. The police, courts, legislators, and prison officials label prisoners in ways that perpetuate the existing system. For the prisoner, the labeling process begins at the time of arrest. Suspects are humiliated by being arrested in public. This humiliatio...
PID
apw:12346688
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:43.597Z
Title
Matt
Author
Murray, B.C.
Pages
6 pages
Text (O)
Matt One doesn't meet friends in prison. Or so I was told just like the others residing inside this lethargic purlieu. As one of those who only experience thoughts of regret, survival, and uncertainty, I felt friendship was an impossibility. Something I neither deserved or should dare contemplate. For my life on earth, I felt, was essentially over, whether anyone else realized this actuality or not. Since arriving in 2010, my course never deviated from one filled with despair and hopeles...
PID
apw:12357996
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:39:56.014Z
Title
My justice experience, so far...
Author
Barstad, James
Pages
5 pages
Text (FT)
My Justice Experience, So Far... 
 Coming to prison actually saved my life. Due to sexual abuse as a child, I started to drink 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. I rec...
PID
apw:12347492
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:18:13.27Z

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