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Title
2014 legislative will prove whether policy makers have gotten smart on crime
Author
Marshall, Ronald
Date
2014-03-19
Date
2014-03-19, 2014-03-19
Pages
2 pages
State
Louisiana
Topics
recidivism, mandatory sentencing, minimum sentencing
Text (FT)
2014 Legislative Session Will Prove Whether Policy Makers Have Gotten Smart on Crime By Roland Marshall Only time will reveal whether the 2014 Legislative Session will mark a sincere effort by Louisiana's lawmakers to reform sentencing laws so that offenders can have a meaningful opportunity to get off the count. At the behest of the Jindal administration, four organizations joined in a collective effort to analyze criminal justice data/ statistics and offer options to assist Louisiana l...
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apw:12341353
Date Uploaded
2015-09-27T14:32:57.658Z
Title
5 positive steps to reform prisons
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Date
2013-12-09
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (O)
5 Positive Steps to Reform Prisons December 9, 2013 Renowned prison reform activist Ken Hartman gives his insights into how we can reform our broken system. We already know the prisons in this country are broken, and we have begun the process of rethinking the idea of what incarceration means, should mean, and will mean in the future. Punishment for the sake of inflicting pain has lost its hold on the public's imagination. And not a moment too soon, because the damage done is extensive. ...
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apw:12344714
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T21:08:46.17Z
Title
7My voice through the prison walls
Author
Pendleton, Ricky
Pages
5 pages
Text (FT)
7My voice through the prison walls By: Inmate Ricky Vincent Pendleton II I think rehabilitation is a propaganda word used by the lawmakers to cover their motives Exploiting the inmates in a business venture. The whole prison industry is a "for profit" industry; from my reading is a billion dollars industry. How am I supposed to cope in here and seeing the corrupt acts of people...? I have to control the things in my life. Rehabilitation is on the individual prisoner, he/she has to d...
PID
apw:12347639
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:49:32.44Z
Title
8 accurate books to read about life in prison
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Date
2010-11-30
Pages
10 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Kenneth Hartman Prison Writer November 30, 2010 8 Accurate Books To Read About Life In Prison (PHOTOS) I can't count the number of times I've been asked what books and movies I'd recommend to get a better understanding of prison. It's the very nature and design of this world, with all the barriers both real and metaphorical, that makes getting a clear understanding difficult to gain. Most folk's sense of this reality is formed in the dark of a movie theater or in the ...
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apw:12344782
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T22:55:08.032Z
Title
A Minnesota experience: Qualitative analysis of Minnesota Department of Corrections policy
Author
Graham, Maurece LaVarne
Pages
14 pages
Text (O)
Minnesota Experience Qualitative Analysis of Minnesota Department of Corrections Policy Maurece Graham A Minnesota Experience {Excerpted from larger work} By Maurece L. Graham © October 11, 2017 Since this addendum is composed from the perspective of a correctional client versus that of a correctional official, little attention has been paid to traditional penal models. Instead, most of the focus is upon conveying the actual experience of incarceration itself, with as much objectivity as poss...
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apw:12351849
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T02:47:35.374Z
Title
A brief comment on prison reform in de-Christianized society
Author
Quintero, John
Date
2009-02-22
Pages
5 pages
State
Nevada
Text (O)
A Brief Comment on Prison Reform in De-Christianized Society St Thomas More once wrote a letter to console his daughter before his execution. He drew out a lengthy allergy of prison—like nature of life, and God-as- the-executioner, given the fact of certain pain of death. He argues that the degree of restriction while waiting for execution does not change the fact of the punishment at the end. The man in prison has limited physical freedom, but none the less enjoys the same freedom to meet hi...
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apw:12345823
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T15:52:55.611Z
Title
A brief summary of the demise of the Colorado Dept. of Corrections and poor drug offender reform
Author
Darris, Stephan
Date
2014-04-28
Date
2014-04-28, 2014-04-28
Pages
6 pages
State
Colorado
Text (FT)
A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE DEMISE OF THE COLORADO DEPT . OF CORRECTIONS AND POOR DRUG OFFENDER REFORM by: Stephan Darris While incarcerated in the state of Colorado I think it' s fair to say that your past dictates your future . I am not a lifer or a violent offe nder. I am a repeat drug offender that has witnessed some of the most vile atrocity ' s that the system can deliver. I think that most people in this institution live under propaganda, false hope, and make believe promises. It ...
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apw:288
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T18:25:24.791Z
Title
A lonely world
Author
Whitt, Lee
Pages
5 pages
State
Pennsylvania
Text (O)
A Lonely World "Out of sight, out of mind." That is the saying that rings with a lot of truth to it once you get locked up. When you come to prison you learn, rather quickly, just who it is you can count on to keep in touch from the outside. Whether it is by letter, by visit or even by phone call. A person's true colors eventually show through. lt makes doing time that much more difficult. I'm not saying that the time can't be done, just that it's going to take a...
PID
apw:12346165
Date Uploaded
2016-10-25T02:16:25.614Z
Title
A practical approach to prison reform
Author
Whitlock, Mick
Date
2010-02-23
Date
2010-02-23, 2010-02-23
Pages
9 pages
State
Indiana
Topics
Reform
Text (TR_WF)
A Practical Approach to Prison Reform As we progress further into the twenty-first century, one thing is clear: serious changes need to be made to the American prison system. America has become a society with the highest incarceration rate of any nation in the world. And with well over two million men and women in America's prisons, there are more people incarcerated in the United States than any other country. In an age of record budget deficits and massive national debt, it would appea...
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apw:304
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T18:23:43.457Z
Title
A prisoner's purpose
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Pages
5 pages
State
California
Text (O)
A Prisoner's Purpose By Kenneth Hartman Tear gas is more a presence then a smell. It clings to the back of your throat, a chemically induced feather that provokes a coughing fit after each attempt at a breath. It is one of the "less lethal" force options deployed in prison to quell a riot. On one windy, Southern California day, l could see that the last few wisps of tear gas blowing off the yard as the guards finally came back through the gates, the violence essentially over, t...
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apw:12344873
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T01:48:43.738Z
Title
A short commentary on religion (or life is full of wonderment)
Author
Dugger, Philip
Date
2013-11-10
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (TR_WF)
A Short Commentary on Religion (or Life Is Full of Wonderment) There is a smart, shrewd business consultant by the name of Clay Christiansen who helps companies stay competitive in our wonderfully competitive society. When it comes to his religion, he is convinced, after much heartfelt & prayerful seeking, that Mormonism, which happens to be the religion he was raised in, is the One True Faith. It is his assertion that modern Christianity broke from its genuine roots in the 3rd & 4th ...
PID
apw:12342826
Date Uploaded
2016-10-17T10:52:59.602Z
Title
A tale of 2 injustices
Author
Harris, Maurice
Date
2011-10-17
Pages
7 pages
State
California
Text (O)
A TALE of 2 INJUSTICES By Maurice L. Harris On October 3, 2011, everyone in the U.S. awoke to wall-to-wall Mainstream Media's (MSM) broadcasting of the impending Amanda Knox appellate ruling. At issue, whether she received a fair trial, or not. At stake: freedom, or a possible life in an Italian prison. This was the culmination to over a week of coverage detailing every aspect of the miscarriage perpetrated during Ms. Knox's prosecution. We were inculcated in each misusage of contam...
PID
apw:12344563
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T16:48:07.187Z
Title
A transformation: prisoners to peace ambassadors
Author
Harris, Maurice
Date
2013-05-15
Pages
11 pages
State
California
Text (O)
A Transformation: Prisoners to Peace Ambassadors "If you want to understand the cause that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the present. And if you want to understand what results will be manifested in the future, look at the causes that exist in the present." - Nichiren Daishonin, C.E.1272 U.S.A. Rankings Among Industrialized Nations: - 13th in suicide rates - 31st in the gap between the rich & the poor - 6th in per-capita education expenditure...
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apw:12344551
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T16:48:06.677Z
Title
A vision for the future
Author
Whitlock, Mick
Date
2010-08-25
Date
2010-08-25, 2010-08-25
Pages
7 pages
State
Indiana
Topics
Reform
Text (TR_WF)
A Vision For the Future By Mick Whitlock As the steel door slammed shut behind me, I realized that a new chapter in my life was about to begin. And though the uncertainties about my life and my future seemed enormous, deep in my heart I knew that I would be going to prison. My feelings of helplessness were overwhelming. What the future held for my young family was unclear. As my mind drifted between memories of the past and thoughts of what might have been, feelings of helplessness began to c...
PID
apw:310
Date Uploaded
2015-09-16T18:24:34.525Z
Title
America the punisher, America the punished
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Pages
1 page
State
California
Text (O)
America the Punisher, America the Punished By Kenneth Edward Hartman So. where do we go from here? Our prisons are filled to capacity and the building sites for more are springing up like weeds of despair all over. The local news sounds more and more like a crime report, a scorecard of the dead, the wounded and the imprisoned. Scenes of grieving families, weeping mothers with clinging children, abound on the 10 o'clock news while the newsreader intones the stats of the day's killing...
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apw:12344900
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T11:10:09.322Z
Title
An appeal to families of incarcerated loved ones
Author
Marshall, Ronald
Pages
3 pages
State
Louisiana
Topics
appeal to families to help incarcerated individuals take measures to leave prison
Text (FT)
- Seventeen years ago, I arrived in Angola. I was assigned bed 43, next to an aging, frail prisoner who had been incarcerated longer than the 23 years I had been living. One day he said to me, "Youngsta, if you have family, don't waste their time and resources on bullshit. Doing time in prison is not for any one." Basically, he was telling me to use my family for one purpose: to assist in my struggles to regain freedom. In order to do so, I had to educate myself to educate my f...
PID
apw:12341415
Date Uploaded
2015-09-27T15:27:16.835Z
Title
An insider's take on the crack/powder disparity
Author
Harris, Maurice
Date
2010-04-25
Pages
4 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Afl INSIDER'S TAKE ON THE CRACK/POWDER DISPARITY To start, I would be remiss not to mention my qualifications to speak on this subject of cocaine sentencing. I became involved in the Los Angeles drug trade in its infancy, during the mid 80s, initially, to support myself in college. Once my stature progressed, I quickly left school behind. I continued in this field until 1994, when fellow drug dealers collaborated with ‘others’ [authorities] to put me on California's death row, from w...
PID
apw:12344546
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T16:48:06.045Z
Title
Analyze spiritual self from within
Author
Raws, Sin
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Analyze Spiritual Self From Within By Prime Ambassador of Major Change Yassin Sin Raws Mohamad (c) 2020 Greetings to you all! Major change is here and now! Lets exercise the realness of life and examine the authenticness of ourselves that's formed from the billion cells that blots into what we call 'the brain.' Religiously, we are taught that one must believe in God first before becoming 'a believer.' However, ask yourself " is this a logical? " When we make...
PID
apw:12360955
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:49:14.374Z
Title
Angels have names
Author
Quintero, John
Date
2009-02-15
Pages
4 pages
State
Nevada
Text (O)
Angels Have Names there are many things which are evident according to the senses, for which an explanation cannot be given on the basis of what Aristotle teaches... certain phenomena which do not seem capable of taking place except through some intellectual substance.” Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Separate Substances, 2,11 broc-/(16.5 5 We were doing bodies in the dirt of the parking lot in front of the cathedral, when my companion stopped and noticed our third party was gone. We were looking...
PID
apw:12345829
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T15:52:56.186Z
Title
Are they really opposed to the death penalty?
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Date
2010-11-18
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (O)
November 18, 2010 Out of Sight, Out of Mind Are They Really Opposed to the Death Penalty? By Kenneth E. Hartman They stand outside in the night holding candles, singing songs of protest, holding up photos of condemned men, and decrying the brutality of state-sanctioned execution. The next day, at the inevitable press conference, after the ritualized lamentations for the now deceased prisoner, they offer up life without the possibility of parole sentences as the humane alternative to lethal in...
PID
apw:12344795
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T22:55:09.518Z
Title
Bad things happen in the dark
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Date
2012-07-03
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (O)
July 3, 2012 Bad Things Happen in the Dark By Kenneth E. Hartman Advocacy piece by Kenneth E. Hartman, who has served 32 continuous years in prison on a life without parole sentence, on Assembly Bill 1270, which will restore full media access to the prisons. The California Legislature should pass Assembly Bill 1270, which will restore full media access to the prisons, and Governor Brown should sign it into law. It's past time to admit that what goes on inside these publicly owned places ...
PID
apw:12344742
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T21:10:43.821Z
Title
Behind the Grey Mountain
Author
Kicking Horse, Andrew
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (O)
"Behind the Grey Mountain" _.by.. Andrew Kicking Horse »What matters most is that my heart beats. "Ak achuma ima an chu kask”, the goodness of my heart. Against the worst intentions of a few, against the odds of many, my heart beats on marking the passing of the prime of my life in this cell. For now, I exist. I live in an altered world which has altered the person I would become. My heart beat in wild terror as the judge announced the verdict in July of 1988. Guilty! Instead o...
PID
apw:12344941
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T11:10:13.54Z
Title
Beyond reform
Author
Bogen, Rik
Date
2010-02-22
Date
2010-02-22, 2010-02-22
Pages
8 pages
State
Oregon
Topics
music, reform, recidivism
Text (TR_WF)
Rik Bogen BEYOND REFORM After the tsunami of arrest, jail, conviction and sentencing receded leaving behind the tangled sea-weed of my life I began to imagine that prison might be a new beginning, an opportunity to radically change, an educational experience. It most certainly is nut not in anyway that which I expected. The first discovery was the magnitude of the resistance to change inherent to the system. Example: The property rule said "one guitar-one harmonica..." so not being ...
PID
apw:12341604
Date Uploaded
2015-09-29T21:48:40.25Z
Title
Blood in my eyes
Author
Pendleton, Ricky
Pages
3 pages
Text (FT)
Blood in my Eyes By: Ricky Vincent Pendleton II I see dead people, not physically but one of a mental death. In this prison people are very gloomy. They accept being incarcerated and warehoused by people. No fight to grasp their sanity instead they submit to the way of this prison. Their ways and actions do reveal this to me. That is way most sell their soul because of self-hate that they are affected with. Faith is far away from them as the stars even farther. I see how they look forward to ...
PID
apw:12347649
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:49:33.192Z

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