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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 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 colossal disparity in the Florida prison system
- Author
- Moody, Jesse Jr.
- Date
- 2018-01-16
- Pages
- 7 pages
- Text (O)
- A Colossal Disparity In The Florida Prison System By AKA Kingsta January 16, 2018 I understand I was sentenced to serve time in the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) even though I was wrongfully convicted. However, a prison sentence subjecting me to cruel and unusual punishment and unequal treatment violates both federal and state constitutions and Florida state law. At the very moment I stepped off the large bus (blue bird) at the reception and medical center of Lake Butler Correction...
- PID
- apw:12353486
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T23:40:20.169Z
- 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 future
- Author
- Cervantes, Mario
- Date
- 2019-01-11
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Mario Cervantes Jan. 11. 2019 A Future Can someone progress out from the shadow his past was built within? Solitary confinement. By: Mario Cervantes A Future Growing up in CYFD custody, (Children Youth and Families department.) is like growing up on a planet that Earth does not know of its existence. Then you're sent to Earth and expected to function correctly. Ending up in solitary confinement within the juvenile CYFD facilities is like a George Orwell book not written. I spent a lot of...
- PID
- apw:12356444
- Date Uploaded
- 2019-05-24T14:52:20.689Z
- 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 modernized dungeon
- Author
- Moody, Jesse Jr.
- Date
- 2017-12-28
- Pages
- 14 pages
- Text (O)
- A Modernized Dungeon By Jesse Moody AKA Kingsta December 28, 2017 Visualize this... After hearing and seeing all of the different and shocking news about America’s archaic penal system via the various media outlets, you decide to seek out a more sensorial experience to help you grasp the plight of the incarcerated. Searching the internet, you unexpectedly discover a nonprofit organization hosting an experiment offering substantial compensation for those willing to participate in a control gro...
- PID
- apw:12354034
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-27T14:37:14.087Z
- 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 torturous van ride
- Author
- Moody, Jesse Jr.
- Date
- 2018-01-04
- Pages
- 10 pages
- Text (O)
- A Torturous Van Ride By Jesse Moody JR AKA Kingsta January 4, 2018 Imagine this... On this day you arise from your slumber and go through your normal routine. You make your bed, drape yourself in clothing, use the bathroom, brush your teeth, and eat breakfast. After saying your farewells to your family, you finish preparing for work. Then, as soon as you walk out of the door, police officers unexpectedly approach you with menacing scowls. Once they are upon you, they aggressively grab you by ...
- PID
- apw:12354176
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-27T17:01:59.834Z
- 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...
- PID
- apw:12361864
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-02-03T16:13:06.874Z
- Title
- An administrative travesty
- Author
- Moody, Jesse Jr.
- Date
- 2017-12-13
- Pages
- 8 pages
- Text (O)
- An Administrative Travesty By Jesse Moody AKA Kingsta December 13, 2017 Follow me... You are at a public park toying with your latest model handset while periodically glancing at the children who are happily running around the playground. You like to come to the park for your lunch break because the children’s invigorating laughter resonates in your ears helping to relieve the tension caused by the day to day struggles of your chosen occupation. In the past, the children’s overseer has engage...
- PID
- apw:12352682
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-06-15T21:38:46.91Z
- 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
- 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...
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- 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
- Brief Autobiography
- Author
- Moody, Jesse Jr.
- Date
- 2017-12-05
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (O)
- Brief Autobiography December 05, 2017 Jesse Moody #XO2438 5400 Bayline Drive Panama City F.L. 32404 My young undeveloped mind did not understand the consequences of my actions and I made a few critical mistakes as a juvenile that drastically altered the course of my life. I sat through four criminal jury trials, lost three, and was sentenced as an adult to serve approximately 18 years in the Florida Department of Corrections even though the offenses occurred when I was 17 years old. I should ...
- PID
- apw:12353005
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-25T21:47:13.148Z
- 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
- CDCЯ? (part 1)
- Author
- Blacher, Marlon
- Date
- 2012
- Pages
- 9 pages
- State
- California
- Text (TR_WF)
- CDCR? (part 1) by Marlon Blacher in 2012 "Sam Adams. 'The law serves those in power. That is the function and purpose of the law. The only honest question is who holds that power. The rest is hypocrisy'" ("John Adams" by Walter Bernstein) The California state prison system was formerly referred to as the California Department of Corrections (CDC) but in recent years was renamed the "California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation" (CDCR). Most o...
- PID
- apw:12342754
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-15T02:19:56.667Z
- 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
- 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
- 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