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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 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 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Essay to be included in archive
- Author
- Broussard, Brad
- Date
- 2016-02-05
- Date
- 2016-02-05, 2016-02-05
- Pages
- 12 pages
- State
- Texas
- Text (FT)
- Brad Broussard Beeville, Texas 78102-8696 APWA 198 College Hill Road Clinton, NY 13323 August 10, 2014 RE: Essay to be included in archive: To whom it may concern: I present to you one of the biggest and most powerful problem of todays time. This is a matter that should be of concern by every citizen in America and around the world. The continuation of our mass incarceration of prisons and all non positive institutions in the U.S. There is not enough movement of concern by our statesmen and G...
- PID
- apw:12342346
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-06-20T01:09:00.951Z
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- I am a Vietnam era military vet
- Author
- Rogers, James Eldon
- Pages
- 7 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- NO TITLE James Eldon Rogers I am a Vietnam era military vet. Combat engineer. I draw V.A. disability. I have only been arrested this one time in my life. I have a very high IQ (160+). I have university. Since 1980 I renounced my U.S. citizenship and I am a citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany, solely. I did this at first while I was an independent military "contractor" and to circumvent U.S. restrictions on "mercenary activity," but now I am glad of it and fully supp...
- PID
- apw:12350483
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T13:43:39.954Z
- Title
- I am the victim of a campaign of cruel & unusual harassment
- Author
- Wadis, George
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Mr George Wadis NC 4173 Mohanoy State Prison 301 Morea Rd. Frackville, PA. 17932 Dear Sir(s) I am the victim of a campaign of cruel & unusual harassment, to deprieve me of my interest, rights & my property, compensation & otherwise, by fraud, deceit & artifice, in aseparate account from this defraud. I am also the victim of monies owed to me from the sales of my book being historically & flamboyantly withheld & denied!!! My due process rights, also my constitutional ri...
- PID
- apw:12363224
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:44:27.42Z
- Title
- I thought to myself
- Author
- Kucinsky, Charles
- Pages
- 1 page
- Text (TR_WF)
- I thought to myself it must have been something I did or said but it was probably for nothing at all. Probably the fear factor - that those officers strong armed me, choked me and beat my body like their gun & badge wasnt threatening enough. Did they just want to intimidate me? I blamed myself and tryed to justify their actions. Did they justify themselves by saying I was a gang member; that I wasnt innocent? Is that what I might have deserved? If that was my punishment who decided the pu...
- PID
- apw:12352439
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-06-15T19:44:31.809Z
- Title
- I've been thinking about what I should write
- Author
- Chapman, Donald Rorie
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- April, 10th, 2018 I've been thinking about what I should write about in this new report? My first writings was a personal testimony about losing my wife last summer, and dealing with the affects of that mental strain in a place where nobody cares.. It's still a topic I speak about to many prisoner's because when you feel passionate about something you want to let people know that inner core. It's like the rules of life are so different now.. Feels like the value of life, a...
- PID
- apw:12353257
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-09-26T11:00:22.743Z
- Title
- Is mass incarceration slavery and behaviorism experiment?
- Author
- Emanuel, Joseph
- Date
- 2018-03-01
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Series I Essay to Prison Writing/Hamilton (March 2018) Is Mass Incarceration Slavery and Behaviorism Experiment? Introduction: To consider this, some might refer this question to conspiracy theories or prejudice conclusion in the name of Justice...due to the current nature of my plight. The facts presented thereafter are to be viewed under serious ocnsideration. Why? The lack of education of the federal penal system is the driving force of why my pen is a sword, that is, my voice is to be hea...
- PID
- apw:12362654
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:34:11.073Z
- 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