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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
- 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...
- PID
- apw:12341353
- Date Uploaded
- 2015-09-27T14:32:57.658Z
- 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 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 ...
- PID
- apw:288
- Date Uploaded
- 2015-09-16T18:25:24.791Z
- 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 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 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.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 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...
- PID
- 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
- 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."...
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- apw:12347237
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T14:48:16.955Z
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Christmas - Thanksgiving on going discriminations
- Author
- Carroll, Wesley R.
- Date
- 2015
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (FT)
- S.C.I. WAYMART, Waymart, Pa. 18472 CHRISTMAS - THANKSGIVING ON GOING DISCRIMINATIONS Apparently since my win of grievance #596611, nothing was corrected nor did defendants comply. Defendants even went further by somehow getting the inmate accounting dept. (and others) to take all my monies from Oct., Nov., Dec. 2015, and continuing. This means as well that I continued to work hard on my kitchen job for all these months, yet get NO PAY. Thruout Nov., Dec. and ongoing, I have been denied all co...
- PID
- apw:12347229
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T14:48:16.501Z
- Title
- Criminal justice system, hypocrisy
- Author
- Carroll, Wesley R.
- Date
- 2016
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- Criminal Justice System, Hypocrisy By Wesley Carroll Isn't it amazing? I and many thousands of others have been saying for many years, that the so called entire criminal justice system, is totally broken. Not until after so many of us have been wrongfully passively injured by it, and much public protest, officials now say the same thing. It has been a proven fact for many years that it is totally ineffective, broken, discriminatory, and in many cases has killed. Where is the real crimina...
- PID
- apw:12347248
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T14:48:18.292Z
- 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
- Educate me - please
- Author
- West, Kenneth
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (FT)
- Educate Me -- Please 1 Only in a prison environment will you see programs that have been proven successful scaled back or discontinued altogether. Such is the sad story with higher education for prisoners. According to stastics prisoner higher education has one of the most measurable and postive effects on rehabilitation and reentry than all other programs combined. Education Behind Bars, a monthly journal dedicated to issues concerning prisoner education, reports that, "prisoners who ob...
- PID
- apw:12347382
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T15:03:34.439Z
- Title
- Egyptian days for one gallimaufry enterprise
- Author
- Magnific, Roc
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Topics
- Prisoners writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
- Text (TR_WF)
- Egyptian Days for One Gallimaufry Enterprise If you operate an enterprise built upon desiring and getting the gold of Tolash (e.g., ill-gotten wealth will do no one good) that's not worth a tinker's damn, you will be a business many consider "ne touchez pas, nole me tangere" (e.g., one not to be touched). This is what's facing the Kakistrecratic Arkansas Department of Correction as it finds itself stricken with one gey case of "blue flu" and increasing inmat...
- PID
- apw:12351169
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T17:50:48.359Z