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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: 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: Post-release programs and gender variant people
Author: Royal, Valjean
Date: 2010-08-26
Date: 2010-08-26, 2010-08-26
Pages: 7 pages
State: Indiana
Topics: Memoir
Text (FT): /r • section three. . . problems with post-release programs Post-Release Programs and Gender Variant People Ms. Valjean Royal · On Tuesday, January 20th, 2004 President Bush called for the funding of programs to deal with some 600,000 inmates who will be released from prison this year-without work, without a home, without help. "America," he said, "is the land of second chances", and he added that, "when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a be...
PID: apw:307
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:23:59.706Z

Title: Prison politics part 1
Author: Kalonji Shenkiri Tutankhamen Fati-El
Pages: 7 pages
State: Indiana
Text (TR_WF): Prison Politics (Part 1) Intercom: "Count time. Count time" Word is going around that a gang is moving out on one of their members for engaging in homosexual activities and usually once word gets out to me its almost written in stone... The correctional officer (C.O.) has just walked through and did count and its the wee hours of the morning, when all of a sudden bap, bap, bap, bap (sound of a lock-in-sock tagging human flesh). Being that the gang was just delivering a light-weight ...
PID: apw:12343370
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-18T00:54:19.228Z

Title: Survivor testimony: Finding light in a dark place
Author: Royal, Valjean
Date: 2008
Date: 2008, 2008, 2009-07-14
Pages: 2 pages
State: Indiana
Topics: experience as a survivor of rape
Text (TR_WF): Survivor Testimony Finding Light in a Dark Place By Valjean Royal, Indiana I was just seventeen (17) when I was arrested for Female Impersonation and Prostitution. I was placed in the county jail for adults and gang-raped. As a male to female transgender (pre-op), the juvenile detention center would not allow me entry there, stating their concern for the effect of exposure to my alternative lifestyle on the other boys I would have to be housed with. As I entered the cell block at the county j...
PID: apw:12341539
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-29T21:18:37.2Z

Title: The letter
Author: Whetzel, Stephen
Date: 2010-07-20
Date: 2010-07-20, 2010-07-20
Pages: 6 pages
State: Indiana
Topics: familial abuse, sibling dynamics, outside contact
Text (FT): The Letter by Stephen Whetzel Last summer, I received a letter from Misty, my little sister-my first contact with anyone from home since coming to prison, my first letter ever from anyone in my family. For eleven lonely years. years when I felt forgotten, I had written and sent countless letters and cards to my parents, hoping to fan some imagined glowing cinder of compassion. We were never close, never. In fact, the term family should be used loosely when referring to us collectively. I neve...
PID: apw:12341356
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T14:35:32.125Z

Title: You'll be OK
Author: Whetzel, Stephen
Date: 2010-07-20
Date: 2010-07-20, 2010-07-20
Pages: 14 pages
State: Indiana
Topics: rape, refirmatory, racial dynamics
Text (FT): You'll Be OK by Stephen Whetzel The van sliced through the dense morning fog like a jet through vapor. It was dark, the mood somber, as ten of us, two guards and eight prisoners rode in a terrible silence. Icy air . streaming in from a slightly opened window numbed my face. I shivered with cold, uncertainty, and dread. My heart, fueled by fear and anger and adrenaline, raced like that speeding van down the highway. l didn't know where we were headed, but I knew that by the end of th...
PID: apw:12341370
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-27T14:48:15.102Z

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