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Title: An indecent proposal
Author: Vasquez, Rafael
Pages: 8 pages
Text (O): An Indecent Proposal By Rafael Vasquez   Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. -Helen Keller   The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper. -Friedrich Nietzsche   I wanted to posit a solution to something I find perplexing about today's penitentiary, and its role in society. That is, there seems to be some disconnect between what free world people, i.e. taxpaye...
PID: apw:12357280
Date Uploaded: 2019-10-28T20:15:24.186Z

Title: Educate me - please
Author: West, Kenneth
Pages: 3 pages
Text (FT): Educate Only in a p r i s o n been proven Such is t h e s a d According to s t a s t i c s and all other Education AA d e g r e e s recidivate percent A while that (come back would inmate fighting I can behind even entangled journal dedicated to p r i s o n ) a t over education and to the transformative a 8th g r a d e dropout like no m i s t a k e my initial state it ignorance would the think in benefits tool/but power who a I was new ever left had crime ignorance to e x t r a d i t e educat...
PID: apw:12347382
Date Uploaded: 2017-08-16T15:03:34.439Z

Title: Evolution of a dreamer
Author: Sampson, Terrence
Pages: 26 pages
Text (TR_WF): Evolution of a Dreamer It seems that all I've known in life is adversity and perseverance, two polar opposites in meaning, but one dependent on the other to exist and have meaning. Adversity has come as a result of my own choices, which has also caused adversity in the lives of people I've hurt the most. In some ways I am thankful for adversity, for were it not for the struggle or the pain, I wouldn't be the man I am today. I could have wilted, I could have crumbled, I could ha...
PID: apw:12347314
Date Uploaded: 2017-08-16T14:54:04.673Z

Title: Headed down south
Author: Edwards, B.
Pages: 6 pages
Text (TR_WF): Headed Down South "Edwards! pack ya stuff ya on tha TDC chain," said the soft spoken boss lady then pointed at me. Her voice echoed throughout the Pod making other inmates look around in hopes it was or wasn't their name being called. Reality already set in my mind from the moment that I signed for my time at the Harris County Court House. Now 34 day's later my name was being called over the intercom for me to catch chain to my new place of residence. From my outer appeara...
PID: apw:12358364
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-18T18:57:17.739Z

Title: Texas style crime & punishment: Reprisal & retaliation
Author: Lyon, Edward B. Jr.
Pages: 13 pages
Text (O): Edward B. Lyon, Jr. -memoir-   Texas Style Crime & Punishment - Reprisal & Retaliation   There is an old saying that a society is judged by the way it treats the least of its citizens. I think it was meant to refer to the poor and elderly, although I've often heard it applied to prisoners. Come to think of it, I have only seen three rich prisoners, so I guess that the poor and prisoners are about the same. Then there is another old adage, this one penned by Mark Twain in the 1870...
PID: apw:12355362
Date Uploaded: 2019-01-21T21:24:09.237Z

Title: The hundred year flood
Author: Lyon, Edward B. Jr.
Pages: 9 pages
Text (O): Edward B. Lyon, Jr. — memoir — THE HUNDRED YEAR FLOOD Texas has so many prisons its motto should be "The Gulag State" instead of The Lone Star State. After the 1990s decade of massive prison building, Texas‘ prison system grew from 27 units to ll6 by 2000. The state lost 3 small units from 2000-2005 and 3 more in 2014, reducing the population from a high of l72,000 to a measly 165,000 distributed among a mere ll0 prison units. In 1908, construction was completed on a prison in Rosha...
PID: apw:12353608
Date Uploaded: 2018-09-27T01:07:15.362Z

Title: The incomplete memoirs of a Texas prisoner
Author: Lyon, Edward B. Jr.
Pages: 19 pages
Text (TR_WF): Edward B. Lyon, Jr. The Incomplete Memoirs of a Texas Prisoner 1987: First Impression, You Really Just Had to Have Been There Matthew 25:36 "...I was in prison, and ye came unto Me." Matthew 25:43 "I was ... in prison and ye visited Me not." Matthew 25:45 "Inasmuch as ye did it to the least of these, ye did it unto Me." Sooner or later the question is asked, usually by a relative or a friend: "What is prison like?" I spend all day, every day, wishing th...
PID: apw:12354132
Date Uploaded: 2018-09-27T14:40:09.872Z

Title: The special prosecutor (a memoir)
Author: Lyon, Richard A. A.
Pages: 22 pages
Text (TR_WF): "The Special Prosecutor" (A memoir) When I finally had the courage to recount my showdown with the Special Prosecutor, over a decade had passed. Neither of us will forget. At this moment, in my mind, I see him leaning back in his oak chair, catching my eye. He knows something that I don't. It is sometimes best to start at the beginning, but I'll skip the trial that got me a life sentence, concentrating instead on this trial in Walker County, the seat of the second oldest b...
PID: apw:12347283
Date Uploaded: 2017-08-16T14:54:03.74Z

Title: What the Texas department of criminal justice won't tell you, the taxpayers who own it
Author: Vasquez, Rafael
Pages: 6 pages
Text (O): Vasquez 1 What The Texas Department of Criminal Justice WON'T Tell You, the Taxpayers Who Own It. The philosopher Vladimir Nabokov once said that in order to gain the truest picture of where we stand as a society, one need only to stand outside a prison at shift change. That was true in Nabokov's day, and it is true today. We live in the greatest country in the world, and with the advent of technology and education, our science and engineering put us second to none in global advance...
PID: apw:12357273
Date Uploaded: 2019-10-28T20:15:11.39Z

Title: Young, poor, black, male (potentially dangerous), and irrelevant
Author: West, Kenneth
Pages: 4 pages
Text (TR_WF): Young, Poor, Black, Male (Potentially Dangerous), and Irrelevant By Kenneth West If you can imagine being 19, innocent, yet found guilty by a jury of any and everything but your peers, and subsequently sentenced to a 120 years in prison; then perhaps you can understand the deep seated place of pain this essay comes from. However if you are incapable of such an imaginative leap, which most people are, then I fear that what I write will only be connected lines of text that our brains recognize ...
PID: apw:12347377
Date Uploaded: 2017-08-16T15:03:34.006Z

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