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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 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
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
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
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
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
PID
apw:12363224
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:44:27.42Z
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
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
Title
Looking through the windows
Author
Vaughn, Don
Pages
7 pages
Text (O)
Vaughn 1 Looking Through the Windows It was an early spring morning in 1990, and as usual I was late for work. Every morning I drove to dads house and from there he and I would ride to work together. I had been working for him for several months, but it seemed to me that instead of teaching me about work he was more interested in lecturing me about slowing down with the partying and self medicating. I was eighteen years old that spring — and I was as wild as the fields that surrounded the neig...
PID
apw:12355160
Date Uploaded
2019-01-21T19:17:08.005Z
Title
Poverty and crime
Author
Criminally Violent Felon
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[Poverty and Crime] 7/14/2018 Hello, I am a product of society. I robbed that bank because I am poor. Homeless shelters and jobs I had were always temporary. I never had enough money to keep me off the streets of Downtown Los Angeles. At least prison takes care of me. But I'll eventually get out. And what then? I heard I got 6 months at a halfway house during which I must find a job that is able to support me. But I couldn't do that following the rules of society. How can I succeed?...
PID
apw:12354733
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:32:28.188Z
Title
Praise the Name of Yahweh (Lord!)
Author
Russell, Stephen
Pages
3 pages
State
North Carolina
Topics
violation of privacy, prison guards, NCOPS, DHO
Text (TR_WF)
Dear APWA: 1 May 2014 Praise the Name of [illegible] (Lord)! I pray this find you well and blessed. Enclosed is a hand written copy of a grievance I tried to file on the prison I was housed before being shipped to Hyde in retaliation for my attempting to stand on my Rights. According to policy, officers have 3 days to process a grievance. This grievance was filed by me on 18 Nov 2013, received at Mountain View [Corr?] Inst on 22 Nov 2013. It was not processed at all at MVCI. On 4 Dec 2013 I f...
PID
apw:12341584
Date Uploaded
2015-09-29T21:39:25.884Z
Title
Pride gets in your way
Author
Strack, Kevin
Pages
7 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Kevin Strack California Pride Gets in Your Way 
 I sit here trying to think of what great picture I can paint in your mind to keep you reading, and not just pass this over thinking that it is just another lame story, so let me tell you this. I love to make people laugh. When I write things I hope that the person reading this will go away with a smile on their face. My second goal is to reach out to that one person that seems to be stuck on what to do next. So let me get on with this so I can ...
PID
apw:12345065
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T14:32:45.544Z
Title
Prison system complicity
Author
Cervantes, Mario
Date
2019-01-23
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Mario Cervantes Prison System Complicity The premeditation of the New Mexico department of incorrectness to conciously strip inmates of human dignity further suppressing an already suppressed demographic is to be complicit in the furtherance of violent criminal behavior. Any system that causes a human being to rationalize behavior uncomparable to any animal as in wanton violence, brutal victimization and exploitation of other human beings is a view from the highest point of society, distorted...
PID
apw:12356366
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:22:41.611Z
Title
Prison writings
Author
ID
Pages
3 pages
Text (FT)
Singh 1 Tony Singh 90-B-0467 Woodbourne Correctional Facility 99 Prison Rd., Box 1000 Woodbourne, N.Y. 12788 December 1, 2009 "Voices Through the Wall" Hamilton College 198 College Hill Road Clinton, New York 13323 Prison Writings A great philosopher said once, "Prisons are a reflection of society." With all the hype about criminals and prisons, people in society do not realize how they are affected by what goes on inside a prison. As a person cuiTcntly incarcerated, I wil...
PID
apw:12347067
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:22:43.994Z
Title
Release lifers or staff in the budget cuts to come?
Author
Williams, Dortell
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Dortell Williams Approximately 160 words H—4577l / A2-206 Non-fiction P.O. Box 4430 ' Lancaster, CA 93539 RELEASE LIFERS OR STAFF IN THE BUDGET CUTS TO COME? Dortell Williams In October, 2008, I shared lament with AVP regarding the unnecessary layoffs of thousands of state workers. The layoffs were predictable after Conservatives refused early releases of prisoners -- who were within 90 days of release anyway. At $49,0000 a year, per prisoner, their release would have saved taxpayers a b...
PID
apw:12345208
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T14:21:37.281Z
Title
Sentencing manipulation miscalculation
Author
Reilly, Sean
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Sentencing Manipulation Miscalculation by Sean Reilly While working in the prison law library, the prisoner, Christopher Nelson, out of Santa Rosa County, Florida, approached me requesting assistance with a post conviction motion regarding a potential scoresheet error. Mr. Nelson received the bottom of the guidelines sentence of the 45.3 months in the Florida Department of Corrections. As it turns out, there was a kidnapping charge on his scoresheet that he wasn't convicted of and other ...
PID
apw:12347856
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:29.233Z

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