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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
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
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
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
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
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
Title
Slaves of the state
Author
Bazrowx, Timothy D.V.
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Slaves of the State An Essay Based On True Events By: Timothy D.V. Bazrowx 
 Slaves! The very word brings up feelings of hatred, and degradation, yet although thought to be abolished with the, "Emancipation Proclamation of 1863" issued by President Lincoln, it still exists today. There is another form of slavery that is alive, and well in todays age, that surpasses racial borders; It surpasses religions; it surpasses financial levels of social class (in some cases), and seems to onl...
PID
apw:12349210
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:47:30.14Z
Title
Suicides rule in prison
Author
Williams, Dortell
Date
2011-06
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Dortell Williams Approximately 110 words H-45771 / A2-206 ' Non—fiction P.0. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 SUICIDES RULE IN PRISON by Dortell Williams Would you believe suicide is the leading cause of death in American jails? I'd have never guessed that considering how cushy and comfortable some people would have us to believe the jails are. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics’, "Mortality in Local Jails, 2000-2007," the latest report, suicide is more prevalent in...
PID
apw:12345182
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T14:21:33.844Z
Title
The power of words: How lockdown and empathy can intersect
Author
Williams, Dortell
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Dortell Williams P.O. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 Approximately 470 words "The Power of Words: How Lockdown and Empathy Can Intersect" by Dortell Williams "America's on lockdown," reads the headlines. These are jarring words to prisoners across the land; completely inappropriate for a free society; touching a nerve for people suffering literal, long-term lockdown. In fact, that verbiage, extreme and punitive, traumatic as it is, should be limited to prisons where inh...
PID
apw:12360195
Date Uploaded
2020-12-02T18:41:45.492Z
Title
The razor ribbon retribution
Author
Bazrowx, Timothy D.V.
Date
2017-11-12
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
The Razor Ribbon Retribution An Essay The sun is still hiding behind the curtain of darkness called night, but you can hear it outside the window. The darkness is still alive and well, but there is always light; the light glints off of the points of the razor ribbon that adorns the fences that surrounds the prison I am in- They all have them, society in Texas is proud of them, for they are always building new prisons, with new fences, and yes new razor ribbon, shiny, new, sharp razor ribbon. ...
PID
apw:12351873
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T02:47:36.567Z
Title
The travails of Charlie Sheen
Author
Williams, Dortell
Date
2010-10
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (O)
THE TRAVAlLS OF CHARLlE SHEEN Porn actress Capri Anderson described her experience as unexpected and frightening as she recalled hiding in a closet for safety in a New York hotel room as America's funnyman, Charlie Sheen, turned madman during a cocaine-induced rage. Widely publicized photographs of the demolished hotel room added another element to Anderson's story. Sheen went off, again. I'm not talking about when he shot his then girlfriend, Kelly Preston, in the arm - during...
PID
apw:12345186
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T14:21:34.438Z
Title
Two species: peering in and peering out
Author
Williams, Dortell
Date
2010-05
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Dortell Williams Approximately 350 words H—45771 / A2-206 Non-fiction P.O. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 dortellwilliams@yahoo.com TWO SPECIES: PEERING IN AND PEERING OUT by Dortell Williams Recently a tour of civilians was escorted about the prison grounds by administrative custodial staff. As the small group of bright-faced youth -- probably college students studying law -- ambled their way into the housing unit, I made careful study of their individual and collective countenance. As they pe...
PID
apw:12345204
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T14:21:36.846Z
Title
Violent, non-violent: what's the difference?
Author
Williams, Dortell
Date
2010-02
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Dortell Williams Approximately 250 words H-45771 / A2-206 Non-fiction P.O. Box 4430 Lancaster, CA 93539 dortellwilliams@yahoo.com VIOLENT, NON-VIOLENT: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? by Dortell Williams In 1993, Richard Davis, a depraved repeat offender, kidnapped and killed Petaluma, California's young and promising Polly Klaas. In response the notorious Three Strikes law was hatched. A costly, overbearing measure that seems to completely neglect sex offending, yet locks up non—violent pet...
PID
apw:12345190
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T14:21:34.99Z