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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
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
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 thought to myself
Author
Kucinsky, Charles
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
I thought to myself it must have been something I did or said but it was probably for nothing at all. Probably the fear factor - that those officers strong armed me, choked me and beat my body like their gun & badge wasnt threatening enough. Did they just want to intimidate me? I blamed myself and tryed to justify their actions. Did they justify themselves by saying I was a gang member; that I wasnt innocent? Is that what I might have deserved? If that was my punishment who decided the pu...
PID
apw:12352439
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T19:44:31.809Z
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
Loathe & rage: Personal origins
Author
Vikalpa, Kali Yuga
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
I{ali Yuga Vikalpa Vikalpa l Loathe & Rage: Personal Origins One morning I awoke to realize that I had intense rage and hatred towards many aspects of my life. This revelation came with the understanding that I live in the most deplorable enviromnent on earth, a maximum-security prison. My seething hatred and simmering rage are caused by the conditions of my confinement. Being physically restricted, being forced to live with people I detest, and having to suffer the loss of self-sufficienc...
PID
apw:12357314
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:16:43.896Z
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
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
Sources of stress in prisons
Author
Agrawal, Shree
Pages
13 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Sources of Stress in Prisons There are an uncountable number of sources of stress in prison. The worst source of stress to prisoners is the unlawful policies and practices inflicted on them. These policies and practices are senseless and are designed solely to make life miserable for prisoners. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that prison regulations that infringe on the federal rights of prisoners must serve some legitimate purpose. Most prisoners want to serve their sentence in p...
PID
apw:12349807
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T20:36:11.049Z
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 lesser of two hells
Author
Vikalpa, Kali Yuga
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
Kali Yuga Vikalpa A Vikalpa 1 The Lesser of Two Hells Clinton Correctional Facility and Sing Sing Correctional Facility are two maximum- security prisons within the New York State prison system. A stay in either prison would result in trauma, torture, and possibly death. Nevertheless, the opportunities for rehabilitation are greater at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. Both Clinton C. F. and Sing Sing C. F. are set in vastly different geographic locations, differing in topography & climate...
PID
apw:12357472
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:22:23.97Z
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 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
This story is a real life event
Author
Chapman, Donald Rorie
Date
2018-03-13
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE March 13, 2018 True Story is a Real Life event. The construction of my words are meant to touch those who take the time to read them. It's a story of loss, of living through it, and how hard it's been on my mind, and my heart. My hopes are that my story will help someone "coping through it," in life... Maybe even save a life... My name is Donald R. Chapman. I've been in prison 15 years... Started at 18 yrs old, and now I'm 33... Last summer on August 3rd...
PID
apw:12353494
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T23:40:29.373Z
Title
Through my eyes: The shake down
Author
Key, Kenneth M.
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Through My Eyes : The Shake Down By Kenneth M. Key The setting is one all fimiliar - we are usually awaken by someone who gets up early and notices the water and the toliet had been cut off. Indicating we are about to be shook down. Its a level one shakedown and its a statewide, which means officers from (various?) institutions, so 30 plus will be (converging?) upon us to search for (contraband?) such as knives, home made wine, drugs, phones etc. Its (over?) four hundred officers. Inmates are...
PID
apw:12349682
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T20:16:15.19Z
Title
To whom it may/does concern
Author
Pylacopa, E. Z., I
Pages
4 pages
PID
apw:12359272
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:20:15.808Z

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