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Title: A practical approach to prison reform
Author: Whitlock, Mick
Date: 2010-02-23
Date: 2010-02-23, 2010-02-23
Pages: 9 pages
State: Indiana
Topics: Reform
Text (TR_WF): A Practical Approach to Prison Reform As we progress further into the twenty-first century, one thing is clear: serious changes need to be made to the American prison system. America has become a society with the highest incarceration rate of any nation in the world. And with well over two million men and women in America's prisons, there are more people incarcerated in the United States than any other country. In an age of record budget deficits and massive national debt, it would appea...
PID: apw:304
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:23:43.457Z

Title: A vision for the future
Author: Whitlock, Mick
Date: 2010-08-25
Date: 2010-08-25, 2010-08-25
Pages: 7 pages
State: Indiana
Topics: Reform
Text (TR_WF): A Vision For the Future By Mick Whitlock As the steel door slammed shut behind me, I realized that a new chapter in my life was about to begin. And though the uncertainties about my life and my future seemed enormous, deep in my heart I knew that I would be going to prison. My feelings of helplessness were overwhelming. What the future held for my young family was unclear. As my mind drifted between memories of the past and thoughts of what might have been, feelings of helplessness began to c...
PID: apw:310
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:24:34.525Z

Title: Karma "The Poison Has to Run Its Course"
Author: Purkey, Wesley I.
Date: 2014-03-18
Date: 2014-03-18, 2014-03-18
Pages: 2 pages
State: Indiana
Topics: on his father's suicide
Text (TR_WF): Karma "The Poison Has To Run Its Course" by Wesley I. Purkey Some memories are indelibly etched in our minds that remain as vivid as a snapshot in time. Some are memorable, and others are not. This one falls in the latter category, although bitter-sweet! After suffering many beatings of different degree and magnitude and streams of different acts of humiliation at the hands of the person most despised in my life as a child; my alcoholic dad, his final act of cowardness drove home th...
PID: apw:12341529
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-29T21:01:06.897Z

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: 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 government's sanitized murders continue despite the moral reprehensiveness and limpid senselessness of such
Author: Purkey, Wesley I.
Date: 2014-03-18
Date: 2014-03-18, 2014-03-18
Pages: 6 pages
State: Indiana
Topics: injustice of death penalty
Text (TR_WF): The Government's Sanitized Murders Continue Despite the Moral Reprehensiveness and Limpid Senselessness of Such By Wesley I. Purkey/Federal Death Row "Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty" Henery Ford - American Auto Maker - 1947 On May 8th, 10th, and 12th, 2006 at approximately 2 AM, Richard Tipton, Corley Johnson and James Roane respectively will be executed by the Federal Government at the United States Pe...
PID: apw:12341532
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-29T21:14:23.057Z

Title: The keepers and the kept
Author: Purkey, Wesley I.
Date: 2014-03-18
Date: 2014-03-18, 2014-03-18
Pages: 4 pages
State: Indiana
Topics: Officers Mocking His Friend's Suicide
Text (TR): Wesley I. Purkey Indiana The Keepers and the Kept The opprobrious and appalling dehumanizing abject conditions of confinement permeating the lives of men and women who are unfortunate to languish for years upon years, and for some until death do they part in desolation behind maximum security penitentiary walls is pervaded by the pronounced inherit animosity held against them by their keepers. It is pretty much a given that prison officials believe that they have unfettered impunity to run ro...
PID: apw:301
Date Uploaded: 2015-09-16T18:23:00.442Z

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