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Title
4993 word essay
Author
Powers-Wali, Anthony
Pages
16 pages
Text (FT)
4993 Word Essay At the age of sixteen I was incarcerated for First Degree Murder and later sentenced to 77-years in prison. There seemed to be little consideration of the affects it would have on a teenager to be housed with adults. Fortunately for me I was a fighter. There is a strange unwritten rule in prison that if somebody is willing to stick up for himself from day one then other prisoners will be willing to help him. If you don't stand up for yourself then you are left to the wolv...
PID
apw:12347577
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:26:46.677Z
Title
A da in the SHU
Author
Bomani, Diallo
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (O)
A da in the SHU I awake this morning to my pitiful predicament. The instant my eyes popped open I shuddered from the reality of harsh environment. Suddenly I stood and move to the center of the of the cell to perform a simple test. Sure enough standing in the [modd?] middle I was able to touch opposent walls with outstretched arms. The cell was about about eight by five. Five feet wide and eight feet long. A cement box smaller than the size of a home bath room. The cement walls, floors, and c...
PID
apw:12344496
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T13:51:17.397Z
Title
A day in the life of time
Author
Clemmons-Bey, Eric
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Day in the Life of Time My name is Eric. I was born and raised in St.Louis, but for the past 34 years I have been in prison in Missouri. I have been in the South East Correctional Center at Charleston, Missouri for seven years now. When I was 21, I was sentenced to 50 years without the possibility of parole for killing a young man who was trying to rob my younger brother. I did not have a prison record. Very few people have any idea what it is like to be incarcerated for decades. Here is wh...
PID
apw:12346733
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:48.789Z
Title
A lesson in language
Author
Piwowar, Robert
Pages
14 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Lesson in Language Incarceration has forced me to postpone my plans of travelling to the continents of Europe and Asia. Six years into a twenty year sentence for manslaughter, watching Globe Trekker on PBS or flipping through vacation mags in the prison library is the closest I get. My travels into Quebec and Mexico taught me that every street sign, television or radio program, menu, and all product packaging provides a lesson in language. Simply going about a regular routine in a foreign l...
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apw:12347101
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:22:45.331Z
Title
A lot has been written
Author
Dorotik, Jane
Pages
5 pages
State
California
Text (O)
A lot has been written Original Dorotik CA A lot has been written about the prison system lately -- why we as a nation incarcerate so many, why the bureauocratic and unweildy system is only expected to make minimal cuts to its 11 billion dollar budget while education and social supports are slashed to the very core, why California's prison system has the highest recidivism rate of any state in the nation? But little is written of the individual suffering that occurs in devastating ways o...
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apw:12344502
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T15:41:58.187Z
Title
A perspective on prison
Author
Beverley, Michael
Pages
13 pages
State
New Hampshire
Text (O)
A Perspective on Prison By Michael B. Beverley When I was a boy, my mother often said that one-day people would no longer have names, we would be known only by a number. I know she didn’t mean what I would bring upon myself, yet it is not entirely disingenuous to say I am now known as 78552. That is my inmate ID within the New Hampshire state prison system. However, I would rather be remembered as Michael. Though I am now a felon, it wasn’t how my life began. I was the third of eight children...
PID
apw:12345755
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T12:49:45.093Z
Title
A tour through the circles of hell
Author
O'Shea, Patrick
Pages
10 pages
Text (O)
A Tour Through The Circles of Hell By Patrick O'Shea Correction office David Hale was horrified by the barbaric and brutal actions of his fellow officers. "I can't describe it to you --I've never seen beatings like that," he recalled. "At least 50 guys got it, maybe more. I seen them carry one inmate down the hall with a guard on each leg and one on each arm. The assistant warden comes down the hall and grabs the inmate's testicles and starts yanking on them...
PID
apw:12349176
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:47:27.593Z
Title
A.V.P.
Author
Brown, Rahasheem
Pages
3 pages
State
New York
Text (TR_WF)
A.V.P. How can violence be reduced in prison? Well, in my own opinion, the answer is simple: support the "Alternative to Violence Project!" This program, started by Quaker's back in the late 1970's right here at Green Haven Correctional Facility, is one which is now being used to combat the spread and use of violence all over the world. The Alternative to Violence Project (from this point on, to be referred to as A.V.P.) is an interactive workshop, that gives insight to it...
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apw:12343778
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T17:56:13.847Z
Title
Behind these walls
Author
Harewood, Ian
Pages
2 pages
Text (FT)
BEHIND THESE WALLS By Ian Harewood Free will is all about choices. In prison you have no free will. Every day, you have to do what someone tells you. You can't wake up in the middle of the night and go for something as simple as ice-cream or a snack. I remember when I had free will growing up. I wish that my choices had been different. As a kid I was always trying to fit in. But back in those days, the dark-skinned guys were the butt of jokes in school, the ones who weren't popular....
PID
apw:12347004
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T02:16:35.825Z
Title
Betrayal
Author
Harris, Larry "Rocky"
Pages
6 pages
State
Illinois
Text (O)
Betrayal By Larry “Rocky " Harris Everyday across America, the innocent are sent to prison. This is an ugly fact that most citizens of this great country do not want to deal with. It is not a topic that will come up over cocktails with friends. I The segment of the American population involved in this nightmare is usually the poor, specifically a poor man sold out by the public defender appointed to the criminal case. The case I write about falls into this category: a poor man raising his...
PID
apw:12345327
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T17:20:46.928Z
Title
Bread and water vegan : struggling for health and humanity inside prison
Author
Allah, Intelligent
Pages
4 pages
State
New York
Text (O)
Intelligent Allah 1,014 words #95A4315 Woodbourne Cor. Facility Box 1000 Woodbourne, N.Y. 12788 BREAD AND WATER VEGAN Struggling for Health and Humanity inside Prison By Intelligent Allah Milk and hamburgers are staples of the state prison diet, not almond milk and soy burgers. Processed canned fruit soaked in high fructose corn syrup is a commissary privilege, but there is no fresh fruit. Suede boots are issued by the New York State Department of Correctional Services, yet animal—friendly bo...
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apw:12345872
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T18:13:42.242Z
Title
C O P S, Pa. style
Author
Carroll, Wesley R.
Date
2016
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
COPS, Pa. Style By Wesley Carroll Within the courthouse, during a criminal felony trial, the proceedings went as follows. As I was cross examining a police office, it went as follows... I said, "Officer, did you see my client, the accused defendant handcuffed and sitting at my table in the court, in this criminal case, flee the scene of the crime?" The officer said, "No sir, but I subsequently observed a person matching the description of the offender several blocks away."...
PID
apw:12347237
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:48:16.955Z
Title
Caged view - April 10, 2015
Author
Vitality, Prison
Date
2015-04-10
Pages
3 pages
Text (FT)
Caged View -- April 10, 2015 The demented cement wall I open my eyes to every morning is more than a century old and bleeds tear gas when it gets really humid. Some of the white paint from its last paint-job remains and has been scorched with black soot from recent fire -- no doubt set in protest from a dissatisfied resident. The wall is pockmarked with multicolored scabs from years of paint-jobs, has crude gang graffiti painstakingly carved with paperclips, and bears battle scars from the co...
PID
apw:12347357
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:03:32.838Z
Title
Christmas - Thanksgiving on going discriminations
Author
Carroll, Wesley R.
Date
2015
Pages
2 pages
Text (FT)
S.C.I. WAYMART, Waymart, Pa. 18472 CHRISTMAS - THANKSGIVING ON GOING DISCRIMINATIONS Apparently since my win of grievance #596611, nothing was corrected nor did defendants comply. Defendants even went further by somehow getting the inmate accounting dept. (and others) to take all my monies from Oct., Nov., Dec. 2015, and continuing. This means as well that I continued to work hard on my kitchen job for all these months, yet get NO PAY. Thruout Nov., Dec. and ongoing, I have been denied all co...
PID
apw:12347229
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:48:16.501Z
Title
Criminal justice system, hypocrisy
Author
Carroll, Wesley R.
Date
2016
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Criminal Justice System, Hypocrisy By Wesley Carroll Isn't it amazing? I and many thousands of others have been saying for many years, that the so called entire criminal justice system, is totally broken. Not until after so many of us have been wrongfully passively injured by it, and much public protest, officials now say the same thing. It has been a proven fact for many years that it is totally ineffective, broken, discriminatory, and in many cases has killed. Where is the real crimina...
PID
apw:12347248
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:48:18.292Z
Title
Cruel and unusual
Author
Bomani, Diallo
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Cruel and Unusual The world governments have a universally acknowledged standard for the treatment of prisoners held in confinement. These standards are codified in a document entitled, "Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons Under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment." The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is in direct violation of United Nations humanitarian mandates with the arbitrary reckless manner it employs in administration of its Securit...
PID
apw:12344499
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T13:51:17.775Z
Title
Dancing daydreams - March 11, 2015
Author
Vitality, Prison
Date
2015-03-11
Pages
3 pages
Text (FT)
Dancing Daydreams - March 11, 2015 My balance teeters as I land, spinning on one foot atop of the abrasive concrete, preparing for another leap. I don't bite it, but man... it's close. I feel a shot of adrenal relief seize my body, and I bite back an impetuous smile as my body springs into a final landing of a five-piece pirouette... umm... I mean, tornado-kick. I'm gasping for oxygen, my muscles tensed, and I feel the stares of unwelcome eyes. Of course, in prison, unwelcome e...
PID
apw:12347361
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:03:33.046Z
Title
First reversal
Author
Miller, Phil
Date
2014
Pages
3 pages
State
New York
Text (O)
Published in the fall edition of Cornell Univ.'s literary journal, "Writer's Bloc." (2014) First Reversal by Phil Miller "Phil, can you help me?" asks an unfamiliar voice. I'm sitting at my desk in the law library of Five Points Correctional Facility, where I work as the administrative clerk. I lift my head, making eye contact with the stranger. "That depends; what do you need help with?" I ask, hoping that his request will be something simple; I&a...
PID
apw:12345985
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T21:23:34.612Z
Title
Fresh breeze
Author
Carroll, Richard W.
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Fresh Breeze A Leviathan tyrin to apprehend, Ones whole mind again, Even though it's hard headed porcelain. ...tries to be your companion, This band of legion demons, Forging weapons against and then, Using the same styled regimen. Break in then spread the poison, Modern day garden of eden, But here in lies the comparison. ...was stripped of freedom, Feeling the shame of a heathen, To catch ones own breathin, Freezin on nothin but thievin. So now in treating the villain, Beating up onese...
PID
apw:12348944
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T11:14:07.268Z
Title
House of cards
Author
Ridenour, William
Date
2014-04-14
Date
2014-04-14, 2014-04-14
Pages
1 page
State
Ohio
Topics
Drexell Greene, ORDC, US Attorney General
Text (FT)
HOUSE OF CARDS by William Ridenour April of 2014, The Sizzler newsletter published the article "Justice for All," in which Mr. Drexell Greene ' s experiences with the parole board were a featured topic . The sister of Mr. Greene sent a copy of that article and her cover letter to Ohio Senator Bill Seitz, requesting that he investigate her brother's recent parole hearing. Senator Seitz contacted the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction ("ODRC") and req...
PID
apw:12341456
Date Uploaded
2015-09-27T16:32:16.984Z
Title
I am currently a North Carolina state prisoner
Author
Green, Robbie Switzer
Pages
13 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE I am currently a North Carolina state prisoner who has seventeen years of incarceration thus far. I have been housed at fifteen (15) different State Correctional Facilities. -This is my non-fiction essay intended for researchers and the general public, to help them to see and understand prison conditions in the state of North Carolina, ways of coping, healthcare, causes of violence and some ways to reduce violence, education, employment conditions, visions of a better way to operate ...
PID
apw:12352098
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T17:43:32.553Z
Title
I am currently incarcerated
Author
Shelley, Edward C.
Pages
11 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE I am currently incarcerated in a Washington State Correctional Institution serving a 129 month sentence of which I have just completed 5 years. I have spent 8 of my last 11 years in an incarcerated situation. Looking back over my life, it is hard to believe I have come to this point. Yet in retrospect, I can clearly see where my alcoholism and drug addiction led me to make some poor choices in my life, and I certainly didn't heed the warning signs that are so clear to me now. Pr...
PID
apw:12347904
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:42:31.091Z
Title
Is there really justice for all?
Author
O'Shea, Patrick
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Is There Really Justice For All? When Public Officials engage in Conspiracies to Cover up Potential Criminal Acts - Far too often the Guilty Parties are not held Accountable by the Criminal Justice System. HOW THEN WE ASK: Are Families of the Victims to Obtain Closure and Justice? My Mother Was Never the Same Ovell Krell s last contact with her brother George Owen Smith took place back in 1940. At the young age of 14, George was sent off to one of Florida's most brutal Reform Schools, th...
PID
apw:12349159
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:47:25.988Z
Title
Justice for all
Author
Ridenour, William
Date
2014-04-14
Date
2014-04-14, 2014-04-14
Pages
3 pages
State
Ohio
Topics
elderly prisoners, sexual assault, ageism, mental illness, old law, Cynthia Mausser
Text (FT)
JUSTICE FOR ALL By William Ridenour According to a report in the Columbus Dispatch Newspaper on April30, 2012, there were over 4,700 prisoners still incarcerated in Ohio who were sentenced under the law in effect prior to 1997 ("Old Law"}. This figure is unlikely to change according to the chairwoman for the Ohio Parole Board, Ms. Cynthia Mauser, "because we're 16 years from Senate Bill 2, most people suitable for parole have already been released." (Source: The Colum...
PID
apw:12341449
Date Uploaded
2015-09-27T16:25:33.049Z

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