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Title
1st amendment under siege
Author
Magnific, Roc
Date
2017-03-03
Pages
3 pages
Topics
Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (TR_WF)
"1st Amendment Under Siege" Recently last year (May,2016) Arkansas Department of Correction Czarina Wendy Kelly issued a rather fastidious policy that cited newspaper clippings would be banned from prisoner mail, classifying them as (wait for it - with bated breath) "contraband"!? According [ineligible] to ADC (Ay, Carumba! Arkansas Department of Corruption) policy, they are... concerned about drug smuggling but said vitiated policy does not affect newspapers sent directly...
PID
apw:12350565
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T14:09:39.949Z
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...
PID
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...
PID
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 renaissance
Author
Whetzel, Stephen
Date
2010-07-20
Date
2010-07-20, 2010-07-20
Pages
12 pages
State
Indiana
Topics
pen pals, psychiatric aid, confessional, personal story
Text (FT)
A Renaissance by Stephen Whetzel Page 1 of 12 It started with a visit to the psychologist. Behind the ominous, gray, concrete wall surrounding the Indiana State Reformatory, not many areas existed where one could go to in order to escape the late summer heat. That old maximum-security prison, a place born of a harsher time, was never known for comforts. Therefore, whether or not I felt the need for a counseling session with Eric, my psychologist and substance abuse counselor, I looked forward...
PID
apw:12341322
Date Uploaded
2015-09-27T12:48:43.808Z
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...
PID
apw:12343778
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T17:56:13.847Z
Title
American prisons and free-world staff not ready for second wave of COVID
Author
Magnitic, Roc
Pages
7 pages
Topics
Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (TR_WF)
"American Prisons and Free-World Staff Not Ready for Second Wave of Covid" "When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity." Never before have many would have thought such a [crisis?] as the Covid-19 pandemic would wreck havoc upon all parts of American life. But when it comes to prisons, a lot of the free-world staff (e.g. - guards, medical staff) as well as the residents of t...
PID
apw:12361864
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T16:13:06.874Z
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
Black Lives Matter: Are they ignoring Blacks in prison?
Author
Magnitic, Roc
Pages
6 pages
Topics
Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (TR_WF)
“Black Lives Matter: Are They Ignoring Blacks In Prison?" Ever since its origin in 2013, the Black Lives Matter movement has… repeatedly stressed it was founded on the idea that Blacks were ad libitum being targeted as well as being murdered by police for being Black indiscriminately. As a Black man who has experienced police paramilitary tactics while (WWB) in the wee hours of the morning, of which such was used to obtain a... search warrant (with affidavit) whereas police lied in their...
PID
apw:12363057
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:41:25.707Z
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...
PID
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
Censorship in Michigan prisons
Author
Hamilton, Lacino
Pages
3 pages
Topics
Prisoners writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O)
Eensorship In Michigan Prisons By: Uacino Hamilton Today, another book was rejected. The fifth time in the past two weeks this has happened. All because the book wasn't sent from an "approved vendor." To the uninformed public such a requirement may appear on its face reasonable, the Michigan department of Corrections should control where information prisoners are receiving is coming from, and what that information is. But in practice, its a form of censorship. A policy that pro...
PID
apw:12351823
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T02:47:33.878Z
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
Egyptian days for one gallimaufry enterprise
Author
Magnific, Roc
Pages
5 pages
Topics
Prisoners writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (TR_WF)
Egyptian Days for One Gallimaufry Enterprise If you operate an enterprise built upon desiring and getting the gold of Tolash (e.g., ill-gotten wealth will do no one good) that's not worth a tinker's damn, you will be a business many consider "ne touchez pas, nole me tangere" (e.g., one not to be touched). This is what's facing the Kakistrecratic Arkansas Department of Correction as it finds itself stricken with one gey case of "blue flu" and increasing inmat...
PID
apw:12351169
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T17:50:48.359Z
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

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