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Title
A Pollyanna in the penitentiary
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Pollyana in the Penitentiary by Danny Cherry As I sat reading Executive Regional Director Michael Osburn's response, I just shook my head and chuckled. I was way beyond the point of disgust given all that had happened up until that point. Writing the commissioner had always proven itself to be an exercise in futility, however, my conscious reasoning would never allow me to rest unless I dissented from the recidivistic conditioning of the Indiana State Reformatory. Initially, I became d...
PID
apw:12356553
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:11:52.048Z
Title
A cesspool full of drecks
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
10 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Cesspool Full of Drecks by Danny Cherry As I lay there in excruciating agony caused by the severe infection that had resulted from my untreated burns, I tried very hard not to cry. My salted tears only exacerbated the wounds on the left side of my face. The pain was crippling; it paralyzed me. My wounds bled profusely and oozed puss incessantly. My sheet and blanket were ruined -- stained with the essence of my tortured being. I wondered how much more that my body could bear before it yield...
PID
apw:12356723
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T18:32:42.239Z
Title
A person cannot become who they need to be by remaining who they are!!
Author
Purkey, Wesley I.
Date
2014-03-18
Date
2014-03-18, 2014-03-18
Pages
2 pages
State
Indiana
Topics
life lessons
Text (FT)
"A PERSON CANNOT BECOME WHO THEY NEED TO BE BY REMAINING WHO THEY ARE!!" By Wesley I. Purkey, Federal Death Row. My great Aunt Ga-ga who adopted me when I was kid, who didn't weigh a buck five soak and wet, inundated me with an assemblage of words of wisdom, which has left an indelible imprint on me. These "golden sayings" were generally flaunted when she was trying to school me on the importance of obtaining and continuing my education, and the need for learning from...
PID
apw:12341395
Date Uploaded
2015-09-27T15:04:38.45Z
Title
Advanced recidivism conditioning
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Advanced Recidivism Conditioning by Danny Cherry I had been torn from my sleep again by the continuous music that had blared from multiple offender's tablets, since they had been introduced into the Indiana State Reformatory - I was exhausted and sleep deprived. I would not have cared too much if the surrounding offenders had elected to blast symphonies, but they had chosen to broadcast toxic rap songs that promoted illegal drug distribution, illegal drug use, violence and sexual promisc...
PID
apw:12356408
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T14:51:08.819Z
Title
An erudite's antirecidivism medications
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
An Erudite's Antirecidivism Medications by Danny Cherry As the virulence of recidivism continued to run rampant through the Indiana Department of Correction, I did not cease from combating it with cultural medicines; I refused to allow myself to become infected. Although I was exceeding poor, I still made financial sacrifices in order to positively maintain my intellectual and emotional health. Pendleton's staff's refusal, for well over three months, to send money that I had tr...
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apw:12359685
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:30:49.881Z
Title
An excerpt from my journal
Author
Kirkman, Travis
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
An excerpt from my journal: December 10, 2017 I witnessed the craziest shit last night. An inmate I know beat down a correctional officer right in front of me. To make matters worse, the inmate used a lock-in-a-sock and then took the officers mace and sprayed him with it. It all started when I came in from chow. As I made my way through the dayroom, Bama stopped me. He quickly said that he was about to beat the polices ass and to tell his bunky that he was sorry for taking his lock. At first ...
PID
apw:12358479
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:00:13.708Z
Title
Art is my truth
Author
Zamarron, Kenneth L.
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
-Art is my Truth- I am literally a men buried alive. Every morning I look into a mirror and burst within, insanity burglarizes my mind as I cry knowing this is my life, life at 16, 16 doing life. Now 27, the only thing true in my life is Art. It is my artillery behind these walls. And for you I promise to be as articulately artful as possible. This is how I can be true to you. By: Kenneth L. Zamarron Drawn Image: Eye in a box Above it reads: Child Lifer To the left reads: Worst Person To the ...
PID
apw:12358124
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:43:48.836Z
Title
Background: I came to prison with a 60 year bit
Author
Cooper, Charles E. II
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Background: I came to prison with a 60 yr bit for murder. I was 22 yrs. old with no education and from a family that was very poor. I'm now 46 yrs. old. Stress: When seeing a 40 ft. wall that is gray and dull. Walking into one of the hardest prisons in Indiana. If that wasn't tough enough in intake I was told how young men like me are raped or killed within the first 2 yrs. of prison. The third day in prison 3 men came at me telling me that I had to pay, fight, or f**k. So I started...
PID
apw:12358882
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:10:26.279Z
Title
Beneath the surface
Author
Riley, C.T.
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
Beneath the Surface By C.T. Riley Beneath the surface, the concept being purely commercial, is none other than a collusive campaign to keep one in prison longer & to return a parolee to prison soon as possible as the underlying basis for somm & the additional parole stipulations for the so called sex offender; is in fact a fabrication of theories expressive more of the bizarre than of rationality As you can see, from this is created a plausibly sophisticated structure intended for a t...
PID
apw:12354656
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T16:05:50.125Z
Title
Beneath the surface (the somm program & the polygraph)
Author
Riley, C.T.
Pages
3 pages
State
Indiana
Text (O)
Beneath the surface by C.T. Riley (The somm program & the Polygraph) I want to share some research with you on the polygraph exam for which my non-compliance in taking it was utilized to extend my incarceration. Initially I conceded to take a polygraph under the condition that; I would be given adequate time as to being informed beforehand that I may procure counsel to be present during the polygraph exam. But, as I stated earlier I was only given a 24 hour notice; which also violated due...
PID
apw:12345431
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T22:17:36.216Z
Title
Beneathe the surface again (human trafficking: the somm-scheme-scam-sex program)
Author
Riley, C.T.
Pages
5 pages
State
Indiana
Text (O)
Beneath the Surface Again By C.T. Riley (Human Trafficking: The somm-scheme-scam-sex program) H-e-l-p! I am being held hostage at the New Castle Correctional Facility, in the middle of a cornfield camouflaged as woodlands. Despite my ongoing pursuit for post-conviction relief from 2014 up until this present I was still compelled under duress by New Castle Correctional Facility & somm personnel staff to temporarily participate in somm until I was able to resolve grievance contending that s...
PID
apw:12345435
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T22:17:36.687Z
Title
Blessed with a curse
Author
Riley, C.T.
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
Blessed With A Curse By C.T. Riley A Miracle In Disguise) I am the instrument of destiny & fate. And through my being & becoming, destiny and fate became my instrument. I proceeded in this life cycle as an outcast amidst familiars, whom were strangers, and I a stranger unto myself. So, I began to labor afier knowledge of self, God & what this physical life entailed. Unknowingly, I walked in a dream within the confines of a system overwhelmed with manufactured minds indoctrinated w...
PID
apw:12354658
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T16:05:52.038Z
Title
Case history
Author
Jones, Jimmy
Pages
12 pages
State
Indiana
Text (O)
CASE HISTORY Defendant: Jimmy D. Jones D.O.B: Dec. 7,1974 Current Status: Incarcerated Present Institution: Wabash Valley Correctional Facility D.O.C: 891782 County & State of Conviction: Marion County, Indiana Cause No: 49G02-9312-CF-160463 Crimes Charged: Attempted Murder, class A felony & Felon w/ Gun, class D felony Date of Arrest: Nov. 30,1993 Date of Trial: July 26,1994 Date of Sentence: Aug. 26, 1994 Current Sentence: 45yrs on the Attempted Murder, & 3yrs on the Felon w/ Gu...
PID
apw:12345402
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T20:47:43.806Z
Title
Concentration camp
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Concentration Camp by Danny Cherry I imagined the inhumanity that Anne Frank witnessed and endured, as we chronic care prisoners were being herded through Pendleton's cafeteria to receive flu shots. Indescribable fear paralyzed me; medical staff threw used syringes onto tables where we would be eating later; I had HIV, my blood alone was a deadly weapon. Rapid thoughts raced in my mind, as I pondered what infectious diseases flowed through the veins of the remaining multitude. I requeste...
PID
apw:12359695
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:31:03.818Z
Title
Confussed
Author
James, Brittany
Date
2016
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Confussed Brittany James Boggle only there is no words, blank spaces unable to fill, empty an inside out, rung out and hung to dry, here but never fully aware, be in every moment, even if its only fractions, any part is worth hanging onto, my life in a closet, the door opens and you never come out, bleed out to know that your alive, without breath, thickness, you're un-able to catch-22. You never win, Russian roulette, how do you hit and miss, kiss of death, rise above this life, resurre...
PID
apw:12346674
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:42.835Z
Title
Crying in my sleep
Author
Kirkman, Travis
Date
43562
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
An excerpt from my journal. 4-7-19 Crying in my sleep. It's weird. I wake up and I seem to be sobbing really hard. I'm not sure what's going on. There are no tears or anything. Its been happening more frequently. Last night, I was dreaming of escaping somewhere. Here I was, crawling through what appeared to be a very thick mangrove. I had a couple of dogs with me. At one point, the shit we were crawling through got way too thick and it was getting dark. I think I gave up. Thats...
PID
apw:12359833
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:34:36.214Z
Title
Death penalty abuse
Author
Azania, Zolo Agona
Date
2015-04-01
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
DEATH PENALTY ABUSE (Tool Of War For The Rich And Powerful) The death penalty is a hate crime aimed at the poor of all nationalities. It is a means whereby the rich and powerful intim- idate and terrorize the poor and oppressed to accept their lowly lot in life. The death penalty, often referred to as capital punishment, does not protect the human rights of the innocent and the abused. The opinions of the powerless are ignored by the arrogent powerful. Injustice is an abuse of power against t...
PID
apw:12348986
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T12:35:29.026Z
Title
Different
Author
James, Brittany
Date
2016
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Different view, different you, different sight, touch, and feel, wheel me in center stage and have a quick glance, lance open your perception and see what keeps the thought whole; always falling apart, domino effect, we all fall down - a well and never come out, drowned by your own selfish ways, spoon yourself to death because there is no sharps, safety proof, always guarded, no concern for any rule, regulation, or even request, a test of my attitude and unstable thoughts, a constant accelera...
PID
apw:12346670
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:42.106Z
Title
Elkhart man seeks vindication from wrongful conviction
Author
McPherson, Jonathan
Pages
7 pages
Text (FT)
mkhart Man Seeks Vindication from Wrongful Conviction Dear Community at Large: My name is Jonathan Galen McPherson, I am 40 years of age, a single-father of (6) children, (3) boys and (3) girls, and I was born and raised in Elkhart, Indiana. I was wrongfully convicted at trial of (2) counts for dealing in Cocaine, (1) count of maintaining a common nuisance, (1) count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a Serious Violent Felon (SVF), and for being a habitual offender. The dealing in Cocaine...
PID
apw:12346680
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:43.331Z
Title
Enclosed is an "incident report"
Author
Mebane, J. Terrell
Date
2018-12-13
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
[no title] 12/13/18 Enclosed is an "Incident Report" from the Federal Bureau of Prisons describing a homicide that I committed, in USP Terre Haute in 2016. What I wish to explain to you, are the factors that have been left unclarified, and what has succeeded since the ordeal. The Federal Bureau of Prisons has a totalitarian attitude towards its prisoners. Unfortunately for the prisoners, guards have been brainwashed and trained that they must never negotiate, or relent with their or...
PID
apw:12356156
Date Uploaded
2019-05-23T19:25:08.6Z
Title
Every member of the human
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Date
2019-02-13
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Danny Cherry IN 2-13-19 Dear APWA Editors, Every member of the human race is entitled to dignity and equality. That being said, I am not an "incarcerated [writer]," I am a writer who is incarcerated. To expound—without a doubt—would be an exercise in futility, especially to marginalized people suffering from delusions of superiority over members of the population whom have been disenfranchised by crime. Such prejudice against prisoners is unbecoming, degrading, but worst of all segr...
PID
apw:12356189
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:12:47.905Z
Title
First sip of coffee
Author
Zamarron, Kenneth L.
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
-First Sip of Coffee- "108 words" Incarceration at times seems to be the only life I know. Few experienced that I could even recall... Now looking out my prison window realizing that I been here since the beginning of time and may leave this place when my hairs gray or my heart no longer beats. Then the aroma hits my nostrils. As I smell and close my eyes then taste remembering my first coffee experience. Looking at the lovely face of Mom. Asking for a sip, she say no... but persist...
PID
apw:12358122
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:43:46.407Z
Title
Friends and family campaign to free Indiana political prisoner Khalfani Malik Khaldun
Author
Khaldun, Khalfani Malik
Pages
2 pages
State
Indiana
Text (O)
FRIENDS AND FAMILY CAMPAIGN TO FREE INDIANA POLITICAL PRISONER KHALFANI MALIK KHALDUN The long struggle to have the Indiana prisoncrats to release Khalfani Malik Khaldun to general population is over. It cam to an end on November 20, 2014, ten days before his 45* birthday, after spending 20 straight years in solitary confinement. This victory is bittersweet, because while housed at the New Castle Correctional Facility, working his way through a step-down program called S-T.A.N.D. (striving tow...
PID
apw:12345415
Date Uploaded
2016-10-23T20:47:44.088Z
Title
From times immemorial up to
Author
Riley, C.T.
Pages
1 page
Text (O)
By Clinton Troy Riley IN From times immemorial up to this present, the coven of the ill intended have been set afire and consumed by the mad pursuits of egregious endeavors cloaked under shadows of ambiguity. This is how they make them appear replete with the legitimacy for the good, safety & security of the public. Such is the case in crafting bad laws. When viewed under the scope of moral & rational examination it is overtly discovered that the affected rights being deprived as a re...
PID
apw:12354654
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T16:05:47.943Z

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