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Title: Labeling theory
Author: Vance, John
Pages: 6 pages
Text (TR_WF): Labeling Theory Like most prisoners, I could go on a tirade about the multitude of problems that exist within the confines of prisons. But, most of those problems are merely symptomatic of a greater issue: the way in which prisoners are viewed. The police, courts, legislators, and prison officials label prisoners in ways that perpetuate the existing system. For the prisoner, the labeling process begins at the time of arrest. Suspects are humiliated by being arrested in public. This humiliatio...
PID: apw:12346688
Date Uploaded: 2017-08-16T00:44:43.597Z

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: Prison politics part 1
Author: Kalonji Shenkiri Tutankhamen Fati-El
Pages: 7 pages
State: Indiana
Text (TR_WF): Prison Politics (Part 1) Intercom: "Count time. Count time" Word is going around that a gang is moving out on one of their members for engaging in homosexual activities and usually once word gets out to me its almost written in stone... The correctional officer (C.O.) has just walked through and did count and its the wee hours of the morning, when all of a sudden bap, bap, bap, bap (sound of a lock-in-sock tagging human flesh). Being that the gang was just delivering a light-weight ...
PID: apw:12343370
Date Uploaded: 2016-10-18T00:54:19.228Z

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

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