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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 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
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...
PID
apw:12359685
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:30:49.881Z
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
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
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
Hate
Author
James, Brittany
Date
2016
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Hate Sedate me till its over, nail me to a chair and strip me of my thoughts, the feelings never die, I found the missing link in the chain, peddle my way strait to hell, fall down and never get up, a coffin with no escape route, who knows how to use a first aids kit? Resuscitate me, one, two, three, breathe...operation there is no pulse, a zombie from the walking dead, even they feel hunger, feed my uncensored need, for thought, my thoughts are never enough food, scale your way up the side o...
PID
apw:12346672
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:42.566Z
Title
Haters and hypocrisy
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Haters and Hypocrisy by Danny Cherry The terror I felt when I rose and saw that my mail had been placed on my door’s port was so potent that it quickened me from my somnambulistic trance. I was appalled by the fact that Sergeant Prater had done such an unethical thing. I was even more disgusted that our range detail or anyone who went to med line had not the decency to either have woken me or- at the very least- to have thrown my correspondences on my cell’s floor. Out of my naïveté, I had fo...
PID
apw:12356495
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T14:53:54.804Z
Title
Insane
Author
James, Brittany
Date
2016
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Insane Take me where the walls talk, scream, and stalk my mind, Rogger Rabbit with a pistol, deranged but can't help but see, binoculars for an unexpected scene, take one, two, let the show begin, a one tack mind and a killer voice, padded walls, its your choice, chains and straps and slabs of steel, a tricycle wheel, spokes bent and broke, choke on what refuses to stay below the belt and never prosper, turn down, turn around, lost and found, misfits in an unwanted place, space, and time...
PID
apw:12346676
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:42.976Z
Title
Pain
Author
James, Brittany
Date
2016
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Pain By Brittany James In my chest, a test I can't pass, failure so we abort, walk away with empty hands, this door is closed there is no vacancy, an empty soul the journeys over, completion but I didn't win, is there a prize? Or did I see past the prize until I missed it completely? Never gain, 13 steps back, no need to re-track, I felt every step-on or jump off, take off the mask theres nothing to hide, overdrive theres too much to cope, cut deep or not at all, no one wants superf...
PID
apw:12346678
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:44:43.109Z
Title
The Indiana state recidivist conditioning center
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The Indiana State Recidivist Conditioning Center by Danny Cherry I had been cast into the Dark Age where all that was missing was a fagot upon which to burn my faggot ass to a crisp for the sheer pleasure of the lower primates. I was a damn fool for ever even having thought that tyrannical philistines would permit a replica of priceless elegance into their abyss. I never truly believed that anyone from the Indianapolis Central Public Library's research department would actually oblige me...
PID
apw:12356302
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:20:57.83Z
Title
The unbreakable queen
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The Unbreakable Queen by Danny Cherry I walked Pendleton's camp like Naomi Campbell; I was born to supermodel. The state's hideous brown onesie, and its innumerable haters, could not discourage me; I was over. Pendleton was abundant in miserable employees, and drug addicted prisoners; Those losers received no audience from me; Ever. Negative individuals did not even exist to me; I saw the world in technicolor; It was gorgeous. Pendleton's gays were far worse than straight boys ...
PID
apw:12359701
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:31:11.78Z
Title
They spilled my tea
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
They Spilled My Tea By Danny Cherry I leaned over the side of Pendleton Infirmary’s hard, funky bed puking my guts out; those incompetent drecks did not have a clue what was wrong with me. My arms resembled those of hardcore IV drugs users because of medical staff’s many attempts to draw blood from me; their miserable failure had my members covered in more tracks than Jesse Owen had ran throughout his career. Nurse Susan had my medical chart visible to the multitude of other offenders travers...
PID
apw:12359690
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:30:56.865Z
Title
This may become the first of several entries
Author
Dekemper, Raphael
Date
2017-05-03
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
May 3, 2017 This may become the first of several entries I submit. After being incarcerated for nearly twenty-two (22) years I will soon be released from the Indiana Department of Correction. So, I have much experience to expound upon. I wanted to begin my submissions with a point on education. Even with all the promotion about rehabilitation and self-improvement/empowerment for re-entry, over the years much of the higher education opportunity has been removed from the Indiana system. Althoug...
PID
apw:12350351
Date Uploaded
2018-03-16T13:01:27.795Z