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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
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
Hope: More important than food, water & air
Author
Clardy, MarQui, Sr.
Date
2017-09-19
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Hope: More Important Than Food, Water & Air "My clemency petition will be granted! I will be going home next year! I Will be going home next year!" These words are written in large, black letters on the back of an institutional request form taped to the foot of my bunk. Ever since I received my letter from the governor's office a few weeks ago, confirming that my clemency petition has been received and is being reviewed, those words have become my mantra. Throughout my 9 1/...
PID
apw:12349746
Date Uploaded
2018-03-15T20:16:19.57Z
Title
Insight from the inside Vol #2
Author
Tamez, Brian Christopher
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
INSIGHT FROM THE INSIDE - VOL #2 (Raw, and uncircumcised) Tamez, Brian C. This essay is Mark W. Stiles Unit specific. "There is a ginormous difference between what we choose to 'believe' and what we know to be factually 'true.'" signed, Anyone with Common Sense The first essay I wrote circa two years ago regarding the Texas prison system was prior to any post-secondary education regarding the art of writing. Just as my first works held room for improvement, so do...
PID
apw:12353352
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T18:57:12.334Z
Title
Man versus beast - January 30, 2015
Author
Vitality, Prison
Date
2015-01-30
Pages
2 pages
Text (FT)
Man Versus Beast - January 30, 2015 I stare at my freshly washed T-shirt hanging from a string clothesline against the wall. I've seen this sight a thousand times yet never seen it at all. What a pathetic shirt. Would anyone in the freeworld wear it? Probably not. Wearing it would be frowned upon, especially in a public place like a store or restaurant. Not that I think much about what's acceptable in public, but every once in a while I allow myself a little role-playing game to fil...
PID
apw:12347365
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:03:33.288Z
Title
Naked destiny
Author
Vitality, Prison
Pages
3 pages
Text (FT)
Naked Destiny I feel instead of hear a squeaky groan come from my chest in reaction to the sharp pain penetrating my eardrums. They fixed the loudspeaker last night. The same loudspeaker I paid Dennis 4 Ramen noodle soups to disable a couple of weeks ago. I was hoping for a longer reprieve, but over all the money was well spent. My cage is located in such a manner as to perfectly convey the demon speaker's scream from hell. One can avoid the resulting pain with a pair of earplugs, but I ...
PID
apw:12347368
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:03:33.489Z
Title
On June 30th, 2016 on a hot and humid night
Author
Bowman, Randy
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE On June 30th, 2016 on a hot and humid afternoon, I killed my lover while we both were in prison. I did not know what else to do, and if I had of known what to do, I don't know if I would have been strong enough psychologically to do anything different. As I write this, I am still in a sensory deprivation cell, as if that's the answer. "For Kentucky it is." Because I was a lonely 62 year old man who'd been locked up since 1977, I did not see until it was too l...
PID
apw:12347924
Date Uploaded
2017-11-02T19:54:55.617Z
Title
Over-sentencing and over-incarceration: The dehumanization of criminal justice
Author
Clardy, MarQui, Sr.
Date
2018-12-20
Pages
7 pages
Text (O)
"Over-Sentencing and Over-Incarceration: The Dehumanization of Criminal Justice" Maroui Clardy, Sr. 
 12/20/2018 
 February 20, 2009 is a day I'll never forget. That's the day I stood in Norfolk Circuit Court before Judge Norman A. Thomas as he sentenced me to five consecutive LIFE terms plus 53 years in prison. Yes, you read that correctly. Five consecutive LIFE terms... plus fifty-three years... with no time suspended! I'm not a mass murderer, serial rapist, terroris...
PID
apw:12357195
Date Uploaded
2019-10-28T20:12:47.966Z
Title
Pitiful prison programs
Author
Tamez, Brian Christopher
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Pitiful Prison Programs The Texas prison programs need to be reconstructed -- all of them! If any legitimate official who truly cared about positive change were to witness the day to day activity in these so called programs, they would understand why we have such a terrible problem with recidivism. The quality of these … classes give merit to the theory that our whole system is designed to fail. No-one ever seems to be very concerned about negative issues like this until it affects them. To e...
PID
apw:12353317
Date Uploaded
2018-09-26T11:02:27.176Z
Title
The office
Author
Rogers, Ramon
Date
2012-12
Pages
1 page
Text (FT)
THE OFFICE For over two years I've gotten up each morning and walked the short distance to my office. This is a special place, exclusive yet ominous, with an odd and interesting history. It had been built several decades ago, a 12' x 12' cage of sturdy metal diamond grating. It was originally an observation post but later reduced to a dark and dusty storage for paperwork and unused furniture. When the office became my own personal work area it was my responsibility to equip acc...
PID
apw:12346597
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:32:31.199Z
Title
The prison veil
Author
Marrero, Jamie
Pages
9 pages
Text (O)
Jaime Marrero The Correctional Writer's Initiative BRCI - 330923 Student #2 028 4460 Broad River Rd. Columbia, SC 29210-4012 THE PRISON VEIL An Essay by JAIME MARRERO I am known to the state of South Carolina, as "INMATE #330923", but my given name is Jaime Eduardo Marrero——and I was once known to the Navy as Aviation Machinists Mate Petty Officer Second Class Air Warfare Designee Jaime Marrero --but, I became a "ward" of the South Carolina Department of Corrections a...
PID
apw:12351719
Date Uploaded
2018-03-17T01:19:43.43Z
Title
To whom it may/does concern
Author
Pylacopa, E. Z., I
Pages
4 pages
PID
apw:12359272
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:20:15.808Z
Title
Traditionally, sentencing policies in the U.S.
Author
Clardy, MarQui, Sr.
Pages
3 pages
State
Virginia
Text (TR_WF)
Lardy MarQui Sr. Virginia No Title Traditionally, sentencing policies in the U.S. have aimed to serve three purposes: retribution, incapacitation, and rehabilitation. These policies were meant to be beneficial to the victims of crime, criminal offenders, and society. However, over the past two decades, in a misguided attempt to deter crime, lawmakers shifted to policies that are unfair, disproportionate, and detrimental not only to offenders and our families, but also to society. One such pol...
PID
apw:12344015
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T21:34:23.641Z
Title
Veteran denied help dies
Author
Chase, T.A.
Pages
4 pages
Text (FT)
Veteran Denied Help Dies By T. A. Chase A veteran died on a Tuesday. He did not die from combat related injuries. Nor did he die as one of the many thousands of veterans who commit suicide each year. This quiet, religious and honorably discharged veteran passed away because of his governments overt action to prevent him from obtaining the assistance he both needed and was due. He was a veteran incarcerated. A disturbing and unknown statistic is that on average approximately 8% of any inmate p...
PID
apw:12347457
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T15:10:45.496Z
Title
Why are we a nation of prisons
Author
Hammer, Charles
Date
2010-08-05
Date
2010-08-05, 2010-08-05
Pages
7 pages
State
Oregon
Text (TR_WF)
Why Are We a Nation of Prisons? By Charles Hammer Is our prison system a mystery to the average citizen? An uncomfortable mystery best not to examine too closely? So it was to me until I became intimately involved in its working. No doubt the greatest part of the mystery is: Why does it cost so much? Why are our prisons so full and why do we need more? Unlike what many Americans may think, the justice and correctional systems of this country are built on retribution- not rehabilitation. And, ...
PID
apw:12341573
Date Uploaded
2015-09-29T21:33:28.57Z