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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
- 2014 legislative will prove whether policy makers have gotten smart on crime
- Author
- Marshall, Ronald
- Date
- 2014-03-19
- Date
- 2014-03-19, 2014-03-19
- Pages
- 2 pages
- State
- Louisiana
- Topics
- recidivism, mandatory sentencing, minimum sentencing
- Text (FT)
- 2014 Legislative Session Will Prove Whether Policy Makers Have Gotten Smart on Crime By Roland Marshall Only time will reveal whether the 2014 Legislative Session will mark a sincere effort by Louisiana's lawmakers to reform sentencing laws so that offenders can have a meaningful opportunity to get off the count. At the behest of the Jindal administration, four organizations joined in a collective effort to analyze criminal justice data/ statistics and offer options to assist Louisiana l...
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- apw:12341353
- Date Uploaded
- 2015-09-27T14:32:57.658Z
- 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
- 5 positive steps to reform prisons
- Author
- Hartman, Kenneth
- Date
- 2013-12-09
- Pages
- 2 pages
- State
- California
- Text (O)
- 5 Positive Steps to Reform Prisons December 9, 2013 Renowned prison reform activist Ken Hartman gives his insights into how we can reform our broken system. We already know the prisons in this country are broken, and we have begun the process of rethinking the idea of what incarceration means, should mean, and will mean in the future. Punishment for the sake of inflicting pain has lost its hold on the public's imagination. And not a moment too soon, because the damage done is extensive. ...
- PID
- apw:12344714
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-21T21:08:46.17Z
- Title
- 66 days later
- Author
- Nolaw97
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (FT)
- 66 Days Later Frederick Mason USP Tucson #55487-056 PO Box 24550 Tucson, AZ 85734 The date is August 10th, 2016, 66 days after the incident on Memorial Day Weekend, Sunday, June 5th. I've chronicled various times after the incident in which I accused Officer D. Huffstuttler of discriminating against black inmates. I voiced my concern and contempt of the situation that very night, to see if the prison would fairly and honestly address this issue. And it is of great importance that they do...
- PID
- apw:12346434
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-15T22:00:25.25Z
- Title
- 7My voice through the prison walls
- Author
- Pendleton, Ricky
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Text (FT)
- 7My voice through the prison walls By: Inmate Ricky Vincent Pendleton II I think rehabilitation is a propaganda word used by the lawmakers to cover their motives Exploiting the inmates in a business venture. The whole prison industry is a "for profit" industry; from my reading is a billion dollars industry. How am I supposed to cope in here and seeing the corrupt acts of people...? I have to control the things in my life. Rehabilitation is on the individual prisoner, he/she has to d...
- PID
- apw:12347639
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T15:49:32.44Z
- Title
- 8 accurate books to read about life in prison
- Author
- Hartman, Kenneth
- Date
- 2010-11-30
- Pages
- 10 pages
- State
- California
- Text (O)
- Kenneth Hartman Prison Writer November 30, 2010 8 Accurate Books To Read About Life In Prison (PHOTOS) I can't count the number of times I've been asked what books and movies I'd recommend to get a better understanding of prison. It's the very nature and design of this world, with all the barriers both real and metaphorical, that makes getting a clear understanding difficult to gain. Most folk's sense of this reality is formed in the dark of a movie theater or in the ...
- PID
- apw:12344782
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-21T22:55:08.032Z
- Title
- 99 days later
- Author
- Nolaw97
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (O)
- 99 Days Later Frederick Mason #55487—O56 USP Tucson PO Box 24550 Tucson, AZ 85734 The date (as I write this) is September 12th, 33 days after my last essay titled, "66 Days Later". It was an essay on the continual update of what happened on Memorial Day" Weekend of 2016... now 99 days ago. Since then, I've written numerous essays, chronicling the event, to see what USP Tucson would do in light of an accusation of an officer (Huffstuttler) discriminating against inmates. My...
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- apw:12351688
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-17T01:19:41.807Z
- Title
- A Minnesota experience: Qualitative analysis of Minnesota Department of Corrections policy
- Author
- Graham, Maurece LaVarne
- Pages
- 14 pages
- Text (O)
- Minnesota Experience Qualitative Analysis of Minnesota Department of Corrections Policy Maurece Graham A Minnesota Experience {Excerpted from larger work} By Maurece L. Graham © October 11, 2017 Since this addendum is composed from the perspective of a correctional client versus that of a correctional official, little attention has been paid to traditional penal models. Instead, most of the focus is upon conveying the actual experience of incarceration itself, with as much objectivity as poss...
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- apw:12351849
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-17T02:47:35.374Z
- Title
- A brief comment on prison reform in de-Christianized society
- Author
- Quintero, John
- Date
- 2009-02-22
- Pages
- 5 pages
- State
- Nevada
- Text (O)
- A Brief Comment on Prison Reform in De-Christianized Society St Thomas More once wrote a letter to console his daughter before his execution. He drew out a lengthy allergy of prison—like nature of life, and God-as- the-executioner, given the fact of certain pain of death. He argues that the degree of restriction while waiting for execution does not change the fact of the punishment at the end. The man in prison has limited physical freedom, but none the less enjoys the same freedom to meet hi...
- PID
- apw:12345823
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-24T15:52:55.611Z
- Title
- A brief summary of the demise of the Colorado Dept. of Corrections and poor drug offender reform
- Author
- Darris, Stephan
- Date
- 2014-04-28
- Date
- 2014-04-28, 2014-04-28
- Pages
- 6 pages
- State
- Colorado
- Text (FT)
- A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE DEMISE OF THE COLORADO DEPT . OF CORRECTIONS AND POOR DRUG OFFENDER REFORM by: Stephan Darris While incarcerated in the state of Colorado I think it' s fair to say that your past dictates your future . I am not a lifer or a violent offe nder. I am a repeat drug offender that has witnessed some of the most vile atrocity ' s that the system can deliver. I think that most people in this institution live under propaganda, false hope, and make believe promises. It ...
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- apw:288
- Date Uploaded
- 2015-09-16T18:25:24.791Z
- 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 few sentences about myself
- Author
- Gentry, Timothy L.
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- (1) of (6) APWA Editors Please make sure this goes viral. Please contact me if necessary. Number of words A few sentences about myself. My name is Tim. I'm from Cincinnati/Covington area. I was arrested Nov. 17, 2020. I am 42, 43 on June 8. I was arrested on a Computer charge (Internet Porn) 5:10-cr-00319-14. Look it up if your so inclined. 42 My psychologist Dr. Gabrielle DeJesus: "Your a very dramatic person" FCI-Talladega, Medium. Other psychologist(s) through the years, &qu...
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- apw:12362494
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:31:20.26Z
- Title
- A hidden cost
- Author
- Mehmel, Peter
- Date
- 2009
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (O)
- Peter Mehmel A Hidden Cost The eve of my son’s fifth birthday seemed especially cruel. I’m sure he woke up excited and happy to celebrate his special day, only to find that his father was gone. I can’t imagine how my wife, six months pregnant with our daughter, managed to find the words to tell him. The party arrangements were done, the cake safely stashed, we’d confirmed who would attend and even had a few bucks left over. That evening friends were playing in a band at a local bar. Maybe eve...
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- apw:12350037
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-16T01:01:59.109Z
- 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...
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- apw:12347101
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T14:22:45.331Z
- Title
- A lonely world
- Author
- Whitt, Lee
- Pages
- 5 pages
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Text (O)
- A Lonely World "Out of sight, out of mind." That is the saying that rings with a lot of truth to it once you get locked up. When you come to prison you learn, rather quickly, just who it is you can count on to keep in touch from the outside. Whether it is by letter, by visit or even by phone call. A person's true colors eventually show through. lt makes doing time that much more difficult. I'm not saying that the time can't be done, just that it's going to take a...
- PID
- apw:12346165
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-25T02:16:25.614Z
- 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...
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- apw:12344502
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-21T15:41:58.187Z
- Title
- A more perfect union!
- Author
- Hughes, R.
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Text (FT)
- Hughes 638 Mr. Ronald (Rashawn) Hughes 92A2940 Clinton Correctional Facility P.O. Box 2000 Dannemora, New York 12929 A More Perfect Union! When you make an observation, you have an obligation. These are words that I try to live by. It's what encouraged this article and hopefully what will inspire the commissioners' on the parole board to open their hearts, minds, and understand that people are capable of changing. In preparation for my December 2010 parole interview, I found myself ...
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- apw:12347044
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T14:22:43.214Z
- 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...
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- apw:12345755
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-24T12:49:45.093Z
- 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...
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- apw:304
- Date Uploaded
- 2015-09-16T18:23:43.457Z
- Title
- A prison e-mail to recreation
- Author
- Nolaw97
- Pages
- 6 pages
- Text (FT)
- A Prison E-mail to Recreation Frederick Mason USP Tucson #55487-056 PO Box 24550 Tucson, AZ 85734 The following is an e-mail I sent to the Recreation Supervisor following an event that happened on Memorial Day Weekend (2 016) on Sunday. At the point I am sharing this, several things have happened, and I expect a few more before things are resolved... if they are at all. What I am trying to share here is that often times, things happen that are not the inmate's fault. Sometimes officers h...
- PID
- apw:12346331
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-15T20:52:55.068Z
- Title
- A prisoner's purpose
- Author
- Hartman, Kenneth
- Pages
- 5 pages
- State
- California
- Text (O)
- A Prisoner's Purpose By Kenneth Hartman Tear gas is more a presence then a smell. It clings to the back of your throat, a chemically induced feather that provokes a coughing fit after each attempt at a breath. It is one of the "less lethal" force options deployed in prison to quell a riot. On one windy, Southern California day, l could see that the last few wisps of tear gas blowing off the yard as the guards finally came back through the gates, the violence essentially over, t...
- PID
- apw:12344873
- Date Uploaded
- 2016-10-22T01:48:43.738Z
- Title
- A psalm from prison
- Author
- Mason, Frederick
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- A Psalm From Prison Holy Father, it is You who created all things, and by Your hand all things are made; to You I make my plea, Father, plead my cause, O Lord, with those who strive with me, fight against those who fight against me 1. For even from the pit, we are still yours, and You have promised mercy on those who call upon You. You have promised that Your eyes are on the righteous, and Your ears are open to our cry 2. For nowhere in Your word have I found that a person in prison is to be ...
- PID
- apw:12363153
- Date Uploaded
- 2021-06-10T15:43:09.451Z