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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 tour through the circles of hell
Author
O'Shea, Patrick
Pages
10 pages
Text (O)
A Tour Through The Circles of Hell By Patrick O'Shea Correction office David Hale was horrified by the barbaric and brutal actions of his fellow officers. "I can't describe it to you --I've never seen beatings like that," he recalled. "At least 50 guys got it, maybe more. I seen them carry one inmate down the hall with a guard on each leg and one on each arm. The assistant warden comes down the hall and grabs the inmate's testicles and starts yanking on them...
PID
apw:12349176
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:47:27.593Z
Title
Conform and reform
Author
Scott, Daniel
Pages
3 pages
State
Alabama
Text (TR_WF)
Conform and Reform Conform: adapt to rule, pattern, custom, etc. Reform: form again; reconstruct; reclaim; amend, improve, abandon evil practices. The words conform and reform are spoken and written more in my environment and studies. Now understanding their meanings I am understanding how individuals inside the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) are reforming and being conformed. Less often does it seem to be in positive ways for society as a whole. Ask yourself when we move towards reform are ...
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apw:12342431
Date Uploaded
2016-10-14T19:10:47.962Z
Title
Conforming and reforming and the need for improving
Author
Scott, Daniel
Date
2014-11
Pages
6 pages
State
Alabama
Text (TR)
Daniel Scott Gentry 11/2014 Conforming and Reforming and the Need for Improving Conform: adapt to rule, pattern, custom, etc. Reform: form again reconstruct; reclaim; amend, improve, abandon evil practices. I hear these two words spoken and written more and more in my enviornment and in my studies. After reading the meaning of these words I understand these words better. I am also concerned that the people in the DOC (Department of Corrections) and the PIC (Prison Industrial Complex) and in ...
PID
apw:12342421
Date Uploaded
2016-10-14T19:10:47.206Z
Title
Consuming thoughts
Author
Scott, Daniel
Date
2018-06-18
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Consuming Thoughts by Daniel Scott Gentry 6/18. The end is near it seems. I am 30 years old and I have life with out parole. I have attempted suicide over four times. I have begun being beat by officers that want to kill me. I am trapped in confinement and I just want to go to population in a regular prison setting. I have mainly been in solitary confinement since I was 24 years old. Now I am in a mental health unit in a supermax prison. I sometimes get a phone call once a month and one visit...
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apw:12354724
Date Uploaded
2019-01-16T17:32:15.975Z
Title
Cruel and unusual
Author
Bomani, Diallo
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Cruel and Unusual The world governments have a universally acknowledged standard for the treatment of prisoners held in confinement. These standards are codified in a document entitled, "Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons Under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment." The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is in direct violation of United Nations humanitarian mandates with the arbitrary reckless manner it employs in administration of its Securit...
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apw:12344499
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T13:51:17.775Z
Title
House of cards
Author
Ridenour, William
Date
2014-04-14
Date
2014-04-14, 2014-04-14
Pages
1 page
State
Ohio
Topics
Drexell Greene, ORDC, US Attorney General
Text (FT)
HOUSE OF CARDS by William Ridenour April of 2014, The Sizzler newsletter published the article "Justice for All," in which Mr. Drexell Greene ' s experiences with the parole board were a featured topic . The sister of Mr. Greene sent a copy of that article and her cover letter to Ohio Senator Bill Seitz, requesting that he investigate her brother's recent parole hearing. Senator Seitz contacted the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction ("ODRC") and req...
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apw:12341456
Date Uploaded
2015-09-27T16:32:16.984Z
Title
I am currently a North Carolina state prisoner
Author
Green, Robbie Switzer
Pages
13 pages
Text (TR_WF)
NO TITLE I am currently a North Carolina state prisoner who has seventeen years of incarceration thus far. I have been housed at fifteen (15) different State Correctional Facilities. -This is my non-fiction essay intended for researchers and the general public, to help them to see and understand prison conditions in the state of North Carolina, ways of coping, healthcare, causes of violence and some ways to reduce violence, education, employment conditions, visions of a better way to operate ...
PID
apw:12352098
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T17:43:32.553Z
Title
Is there really justice for all?
Author
O'Shea, Patrick
Pages
4 pages
Text (O)
Is There Really Justice For All? When Public Officials engage in Conspiracies to Cover up Potential Criminal Acts - Far too often the Guilty Parties are not held Accountable by the Criminal Justice System. HOW THEN WE ASK: Are Families of the Victims to Obtain Closure and Justice? My Mother Was Never the Same Ovell Krell s last contact with her brother George Owen Smith took place back in 1940. At the young age of 14, George was sent off to one of Florida's most brutal Reform Schools, th...
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apw:12349159
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:47:25.988Z
Title
Justice for all
Author
Ridenour, William
Date
2014-04-14
Date
2014-04-14, 2014-04-14
Pages
3 pages
State
Ohio
Topics
elderly prisoners, sexual assault, ageism, mental illness, old law, Cynthia Mausser
Text (FT)
JUSTICE FOR ALL By William Ridenour According to a report in the Columbus Dispatch Newspaper on April30, 2012, there were over 4,700 prisoners still incarcerated in Ohio who were sentenced under the law in effect prior to 1997 ("Old Law"}. This figure is unlikely to change according to the chairwoman for the Ohio Parole Board, Ms. Cynthia Mauser, "because we're 16 years from Senate Bill 2, most people suitable for parole have already been released." (Source: The Colum...
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apw:12341449
Date Uploaded
2015-09-27T16:25:33.049Z
Title
Justice for all
Author
Ridenour, William L.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Justice For All By William Ridenour According to a report in the Columbus Dispatch Newspaper on April 30, 2012, there were over 4,700 prisoners still incarcerated in Ohio who were sentenced under the law in effect prior to 1997 ("Old Law"). This figure is unlikely to change according to the chairwoman for the Ohio Parole Board, Ms. Cynthia Mauser, "because we're 16 years from Senate Bill 2, most people suitable for parole have already been released." (Source: The Colu...
PID
apw:12356298
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:20:48.811Z
Title
KUL #21 April 2014
Author
F., Kevin
Date
2014-04
Pages
16 pages
Text (FT)
-KUL #21 -April 2014 -Kevin's Update Letter -Kevin Fuller -41648-424 -FSL-Elkton, unit HA -P.O. Box 10 -Lisbon. OH 44432 Well, this is Kevin's Update Letter (KUL) 21, and if you look on my calendar at the red-ink circle of April 6, you know that I've now been here 3 YEARS. That's 3 years into a 72-month sentence at Elkton-FSL, a low/minimum satellite facility in Lisbon, OH. Prior to life here at Elkton, I was a college professor for seven years. Before that 1 had been a me...
PID
apw:12347162
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:35:10.818Z
Title
Kevin's update letter #19 December 2013
Author
F., Kevin
Date
2013-12
Pages
13 pages
Text (FT)
/'<ev;n ^ UPDATE LEHER im INTRODUCTION- Welcome to the latest installment of Kevin's Update Letter. This is the a-little-over-a-month(ly) newsletter from Kevin Fuller, an inmate at Elkton-FSL, a satellite low federal prison in Lisbon, OH. 1 try to shed light on what life is like in a federal prison. I've been here for a little over two-and-a-half years, and I have about that much time left to serve, so I have plenty of insight. In these letters, ! also address the crime that...
PID
apw:12347131
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:35:10.027Z
Title
Kevin's update letter #20 Feb. 2014
Author
F., Kevin
Date
2014-02
Pages
16 pages
Text (FT)
Kevin 'j! Updaie r:cer a-frcn ieiier | M a -t I o n ^ZO FcL. ZD/if /<evin Fuller r S L . F/^fz^/i, // Lisbon, OH Welcome to Kevin s Update Letter #20 (KUL 20). This letter is the nearly monthly letter from Elkton-FSL, the current federal pnson home of Kevin Fuller. Within each missive, I try to touch broadly on issues that are relevant to federal prisoners sentencing and prison policy changes (and hoped for changes), aspects of crime in America, things happening around'the compou...
PID
apw:12347145
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:35:10.371Z
Title
Kevin's update letter KUL #22, June 2014
Author
F., Kevin
Date
2014-06
Pages
12 pages
Text (FT)
KEVIN'S UPDATE LETTER KUL #22, JUNE 2014 ADDRESS: KEVIN FULLER/41648-424 FSL-ELKTON, HA PO BOX 10 LISBON, OH 44432 Welcome to Kevin's Update Letter 22. I'm now past the 39 month mark at FSL/Elkton, a low/minimum satellite facility at the Federal Corrections Institute in Elkton/Lisbon, OH. I'm serving a 72-month sentence for possessing and sharing a not-large amount of child pornography over the Internet. Before that, I was a tenured college biology professor in Chicago. Be...
PID
apw:12347179
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:35:11.429Z
Title
Kevin's update letter KUL #23, August 2014
Author
F., Kevin
Date
2014-08
Pages
10 pages
Text (FT)
KEVIN'S UPDATE LETTER KUL #23, AUGUST 2014 ADDRESS: KEVIN FULLER/41648-424 FSL-ELKTON, HA POBOX10 LISBON, OH 44432 It's another update letter (#23). I'm now Into my 41st month at FSL-Elkton. Prison's a lot different from my old life of freedom teaching, and research. Every couple of months introduces a few new adventures and some new thoughts and ideas. I've tried to put some of those in this letter. I wish I could write everyone a personal letter all the time or call...
PID
apw:12347192
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T14:35:12.069Z
Title
Maintaining order
Author
Scott, Daniel
Pages
2 pages
State
Alabama
Text (TR_WF)
Maintaining Order Maintaining order. I have been confronted with this statement upon simple and reasonable request. Staff have an oath and a need to maintain order. But when is it taking it too far? I’ve heard this response to simple request of mine several times. Though they are reasonable request, I have also been met with “if you do it everyone will want to do it” True this may be, but my response is that if every now and again if a person has a simple request and they are serving more tha...
PID
apw:12342428
Date Uploaded
2016-10-14T19:10:47.522Z
Title
Notes on coping
Author
Norton, David Andrew
Pages
13 pages
Text (O)
David Andrew Norton — 211153 Notes on Coping / November 2016 The stress within prison walls is really not all that different from the ‘real’ world of stress. So we prisoners do many of the same things that ‘ordinary’ people do to cope with the stress we all face. One way to cope is through diversion, as through mental and physical exercise. I'm not much of a sportsman anymore (though I dearly miss the swimming pool), but I like to get out of my routine and comfort zone a little by playin...
PID
apw:12349225
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:47:31.05Z
Title
Parole suitability in Ohio
Author
Ridenour, William L.
Pages
1 page
State
Ohio
Text (O)
PAROLE SUITABILITY IN OHIO By William Ridenour Parole suitability for Ohio prisoners appears to have become dependent upon the grant terms in the agreement between the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction ("DRC") and the federal government. The groundwork for this grant contract was laid when the United States Congress enacted legislation in 1994 to provide states with funding to increase bed capacity for "Part 1 Violent Offenders." A Part 1 Violent Offender was def...
PID
apw:12346032
Date Uploaded
2016-10-24T21:23:38.725Z
Title
Prison overcrowding in Ohio
Author
Ridenour, William
Date
2014-08-15
Date
2014-08-15, 2014-08-15
Pages
2 pages
State
Ohio
Topics
overcrowding, old law, Cynthia Mausser
Text (FT)
PRISON OVERCROWDING IN OHIO by William L. Ridenour The prison overcrowding problem in Ohio has reached a critical stage. Some institutions are operating at nearly 200% of original design capacity. In fact, Ohio has struggled for over a decade to reduce its prison population. For instance, recent studies have shown that the incarceration rate in Ohio is 4.9 percent higher than the national average. The national incarceration rate is 545 adults per 100,000 residents, as compared with Ohio'...
PID
apw:12341453
Date Uploaded
2015-09-27T16:31:05.866Z
Title
Reading Plato on death row
Author
Guenther, Lisa
Date
2016-02-15
Date
2016-02-15, 2016-02-15
Pages
4 pages
State
Tennessee
Text (FT)
Reading Plato on Death Row Lisa Guenther Every Wednesday, Igo to Riverbend Maximum Security Prison in Nashville to facilitate a discussion group with prisoners on death row and philosophy graduate students. It's a nice prison, as far as prisons go: clean, suburban-feeling, with a soapy smell that lingers on my hands and clothes after I leave. The reception area is filled with motivational posters of determined mountain climbers and goal-oriented rowing teams. Beyond the checkpoint, an or...
PID
apw:12342341
Date Uploaded
2016-06-20T01:08:59.624Z
Title
Reflection on the work of dealing with time...
Author
Downing, Curtis
Date
2010-03-07
Pages
3 pages
State
Nevada
Text (TR_WF)
Voices Through the Walls RE: Reflection on the work of dealing with time... Curtis L. Downing, Indian Springs, Nevada In the years that I've been incarcerated and reflecting on them, so many things come to mind and almost so fast that, I can hardly write fast enough to get my thoughts on paper. This because I've experienced so much, and much of what has been negative, and seems to be getting worse. I am thankful to God that, over these many years I am able to keep an attitude of gra...
PID
apw:12343633
Date Uploaded
2016-10-19T00:11:49.396Z
Title
Seeking to avoid the real possibility
Author
O'Shea, Patrick
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
.3 U E N I L E J U S T I C E eal ossiility of a avo US. Toca V. Louisiana P. I. O’Shea The Key Issue in the Toca. Case Involved the Retroactive Application of Miller V. Alabama. E‘: is indeed somewhat of a rare occurrence when a prosecutor, especially one Who for many years, had adamantly opposed any earlier deals, moves to moot a case that the United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear. That is exactly what has just happened in the case of T oca V. Lauisitmal. The issue in T oca involves...
PID
apw:12349187
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:47:28.245Z
Title
Sentencing juvenile offenders to life without the possibility of parole in Massachusetts
Author
O'Shea, Patrick
Pages
3 pages
Text (O)
Sentencing Juvenile Offenders to Life Without the Possibility of Parole in Massachusetts Should Juveniles Be Treated the Same as Adults? By Patrick O'Shea 
 When it comes to the issue of the severity of punishment handed out to juvenile offenders, Massachusetts has a long and torrid history of treating some juvenile offenders more harshly than adults. 
 A Historical Perspective The problems inherent in dealing with the treatment of juvenile offenders in an antiquated criminal justice sys...
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apw:12349191
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:47:28.552Z

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