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Mental health
July 25, 2015

Mental health

 MENTAL HEALTH Not only is it important that you stay physically healthy in order to survive prison, but it is as equally important that you stay mentally healthy. The prison experience/environment can easily take its...
Enemigo, MikeCalifornia
Surviving the hole
July 25, 2015

Surviving the hole

 SURVIVING THE HOLE Let me begin by explaining the following... The hole is technically an informal name given to units where prisoners are locked down and usually in some form of isolation. Other informal names...
Enemigo, MikeCalifornia
Use your time wisely
July 25, 2015

Use your time wisely

 USE YOUR TIME WISLEY I understand that you are probably in prison for something that you did not do. Or, maybe you did something, but not what “they” said you did. Maybe you did do...
Enemigo, MikeCalifornia
Surviving prison food
July 25, 2015

Surviving prison food

 SURVIVING PRISON FOOD Surviving prison is one thing. But surviving prison food? Well, that’s something entirely different. | mean, we all know that prison is full of brutes and bullies, but there’s a solution for...
Enemigo, MikeCalifornia
Persevere
June 26, 2015

Persevere

 TITLE: Persevere AUTHOR: Mike Enemlgo, The Cell Block It's 3 o'clock In the mornln', and I can't sleep I'm In a cell by myself, cold, with no heat SIttIn' Inside my bed as I smear...
Enemigo, MikeCalifornia
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If you are working on an APWA-related project, please let us know how you plan to utilize the Archive. We hope to share information about your work with our readers and, whenever possible, with relevant APWA authors.

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