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Drama
April 28, 2017

Drama

 It was Friday afternoon. I was working through my paperwork and computer entries when I heard the steel door crash. An inmate ran into the activity room below my office. A young Black man, with...
Shaulis, DahnNevada
Let the slide show begin
April 28, 2017

Let the slide show begin

 Dahn Shaulis Nevada Let the Side Show Begin Late morning in the cell block. I'm in my office with the bottomless pile of paperwork, scribbling responses to requests for information. The inmates have been served...
Shaulis, DahnNevada
An almost love story
April 28, 2017

An almost love story

 An Almost Love Story When Olivia Martin moved into the PC unit, she could have passed for a woman: five feet nine, slender, with smooth brown skin and braided black hair, her walk feminine. I...
Shaulis, DahnNevada
Big sis, slim the wanna-be, and the hole
April 28, 2017

Big sis, slim the wanna-be, and the hole

 Big Sis, Slim the Wanna-Be, and the Hole Working through the stacks of paperwork on my desk when I’m interrupted by a phone call. “Salomon” I said, into the telephone receiver. A female voice replied,...
Shaulis, DahnNevada
Crooks
April 28, 2017

Crooks

 Crooks The inmate cook can deftly skim sugar and yeast off the top of a recipe, hide it and take it back to his cell for prison-made alcohol, “pruno.” He can find ways of sifting...
Shaulis, DahnNevada
Death notification
April 28, 2017

Death notification

 Dahn Shaulis 8250 North Grand Canyon Dr. #1024 Las Vegas, NV 89166 [email protected] Death Notification At Northeast State Prison, one-third of the inmates are in prison for life. Many others are in for a long...
Shaulis, DahnNevada
No need to know
April 28, 2017

No need to know

 No Need to Know The embarrassing and enlightening lessons of prison work build over years. But most prison workers are so caught up in the day-to-day, so lazy, incurious, or afraid, they miss the bigger...
Shaulis, DahnNevada
Palido y los Mexicanos
April 28, 2017

Palido y los Mexicanos

 Dahn Shaulis 8250 North Grand Canyon Dr. #1024 Las Vegas, NV 89166 702-658-5019 [email protected] Palido y Los Mexicanos As I glance away from my desk, I see yet another one at my office door. It’s...
Shaulis, DahnNevada
The newest boss in pri$neyland
April 28, 2017

The newest boss in pri$neyland

 Dahn Shaulis 8250 North Grand Canyon Dr. #1024 Las Vegas, NV 89166 [email protected] The Newest Boss in Pri$neyland After five years vested in the civil service, I now felt I could tell a boss the...
Shaulis, DahnNevada
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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.

APWA is an open access archive. We encourage use of the writings for research, course planning, and projects engaged in examination of the criminal legal system. Reproduction of essays in their entirety infringes on author copyright without their explicit consent from the writers. Please contact us if you plan to reproduce entire essays; we will do our best to put you in contact with the authors for consent, and their compensation for any project that is profit making.

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