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Essay on how Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) staff are placing medications that are hurting and killing prisoners in the food ate by prisoners that expose or try to expose the unlawful conduct of FDC staff
September 10, 2017

Essay on how Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) staff are placing medications that are hurting and killing prisoners in the food ate by prisoners that expose or try to expose the unlawful conduct of FDC staff

To: American Prison Writing Archive Date: September 10, 2017 Essay on how Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) staff are placing medications that are hurting and killing prisoners in the food ate by prisoners that expose...
Hempstead, HaroldTennessee
Essay on how Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) staff are allowing gang members to live in general population and engage in criminal acts
September 10, 2017

Essay on how Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) staff are allowing gang members to live in general population and engage in criminal acts

To: American Prison Writing Archive Date: September 10, 2017 Essay on how Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) Staff are allowing gang members to live in general population and engage in criminal acts. There's more than...
Hempstead, HaroldTennessee
Essay on the FDC inmate risk management system/sexual risk indicator
September 3, 2017

Essay on the FDC inmate risk management system/sexual risk indicator

To: American Prison Writing Archives From: Harold Hempstead Date: September 3, 2017 (Essay on the FDC inmate risk management system/sexual risk indicator) I was incarcerated in the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) from June 2000...
Hempstead, HaroldTennessee
Essay on how many convicted killers I've received as cellmates out of retaliation for my communications with the media, civil rights groups, agencies, etc. about the unconstitutional conditions of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC)
September 3, 2017

Essay on how many convicted killers I've received as cellmates out of retaliation for my communications with the media, civil rights groups, agencies, etc. about the unconstitutional conditions of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC)

To: The American Prison Writing Archives From: Harold Hempstead Date: September 3, 2017 Essay on how many convicted killers I've received as cellmates out of retaliation for my communications with the media, civil rights groups,...
Hempstead, HaroldTennessee
Essay on Bledsoe County correctional complex (BCCX) in the Tennesse Department of Corrections (TDOC) not following their own policy concerning the housing of inmates (TDOC policy 506.14)
August 25, 2017

Essay on Bledsoe County correctional complex (BCCX) in the Tennesse Department of Corrections (TDOC) not following their own policy concerning the housing of inmates (TDOC policy 506.14)

To: American Prison Writing Archive (APWA) Date: 8.25.17 Essay on Bledsoe County Correctional Complex (BCCX) in the Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC) not following their own policy concerning the housing of inmates (TDOC Policy 506.14)....
Hempstead, HaroldTennessee
Essay on the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) pattern and practice of taking retaliatory action against staff and inmates who speak out against the corruption and etc. in FDC
August 25, 2017

Essay on the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) pattern and practice of taking retaliatory action against staff and inmates who speak out against the corruption and etc. in FDC

To: American Prison Writing Archive (APWA) Date: 8/25/17 Essay on the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) pattern and practice of taking retaliatory action against staff and inmates who speak-out against the corruption and etc. in...
Hempstead, HaroldTennessee
Essay on inmates with contagious diseases, etc. working in FDC chowhalls handling food in violation of state and federal health laws
August 18, 2017

Essay on inmates with contagious diseases, etc. working in FDC chowhalls handling food in violation of state and federal health laws

To: American Prison Writing Archive (APWA) Date: August 18, 2017 Essay on inmates with contagious diseases, etc. working in FDC chowhalls handling food in violation of state and federal health laws. Prior to my March...
Hempstead, HaroldTennessee
Essay of retaliation by FDC staff for speaking out
August 18, 2017

Essay of retaliation by FDC staff for speaking out

8/18/17 Re: Essay of Retaliation by FDC Staff for Speaking Out. Dear APWA: In order for people to know what goes on in prisons in America people who live and work in prisons in America...
Hempstead, HaroldTennessee
Essay on the murder of Darren Rainey
August 13, 2017

Essay on the murder of Darren Rainey

Essay on the Murder of Darren Rainey. Dear APWA Readers: The Transitional Care Unit (TCU) at Dade Correctional Institution in the Florida Department of Correction (FDC) houses some of the most severe mentally disabled inmates...
Hempstead, HaroldTennessee
Essay providing information on how to research the unconstitutional conditions of the Florida Department of Corrections
August 13, 2017

Essay providing information on how to research the unconstitutional conditions of the Florida Department of Corrections

Essay providing information on how to research the unconstitutional conditions of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC). If you Google "Harold Hempstead", or a nickname of mine "Caged Crusader", you'll find dozens of new articles...
Hempstead, HaroldTennessee
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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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