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Excessive sentencing
March 31, 2020

Excessive sentencing

 Excessive Sentencing My name is Roger Upchurch and I am a seventy one year old inmate serving a forty eight month sentence and thanks to the First Step passed in December 2018 I will be...
Upchurch, Roger W.Kentucky
Playing with the giants
December 17, 2019

Playing with the giants

 Playing with the Giants Last night I watched a movie in the prison chapel, and it was called "Playing with Giants". Its about a coach and his high school football team. This team was under...
Upchurch, Roger W.Kentucky
Positive thinking
September 10, 2019

Positive thinking

 Positive Thinking It may be hard to have and show a positive attitude and thinking while warehoused in a prison or a prison camp but if you forget the mistakes you made in the past...
Upchurch, Roger W.Kentucky
Thinking of the ones you love while trapped in a prison camp
September 10, 2019

Thinking of the ones you love while trapped in a prison camp

 Thinking of the ones you love wfiile trapped in a prison camp In prison you have plenty of time to think. Think about the things you have done,.what you have said or what you have...
Upchurch, Roger W.Kentucky
My first year down
December 20, 2018

My first year down

 My First Year Down My experiences living at the Federal Prison Camp 
 It was a cold February 12th 2014, my wife was at work and I was in my home office working and drinking...
Upchurch, Roger W.Kentucky
Surprise! Surprise! The lights came
August 7, 2018

Surprise! Surprise! The lights came

 Friday August 7th 2018 Suprisel Suprisel The lights came on this morning about 5am. I woke with guys holloring and yelling get up and stay in your cube. There were several officers going through. the:...
Upchurch, Roger W.Kentucky
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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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