Skip to content
  • Home
  • The Archive
    • Search the Archive
    • How to Submit
      • How to Submit
      • Permissions-Questionnaire
  • About
    • About the Archive
    • The Team
    • Archival Silences
    • Projects Inspired by the Archive
  • Curated Collections
  • FAQs & Terminology
  • Saved Selections

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.

The 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.

*At this point in the Archive’s growth, it’s important to revisit actions taken to protect privacy when the APWA had fewer resources. For this reason, we are temporarily pulling all essays and poetry under pseudonyms and anonymity to quality check and ensure all identity protecting redactions have been thoroughly applied. The privacy of the writers in the APWA is a top priority, and so is displaying their writing as they wish it to be displayed. We will restore all pieces as soon as we can confirm the highest quality privacy protections.

Help using the APWA search.

Wildcard Operators

The * operator replaces zero or more characters, so searching for w*ess would match “wilderness”, “witness”, “WordPress” and also “wess”.

The ? operator matches exactly one character, so searching for gr?y would match “grey” or “gray”, but not “gravy” or “groovy”.

Boolean Searches

Relevanssi uses + and – for the operators: cats -dogs and cats +kittens.

If you prefer instead to use the verbal AND and NOT operators, those can be used too.

Phrase Searches

Put phrase in quotation marks, e.g., “just as complicit”.

Help using the APWA search.

  • Loading...
  • Loading...
  • Loading...
  • Loading...
  • Loading...
  • Loading...
  • Loading...
  • Loading...
Loading...
Loading...
Reconsecrating the U.S. economy of human warehousing
May 27, 2021

Reconsecrating the U.S. economy of human warehousing

Watterson, Randy A.North Carolina
Jailhouse lawyering and restorative justice
April 15, 2021

Jailhouse lawyering and restorative justice

Watterson, Randy A.North Carolina
Corona prisoner
July 26, 2020

Corona prisoner

-1- Submission For APWA 7/26/20 Corona Prisoner Imagine a country where every ten minutes, one of its citizens are being introduced to its broken and polarized criminal justice system. Imagine a country where everyday a...
Watterson, Randy A.North Carolina
What is left?
July 16, 2020

What is left?

What Is Left? Submission By: Randy A. Watterson July 16, 2020 After your criminal conviction and the steel doors slam shut behind you, What is left? After years of being locked in, locked out and...
Watterson, Randy A.North Carolina
N.C prisoner protester speaks out to America from solitary confinement on 2020 elections
November 10, 2019

N.C prisoner protester speaks out to America from solitary confinement on 2020 elections

Submission 11/10/19 N.C. Prisoner Protestor Speaks Out to America from Solitary Confinement on 2020 Elections There is an estimated 2.7 million prisoners behind bars in the United States making us the leader of the world...
Watterson, Randy A.North Carolina
About me
September 6, 2019

About me

About Me I'm 52 years old and obviously well preserved. I'm bright, funny, classy, easygoing, loyal, faithful, loving, tough, and at times wild. I like REO Speedwagon, Journey, Rolling Stones, Kiss, Ratt, Dio, Motley Crue,...
Watterson, Randy A.North Carolina
Cruel breeze
July 22, 2019

Cruel breeze

7/22/19 Solitary Confinement Cruel Breeze Police and the courts kill people every day, From love to idle time, And some people just die anyway, From life to their crazy minds, With time like I have,...
Watterson, Randy A.North Carolina
Dear APWA, I wrote this manifesto
July 18, 2019

Dear APWA, I wrote this manifesto

7/18/19 Dear APWA, I wrote this manifesto for our upcoming prison strike. On Aug 20, 2018 I Randy Watterson, Todd Martin and Jace Buras organized the North Carolina POW Movement. More than 100 outside public...
Watterson, Randy A.North Carolina
Repression = prisoners and feminists
July 11, 2019

Repression = prisoners and feminists

July 11, 2019 Repression = Prisoners and Feminists Prisons function as tools of social control. In fact, prisoners today are historically oppressed for their writing and they are intentionally kept in a perpetual state of...
Watterson, Randy A.North Carolina
There's nothing in prison!
June 29, 2019

There's nothing in prison!

Theres nothing in prison! Another perpetually kicked prisoner was frantic with reckless anxiety and desperation as he was again placed into the restricted housing unit "aka" solitary confinement. Onced again he was buried and silenced...
Watterson, Randy A.North Carolina
Prisoner 0427985
May 2, 2019

Prisoner 0427985

Prisoner 0427985 3/30/19 The system is obviously broken. Generations of street kids, the neglected, the bullied, abused outcasts, the poor deprived of compassion and love have become or will become inducted into the prison system....
Watterson, Randy A.North Carolina
Back to top
Open filters
Close
Loading...
Johns Hopkins logo
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact
  • Takedown and Changes Policy

© 2025 Johns Hopkins University. All Rights Reserved.

Page load link

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.

Thank you for your message. It has been sent.
There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later.
Go to Top