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Patterns in randomness
PATTERNS IN RANDOMNESS By Shane V. M. Greene “A person does not need to be identified in order for their autonomy to be undermined or their dignity to be damaged...If an individual has not been...
A diamond in the rough
A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH A DIAMOND IS FORMED WHEN A LUMP OF SEEMINGLY WORTHLESS CARBON IS SUBJECTED TO YEARS OF EXTREME PRESSURE - THOUSANDS OF POUNDS PER SQUARE INCH, OVER MANY, MANY YEARS...AND AS...
Prison culture
Jacob Barrett Prison Culture Erving Goffman1 defines a complete institution as "[a] basic social arrangement in modern society in that the individual tends to sleep, play, and work in different places, with different co-participants, under...
Youth and prison culture
Jacob Barrett Youth and Prison Culture In 1994 I walked into the system a teen and spent the next several decades being raised by the system. For the next decade the men I shared my...
A world with no sky
A World With No Sky How much pain can the heart take before it turns to glass, cracks and turns to heart break? Alone I sit in my cell staring off or counting the bricks...
As a black Muslim
Taryanne Rahmaan, "As a Black Muslim" Coffee Creek Correctional Facility As a Black muslim, in prison where I have three strikes... (one, I am Black, two. I am muslim, three. I am female) everyday is...
I am a 50 yr old Muslim man of Afrikan descent that suffers PTSD
NO TITLE 5/21/18 I am a 50 year old Muslim man of Afrikan descent that suffers P.T.S.D... Having grown up in Detroit, surrounded by violence, it is my belief that my condition began there. Externally,...
Death of a man
Death of a Man Kyle Hedquist I have often contemplated my death, as a Death Dealer I am well acquainted with death, the process, the struggle to breath, the body’s rejection of itself through cancer...
The day Bobby helped me die
The Day Bobby Helped Me Die Kyle Hedquist When I was 18 tears old the only thing I knew about AIDS was that it was something drug users and faggots got I was neither so...
The most dangerous man I ever knew
The Most Dangerous Man I Ever Knew Kyle Hedquist Luis was born in Mexico; we called him “Tej as”, in reference to his home on this side of the border in Texas. He worked alongside...
Confessions of a penitentiary death dealer II
Confessions of a Penitentiary Death Dealer II Kyle Hedquist I seem to remember being cold, no matter where I go I have always been cold in prison. His name was Daniel, but like most of...
I have been in the hole
I have been in the hole, what they call the s.h.u. or s.m.u. in Federal Prison for 5 months now. I thank god B.O.P. gives us a cell mate and we can buy radios. We...
Street life vs. system
Street life vs. System Street life being the only things that's known. Pain and unreasonable circumstance, drive you into The streets, where hunger strikes, cold, loneliness, and most of all anger. Life responsibilities won't let...
My name is Eli Munson
My name is Eli Munson according to our government. My true name is E. Portraits and I am so much more than a name or a number. I am a true all around artist. I...
Incapacitation is the goal
Incapacitation is the Goal in a Sentence like this... Judge Edward J Jones 7/20/04 At the age of 9, I was removed from my home and signed over to the state due to a life...
Killing the poor tonight: A Copernican revolution in racial politics
D. Joseph Chyatte SID# 22150296 Killing the Poor Tonight: A Copernican Revolution in Racial Politics “I remember the day I became colored.” — Zora Neale Hurston, “How it Feels to be Colored Me” I was...
In regards to the Oregon prison system
Aug-16-2017 In regards to the Oregon prison system it is not necessary to validate confidential informants statements of other prisoners causing long extended stays in OSU "the hole"... Most of us here in OSU are...
Fear and chains
Real Cost of Prisons Project: Writing from Prison: "Fear and Chains" by James M. Anderson "Fear & Chains" My first day in prison was a nightmare. A nightmare I never thought would end. It was...
In regards to prison reform and recidivism
[no title] 1. July 12 2017 In regards to prison reform and recidivism there are no prison reform programs that prevent the revolving door of so many recidivist...In a educational perspective here in Oregon Snake...
Now that I am an incarcerated individual...
Tobin Terppenning Oregon NO TITLE Now that I am an incarcerated individual sentenced to 16 years in the Oregon Corrections business, I have realized many worlds that can be opened with a pen, a guitar,...
As I write this short first hand account...
Dear Readers As I write this short first hand account, I have a black eye, on the left side of my face. Its 10:30pm, the lights are out and lockdown is quit. US prisoners call...
Why are we a nation of prisons?
Why Are We a Nation of Prisons? By Charles Hammer Is our prison system a mystery to the average citizen? An uncomfortable mystery best not to examine too closely? So it was to me until...
Beyond reform
Rik Bogen BEYOND REFORM After the tsunami of arrest, jail, conviction and sentencing receded leaving behind the tangled sea-weed of my life I began to imagine that prison might be a new beginning, an opportunity...
The ghetto
The Ghetto By Shane Vindel Michael Greene Prophet Speakeasy, was musing to himself the other day on the "not-so-liberal minded- liberal minded" pacific N.W. territories, its' peoples', culture, and marveling at the seemingly inexhaustible fervor...Loading...
