- Loading...
- Loading...
- Loading...
Loading...
Loading...
Public secrets: A sneak peek inside Alaska's overcrowded prisons
PUBLIC SECRETS: A Sneak Peek Inside Alaska’s Overcrowded Prisons By Ben Wilkins Seward, Alaska (March, 2022) — A twenty something year old man was attacked and beaten viciously at Anchorage Correction Complex West during lunch...
Prison madness: America's crisis of incacerated mental health patients
1. Prison Madness by Ben Wilkins PRISON MADNESS America’s Crisis of Incarcerated Mental Health Patients WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SUBJECT MATTER AND LANGUAGE THAT MAY BE DISTURBING TO SOME READERS. READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. I...
Covid behind bars: Stress and anti-stress agents
Sensei Pitt The American Prison Writing Archive December 2020 C/O Hamilton College: 198 College Hill Road Clinton NY 13323-1218 COVID Behind Bars: Stress and Anti-stress agents. The CDC recommends the following COVID-19 prevention measures; *...
Human rights violations are usually what dictators are so fondly accussed of
1 of 8 May 2019 Human rights violations are usually what dictators are so fondly accused of, but yet too many of the people that operate the United States of America government agencies are guilty...
Crossing over
Crossing Over What factors generally cause people to reevaluate the way they conduct themselves in life? Do they wake one day to realize that there are areas of their lives that are dissatisfying? Do they...
Ethics, morality, and justice
Ethics, Morality, and Justice Wouldn't we all like to believe a direct correlation exists between the terms Ethics, Morality, and Justice? How many of us were taught in school that those terms are synonymous? I...
Redemption project
Redemption Project It is my own life experiences, interviews with incarcerated men, and subsequent changes to how I live my life that have led me to the conclusions I have drawn in this proposal. My...
AK DOC has and currently engages
1 January 2019 AK DOC has and currently engages in a policy and practice that fails to notify senders of mail that has been censored (denied), which is also a procedural due process violation to...
Corporal punishment
Corporal Punishment I am writing this opinion of a conversation I had yesterday with a gentleman who like so many others I have spoken with over the past couple of years, recognizes the fact that...
The harmful effects of solitary confinement
Anchorage Correctional Complex 1400 East 4th Avenue Anchorage AK 99501 The Harmful effects of Solitary Confinement (or Segregation, as it is called in the Department of Corrections) is well documented and recognized. People held in...
It has been six months
5 February 2018 AK Mountains It Has Been Six Months It has been six months since I have written. The conditions at Anchorage Correctional Complex (ACC) have not changed. I am still a pretrial detainee...
I am a pretrial detainee
6 August 2017 I am a pretrial detainee, I have been in jail since July 1, 2015. Before jail/prison, I didn't give much thought to the incarcerated. After two years of inadequate food, being treated...
Incarceration, who's problem is it?
M M Moore June 2015 Incarceration, Who's Problem Is It? How a society addresses crime and criminal offenders is called penal or criminal administration and includes, among other things: incarceration, rehabilitation, probation and parole, monetary...
My experience as a prisoner
My experience as a prisoner in the land of the free started at 13 as a troubled teen. When I was introduced into an institution at what it felt was probably one of my lowest...
Inspiration
INSPIRATION Everyone talked quietly among themselves as we waited for her to arrive. Two hundred women were seated in the gym, with a dozen guards stationed around the perimeter of the room. Long gray curtains...Loading...
