Monthly Archives: June 2012

Suicide Rates on the Rise in Kids & Inmates

Bullying is Causing Unnecessary Deaths The 10-year-old who committed suicide recently in a rural Illinois community came home from school the day before in tears. It wasn’t the first time. Ashlynn Conner, a fifth-grader, had complained of bullying for two

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Inmates Are Not the Only Ones WIth Addictions - Take the Quiz

The Four Addictions We’ve discovered four addictions we all have that destroy more dreams, more hopes and more lives than alcohol, drugs, food, gambling or sex combined. When we refer to addictions, we are not focused on any of these.

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Prisoner Hunger Strikes Around the World - Do They Really Work?

There are several prisoners organized hunger strikes going on across the country and around the world. The correctional systems in many states are notorious for inhumane treatment of inmates and state and federal violations of basic care such as nutritional

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Mass Incarceration was Not Around Back In the Day

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own shopping bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing

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The Prison Industrial Complex is #Winning in Texas

Prisonworld Magazine covers prison issues and always have since 2007. In 2009 we ran a cover story regarding the Texas prison system and now it has come to the national forefront that Texas is eclipsing California with the largest prison

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Black Church Scammer Needs Inspiration - Write Him Here

ABRAHAM KENNARD 11928-042 FCI MANCHESTER P.O. BOX 4000 MANCHESTER, KY 40962 VIA- Rome News-Tribune/May 5, 2005 Abraham Kennard, convicted in February of bilking $9 million from 1,600 churches and nonprofit organizations nationwide, was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison today in U.S. District

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Celebrity Convicts - Snoop Dogg & Martha Stewart - Stereotypes

WHY THE STEREOTYPE? BECAUSE I WEAR A SCARF AROUND MY HEAD, I HAVE BEEN CALLED “HOLIER THAN THOU.” THAT HAS ALWAYS PUZZLED ME BECAUSE I CUSS LIKE A SAILOR. I HAVE KNOWN “CRACK HEADS” IN MY FAMILY BUT SOME OF

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My World - Prisonworld

Doing time in the joint is no easy thing. Don’t expect to be accepted, unless you have something to bring. There are two types of “cons,” that separate the mass. You have the weak and the timid and those that

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Smart Goals are Important for Successful Prisoner Re-Entry

Inmates can obtain goals from prison if they are smart about their thinking and decisions. This is an outline of how critical thinking plays a part in success. Creating S.M.A.R.T. Goals Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Timely Specific - A specific

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#SANDUSKY - FROM PENN STATE TO STATE PEN MUGSHOT

RIDICULOUSLY OVERLOOKED SEXUAL PREDATOR - Jerry Sandusky, former assistant football coach at Pennsylvania State University, was recently found guilty of 45 of 48 counts of child molestation and will spend the rest of his miserable life in prison. As a

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The Prisonworld Radio Hour Explores Drug King Pin Frank Matthews

Drug King Pins are somewhat of a phenomenon. The story of Frank Matthews is not as widely told as that of Frank Lucas who was portrayed by Denzel Washing on in the movie American Gangster. This is a story of

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A Son is a Son Until He Gets A Wife or Gets Incarcerated

How Toxic Daughters-in-Law Destroy Families Most women fear the Monster-in-Law. The TV stereotype is always the mother-in-law, for whom no woman will ever be as good to him as she is. Doris Roberts on Everybody Loves Raymond embodied that image

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Remember the Georgia Prisoner Strike? We had The Inside Scoop!

FYI - As Publisher & Editor of Prisonworld Magazine, I am privileged to information that many may not know. Mrs. Triplett, We (as prisoners) are on our peaceful boycott of the Georgia Prison System’s free labor details in search of

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