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My Name Is Gary, and I Work in the Durland Alternatives Library. I Have ORGANIZATION’S HISTORY HOW P.E. WORKS Welcome. My name is Gary, and I work in the Durland Let me welcome all the new and continuing members, Alternatives Library. I have worked here for more than and share with you what programs we are offering this 13 years, and after completing my first year, the Prisoner cycle. Each cycle is defined by the printing of a Express (PE) program was created. The program’s newsletter. In the newsletter we will make certain origin was inspired upon receiving a letter from an offerings. You enroll for the programs that most interest inmate, Danny Harris, stationed in Texas. you, and we do our best to send them to you. Danny’s excellent writing truly was what moved An important piece to understand about our me to begin a free book program fostering prison programs is how they are put together and mailed. education through independent studies. Over the years Usually mailings are sent out in batches of 200 or more. PE has evolved into much more than ever anticipated. This way we can take advantage of nonprofit bulk Today, it has grown larger than one person is able to mailing rates. Using lower postal rates helps us afford to manage alone, so fortunately, our volunteers and work- send more programs. It also means that if you miss out study students make time to help out. on the mailing because you wait too long to respond, or I find that our constant internal turnover really if you hear about a program after it is already mailed, keeps things fresh as we maintain the integrity of PE’s you may miss out on being included in that program. mission statement: to promote rehabilitation by offering The good news is that we create new programs inmates information, education, and the opportunity for every cycle, and as one is just beginning you will have creative self-expression in a public forum. While ample opportunity to join. If you send us a letter and we volunteers assist in moving the organization forward, I do not respond right away, it is because we cannot am able to focus on the bigger picture, meet new needs, afford the postage or lack the people power to respond and respond to new program goals and visions. to each individual. It is better to save what funds we It is important to note that without the have for mailing programs to all of you. collaboration of all of our volunteers, students, and staff, For those of you who have been part of PE for a PE simply would not be able to provide and maintain the long time, you are familiar with this process, and for vast number of services that we now offer. These newer members I want to explain that I try to wait as services include: public prisoner journal entries on our long as I can between offering programs and then website, website updates, illustrated poetry publications mailing them out so as to include as many folks as comprised solely of prisoner submissions, and of course, possible. Sometimes it makes you wait what seems like our fabulous newsletters. an outrageous amount of time from when you register We hope you enjoy this season and will be sure until you get the program, but believe it or not, I am still to contact us with any questions, concerns, or feedback. getting registration forms from last summer. We continue to receive new requests, even as I am creating this fall Prisoner Express newsletter. I hope this explains the wait for those of you 127 Anabel Taylor Hall who signed up for Massage, or the History of Music Cornell University offered last June, and their late October mailings. Ithaca, NY 14853 email: [email protected] phone: (607) 255-6486 LETTER FROM GARY ONTENTS Dear Friends, C I am once again privileged to create another • ORGANIZATION’S HISTORY • GARDENING AND BASIC issue of Prisoner Express News, and look forward to OW ORKS HOMESTEADING H PE W • sharing with you information on all our upcoming • LETTER FROM GARY • THEME WRITING programs, as well as recapping what we have been up PROJECT to in the recent past. As always there are many new • ASTRONOMY • PROGRAM UPDATES • PICTURE WRITING readers of this page and I believe it is important to get us PROJECT all to the same place in understanding how PE operates. • EXPEDITED BOOKS New members join through a variety of channels • POETRY PROJECT • ADDITIONAL CREATIVE WRITING and depending on how you have heard about the • ART PROGRAM • ADDITIONAL CREATIVE program, you may be working under a different set of • PE BOOK CLUB WRITING assumptions as to how this program works. Our primary • JOURNAL PROJECT • GARY’S FINAL NOTES aim is to provide you with information, education and • CHESS CLUB opportunities for creative self-expression in a public • FUNDRAISING • HEALTH & WELLNESS forum. How we carry that out often depends on our • REGISTRATION FORM STUDY GUIDE finances. PE has no regular source of funding and we are constantly on the lookout for donors and creating 1 of 32 fundraising opportunities to create and continue principled ideas working through a system weighted to programming. benefit the privileged classes, and I see him as trying to In creating the Prisoner Express program, I want assure equal opportunity for all. That seems like a great it to be a partnership among all members. I certainly first step. have access to more resources than many of you, but As many of you know I love to garden and you know what programs and services would most preserve food. This has been a difficult garden year for a enhance your daily life and help you find meaning in variety of reasons including drought and blistering heat. I your daily activities. I understand how easy despair and moved away from my country land a year ago to live in depression can creep into people’s lives in the free town due to the better educational opportunities for my world, and I am sure there is an even easier path for it children. I miss country life, but am in town for the next for those of you behind bars. How to stay centered and many years. I rent my country house out and now finally balanced is a challenge for all beings. Creating have tenants who don’t mind me gardening there. community is one way in which we can prevent I am working the land this fall to get it ready for ourselves from feeling so alone with our personal next year, and in the next few weeks will plant plenty of struggles. I know it can be problematic to show garlic for next summer. Working with the earth keeps me vulnerability when locked away, yet spending your life sane. I am not sure why, but I it is clear how much hiding how you are really feeling can compound your meaning it gives to my life. It grounds me, and the problems. relationship seems real and straightforward. When I talk My hope is that within the confines of the PE about politics or social issues, it is opinions, but when I community you can write and share the truth that is talk about gardening it is more about my soul. As long as within you. By sharing it through our publications with I can continue to work on my land, I figure I can put up other prisoners it can help set them free from some of with living in town. In town I am more caught up in the the traps in their own minds. Much of life is made up of rhythms of civilization and in the country it is the cycles the stories we tell ourselves. PE projects focus on of nature. Civilization dues not nurture me at this stage exploring your humanity, and in the process alerting of life and being closer to nature does. folks in the free world that prisoners are complete If I had my way, you could each have a garden members of humanity too. plot to work or share, but that is what moves me to a In each newsletter, I usually share a little bit deeper more balanced place. I am interested in what about myself, and my personal perspective. There are moves, inspires, and balances you. It is great if we are so many of you anymore who write about your lives to able to create a program around your ideas. If not now, me, that I cannot keep with demand on the same no one can exactly predict what will be in the future. I am individual and personal level as I was able to when we interested in hearing your ideas for how PE can best started out, so I use this forum as a means to reach create meaning in your life. everyone at the same time. Please just take it as a The program is growing and with growth spurts glimpse of me, rather than the position of the PE come changes. One of the pleasures of writing the organization. newsletter and mailing it to all of you at the same time is First, I am beginning this newsletter in late that I can address many of the questions and comments October. It is the Day Hurricane Sandy is to make I receive on a regular basis. PE has been listed in a landfall 200 miles away in NYC, and we are expected to number of resource guides. The services we provided receive high winds and rain tonight.
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