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Record W3157815117 · doi:10.18192/jpp.v12i0.5421

Persecution to Prosecution of a Prison Activist

2003· article· en· W3157815117 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Jon Marc Taylor

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Prisoners on Prisons · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCriminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPersecutionPrisonCriminologyPolitical scienceLawSociologyPolitics

Abstract

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I t had been exactly one week since my promotion, when the phone on my desk rang.In my top floor office, with a view of the bronze capitol dome shining above my IBM-486 computer, the voice told me to return to the cell house and pack my property.I was being shipped to Crossroads Correctional Center in the far northwest comer of the state -the newest nirvana in the ever-expanding Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC).My butt was literally to be on the last bus from Tombstone to Boot Hill, completing the human consignment to the 1 ,SOO-man maximum security, death fence-enclosed prison.To say I was shocked, though not thoroughly surprised, is a mournful understatement.Two weeks earlier, my caseworker advised me that I was not on any transfer list he had seen.FOl• three of the eighteen years of incarceration I had survived the 160-year-old Missouri State Penitentiary -recently, if not magically, rechristened the Jefferson City Correctional Center -I had only a single minor mle violation blotting my record.Though no saint walking the mainline in one of the nation's most notorious prisons, I was self-assured and able to carry myself with maturity, as a convict should.With the sponsorship of family and friends, I had been lucky enough as well to complete half of a baccalaureate program via correspondence from Washington State University.Moreover, I was an active board member of the Charitable Campaign Committee, which responsibly collected the institution's aluminium soda cans for recycling, raising over $10,000 for donation to local charities.I was also the co-director of the prison's first annual Food for Families Campaign, collecting over 2,300 canned goods for Christmas donation to area food banks and a media liaison for the Substance Abuse Advisory Committee.In all endeavors we had successfully publicized our efforts in the media, facets of prison life in the "Show-Me" state that were rarely presented to the outside world.My greatest achievement, however, had been advancing in two years from narrator to nan•ation supervisor to resident director of the Center for Braille and Narration Production (CBNP).The CBNP is the oldest and most prolific prison-based program of its type in the country.Employing over twenty specially screened and highly trained prisoners, the CBNP in 1996 narrated over 65,000 pages of mostly college-level text, transcribed over 70,000 pages of Braille production, and fonnatted nearly 80,000 pages of large print documents for

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.035
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.033

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.035
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.001
Science and technology studies0.0080.002
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0050.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.335
Teacher spread0.310 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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