Our most recent holiday was Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. I was happy to celebrate it on the outside this year, mainly because MLK’s birthday is also my wedding anniversary.
A Prison Laundry LimerickA Prison Laundry Limerick
The TPL project isn’t quite yet started, but I’ll serve and amuse bouche of 5 lines I penned back in 2017: When that which you eat is called “chow,” You
More drug educationMore drug education
If you can convince federal prison authorities that you have a substance abuse program, you can sign up for the Residential Drug Abuse Treatment Program (RDAP) that offers you a
Drug “Education”Drug “Education”
The Federal Bureau of Prisons forces every inmate who has ever admitted to, at a minimum, smoking weed to attend a drug education class. Of course you can refuse, but
Indigestion or a pinched nerve?Indigestion or a pinched nerve?
As you can imagine, prison beds are not comfortable. Comfortable is utterly the wrong concept for describing how they feel. Try putting a sleeping bag on your garage floor and
Dr. FeelnothingDr. Feelnothing
I get a monthly call from the shrink employed by the halfway house. The halfway house, by the way, is the not not-jail they put you in after prison and
Sketching out the Scarlet LetterSketching out the Scarlet Letter
Sometimes in prison, and ofter after you are out, the criminal justice system pretends to care about “reforming” you. They might offer some rather feeble pass at offering you literacy,
Why this blog?Why this blog?
After you have done your prison time, you have never really done your time. That is to say, the past is never really the past; the past is always in