An intimate first person non-fiction storytelling experience about incarceration in the United States.
The journey of incarceration is about rehabilitation. Those of us incarcerated either discover that our thinking errors are the root cause of our incarceration or choose to discover nothing, instead returning to society unimproved. These are the two outcomes of incarceration. There is no middle.
Continue reading “The Promise of Psychedelics in Rehabilitation or A Proposed Alternative”
The first animal I saw on the yard that was neither bird nor rodent was a white cat. The Summer heat broiled the cell, and on this evening I lay on my bunk half-naked beneath a small clip on fan praying for relief. I had one of those atomic clocks, you know the type: time, date, day of the week, and the temperature for good measure. The digital numbers had just flicked to 9:00PM. I snatched at the clock and eyed the temperature: 95F. Puh.
Rather than recap what readers of this blog already know, I’m devoting this post to what I see as the coming coronavirus end game for us here in the United States. To pick up the thread of today’s post read last week’s Coronavirus: Why We Are 3 Weeks Behind Italy.
Under the current Ohio DRC director, a number of efforts have been made to push rehabilitation. The electronic services I have access to are a direct result of this push, and by far I see these services as beneficial and positive. I record “Video Friday’s In 60 Seconds” videos using a JPay 30 second video option while sitting at a dedicated JPay owned kiosk. I find their video services to be their best services and am thankful they offer it.
This week’s questions come from Stephanie in London, England who asks me how I cope with doing such a long time, and from Nicole in Perth, Australia who asks about dog programs in American prisons. Thank you Stephanie and Nicole for following, and thank you for these great questions.
Continue reading “#2: Video Fridays in 60 Seconds — Dogs, Long Sentences, and One Day at a Time”