Explore my journey through incarceration with a unique collection of daily journals and in-depth book reports. Each entry offers a raw, personal perspective, transforming moments of confinement into reflections of growth and resilience.
Two unique aspects of prison life are money/spending management and ingenuity. I want to share how both are impacting me right now. Commissary is a big part of life here at camp. With a $180 spending limit and two weeks between shopping days, I have to strategize...
The past week has been incredible! My mom, my amazing webmaster, already shared the fantastic news about my early release on the blog. I wanted to write a journal entry to explain the complex calculations that led to this outcome. The key to my early release is the...
Note: This journal entry was written on January 31st and postmarked February 3rd. It has been stuck in the abyss of the USPS mail system until delivered on February 23. There's a story that has always stuck with me. Scientists placed a group of ten monkeys in a large...
My last entry was about a good day, fueled in part by commissary shopping. This one is the complete opposite. I'm in an FCI camp, which, unlike a traditional prison, lacks fences. Theoretically, we could walk out at any time. In fact, a public road runs close to the...
Tuesday was a surprisingly wonderful day, as pleasant as any day in prison can be. It started with commissary shop day, the bi-weekly occasion when we receive the items we ordered the previous week. "Campers" are usually running low on snacks and toiletries by this...
Super Bowl Sunday in prison, or "the Big House" as we call it, is always a tense time. Rumors fly that guards will use any excuse to lock us down, cutting off TV access and preventing us from watching the game. This year, despite a few surprise searches, we managed to...