Update

There is a guy in here that I will name Dave (that is not his name)… Dave is 46 years old and has been in and out of prison since he was 17. He has been held in supermax prisons, high security penitentiaries and now has worked his way down to a low security facility […]

As you can imagine, prison provides a unique situation where all of the aspects of your life that you love are stripped away from you and simultaneously… all of the daily stressors and anxieties of life are also suddenly taken out of your world. Due to this depletion of all things “normal”… you are left

Every week or so the BOP (Bureau of Prisons) and Terminal Island specifically posts an updated list of FSA (First Step Act) approved programs that are “available” to us. I put available in quotations because so far even though they may be “available”… it has been a process actually enrolling in a program. Since the

Well… the cat is out the bag. Some of the guys in my unit found out that I had acted in movies prior to getting here and all hell has broken loose in F Unit. I have acquired the new nickname ‘Superstar’… I am asked at least 10 times a day if I have met

I have been told on many occasions that my routine oriented, habitual nature is a little extreme. I find peace in routine and know what I like… so, if it ain’t broke… don’t fix it… right? I have to admit that in real life, keeping a strict routine is not always realistic and in some

I was watching the NFL Draft this past week with some of the guys in here… forgetting my current surroundings for a bit and basking in the normalcy of watching the draft as I would be doing in real life. It was a cool experience… just a group of dudes talking football. Looking forward to

I was walking the track last night, talking to (mostly listening to) another guy in here for almost two hours. He was going on and on about the decisions he has made in life, all the mistakes, he should have done this… would have done that if only “X” would have happened. He is making

Today is my youngest son’s 2nd Birthday. He won’t have his Dad with him to celebrate the big, smiley, cuddly, strong, smart boy that he is. He didn’t have his Dad with him on his 1st birthday either. His Dad was there, standing proudly (of his Momma and the little guy) the day that we

It’s 3:22pm on Wednesday. Wednesday in F Unit is laundry day so we put all of our dirty clothes in mesh bags and place them in the bin at the front of the unit on Tuesday night. Clothes are returned around mid-day on Wednesday… mostly clean and extremely wrinkled… so my Wednesday afternoon routine entails

Oh advice… we give it… we get it… we want it but don’t like it unless it parallels what we already thought to begin with… we don’t want it but get it anyway. Advice is a very prickly pear… and advice inside prison walls is a whole other experience all together. I was told (and