Update

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

Every single day… everywhere I turn… I will over hear a conversation in which one guy is telling another that he’s, “about the get shipped to camp” or “I’m homeward bound bro”. This is immediately followed by, “what camp you going to?” or “you going to halfway house or straight home?” Over and over… on

Eat The Pancakes. So, my oldest son loves pancakes. Every single morning that I was with him from the time he could talk until the last morning that we were together prior to me surrendering… our morning conversation would go something like, “What do you want for breakfast today Buddy?” (already knowing full well what

ROLL IT UP… YOU’RE MOVING! WTF?! AGAIN?? “Horwitz! Roll it up. You’re Moving!” I heard the booming command coming from the lobby and instinctively started walking toward the officer’s office… not with my belongings in order to follow his instruction to move but instead with my entitled, I forgot I was a prisoner mindset. I

What you can learn from living with 100 strangers. Who wants to volunteer? I understand the hesitation but there has been an interesting dynamic at play that I think is extremely applicable to every day life outside of my current surroundings. Living with 100 men, all strangers, all ages, all from different backgrounds, different socio-economic

“Horwitz… ROLL IT UP! You’re moving.” So, “roll it up” means to get all of your belongings into a mesh bag, fold your sheet and blanket and roll up your mattress pad because you’re moving to a different area of the campus. In my case, I am moving from quarantine in E Unit to my

Tuesday 03.15.2022 “CHOW CHOW CHOW!!” I open my eyes to see the moon fully shining through my window. Slowly get out of bed and walk into the hallway to get my tray and take it back into the room for breakfast. I asked for a spork yesterday (and got one… huge win) so no more

Monday 03-14-2022 “CHOOOOOW TIME!” I slowly blink open my eyes and see the exterior lights shining brightly through the window just slightly left and 3ft above my head. After squinting a bit more, I can clearly see the moon hanging in the sky above the lights but my door has been unlocked, opened and it

Terminal Island Covid Quarantine Today is Sunday… March 13, 2022. Today is the day that I will self surrender to federal prison at Terminal Island FCI. I woke up this morning like any other day but today would be the first day of the next chapter of my life. I started the day by face