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Thursday, November 16, 2017

Back to Prison

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I hope the title of this post did not give you a heart attack. Tuesday I visited a large men’s state penitentiary as part of an Inside-Out w...
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Thursday, October 12, 2017

Using this Blog Again

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I have decided to write from my Carswell experiences again. I am writing about being a lesbian in prison and my observations around gender a...
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Resiliency

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Hello community! I hope this post finds people well. I am now a 2nd year PhD student and have some exciting news... I've been awarded a ...
Saturday, June 24, 2017

Presenting in Mexico

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So, I presented on you again. You being this blog, this experience, this time of my life that now feels forever ago. I am at an academic con...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017

It's Been A While

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So, where is my life today. The post I should've written many mo ths ago is that I was released from Federal Supervision about 10 months...
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Thursday, June 30, 2016

Oh Canada... (felon permission to travel to the True North)

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If you are like me, you may have thought that once convicted of your felony, your travel days to Canada were officially over. As someone...
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Sunday, May 29, 2016

Lifting the Fog

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Anniversaries, birthdays and special days generally mean a lot to me. For example, today would have been my dad's birthday and marks tw...
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Sunday, May 8, 2016

8 Years

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Mother's Day, 2016. This week marked my 8th anniversary of my "Devine intervention" - my last gamble, getting caught, coming c...
Sunday, February 7, 2016

Images of What I Needed Today

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Wednesday, December 9, 2015

According to Probation Services...

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I was wondering what official policy is around early release from supervision. I suppose it should surprise none of us that there is a lot o...
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Monday, December 7, 2015

December Supervision Update and More

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A couple months ago I posted that my P.O. had stated that I should be off supervision by the holidays (remember?). Later, Freckles posted th...
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Sunday, November 29, 2015

Gambling Diversion Programs instead of Prison? Why Not??

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I am doing research for a research project and came across this article from April. Not only does the article make me mad because the Nevada...
Friday, November 20, 2015

My Presentations and a lot of Sleep

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As mentioned in a previous post, I am at a conference this week. It is actually one of the largest annual conferences of criminal justice sc...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Freckles TIPS Presentation

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I did not have pre-sentence or pre-incarceration supervision, but a lot of federal offenders do. Freckles was under supervision before her i...

Presentation

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Today Dragonfly Hazel is coming out to more than 3,000 criminal justice academics when I present at a national conference. Wish me luck... O...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Typical BOP False Hopes? (By Freckles!)

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A new entry from the one and only Freckles!!! Check it out!!! While in prison, halfway house or on probation - you always hear about this my...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Halloween Comes too Close to Home

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As a kid, I really enjoyed Halloween. I remember being into my costumes a lot and having a lot of fun with trick-or-treating in my neighborh...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Ashes to Ashes

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This weekend I flew out west to help spread my father's ashes along Route 66, his favorite road. When he was much younger, he would trav...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

My LGBTQ Rights

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This blog post is not going to be anything I've written before. I usually write here about my life inside and outside of prison, being a...
Sunday, October 11, 2015

Supervision Status

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I met with my P.O. again this week. I had to meet with him because I needed to fill out the paperwork again for travel approval. I am leavin...
Sunday, October 4, 2015

Creativity

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With the opportunity to work with students again in a teaching role, I was a little taken aback the other day when the students selected the...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Specific Deterrence

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Reading for class tonight... “Specific deterrence refers to the idea that punishment reduces the crime of those specific people who ar...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Finding my Dissertation Topic

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The entire time I was in my old education program, I never quite knew what I would focus on for my dissertation. I had many research areas I...