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Showing posts with label Halfway house. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halfway house. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Back to the halfway house?

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In class tonight, we discussed a newly published book entitled, "A Halfway House for Women." It was an ethnographic study of a sta...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Cleaning House

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I still need to organize my room. I still have boxes of I don't know what packed in storage. I still have the stuff I shipped home from ...
Monday, June 23, 2014

Writing My Personal Statement

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I was never a procrastinator. I always tried to be on top of all my work, giving me buffer time just in case. Since being on home confinemen...
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Sunday, June 22, 2014

Tweeting

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I've been in love with technology since I was a kid. My father built our first computer and I would teach everyone how to use it. Things...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

First Conversation with my P.O.

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I am not yet under the supervision of my probation officer, since the RRC is in charge of my supervision. I've never met him either, sin...
Friday, June 13, 2014

I'm Not Ashamed

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After my three hour drive for a ten minute meeting at the RRC today, I met a professor/friend for lunch. It was a wonderful lunch meeting an...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Almost Normal

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For two days, life was nearly normal (whatever normal means). I think this was one of the best times I've had with my parents visiting m...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

The 6am Call

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For the last week, it never fails. Someone from the "bubble" calls me to make sure I'm home. I guess that makes sense, since m...
Monday, June 9, 2014

First Real Outing

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In order to go anywhere, besides the RRC, this month, I have to let my CW know and have it approved. This morning, I did my 3-hour driving f...
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Friday, June 6, 2014

Rules of Home Confinement

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I had to sign two forms for home confinement, one was specifically by the community corrections place I was staying and the other by the Fed...
Monday, June 2, 2014

Homeward Bound

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I'm going home, I'm going home, yes, yes, yes, I'm going home! At 11am I heard my name. I'd just started doing hall laps fo...
Sunday, June 1, 2014

Food

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I'm still waking on Carswell time. I asked the woman in the bubble if I could sit somewhere and write at 5am, not allowed, so I wrote in...
Saturday, May 31, 2014

Hall Walking

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In 2008, not only was my family trying to handle my crisis, but we also had another one - my maternal grandmother was moving back due to he...
Friday, May 30, 2014

Locked Up

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12pm I spent the morning in my room, because everyone here is working on some programming, except me. Of course, I fell asleep. It's st...

Halfway House v. Federal Prison

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I know I am not having a real halfway house experience. This place is a community lockup/rehab. However, based on my personal experiences, ...
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Thursday, May 29, 2014

AWOL

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10pm. Earlier today a new woman checked-in. Her mom and son were here dropping her off. It seemed her son had special needs. The new residen...

Ouch

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What a difference a day makes. The pain I feel in my back, neck, and shoulders is indescribable. I get up to do some stretches and the top ...

It's a Hard Knock Life

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Okay, I obviously wrote too much, while I was offline... back to what I'd written longhand... My large medicine box could not fit in t...

House Smoke

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There are maybe two of us here that are not smokers. Everyone else begs for smoke permission. There are "smoke passes" that peopl...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

Preparing Now for Life After

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I've been told and read about the last part of our sentence. Many things could occur, and there are things we can do now to help prepare...