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Showing posts with label women in prison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women in prison. Show all posts
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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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...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

My First Real Criminal Justice Class

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There are three areas that criminal justice programs tend to cover broadly - policing, courts, and incarceration. To say that I have a real ...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

My Friends Inside

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There are rules. Serious rules. While on supervision, I cannot knowingly have contact with another felon. That means that I am not to write ...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

A Friend

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Something that rarely happens to me occurred yesterday. I was out and about running errands and I ran into someone from my old school progr...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

Slab of Concrete

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Sporty, T.S. and I live in a townhome that is very affordable and offers us ample room for all our things. It's fairly quiet and close...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

They Lied to Me

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I guess I knew it at the time, but I tend to take things at face value. It never made sense how I was first told I was transferring to the C...
Monday, July 14, 2014

Was Prison What You Expected?

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I get the question often, how did my prison experience match up with my preconceived thoughts of what the experience would be like? My answe...
Friday, July 11, 2014

Supervision

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It has been over a week since I met with my PO and I haven't heard from him, he has not stopped by, and I don't (yet) feel any stri...
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Hyper Sensitivity

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Tonight someone asked me about the day I left Carswell. They wanted to hear how I felt, not just what I did. It's always so much easier ...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Healthy Goals

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I think it's really important that we not only set goals around work when we are released, but we also set goals that will keep us healt...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

Friend Updates

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I thought you may want some updates on some of my FMC Carswell friends. I'll start with Freckles. If you remember, Freckles was to finis...
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School Update

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Last week, I had the opportunity to meet with a professor of criminal justice at my school. We talked about the possibility of my joining th...
Friday, July 4, 2014

Independence Day

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Officially, this is my 319th day from my self-surrender. The holiday and one day credit from the day of my arraignment, allowed my release d...
Monday, June 30, 2014

A Daughter Writes

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Many months ago, I wrote about a daughter who reached out to me about her mother who had just self-surrendered. They were readers of this bl...
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Saturday, June 28, 2014

Recovering Hope

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When I was deciding which university to attend for my doctoral program, I was very specific about the location. I did not want an urban c...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Blogging

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This morning I decided to go through my email to see what messages I received while I was incarcerated. I had no idea that I'd received ...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Never Forget

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A lot of people make an active choice to try to forget their time in prison. They are so emotionally wounded from the experience that they p...
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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...
Saturday, June 21, 2014

A NutriBullet

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Sporty and T.S. brought home a NutriBullet today. If you are not familiar with this gizmo, it is a pulverizing blender used to make juices a...