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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

The Solo Thanksgiving

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At first, we were going to have a nice small Thanksgiving holiday. Then, a friend was going to come in and visit and it was going to be a bi...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Finding New Allies

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The beauty of living life in honesty, is the ability to build connections with people who I'd fear doing so if I was trying to hide my p...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Risking Rejection

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When your in grad school, a ton of opportunities come through your email on a regular basis. Some are sent college wide, some to just the st...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

A Carswell Shower

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I'm not sure what occurs that makes it happen, but every so often, I am right back there at Carswell and it's as if Scotty has beame...
Monday, November 17, 2014

A Simple Weekend

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We had visitors for the last several days. Sporty's parents came in and we've been enjoying their company and keeping very busy. Six...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

Distraction Overload

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I want to quickly update that someone must be mysteriously following this blog, because hours after posting my troubles, a phone call came a...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Mandatory Counseling

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When the Judge sets your sentence, there are usually several additional provisions given that only pertain to your post prison sentence and ...
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Sunday, November 9, 2014

The Enbrel Crisis

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Call your congressmen and women, the President, the local media, anyone who will listen... We are in a crisis... There must be a shortage of...
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Thursday, November 6, 2014

Restorative Justice

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Is there a real alternative to the criminal justice system? Is there a way to make victims whole, make offenders responsible, and create com...
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

A Felons Right to Vote

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A lot of people are usually surprised to learn that congress left it up to the states to decide whether a person with a prior felony has a r...
Monday, November 3, 2014

Oldies but Goodies

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Today was a good day. I spent time with friends I've barely seen since being home from Carswell. They are the few non-school friends I...
Friday, October 31, 2014

The "F" Word

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It's so freeing being able to talk openly with everyone about being a felon. Last night in class, a student made a comment that felons c...
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...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Be the Captain of your own Ship

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In my preparing for success in the PhD program course today, a professor spoke of how to be successful throughout grad school and rule numbe...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Baring My Soul

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I stood in front of my colleagues and a professor I highly respect and told them my story - most importantly, that I spent last year at a fe...
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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Is Addiction a Mitigating Factor?

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In class tonight, we are talking about the idea of "mens rea" - the intent of committing crime and the types of things that would ...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

A Whole Week

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I can't believe I allowed almost a full week to pass without my writing. I was up until after midnight every night making the most beaut...
Friday, October 17, 2014

And she passed...

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I was the last one who spoke to her. I had called her and told her I loved her and to sleep peacefully. She didn't make it through her f...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

When I Feel Limited

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Tonight, I officially feel like I'm in custody again. I received one of those calls you never want to receive. My grandma is ill. She ha...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

My Secret Wish

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I haven't mentioned this here before. The timing never seemed quite right. I mean, how does one admit that despite all their troubles in...
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Monday, October 13, 2014

Car Dealers

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Yesterday, I had the privilege of taking a new friend who recently moved here from Africa, used car shopping. He's perfectly capable of ...
Thursday, October 9, 2014

A Kindred Spirit

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My new CJ friend sent me a PDF of a book chapter that she thought I may like. She said my story reminded me of the author of on of the non-f...

Whoa... What Happened?

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Wow, almost a week since I've written and it was not intentional. I'm trying to think to my life pre-incarceration and I can honestl...
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

I'm letting you down...

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It's 4am am I just got home from my school library... It's been that insane for days!!! I'm so sorry I haven't written. I wi...
Saturday, October 4, 2014

Home Sweet Almost Home

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It used to be that when I visited my hometown, I automatically felt like that was home. Now, it's the people that make it home much more...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

Officially a Flare

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I heard from my docs today. I'm officially in a flare - a fancy way of saying that my chronic health condition is acting up. Well, we ki...
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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

An Offender in the Classroom

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There is an offender in the classroom. Everyone sits around the table, talking about what causes crime, why people commit crimes, how to bes...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Pain in the Neck

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As someone with a chronic illness with medications that result in my becoming immunocompromised, I'm always told how important it is for...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

Sentencing Guidelines

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I'm on a group project looking at sentencing guidelines from a historical perspective, pros and cons, etc. - mostly from state perspecti...
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Saturday, September 27, 2014

Sit the Season Out

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Did I somehow become an athlete? At my follow up with my doctor today, I was told, "well, you're pretty much going to have to sit t...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Can I Just Stay Quiet?

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Sometimes sitting in class can get interesting for me. Today in my class, we are finally moving beyond policing and starting the conversatio...

It's Rosh Hashanah

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Somehow I failed to take the day off to go to synagogue or anything like that, but tonight there will be Apple dipped in honey! I have a sta...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Time Management

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I am officially having difficulty. How did I do it all before? Not only it all, more?? Before I went away, I was doing a lot more than I am ...