The Bureau of Prisons has every facility on a five week rotation of meals and they try to keep the cost to feed each inmate at around $3.00 per day. You end up eating the same things again and again so eventually you’re going to tire of the food. In particular, the Kraft cheese singles …
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These words come up daily in prison. In light of this, I am sharing the ideas behind them so you all can appreciate a small aspect of how a day here goes. There is a bulletin board located outside the officers station that houses information pertinent to all inmates. On it, daily updates are posted …
When it comes to incarceration, racial inequality shines through even more than in broader society. A glaring example of this is with crack cocaine prison sentences. In the 1980’s, Congress decided the US needed to get tough on drug crime. In a four year period, FBI anti-drug funding increased from $8 million to $95 million …
While you can’t see through the two opaque security windows in our cinder block wall study room, it does contain four chessboards that are much appreciated, thoroughly utilized, and more than make up for the lack luster surroundings. If you’re looking for a game, sit down at table and wait no more than two to …
First things first, the best show to watch is whatever is already on. You not only have to earn the right to change the channel, but even with that, there are specific TV’s in which one with such a right would exercise it. Each race has control of at least one TV, after which there …
There are many conversations which are common in the free world but never happen in prison. One is when someone talks about how they’ve been “so busy lately, absolutely slammed.” There is less work to be pursued when the going pay rate is around $0.17 per hour. You can only exercise so many hours a …
Happiness resides in misery Misery hides in happiness Who knows where they end -Lao Tzu Prison is a punishment. So how does society measure whether a punishment effectively meets the goals of punishing someone? Somewhere a group of experts determined that based on a multitude of factors, x number of months incarceration is needed to …
The prison has been in Red or Yellow Covid modified operations since I arrived here. That means controlled movements where foot traffic through the compound is prohibited unless it’s during the 5 minutes between when a call is initiated and when it ends. The two main housing units are allowed minimal interaction with one another. …
Every morning at breakfast we are offered oatmeal, 2 cartons of milk, a donut and an apple. In terms of mealiness and instantaneous browning upon biting into said apple, the consistency across the board is astounding. On the weekends, if you are so lucky and also choose to not sleep in, you show up at …
When it came to prison, I feared all the wrong things. That fear often affected the time between sentencing and self-surrender. You don’t know what you don’t know and I can’t change the past but a lot of what I was worried about didn’t come to be. I spent time fearing what the prison and …