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...
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...
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,...
Me Talk Pretty One Dayby David Sedaris This is going to be a brief book report as not much can be said about a series of short stories by a creative and smug author. I wanted to read the works of someone moderately well known to...
Zen in the Art of Archeryby Eugen Herrigel This was a read it twice book. Sometimes you have to take it all in before you can really take it all in, ya know? A German philosopher moves to Japan for six years to subject himself to the...
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...
By Gregory David Roberts This was one of those books that was so good I found myself overtly slowing down the pace at which I was reading, or going back to reread and fully take in the way the author so eloquently worded portions of his...
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...
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...
The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains by Anthony Lewis This book caught my attention in a different way than anticipated. In Yuval Noah Harari's book "Sapiens" he has a chapter on money. How it came to be, what roles it serves in society, and the ways in...