What an exciting week for continued prison reform! Earlier in April, I proposed the question on how to reform the reform since the implementation of the First Step Act (FSA) had been a distant reality and the forgotten Second Chance Act (SCA). These two prison reform laws have been substantially…
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Week 131: A Grateful Memorial Day Weekend
Anxiously waiting for my property to arrive from Morgantown, my name appeared on the announcement board, which is referred to as a “Call-Out.” This daily list contains the entire schedule kept in military time for each department within the camp, like “Gaughan R&D 0730.” My call-out meant that it was…
Week 129: On The Road Again
A New Pope! Another Mother’s Day! Israeli-American freed from Hamas! This week certainly was eventful for the history books and a fitting start to the pre-summer season. While I haven’t been outside to enjoy the weather in over three weeks, I am excited to be a piece of cargo destined…
Week 128: Oklahoma Is the Place To Be
I have been in FTC Oklahoma City for two weeks waiting for transfer to SPC Texarkana. While some inmates are transferred within hours, some have to wait days, weeks, or even months to arrive to their final destination. Here’s what happened in the last week after I wrote a brief…
Week 127: Review of FTC Oklahoma City
**Warning: L O N G postFederal Transit Center Oklahoma City is the national hub for federally incarcerated adults to transfer between prisons. Before providing my review of this facility, I’d like to begin with the Receiving & Discharge (R&D) process. I am in this logistics debacle on what is labeled…
Month 29: Adios Morgantown
After nearly 2 and half years at Morgantown, I have finally left the facility but only to transfer to another prison. Currently, I am enroute to Texarkana, Texas for what is known as a “program transfer”. Since FPC Morgantown is truly closing, they no longer offered programming that I have…
Week 125: No Commotion Here
In last week’s post, I reflected on the purposeful sabotage of BOP policies with enacting prison reform laws. I happily share that one directive has been rescinded after only one week of implementation! Specifically, inmates earn time credits for good behaviors and other incentives for returning to the community as…
Week 124: Scent of the Week – Spring Breeze
This past week was the first week that I spent in Alexander housing unit, also known as general population. The environment is not as clean or organized as my prior housing unit had been. If you read any blog excerpts from the summertime, I often mentioned how the other units…
Week 123: Reforming the Reformed
Over the past few months, I’ve chronicled the recent operational changes that occurred at FPC Morgantown. To recap: in December, the prison was scheduled to close; in January, inmates were packed and scheduled for transfer; in February, I was to be transferred; and in March, the closure and transfers were…
Month 28: Refer a Friend
In the early 1990s, shiny little mirrored-records dominated music stores’ shelves: compact discs or CDs. While cassette tapes of the 80s were phasing out, CDs were the must-haves, and eventually to be played on clunky portable players. Even car radios started offering the cassette tape/CD duo. This was the time…