Since the passage of the First Step Act in 2018, the Board of Prisons has been mandated to incentivize inmates by providing time credits. These credits are based on the performance of each individual inmate and their respective rated level: minimum, low, medium, and high. If levels are consistent for...

The weather throughout the U.S. over the past month has certainly been fascinating to follow. Snow storms, arctic blasts, tornados, and recording breaking highs and lows. In Morgantown, the weather has been unseasonably warm and sunny for February and especially for this past week. The staff here would often comment,...

Hello~ it's Tiffany, Ken's sister here to share the certificate of completion from his personal finance class per his request. The top left photo on the certificate looks like it might be the chapel at Morgantown, though I am not 100% sure! But zoom in and take a look 🙂

In Catholicism's liturgical calendar, Ash Wednesday begins the time in preparation for Easter. The symbolism of burning the previous year's palm leaves distributed during Palm Sunday is what the ashes are derived from. In Jewish tradition, ashes were used to make one's self appear dirty and unclean to represent their...

Today marks my third full month of incarceration. This journey has been incredibly dichotomous: difficult yet renewing. Over the past three months, I have deliberately focused my perspective to be optimistic for hope in justice and opportunistic for my personal growth and reform. I hope that many of the blog...

Over the past few weeks, a younger guy, 28, from Lorain County has a top bunk cattycornered from my cube. He is quite outgoing and shared so many shocking yet amazing stories of his entrepreneurial endeavors, also known as hustling. In explaining his criminal journey, he fully accepts responsibility, and...

In the last few weeks, the Catholic Church experienced the deaths of two significant leaders, both of whom are either hailed as heralds of doctrinal truths or deduced as tyrants of institutionalized conservativism. Of course,pope emeritus, Benedict XVI, was one of these prolific individuals, but the other...Cardinal George Pell. In...

The past week has been quite productive for me, which I would have not imagined a few weeks ago. I have been busy learning how to crochet, working with leather, and goofing around in a "band"...It's called Sh!t Pickle. I have no idea where the name of the band originates,...

2023 has certainly been off to a wonderful start for me. I began the New Year with asking for forgiveness and being mindful of the many miracles in my life. While I was saddened to see the passing of the retired pope, Benedict XVI, he wrote a last testament of...

(sorry for the delay in posting week 8) Since today marks my second completed month at Morgantown, the first half of this entry is a reflection of my time over the past two months and end much lighter on what transpired over the past week. Having just finished a memoir...