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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 a “program transfer” to participate…
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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 been waiting to take. Thus,…
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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 I happily share that one directive has been rescinded after only one week of implementation!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 a transition from prison to…
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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 do not have air conditioning…
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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 paused due to regional restructuring.…
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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 before the world wide web,…
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Week 121: Stop in the Name of DOGE
Interestingly, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has created and continues to stir quite the turmoil for better or worse. DOGE hysteria impacts both sides of the political aisle. I’ve been waiting to see how it would approach the Board of Prisons budget and operational strategies. Well, I’m not sure it’s having the same impact…
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Week 120: Inmates Say The Darnedest Things
In the entry for Week 108, I shared some of the silly things that inmates say. Well, here’s a continuation of some of those things…it’s adorable when kids say it, not grown men. -With the sudden deaths of several geese from the bird flu outbreak, a few inmates were walking to the dining hall and…
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Week 119: What Fits In Your Box?
Over the past week, about 70 of the 300 guys here at FPC Morgantown were called to “R & D” (receiving and discharge) and instructed to pack their belongings. Food, books, clothes, and toiletries are essentially the only belongings that inmates have to pack. All the items must fit into two cardboard boxes about the…
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Month 27: All Risks – No Rewards
With the impending closure of FPC Morgantown, lots of speculation swirls with where guys will end up going. It appears that most moves will be within the West Virginia area: Cumberland (MD), Beckley, and Hazelton. If you don’t recognize those locations, it’s okay, since they are mostly remote places in the area. Preparing to transfer…
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