Saturday 4/13/2024, Sunday 4/14/2024 Profile Update
As I read through today’s and yesterday’s bulletins I am given some good motivation. I am reading about both Adams’ journeys and how one was given the grant of a compassionate release, and the other, an IT professional (like myself) earned his freedom, and their dedication and reward through hard work and determination to change their life. Like them, I am on the same journey. I work hard everyday here at USP/FCI Thomson. And even though this is a very negative environment I keep motivated everyday and stay focused on what is most important to me, earning my freedom. I look forward to receiving Mr. Santos’s messages everyday because they provide me with motivation and insight on his and other individuals and their journey through incarceration… I know that the decisions I made while I was still active in my addiction led me to receiving a 15-year prison sentence. However, I have been sober now for over 5 years and very proud of that. The hard work that I am engaged in everyday through my job and the programming I am heavily involved in as I take advantage of every opportunity I am offered to sign-up for will be a testament to show through my actions why I have provided an extraordinary and compelling reason to be given a second chance at freedom. I have acquired over 600 days of First Step Time credit eligibility as I have been programming all but the first month I have been incarcerated in BOP custody. I enjoy volunteering for anything I can do to help me stay busy doing anything that keeps motivated and builds discipline to continue working hard. No matter if it is picking up trash, sorting cardboard and cans from waste bags, or shoveling snow in the winter time… I am not afraid to be the hard worker that I was taught to be while growing up on our family farms.
This month on April 20th, at our facility, a lawyer will be holding a seminar on Presidential Pardons and Commutation and I am looking forward to attend. I am hoping to learn everything I can to apply for a commutation of my sentence. I am also hopeful that all of my hard work and the dedication that I give everyday into changing my life will show extraordinary evidence and give compelling reason to shorten the length of my sentence. I know that the mistakes that I made that led to my incarceration started long before I was indicted and were brought about by years of my intermittent struggle with addiction. I am determined to show that those mistakes do not define me. Instead, that they are a large part of the motivation that is the driving force that has promoted my change. Since the day I was arrested I made the decision to change my life forever, I have never felt better about myself and my sobriety, and I have never felt so strongly about my future and what I plan on doing for the rest of my life. I am very thankful for you Mr. Santos and your dedication to show that there are AIC like myself who are absolute in their determination and focused on changing their lives and taking advantage of the potential they harness to build a successful life and can return to becoming active members of society, family, and communities upon their release. I look forward to one day being able to look back upon this journey and see how the hard work I put in everyday has paid off. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to show that journey.
