Angela M Robbins-07/09/2025-A class for veterans

I arrived at FCI-Aliceville in March of 2024. It was a long tumultuous journey to get here because I started out with a designation to FCI-Dublin. Due to the BOP’s closure of that facility, I was rerouted to Alabama. Aliceville is a very large compound designed to hold roughly 1500 inmates. It was originally built […]

Leonard Brown-07/09/2025

We came off Lock down at 11 am. I was even able to get to the commissary to buy some stamps. I still have to make some copies but I’ll should be able to mail something out today. I didn’t make it to the law library to type but I’ll try to go in the […]

Daniel Jason Harrington-07/09/2025

Good Day. I was sitting here at Victorville holdover, waiting to transfer to Lompoc, and hating it. Praying and praying to be on each bus that leaves. And then something Alice Marie Johnson wrote in her book titled, “After Life,” hit me. She said “bloom where you are planted, God knows where you are.” So […]

Celeste Monette Blair-07/09/2025-In Support of Maureen Robbins

Maureen Robbins is an excellent candidate for Clemency! When I first began scouting for the Peer Success Leadership, she was on my radar. When I approached her, I appreciated that she stepped back to watch what I was doing and asked some smart questions before she rolled up her sleeves. Once she committed, she became […]

Michael Santos-Stacking Statistics

Announcement: Goal:  🔹 Introduction: Why We’re Here Most people in our audience are facing challenges with the criminal justice system. Thanks to our collaboration with the Edovo Foundation, we get to provide resources to help them.  My name is Michael Santos, and I am the founder of Prison Professors. With this lesson and accompanying video, I’ll […]

Jessica Anzaldo-07/08/2025

Everyday I am taking the time to be a better me. After completing and graduating my VT Electrical course I found myself with so much idle time, even being the leader in my unit of the peer success team I knew I needed something to occupy more of my time. That’s when I decided to […]

Sherida Nabi-07/08/2025

This evening Peer Success Team, PST, @ FCI Aliceville had its follow up Team Leader meeting, whereby Cat Voss (CEO), Simira Singleton (Creative Director), Sherida Nabi (Secretary) and Celeste Blair (past CEO) allow 2 housing units at the time, to reflect on what has been done in the respective units and benchmark with all the […]

Catherina Rose Voss-07/08/2025

HAD A MEETING WITH MY PEER SUCCESS TEAM, I AM NOW THE CEO SINCE CELESTE BLAIR IS GOING HOME. WE ATLKED ALOT ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MENTOR AND HOW THE POINT SYSTEM THROUGH SANTOS’S WEBSITE CAN HELP REFLECT OUR HARD WORK. AFTER THE MEETING, I SAT WITH CELESTE BLAIR AND WE TALKED […]

Carline Stone Bolding-07/08/2025

Today was a decent day. I spoke with my case manager and she said that I am still pending resignation, I at least know now that it is in the process of being done. I had a noon call-out and had no idea why, but once I got there I found out that they were […]

Tammy Halling-07/08/2025-Inmate pay

Policy says if you have an inmate job the lowest pay rate is .12 an hour. Today was payday for inmates at FMC CARSWELL. I am an orderly in my unit and clean showers. I start everyday at 7:30 A.M. and work until 9:00 P.M. and check the showers every 2 hours during my shift. […]