Kassandra L Moore-04/04/2025
Experiencing a dilemma in my personal life. Spent hours in introspection and called my loved ones on the phone. Received feedback and support from some of the women in my inner circle.
Fernando Cordova-04/04/2025
Today I am grateful for all that I have been blessed with. I am more grateful that I can take accountability for my actions. I know that I am not perfect and I will allow my emotions to get the better of me at times but I want to work harder at being slow to […]
Lee Elbaz-04/03/2025
How many times in life did you do things that are not allowed because you were influenced by emotions?How many times did you do things in life that you were not comfortable with just because you care about someone?How many times you put your loved one before yourself ? probably a lot.How many times did […]
Celeste Monette Blair-04/03/2025-Planting Season
PLANTING SEASON We were always taught to, ” leave a place better than you found it “. I am ecstatic about the legacy I leave here. I think few people, aside from Michael Santos, would truly understand the tow of implementing programs here in federal prison. Especially in a time of staff shortages and change. […]
Choon Yong-04/03/2025-Cut in half way house time
4/3/2025 Thursday daily dairy from Atwater Camp.Woke up at 5:00 AM. Made up my bed, cleaned up, changed to BOP uniform and made a cup of coffee. Stretched, drank my coffee and watched the local news and weather report, high temperature for today is 65 degrees F. Started walking at 6:00 AM. Breakfast was served […]
Robert Jesenik-04/03/2025-Blog #6- Facts of Life in the BOP -Part XII
Time Frame: Next 24 months, hopefully 2025 START Objectives: Accountability, Treatment of Inmates I haven’t posted a blog in this series for 45 +/- days intentionally. With all the BOP changes underway, plus DOGE impacts on BOP staffing, my intent was to allow things to settle a bit. And that’s still the plan, even though […]
Angela M Robbins-04/03/2025-Mentees
Working in the Peer Success Program has been very rewarding to me personally. I enjoy helping people and when I encounter someone that I can help, I am genuinely happy to assist. It is also rare for me, as a former military prisoner, to be able to assist another service member. When I arrived at […]
Michael Santos-Never Split the Difference
Regardless of where we are in life, we can always develop better skills from reading. I learned something new by reading Chris Voss’s book Never Split the Difference. I’ll share some lessons I learned from this book, how I’ve applied them, and how you can do the same to transform your outcomes in life and business. Why […]
April Rose Seiber-04/03/2025
Self-directed question: Today I can take responsibility by not wasting THIS DAY. I can use the day wisely and with focus towards my success. The first step I will take today is make a check list of what I can do this day to take a step towards each individual goal I have and make […]