Marty Brian Robbins-02/18/2024-Good job :)

I pat myself on the back, it’s what we are supposed to do to ourselves. Show love and appreciation for who we are, by loving ourselves then we can show love to others. I pat myself for the one more rep of exercise this morning. (don’t think that I’m into the 1000’s because I’m not. […]

Gary Williams-02/18/2024-Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover

Since my legal troubles began, I’ve had time to do a lot of work on myself. One of the benefits of this work is that I find myself to be a lot less judgmental. After all, I could be harshly judged for what Ive done, But I, and everyone else, are more than our bad […]

Shane Andrew Smith-02/18/2024

Creative Canvas: I have been thinking about this for some time and I want to create a class or program where I can teach college students in business classes, maybe even high schoolers, about the dangers of breaking the law or following those who are doing it or being a part of it. As a […]

Douglas Jason Way-02/18/2024-OWNING IT

The look on my friend David’s face indicated that I had just said something distasteful. We were in the camp visiting room discussing what guys did to land themselves in prison. After giving the breakdown of drug, gun, and white-collar convictions, I explained to David that many of the men were willing to frankly discuss […]

Sunday, February 18, 2024

The Power of Clear Goals in Prison Some of you may remember the last article I wrote before taking a break from writing letters to our thousands of friends in prison. In that article, I wrote challenges I was facing in raising capital to fund our nonprofit. Many of you face challenges. And you need […]

Choon Yong-02/17/2024-Karlee & Chris Visitation

2/17/2024 Saturday daily diary from Atwater Camp.Woke up at 5:40 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 61 degrees F. Started walking at 6:30 AM. Breakfast was served […]

Andres Alejandr Freyre-02/17/2024

It’s been a long time since I last posted. I’ve been very busy completing the summer and fall semesters of the classes I’m taking. I’m almost done and I should be about halfway to my Bachelor’s once these last set of classes are done. I’ve also been busy helping to run the 7 Habits of […]

Christian D Shelton-02/17/2024

Your Task: The progress I have made in building my future over the past week has been working on my release plan I have been doing this by studying the books that have been sent to me through PPT, I plan to finish “Preparing for Success after Prison” next week so then I will have […]

Alj Hilton-02/17/2024

School Of Etiquette Number One Applying or Disqualifying Question: If you walk upon a group of colleagues having a discussion & the Knowledge being shared is Fictitious ( “You know this for a Fact” ) What do you do???

Gary Williams-02/17/2024-KINDNESS OF STRANGERS

I have been thoroughly amazed at the kindness of the inmates here. They remember what it’slike to be new to the institution and have been most helpful. Because I won’t be able to get to thecommissary until early next week, people have been most gracious by providing things thatmake life easier for me. One gentleman […]