Fernando Cordova-04/24/2025

Today is a day closer to being with my family and helping them in all they need. It is also a day closer to me achieving my goals. One I am excited about is being home with my son and helping him with his school work and him helping me with the nonprofit. It will […]

Trung Nguyen-04/23/2025-A Father’s Strength

Today, I’m filled with a deep sense of gratitude. My father and I are sitting side by side at a cancer treatment center, facing another chapter in his fight against lung cancer. His first round of immunotherapy gave us hope. The tumors shrank. The doctors were optimistic. We believed we had turned a corner. But […]

Alex Dee-04/23/2025-Journal report #9 – Personal Testimony for Christ

This is the testimony I did for my Wednesday night church services at camp. It led to many people coming to talk to me about their own relationship with God and faith journey. God is good! 4 Mains parts to a testimony – According to PDL 1. What my life was like before I met […]

Scott Roethle-04/23/2025

It’s amazing how different these facilities can be, in so many ways. Grady County jail made the Pulaski County jail look almost like a resort. We got processed in and to our pod in late evening. These units were a bit more cramped, with probably 40 men per pod, triple bunks, one TV, one phone, […]

Fernando Cordova-04/23/2025

I have learned that not all will go my way always and that when struggles come I must stay focused. For there is a purpose for all that I may go through and all that my family goes through. My faith keeps me positive, yet I must admit there are times I become anxious because […]

Leonard Brown-04/23/2025

Wednesday 4/23/25 Teaching My Personal Finance class should be tonight. I usually do my lesson plans on Fridays. I mostly focus on how to live on a budget and how to form a habit of saving. I really have to keep reminding myself about my personal budget and managing my personal savings. This was one […]

Michael Santos-Scalable Randomness

When I first read Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan, I thought about the ways his teaching related to the time I served in prison. He offered lessons about life’s unpredictability. In the book, Taleb explains a concept called “scalable randomness”—the idea that unexpected, rare events (what he calls Black Swans) could completely transform the trajectory of […]

Catherina Rose Voss-04/22/2025

So yesterday, I was voted in as CEO of Peer Success Team. And then the Chaos started…I have NO IDEA WHO is in the program currently…I have to do a major cleanup of the information so that I am aware of all of the mentors and leaders. Then, today at 6pm I was given an […]