Jerrold Maurer-04/21/2025-Journal #25 – 1st Passover Seder at Otisville
Imagine 35 male adults from all different backgrounds, Russian, Hasidim, Reform, and Orthodox collectively sitting for a traditional seder celebrating Passover. Passover of course is the holiday us Jews commemorate when the Jews were freed as slaves in Pharaoh’s Egypt. As a child, my Mom and Dad would have a seder every year and everyone […]
Mark Mazzare-04/21/2025-Journal entry Dec 2025
This scripture and this quote and guide from Sir Willam Osler. He recommends taking all the days worries cares and hurts and laying them down. He says that by letting go of today’s mistakes it frees us to be present and to truly make a difference in our world by being present and engaged today […]
Mark Mazzare-04/21/2025-Spiritual lesson about pride
It is so easy to be self sufficient, to rely on myself and my abilities. It is esteemed so highly in our society but it prevents us from embracing humility, and reaching out to others and building relationships and mutual benefit. Also it prevents us from taking time to help others and serve them. By […]
Mark Mazzare-04/21/2025-Leadership and Self deception report
Michael Santos-Fear and Greed
Going into a crisis can give us a stark reality check. Our life has changed. At some point, we have to break free from living in denial. We have to accept where we are and figure out where we want to go. I learned this lesson early in my journey, when I was in solitary […]
Fernando Cordova-04/21/2025
Finding why I was the way I was, was important to me. Being so that I never want to go back to what led me to such a horrible road where I did horrible things. I know that the person I was in the past was not me. I lived up to the persona that […]
Leonard Brown-04/21/2025
Monday 4/21/25 CHAOS AND CHANGE The Director of the BOP has fired, 11 of the top 20 BOP executives including the acting BOP Director have resigned, the Union has ben disbanded and staff have lost their retention bonuses. UNICOR the factory responsible for training inmates and providing a nice sum of money to inmates is […]
Scott Roethle-04/21/2025
About six of us left the St Louis Federal courthouse cells and departed on a prison bus to Pulaski County, Illinois. It took us about three hours to get there. Luckily I got a bottle of water as I was very dehydrated. We also got a bag lunch with a white bread sandwich and a […]
John Hopkins-04/21/2025-Their Evidence Is Our Evidence
As I go through this investigation, I’ve received the government’s files. There are so many that even standard AI like ChatGPT can’t easily process them all. So I’ve broken them down into smaller pieces—tiny fragments—just trying to understand what the actual case is against me. I’ll say this: I highly recommend you look at every […]
Thomas Jefferson Williams Jr-04/21/2025
I have five co-defendants that cooperated against me and since then I have actually communicated with one of them and we spoke in depth about forgiveness and came to an understanding. The truth is that I do not blame him for what happened because we are two different people and our values are not the […]
