Shirley J Hicks-02/02/205

OK WELL IM IN DANBURY CT. WAITING TO START THE FIT AND R-DAP PROGRAM I LEARNING HOW TO CHANGE MY OUT LOOK ON MY BEHAVIOR AND TO HANDLE PROBLEMS IN A TOTAL DIFFERENT WAY AND HAVE A TOTAL DIFFERENT WAY OF THINKING IM EXCITED ABOUT STARTING THE PROGRAM AND APPLYING IT TO MY LIFE IN […]

Anabel Valenzuela-02/02/2025

How will you stay focused and motivated to achieve goals in the coming year? I will stay focused and motivated to achieve my goals this year by making to-do lists, vision boards, and writing down my goals and re-evaluating each month were I am at with achieving my goals. Sometimes it is hard to stay […]

Bernadette Vigil-02/02/2025

I am currently trying to developed a sort of ACE curriculum featuring the contents of your emails so that the prison community can see and understand how these techniques help them. I am in a position where it takes me some time to print and put everything together and I cant always respond on here […]

Celeste Monette Blair-02/02/2025-BRINKMANSHIP

Santos recently reconnected me with a word that brought back so many memories, prompting me to take another closelook at my life and how I have transformed. BRINKMANSHIP: noun 1956: the art of practice of pushing a dangerous situation or confrontation to the limit of safety esp…. to force a designed outcome. GAMEMANSHIP I love […]

Anabel Valenzuela-02/02/2025

What were your greatest challenges in 2024, and how did you overcome them? One on my greatest challenges in 2024 was readjusting. When the Dublin prison was closed in April. We were all shipped to other prisons abruptly. The fear of change after 15 years of being at that facility was very overwhelming. The way […]

Dennis Zeedyk-02/02/2025

Yesterday, a group of us were discussing the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Here are some key facts & they may be slightly off because we cannot look them up on Google: We discussed among ourselves if the Low & Minimum security prisoners were let out today, how many would actually commit crimes again (not counting […]

Anabel Valenzuela-02/02/2025

What skills of habits do you want to develop further in 2025? I would like to enroll in a University program that they offer here through Yale University. I want to take classes that will work towards my Bachelor’s Degree. I would also like to read more books this year and in the process learn […]

Zachary Barian-02/02/2025

Greetings and blessings be unto you all, closing out the 23 rd year of a 30 year sentence for cocaine trafficking (powder), I am embarkingon interestesting times in the federal criminal justice system. As we may or may not know monumental lawshave changed in the recent years (2018) and the executive hand of our Great […]

Jerrilee Barajas-02/02/2025

I have some other entries I’d like to respond to and plan to in time I print them meditate on them and answer them when I have the chance to financially. Thank you again for your time as well in giving us an outlet. I try to spread the message and share the books I’ve […]