Don’t come here! We wake at about 6am typically, go to breakfast which consists of either oatmeal, grits or cereal. Either corn, or bran. We return to our units or go outside to workout at either the weight pile, or on bikes, stair steppers, or we go to our respective jobs. Either at Unicor, or other duties. [However, usually the weights are all taken up by youngsters who are bodybuilders and the guys how really…
77 year old goes back to prison! So, here’s what drama happened today on our prison reality show here. A gentleman who is 77 years old, finally was granted “compassionate release” about 6 weeks ago. He showed back up here last night. So we asked him what happened. Get this. He cannot work a job at his age, nobody wants to hire him. He was at the halfway house. Thing is, he’s been in prison…
About 12 years ago, a baby bird fell out of one of the palm trees here at Terminal Island Federal Correctional Institute. The little bird was a Black Crown Night Heron, and was in desperate need of help, or it wouldn’t survive. It had a broken leg and as sometimes will happen; its brothers would swoop down and beat him up. It fell into a place full of criminals yes, but also a place full…