Elderly inmates want to be useful! We are a group of elderly prisoners writing to you from Federal Corrections Institute at Terminal Island in California. Our hope is that you will hear our stories and help us along with members of the elder prison community who are currently incarcerated to have a second change at a meaningful life. We face long sentences, timely health issues, and are a group that is often overlooked in the current…
One of The Most Inspirational Stories You’ll Ever Read, Sent Your Way By A Mouse So as I have said before in this blog, I once was a bodyguard to the rich and famous. When I first came to prison, I celled up with a young Native American man. Which in of itself is unusual because my skin is white and he’s a native. Usually the races cell up together. I’m Italian, which is Latin,…
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…
INTRODUCING: THE PRISON THINK TANK Why would anyone want to listen to prisoners who have as much as 20 years experience in the prison system about subjects like; Immigration, Aids, Wildfires, Prison, Justice, and Sentencing Reform? About things like, Racism, Religion, and Gangs? How about this? Prison is a microcosm of our free society. How is it a Crip and a Blood cannot live next door to each other in the free world, yet they…
We have made 4 categories for you to choose from. All topics are interesting and informative although not always optimistic but surely realistic. We hope you have an opportunity to learn and possibly be educated about the mass incarceration in the land of the free and home of the brave. Feel free to send material and we’ll review it and let you know if we can post it. Thanks again and please remember to donate.…