I resumed work on the rewrite of the chapter for Professor Joan Petersilia at 2:20 this morning. By 7:30 I had completed the project. Had I been able to access a typewriter, I could have typed the document in a couple of hours at most. Prison has made me a fast typist, but the rules [...]
At 2:22 this morning I resumed work on the chapter for Professor Petersilia. I wrote the first words for this chapter last Wednesday morning at 2:15, and today, at 7:15, I finished a first draft. Professor Petersilia asked me to write 7,000 words. Since I’ve written the chapter in longhand I don’t have an exact [...]
This morning I resumed work on the chapter for Professor Joan Petersilia’s book at 1:55. It was my third day of writing for the chapter and I’ve made good progress. If my writing is as productive tomorrow, I ought to finish a first draft of the chapter. The chapter provides a condensed view of the [...]
With an eagerness to complete this chapter I’m writing for Professor Joan Petersilia’s book, I woke this morning at 2:06. I had a productive writing session until 7:30 this morning. The sun was shining and I then walked to the track to begin my exercise. I ran 10 miles and followed the run with 400 [...]
At 2:15 this morning I began writing a chapter for Professor Joan Petersilia’s new book, Oxford Handbook on Sentencing and Corrections. I worked on the project enthusiastically, as I want to finish a draft of the chapter by next week. With discipline, that will not be a problem. My responsibility is to write about living [...]
After one full week of writing, this afternoon I completed the first draft of a sample chapter that I’m preparing for my new book proposal. The copy machine was working today so I was able to send the original, longhand copy to Carole, and keep a photocopy here. Carole will type the manuscript while I [...]
My thoughts keep running to this possible transfer from Taft Camp to Sheridan Camp. In the late 1980s, or maybe it was the early 1990s, administrators at USP Atlanta helped block a transfer to Sheridan at my request. I was making good progress in the penitentiary, advancing toward my first university degree. Transferring to Sheridan [...]
The GEO Group is a company that manages private prisons. When I first arrived at the Taft Federal prison camp, the GEO Group had the management contract to manage this private prison. To me, the prison felt better for serving time than any other prison where I have been confined. The GEO Group manages many [...]
I called to wake Carole at six this morning. She was already up and checking for messages on the computer. A google alert had come through with a mention of my name in a New York Times article. The story was on a friend of mine from another prison, Joe Reddick. The reporter had written [...]
