by Wayne T. Dowdy Every major news network feeds the public negative reports about those who commit crimes. Understandably, the negative press induces abhorrence, antipathy and fear towards those who commit crimes and go to prison. Some of those who receive the negative press are ex-offenders who returned to old behaviors upon release (recidivist), and…
Month: July 2016
REENTRY PROGRAMS WILL REDUCE RECIDIVISM
by Wayne T. Dowdy Thousands of American prisoners are released each year. Statistically, almost half of them will return to prison within eight years of release, costing American taxpayers billions of dollars each year. The 2014 average cost of incarceration for federal offenders was over $30,000. On July 10, 2016, the Federal Bureau of Prisons…
BLOGS, BOOKS and GOOGLE
By Wayne T. Dowdy I have a beef with Google for damaging my reputation with inaccurate information. I will explain. Please do not judge UNKNOWN INNOCENCE based upon what I write in this blog, because the novel is about much more than prison and these repulsive characters. DESPICABLE CHARACTERS: In one blog I included an…
THE INTERNET
By Wayne T. Dowdy Originally posted on SurePleasurez Promotions in November 2013 The Internet is as foreign to me as Australia and Japan: Not by choice, per se. The federal prison system prohibits our use of most available technology. I’ve never surfed the deep-blue waves of streaming data bombarding the shores of one’s mind; nor…