Once upon a time, people had to carry a roll of camera film to Kodak or Fuji to have it developed or otherwise use a Polaroid camera, something else from the prehistoric era.
Category: 2019
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!
[Note: this blog post contains a sensitive and possible offensive issue to some people. Click to read other of the many blogs on this site or click to go elsewhere if expecting political correctness. Thanks for stopping by to visit this website.] Patrick Henry, Second Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775 “In March of 1775, the…
Prisoners and Society by Wayne T. Dowdy
Each day I devote, or at least attempt to devote, part of my time to Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and Quora.com. Most often I fail in two or three of those areas. Most of my posts and online activities relate to prisoners, prison reform, and or criminal justice reform, as well as posting excerpts from…
Reduce Mass Incarceration
QUORA Moderation Banned my Response to the Question, “What would happen to the American criminal justice system if no one accepted plea deals and every case had to be resolved in the courtroom?” I’ve appealed the decision! In two days, my answer generated almost two-thousand views and several upvotes, so to me, that says people…
Atlanta’s Less Known Site
AUTHORS NOTE: This post corrects an accidental post of misinformation in “Burning Bridges”: https://straightfromthepen.wordpress.com/2017/04/13/burning-bridges I apologize for the inaccuracy reported in Burning Bridges, April 2017. Wayne T. Dowdy. The misinformation was that, “Sherman spared the mansion because of the hospitality shown to him and his soldiers by Mr. Peters.“ Please visit the original post of this…
More From Quora.com
Please read the other posts on QUORA.com and click to upvote if you support the writings you read, including those of other writers in the QUORA community. Thanks! I posted the following on Saturday, December 29, 2018, and received the most upvotes (22 to date) and 1.8k views. Read the original post at Quora https://www.quora.com/How-does-serving-time-in-federal-prison-compare-to-state-prison…
The Storm & Valentine’s Day Wish
[Update: I am re-posting this one for 2019 to wish each of you a Happy Valentine’s Day from the outside this year. I did not win the administrative remedy on the issue stated below in the original post, but I did win an issue concerning a miscalculation of my Good Conduct Time, which changed my…
Social Media for Writers
[January 11, 2019: In the future I will update this blog post to make it current, now that I am a free man and am able to do the necessary research to make the content more useful to those of you who wish to improve your social media experience.] I am sending this out to…