By Wayne T. Dowdy Prisoners do not have a choice about which prison authorities place them in, nor can they control who moves in a cell or dormitory where they live. At least, legally they cannot, but sometimes do. Those facts often led to prison violence and negative results. Prison does not have to be…
Category: Prison Living
RESCUED
RESCUED: For me to admit that the government rescued me is growth, since my pride often denied the truth. I humble myself and am honest when I confess my imperfections because doing so tramples on the Ego.
AGAPE LOVE
Penitentiaries are not the typical place to learn about love; however, I attended Kairos in 2003-2004 while at the United States Penitentiary in Pollock, Louisiana. Kairos is a prison outreach program where people of different faiths come together to teach the central theme about the love Jesus Christ has for us. Kairos means in God’s…
PLOT TO STOP SANTA by Mr. D.
[2020 Update: The author no longer worries about the censorship he dealt with when his former publisher posted this blog. He now enjoys freedom and exercises his freedom of speech.] [The author uses his pseudonym due to institutional concerns when his publisher emails blogs into American prisons: one prison blocked their emails after sending “Zachariah…
RAIN, BLOGS, FROGS & POLITICS by Wayne T. Dowdy
Update: June 29, 2022: Many followers never read some of these blogs I wrote while serving my federal sentence. I paid Five cents per minute to type and read anything on Corrlinks.com, Fifteen cents per page to print so I could edit before emailing to my publisher to post. But getting my writings beyond the…
FROG NAPPER RETURNS
by Wayne T. Dowdy On a warm autumn evening another frog went down. This one less than an inch in length, green with black spots; nothing unusual, long muscular legs and toes for its torso, hopping along the same sidewalk that all the other victims had before falling victim to frog predators. The frog hopped…
Vacation in Prison
I am on vacation today, a paid vacation, in prison; just one day, but one day needed to compose my thoughts and celebrate having lived to see the age of fifty-eight. I earn one-day per month but I don’t take too many at a time because of my position at work with others who rely…