By Wayne T. Dowdy Don’t get it twisted; I am glad to have this half of a problem but it is a problem much greater than what confronts me. The Bureau of Prisons (BOP), or “Backwards On Purpose” agency of the United States Department of Justice, is denying me of something I feel I have…
Category: Prisoners reentering society
A JOB AFFAIR
by Wayne T. Dowdy “You can if you think you can. Engrave those seven words deeply in your consciousness. They are packed with power and with truth.” Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale January 5, 2023, Update: I wrote Job Affair from inside the…
DAMAGE and PRISON
An old post ringing true after release from serving over thirty years in federal prison
Successfully Reentering Society by Wayne T. Dowdy
My opportunity to reenter society approaches faster than additional studies can be produced to predict the likelihood of success for released prisoners. I am prepared for successful reentry. Failure is not an option. Without thinking of that particular day, I have worked toward it for almost three decades. Even when my release date seemed more distant…
REENTERING REALITY
by Wayne T. Dowdy The clock ticks away the seconds, minutes, hours, and months until my release. The realities I must face flood the senses as my day comes closer. The last three decades of my life will have been spent inside federal prisons. For most of this sentence, getting out seemed so far into…
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…
REENTERING SOCIETY
by Wayne T. Dowdy When my day comes in the near future, I will be approaching the free society like the Columbia Space Shuttle reentering the atmosphere without all of its protective tiles, or like a meteor heading straight for a collision course with the earth: I will burn up because of the friction created…