May 21, 2023, Update: While preparing a YouTube video to post that relates to returning citizens who seek to find a job, I shared my experience with age discrimination (actually illegal for employers to use age as a factor to decide on hiring someone). After having served thirty consecutive years in the United States Federal…
Category: Recidivism
Dr. A.I. Bing Redemption
For those new to StraightfromthePen or who are not regular followers, I posted an essay written by artificial intelligence on Microsoft Bing. Click the following link to read it if interested: https://straightfromthepen.com/2023/05/02/dr-a-i-bing-on-recidivism-study/ Well, I gave Dr. A.I. Bing multiple chances to redeem itself and though it did improve, it still needs to learn a little…
Prison Privatization Effects on Society by Dr. AI Bing and Wayne T. Dowdy
Artificial Intelligence and creative writing brings this blog to you for your enjoyment and enlightenment about the latest feature on Microsoft’s search engine, BING.
Sunny Day
I could have lied and got what I wanted but I must live by certain principles if I am going to stay out of 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…
HALF A PROBLEM
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…
LIFE INSIDE
by Wayne T. Dowdy Recent events that concern federal prisoners may affect whether I leave for a halfway house on April 25, 2018. Other events affect my serenity when I allow something eternal to govern my feelings, as is common for us living, breathing, human beings. Feelings, negative or positive, remind me I am alive. …
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…