Update: June 29, 2022: I now have over 1,014,407 views on Quora and a page title Life Inside and Out. Check it out to see updated content to a variety of questions and answers. Thanks! These Top Three Posts have the highest number of views on Quora.com, where I’ve had a total of 105 K…
The Arrest by Sherry Short, March 21, 2015
[I posted this as a Guest Post, with permission of the author. Now I am posting it as regular post for it to receive more views, because of the value I feel it holds to those who visit this page and others associated with going to prison and related issues.] Nothing could have prepared me…
#Happy Valentine’s Day
[I am re-posting this blog for 2019, modified in part. Valentine’s Day of 2018 did turn out to be my last one spent inside the dungeons of the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons. I do not have a Special Someone to call my sweetheart and that’s okay. I remained celibate for decades and still…
Early Warning Codes
Prisoners use codes to forewarn others of danger.
Truthfully Speaking by Wayne T. Dowdy
“Does the rule ‘snitches get stitches’ apply in psychiatric hospitals?”
Guilty, No-Plead Guilty Anyway by Wayne T. Dowdy
Actual innocence means the person did not commit the crime, regardless of technicalities, and that no reasonable trier of fact would have found the defendant guilty.
Then after landing in prison that person who pled guilty regrets taking the plea; sometimes after finding themselves living in a concentrated environment of dangerous or psychotic men or women and wanting out.
Prison Life by Wayne T. Dowdy
[Use Control-End to go to the bottom of this page to sign-up and follow all posts on this blog if you like what you read.] The following post originally appeared on Quora.com in response to the question, “How are new inmates treated when they first come to prison?” In less than twenty-four hours the response…
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…