by Wayne T. Dowdy On January 5, 2016, I wrote about Alphonso D. in “Freedom for a Friend,” whom President Obama had freed from an unjust sentence of life-without-parole. The President granted Alphonso’s petition for commutation of sentence and gave him another chance at life in the free society. ANOTHER FRIEND FREED: I am grateful…
Changing Public Image of Prisoners
by Wayne T. Dowdy Every major news network feeds the public negative reports about those who commit crimes. Understandably, the negative press induces abhorrence, antipathy and fear towards those who commit crimes and go to prison. Some of those who receive the negative press are ex-offenders who returned to old behaviors upon release (recidivist), and…
REENTRY PROGRAMS WILL REDUCE RECIDIVISM
by Wayne T. Dowdy Thousands of American prisoners are released each year. Statistically, almost half of them will return to prison within eight years of release, costing American taxpayers billions of dollars each year. The 2014 average cost of incarceration for federal offenders was over $30,000. On July 10, 2016, the Federal Bureau of Prisons…
BLOGS, BOOKS and GOOGLE
By Wayne T. Dowdy I have a beef with Google for damaging my reputation with inaccurate information. I will explain. Please do not judge UNKNOWN INNOCENCE based upon what I write in this blog, because the novel is about much more than prison and these repulsive characters. DESPICABLE CHARACTERS: In one blog I included an…
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…
BLOG NOTE TO “REENTERING SOCIETY”
by Wayne T. Dowdy This is not intended to be legal advice, but I do not like errors; especially, if I am the one who makes them. When rushing to prepare for sending “Reentering Society” to Midnight Express Books to post for me on the morning of June 6, 2016, I accidentally hit some combination…
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…
Legends Never Die by Wayne T. Dowdy
Merle Haggard, Chyna, and Prince, all engrained memories in the minds of their fans and foes. Regardless of any flaw painted in history by the news media about either of their lives, each of them accomplished more in life than most of us ever will before the lights are dimmed and we exit the stage,…