(“Like” this blog and sign on at straightfromthepen.wordpress.com to receive future postings. Reprint rights granted.) January 11, 2017: Three men sat at a corner table in the prison “Chow Hall”; each with a hamburger, a few strands of lettuce leafs, a thin slice of tomato, and “Smiley Faces” (fried, round pieces of oil-saturated, potatoes, with…
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Freedom for a Friend
by Wayne T. Dowdy In the American Criminal Justice system that falls under the Executive branch of the Federal Government, the President of the United States is over the Department of Justice. Political campaigns designed to get votes by former presidents declaring War on Drugs and War on Crime, lead to the mass incarceration in…