My concerns and interests are in returning citizens coming out of prison in better shape than when they went in, and being able to function in society upon release, so that each person may experience a better quality of life and hopefully will pass it on by helping others.
Tag: Recidivism
Atlanta Hilton Speech
The agent gave me a contract to review, sign, and return with my portfolio. I chose to do cocaine instead of signing the contract to pursue a career in acting, modelling for catalogs, and commercials, by rationalizing that, “They just want to get in my pants, anyway.” Sick!
No Sympathy 2020
This is the first time I have ever written about that aspect of the crime.
Prison Privatization and Recidivism
Prison reform needs allies, not enemies. This plan joins forces.
Market doors open when private prison companies invest in supplying associated services to returning citizens.
Help Returning Citizens
Transitioning isn’t easy after decades away. Seeing the differences in prices have made me say on many occasions that, “They better be glad I changed my ways.” I felt like I was being robbed and would have wanted to rob-back, had I not changed.
BREAKING NEWS
[Update: June 10, 2022: I checked a link to the former BOP director’s testimony before Congress and learned it had been moved, so I corrected the URL, and want to suggest that readers also check out a blog I wrote after my release from the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons, where I added copies…
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…
RECIDIVISM IN AMERICA by Wayne T. Dowdy
(“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…