Joseph R. Mayes, who was in the United States Marine Corps (1982-1990), prior to his current status as a federal prisoner, ….
Tag: Returning Citizen
Gratitude 2021
An Attitude of Gratitude makes a difference in my perception of life in general. Sometimes I must slow down to look at what matters most to make my attitude change from a negative perspective to the positive. Having 19-million views on Google Maps does make me feel grateful on one level, but it’s only another…
Movie Money by Wayne T. Dowdy
For entertainment purposes, I am posting this blog in response to my release-date anniversary from decades spent inside the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons (08/18/1988-08/28/2018). As I carve my way into a bright future, I continue to think of ways to generate funds for survival and to pass along to others when my time…
Life After Release-6
LIFE AFTER RELEASE My life after release continues to be in the present, as I have not become a recidivist who got out of prison only to return with a new charge(s) or for a technical violation on supervised release. For me it is easy since I don’t do anything I’m not supposed to do:…
Personal Progress in 2020 by Wayne T. Dowdy
My faith in my Higher Power I chose to call God, and my life of sobriety got me to where I am today. Had I not stopped using the drugs and alcohol that helped get me to prison, I would not be alive today and would not have been blessed by getting to walk out of the prison doors to begin a new life.
Life After Release-3
Within a month of my release from prison, I ran into a scammer who posed as a hiring manager for a company offering a work-from-home opportunity.
RETURNING CITIZEN by Wayne Dowdy
September 6, 2020, Update: Many things changed since I wrote this blog on August 10, 2018. The biggest change being that I walked out of the prison doors of the Federal Correctional Institution in Edgefield, SC on August 28, 2018. The realities of life after incarceration have been different than what I had imagined life…
ONE MORE FROM THE ROAD
I knelt down on one knee but did not turn to face the wall. An injured Hispanic participant had came from the Battle Zone with blood running down his head from different angles and dripped blood on the floor in front of me. The violence was still in progress twenty-five feet away: I knew not to expose myself to flying trays by turning around when the two dummies did not even notice that those of us standing against the wall were docile.