May 24, 2020 3 min #21 Federal Death Penalty Update It is no secret that the world has become a much different place, in the space of a very short time, due to the corona virus. Quarantine,...
May 18, 2020 5 min #20 The History of the Federal Death Penalty In 1972, the Supreme Court struck down the existing capital punishment laws in this country as unconstitutional, and halted all...
May 9, 2020 4 min #19 It’s Not Always About Gangs – Part IV No series dealing with this subject would be complete without my favorite gang related story of all time. It is a bit different than the...
Apr 24, 2020 3 min #18 It’s Not Always About Gangs – Part III During the 1980's, a movie called Red Dawn, starring Patrick Swayze, was released. The premise was rather ridiculous: Russia launched a...
Apr 3, 2020 4 min #17 It’s Not Always About Gangs – Part II My most recent encounter with the bizarre attitude of the Special Investigative Services (SIS), and their unthinking insistence that...
Mar 21, 2020 3 min #16 It’s Not Always About Gangs – Part I Every federal prison has a Special Investigative Services (SIS) division. They are in charge of investigating most internal problems in a...
Feb 25, 2020 4 min #15 You Can Only Laugh - Part V In the late 1990's, when I was fresh to the prison setting, I saw a film which touched me deeply. A true story of a teenage girl dying of...
Feb 11, 2020 3 min #14 You can only laugh - Part IV Some readers may doubt my veracity, as to the ineptitude of many prison administrators, and believe I exaggerate. But it should be...
Feb 4, 2020 4 min #13 You Can Only Laugh – Part III Although many prisoners never learn, and continue to waste their time and effort in trying to reason with prison administrators, I...
Jan 28, 2020 2 min #12 You Can Only Laugh – Part II Every Thursday, at the United States Penitentiary Terre Haute, the administrative level staff of the prison do a tour of the lockdown...
