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Prison Call To Arms…(YOUR arms) Somebody’s gonna read the title and think I am talking about some form of anarchy…not quite. I’ll get to that in a sec, but I wanted to again urge you to support my writings, it helps me a lot in continuing my efforts and affords me the time to spend here writing and helping others. You can always email me at derf4000 (at) embarqmail (dot) com to ask how you can support my writings, or you can email me about my “Grades of Honor”
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Coming home from prison Millions of people have loved ones in prison at this very minute and are often times worried sick about those people. For many readers, it can be a son, or a daughter. For others it could be a husband or even a wife. Still for others it could be a boyfriend, or a very close friend. Many of you check numerous sites looking for answers in understanding what it might be like for a loved one in prison. But there is another issue as well, something most people almost totally ignore
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Prison Talking: the Web… No, this isn’t about the internet…. Its almost 2pm as I start this, an interesting day so far. Before I get into that, thanks for a reader that emailed me and asked me to talk on a few subjects, I emailed her on some things and hopefully will be blogging on that soon. One person asked about my “Grades of Honor” books, I hope to get back into selling them soon. Today I had no initial plans to go out, but my older brother called and asked if
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Hi kj88, I was reading your comments and I wanted to give you some encouragement with your loved one. When I wrote that blog, I realized it would open up some fears from some people, but the overall idea is that even with trying times, many times we overcome them a lot faster than people think. I hope the post didn't put fear in you about how your loved one feels, to be sure he needs those visits from you. Don't ever be afraid of being scared or worried, after all you do miss him. But he
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Thanks, I hope to blog more in the future on issues that people want to know a little more about. I have stacks of past letters, journals and other written material to share. The idea I try to share as I blog is to be a helpful hand to those who want to understand what prison is about. Granted some of my blogs are difficult, because I don't sugarcoat my writings, but I hope that as people read my blogs, they can understand that the intent is to help as best I can, so that those with loved ones
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Thanks, I say again that the idea was not to offend anyone, but when I sit down to blog, I try to keep in mind that there are multitudes of people that really, really love that person currently doing time. I can imagine how they must feel, and how tough it can be, so I wanted to try to share what I could, not implying that I know it all, but at least taking the time to talk about it. I truly hope it helps others.
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Just a checkup to see how some of you are doing with a little time passed. I can imagine thngs are still tough, but I am also hoping that you are getting somewhat of a hold on it. If you have any questions maybe I can blog on that. Oh, the book link on my book is no longer valid, I am working on continuing the book, but right now I am just focusing on blogging for now. My best wishes to you.
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Let me add something more to this, based on a comment someone here said about some of my posts. Some people think that an ex felon is obligated by some kind of "law" to always share the details of why they were incarcerated. To me this is another form of condemnation, a continuation of a person's incarceration. I was called by one member here a "coward" because I didn't talk about WHY I was incarcerated. Understand folks, what I blog about is issues that help those with
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I understand what you are saying, in that a person who has been in prison ought to tell others why they did time...but for many reasons, I strongly disagree. First, it really is NONE of your business why a person did time, IF the time is already done. Second, we live in a society that really does not forgive, and giving anyone ammunition to prejudge again is unwise. I don't care what people say, we as humans sadly will find a reason to continue to condemn. If a man did his time, whether it be
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(one from my prison blogs) Prison Writeups: Medication “It is against prison rules to sell, accumulate, give, misuse or hide medication” This is one of the rules out of the NCDOC rulebook, and I wanted to take a moment to talk to you about this. This blog today is about prison medication, and how your loved one has to acknowledge the rules pertaining to it. Now, it seems like a no-brainer right? The obvious thing here is that you don’t want your son or daughter, or boyfriend or