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In an environment such as this it’s often hard to tell the difference between depression and extreme boredom. Recently, big happy optimistic me has been feeling seriously blah and I can’t decide ...

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The Questioner stopped by this weekend, uninvited as usual, while we were hanging out and making a cheesecake. He was very worried about his inability to stop eating. “You guys are fat,” he said,...

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I have a new friend. His name, for purposes of my memoir will be Calvin. He’s 34 from Minnesota, a former civil servant and supremely messed up. His experiences in getting here have not been as c...

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Just wanted to let all of you wonderful readers of my son’s entries, that I have just finished typing three phenomenal books that Gus has written. I am in the process of editing and figuring out ...

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In the Kingdom of douchebags, the smart man suffers. Things here have been stupid. Last week, a “hater” douchebag left contraband in his clubhouse (TV room) which was then found by a C.O. Not goo...

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My neighbor (the same guy from the Presbyterian story) came back inside the other day as I was making coffee. As he took off his jacket, we chatted over the cube wall separating us. “How are you ...

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I learned a new meaning for the word Presbyterian today. Sitting in my cube reading, I was interrupted by a friend who wanted to know what the word monolithic meant. So I defined it for him and, ...

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Since I was a child, I have had one constant idol, Stephen King. Now I’m sure most of you are thinking, “What business did a child have reading an author who creates nightmares and frequently use...

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Within our world the guards and administrative staff are like Gods. In any one of their hands they have the power to turn our time here into something nightmarish, or to let us go on about our li...

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Shortly before I left the library, the Wyner struck again. The day had been slower than normal, giving my co-workers and I the rare opportunity to relax. Our boss had just brought in the mail and...

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Last night, as I lay in the dark reading by booklight, a man walked purposefully into my cube. I’ve written about him before and called him The Questioner. Lately he’s kept mostly to himself. He...

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I figure it’s safe to assume that most of you can remember the Disney movie Aladdin with some detail. Well in the movie the villainous Jafar dons a magical disguise to become an old, bone-thin ma...

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So I was the first to get the annual Fall season cold. I woke up last Saturday feeling fine, developed a nasty headache after lunch, took a nap for two hours and woke up sick as a dog. I pretty m...

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From the Rec yard I can see miles and miles of wooded hills. During the day they provide a pretty backdrop if you can ignore the razor-wire fence. Many times, I’ve sat on the hill that overlooks ...

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So shortly after one, Fez walks into the library and up to the counter. “Hey Gus,” he said with a grin. Be a good boy. Be a good boy. Be a good boy. I ignore him, grabbing up a magazine for the...

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There are very few things in life that really make me angry. At the top of the list are being accused of something I didn’t do and having to defend myself, as well as being treated unfairly by ot...

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It’s often the smallest comments and events that begin the sequence of tragedy or triumph. I think it’s rare to be aware just when the avalanche begins and that, by the time it becomes impossible...

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Just a quick note, to let my son’s readers know that this article caused quite a stir at his prison. He was called into the Lieutenant’s office and warned never to write about a staff member agai...

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I often wonder how some of the men I meet here manage to function in the real world….then I realize that they didn’t, at least not well… since they are now in prison. Duh! (of course we will skip...

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The statistic I read recently stated that 1 out of every 7 Americans would spend some period of time in prison. It’s a huge number and I scoffed at it the first time I read it. Then I learned tha...

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There is something terrifying about being chained to a hospital bed and being forced to watch Daytime television. It’s like having your eyes taped open and being shown a car accident over and ove...

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They came for my cellmate first, waking him up from a dead sleep and leading him out of the cell in handcuffs in about two minutes. “You’ve got about an hour,” they tell me, leaving me alone. I c...

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I look into my Styrofoam container and shudder, wishing for the fifth or sixth time for a slice of the pizza I’d made that my friends were now enjoying without me. In my container is a small sco...

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For the past week, I had been in and out of Medical getting blood drawn, having x-rays taken, and being subject to a bunch of other pre-op tests, so I knew that my time under the knife was drawin...

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I was reading through the sparse collection of notes regarding my last few entries and realized that some of you might have been under the impression that I’m giving up writing here entirely…that...

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