“Unshackled Ambition: GRIT in Federal Prison”
The ultimate challenge in life is finding a career doing something you love. Here I am at 48, just finishing 11 months in Federal prison at
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Jan 1517 min read
#66 Coops Weekly - I'm DONE!!! (* I still have supervised release)
Every week (66 weeks) I have written a newsletter detailing my adventures in prison. I saved the best for last.
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Jan 88 min read
#65 Coops Weekly - One week left on Home Confinement (but who's counting)
As part of my punishment I am not allowed to go anywhere ("Movement that necessitates an Ambulance...was the only way I can leave my...
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Jan 110 min read
#64 Coops Weekly - Life from Home Confinement
Craziest thing I have heard/seen on Home Confinement. Out of the 390 + days I have spent in some form of incarceration. MY SCARIEST day...
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Dec 25, 20236 min read
#63 Coops Weekly - Life from Home Confinement
We had a Christmas Party at the DRC (daily reporting center). WHAT???? I cannot make fun of this event ... it was a sincere effort made...
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Dec 18, 20235 min read
#62 Coops Weekly - Life from Home Confinement
Does an inmate ever win any battles against staff & guards (I was asked this question recently which spawned a long conversation)? The...
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Dec 11, 20237 min read
#61 - COOPS WEEKLY - Life from Home Confinement
Wearing the ankle monitor is a trip. Nobody really notices it unless they stare (but people do notice it occasionally)…. one of my...
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Dec 5, 202311 min read
COOPS WEEKLY - Life from Home Confinement #59
I keep getting asked this question. “I heard staff/inmates don’t like RDAP….is this true? At first, I used to give a mellow answer...
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Dec 1, 20234 min read
COOPS Weekly - Life from Home-Confinement #60
ScottyCarper.com I received some feedback on my newsletters. That feedback was essentially that my tone had changed (I had gotten...
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Nov 25, 20236 min read
COOPS Weekly - Life from Home Confinement #58
This week’s newsletter has been timed perfectly to coincide when I’m in a mood for the week. Some good news from Leavenworth first....
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Nov 17, 202312 min read
COOPS WEEKLY - Life from Home Confinement #56
Throwing money away at the US’s oldest prison. Dignitaries at recent Leavenworth ground breaking ceremony The news from Leavenworth....
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Nov 17, 20235 min read
COOPS Weekly - Life from Home Confinement #57
GEO Resendential Rentry Center Office. Where my classes are. FORMS We had a ton of new people check in to the HRC. They were asked to...
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Nov 4, 20239 min read
COOPS Weekly - Life from Home Confinement #55
Quick update @ Leavenworth. A fight caused a shutdown of the camp. It seems like it was a brief lockdown and restrictions have been ...
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Nov 4, 20238 min read
COOPS Weekly - Life from Fresno #54
This week at the halfway house has been Crazy!!!! My goal was to lay low at the halfway house in Fresno (I guess as soon as I learned I...
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Nov 4, 202310 min read
COOPS Weekly - Life from FRESNO #53
My next-door neighbor got taken by the Marshall's today. He knew they were coming so he was waiting outside on a chair. That’s over 5...
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Nov 4, 20236 min read
COOPS Weekly - Life from Kansas #52
There were a couple things I was curious to see how I felt about when I got to the halfway house. One was being able to use a cell phone...
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Nov 4, 20239 min read
COOPS Weekly - Life from Kansas #51
Federal Marshall’s came on Monday (Dad Comment: Sounds like the beginning of a Mickey Spillane novel) and took two inmates into...
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Nov 4, 20235 min read
COOPS Weekly - Life from Kansas #50
Well, it looks like I left Leavenworth at just the right time. Sometime this past week there was a brawl (not just a brawl…. some guy...
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Nov 4, 202312 min read
COOPS Weekly - Life from Kansas #49
My last week at LPC I’m writing this from a cell phone so bear with me (yes, I have a cell phone day at the halfway house and it is not...
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Nov 4, 20238 min read
COOPS Weekly - Life from Kansas #48
Spending my last week here at Leavenworth. I cannot believe I am actually leaving this place. I remember when I first got here...
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