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Home Confinement (Is it better then prison?) Its not what people think it is.
I know most people will freak out with my statement ....but hear me out. Home confinement is not at all what most people think it is. ...
Nov 13, 20233 min read


RDAP - Helping You Overcome Addiction and Restore Relationships. MY STORY & thoughts on RDAP
This is pic that we take first week we start RDAP and it is posted on the front of our bed Enrolling in RDAP was initially a strategic...
Nov 7, 20232 min read


My Addiction Experience - Getting back to being myself.
12/18/23 If you have never been addicted to anything I think it is very hard to understand addiction. The depths in which it can change...
Nov 5, 20234 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 ...
Nov 4, 20239 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...
Nov 4, 20238 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...
Nov 4, 202310 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...
Nov 4, 20236 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...
Nov 4, 20239 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...
Nov 4, 20235 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...
Nov 4, 202312 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...
Nov 4, 20238 min read


COOPS Weekly - Life in Kansas #47
We are down to 2 (out of 12) Camp Phones (the phones 298 of us use to call loved ones) so I won’t be making any calls anytime soon...
Nov 4, 20239 min read


COOPS Weekly - Life from Kansas #46
Leavenworth is called the HOTHOUSE for a reason. It is a level of hot here I have never experienced. Like so hot that absolutely...
Nov 4, 20239 min read


COOPS Weekly - Life from Kansas #45
Still Learning - "Inmate Hustles" It is funny I have been here 10 months and I am still learning the ways people hustle around here. ...
Nov 4, 202310 min read


COOPS Weekly - Life from Kansas #44
We have tornado warnings in Kansas (that's a first for me) ...all inmates were sent back to their units to hold tight. But the weather...
Nov 4, 20239 min read


COOPS Weekly - Life from Kansas #43
RDAP is back Programming has resumed once again. As punishment for the contraband that was found, the entire unit had to write a...
Nov 4, 20237 min read


COOPS Weekly - Life from Kansas #42
So The Big News …… RDAP is once again shut down. For the 4th time since I have been here. So who knows when I am going home. A huge...
Nov 4, 20236 min read


COOPS Weekly - Life from Kansas #41
I wanted to share something about my newsletters...I focus a lot on how we interact with our guards/co’s/staff...because frankly I think...
Nov 4, 202310 min read


COOPS Weekly - Life from Kansas #40
It is so friggin HOT here ....and to make matters worse our ice machines suck (they are constantly dripping water and/or are empty) ...
Nov 4, 20238 min read


COOPS Weekly - Life from Kansas #39
Fourth of July has come and gone It was a big day at the LPC. We started grilling out in back at 5am on some makeshift grills. We served...
Nov 3, 20235 min read


COOPS Weekly - Life from Kansas #38
So, I have been here almost nine months We finally had our introductory Orientation meeting (the meeting that tells us what we can and...
Nov 3, 20236 min read


COOPS Weekly - Life from Kansas #37
Most Popular Holiday What is the most popular holiday in a Men’s Federal prison camp? FATHERS DAY. HA...If you think about it...makes...
Nov 3, 20237 min read


COOPS Weekly - Life from Kansas #36
Correction Officers CO's at Leavenworth work for 3 to 4 months at a time and then they rotate to other prisons. We have some interesting...
Nov 3, 20239 min read


COOPS Weekly - Life from Kansas #35
Continues to have a rough week. The RDAP stock price (HA!) has hit a 52-week low (trading at 41 3/4...Down 6 points) ...The SEC is ...
Nov 3, 20236 min read
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