I See You… by Rory Andes I was recently told by a staff member of himself, “It doesn’t take anything to be a decent person.” These are words to live by. In all of the hardships of prison in general, and during Covid specifically, there are the occasional staff members within the prison who really …
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An Increase In Contempt…
An Increase In Contempt… In the Covid Isolation Unit of the prison I’m currently housed in, they are bringing people in everyday who’ve tested positive. With the increase in population comes a higher incident of needs by the elderly, ill and uninformed. All of us were uprooted and shoved into this unfamiliar situation. For some …
Watching Them Grow…
Watching Them Grow… By Rory Andes Growth and change aren’t mandated in prison, but it should be… There’s a strange thing about seeing anyone after a decade, but in prison, it’s far beyond just watching them grow. I recently ran into a kid, a man now, named Robbie who I met in county jail ten …
Conservatives Consistently Miss Opportunities…
Conservatives Consistently Miss Opportunities… by Rory Andes When it comes to the conservatives’ right leaning views on the criminal justice system, they consistently miss opportunities to be true to the values that they preach. They want safer communities (we all do), but refuse to make the governmental systems that manage it more accountable and cost …
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Turn Your Resolutions Into Celebrations…
What if you turn January 1st 2022, and every January 1st thereafter, from a day of your resolutions into a day of your celebrations? This morning I had caught some very subtle wisdom from a news program by a retired Marine, a bomb tech who lost his legs in Afghanistan named Johnny Joey Jones, who …
She Was Found Guilty…
She Was Found Guilty… The Kim Potter verdict came in a few minutes ago and she was found guilty of both first and second degree manslaughter. All the way around it’s tragic. She was convicted because a jury of her peers – not the police kind – deemed that her actions in the death of …
Is Cashless Bail Reform A Reason For Crime?
Is Cashless Bail Reform A Reason For Crime? Is cashless bail reform a reason for new spikes in crime rates? There are plenty on the right that would make the public believe it is. And maybe it could make sense if you didn’t know about the millions bail bondsmen spend annually in lobbying. Bail is …
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The Changed and The Blind…
The Changed and The Blind… Drew has served 23 years of a 75 year sentence for a murder he committed just after his 19th birthday. In terms of who he was to who he is, that’s a lifetime ago, a whole generation. But as it’s currently written, his justice called for that time. So Drew …
Secrets of A Formerly Incarcerated Transwoman: The time I called a corrections officer Daddy
I’ve said repeatedly that when I got out of prison I had lots of stories to tell that I couldn’t share while I was still in prison, secrets of a formerly incarcerated transgender woman. Well, I’m out… I was always astonished at the number of corrections officers that hit on me. I never crossed …
The Problem of Creating “Cultures” of Dangerous Things…
If you walked into a bar and saw someone having a drink, he’s simply a patron. Take that same person, talking incessantly about that drink, maybe wearing clothing brands by the drink maker, and taking photos with drinks, you may suspect that this same person could be an alcoholic, and alcoholism is a bad thing. …
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