04-07-19 Sun TSCI
Woohoo! I have now passed the 3 year mark so I am over my mandatory minimum and have started earning my 191 good time. Everyone gets their regular good time of 50% off unless they get a serious misconduct report (MR) and lose some of it. 191 good time has to be...
Brian L. Marshall
To Dream I am not sure what feels more real anymore. The dream or the nightmares. There was a time when I had made it. Steady work, a home, a family. There was a time when I lost myself. Work first, family second, nothing left for me. My dreams, my nightmares. Now is...
Skylar Avery
A lifer's Bewilderment What is this sickness we all suffer from?What makes us hate the migrant,scorn the uneducated,ostracize the awkward,shame the homosexual - while weflirt with our notions, or fantasiesof lesbians in our porn,and react with disgustat the real ones...
Michael McKenzie
Are You Ready? The maw opened, swallowing her world in chunks, and for Sarah, darkness followed. ---- You miss strange things. I miss the smell of the city. The choking smell of coal smoke and rain on the street. And English. Oh what I would give to have a proper...
Letter to Director Frakes 20-03-19
Dear Director Frakes: I am writing on behalf of the over 300 people, almost all of HU1 at TSCI, who signed the petition # 2019-880. We requested that NDCS incorporate a 25% raise in the daily stipend payed to incarcerated workers into the next biennium budget proposal...
Brandon Williams – Brooklyn 23
Abandon I dont understand, what did I do wrong? I thought the bond between us was strong? What did I do? I repeditly ask myself these questions, and I do my best to hide my true feelings. I walk around feeling angry. Mad and pissed off at everything and everybody. I...
DaVaughn Johnson
-Product of Society- White walls and glass. I'm surrounded by cowards in masks and crooked cops with degrees in criminal justice but by law I'm corrupted? Society divided. I'm a minority and statistics say I'm supposed to be dead, gang related with a bullet in my...
Road Kill
The wind roaring in my ears is freezing. I should have known better than to wear shorts. It's starting to get chilly after dark and the wind makes it worse. But pants always rub on the chain and get grease stains. At least everyone is home from the bars already so the...
03-06-19 Wed TSCI
Yesterday was the final session of the UNO/NE Writers Collective creative writing class. Instead of a regular class we had a poetry slam in the visiting room with an audience of several other guys from various education classes, the UNO students who had read our...
02-21-2019 Wed TSCI
My yin yoga class on Thurs. and Sun. mornings is doing well. It has 2 students regularly attending which isn't bad out of 64 total in the whole gallery. Several new students have said they will start this coming Sunday too. Some of the guys who work out 5 days a week...