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Seven Prison Weight Loss Secrets
The "secret" to weight loss is, well, not a secret at all. All of us understand that weight loss is a mathematical equation.
Read More »Email Services Bring News to Federal Inmates
A number of services provide federal inmates access to news and other information by email.
Read More »Seven Steps to a Successful Prison Disciplinary Outcome
It's a sad fact that a prisoner charged with inmate misconduct is judged by the reporting officer's co-workers.
Read More »Four Letter Words: Learning How to Write from a Federal Prison
If we as Americans want prisoners to succeed at something pro-social whether it be writing, learning, or not returning to a life of crime, we have to provide them with the tools to do so.
Read More »Governor Cuomo’s Cost-Saving Prescription for Safer Streets: Prisoner Education
Providing college-level education to inmates has been shown to dramatically reduce recidivism and the cost to taxpayers of incarceration.
Read More »Seven Prison Survival Secrets
By internalizing and abiding by these principles, a new inmate will save a lot of strife and possibly violence, and even transform potential hard time to easy time.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘Riot in Cell Block 11’ – The Criterion Collection
Don Siegel's Folsom Prison blues.
Read More »Energize: The Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Technological Revolution
Giving federal prisoners access to technology benefits not only the prisoners but their families, prison administrators, and the society into which the inmates will eventually be released.
Read More »Federal Prison Discipline: The Case of the Education Behind Bars Newsletter
Held in solitary confinement for months for publishing an educational newsletter for inmates, I eventually had the guilty findings overturned, but not before much suffering.
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