I have come to realize and appreciate how important the various forms of contact we have to the outside world is. In here the simply ability to email and call is a privilege that can be taken away from us and it’s such an important piece of the prisoners’ lives. I never realized how much a simple email from a friend or a relative would mean, on the outside I spent a lot of time emailing and speaking on the phone, taken for granted both.
Here it’s so much different, our time on the email system is limited, the phone time is limited, so we have to plan a strategy to do both. We are allowed 300 minutes a month on the phones, so speaking to our loved ones becomes a process of selection and time management. I now speak and gaze at my watch, making sure I don’t blow my day’s allotment and mess up my minutes. This also causes me to be very selective to whom i speak with, I call my wife everyday and I try to call my children a few times a week, it’s a juggling game. I don’t have minutes available to speak with friends, that’s shy the email is so important.
Emails are also a time management issue, your limited to the amount of characters you can use, 13000 per email and the time you can write in one session is 60 minutes. Which isn’t really easy if you want to write something long and detailed or if you want to several people. You then cant get back on the system for 2 hours and the clock starts all over again. You need to really build your typing skills and be extremely efficient in you messages. Not being able to use phone minutes on friends and other relatives make the emails so important.
More importantly, the emails coming in from friends and family become a part of the day that I look forward to, the contact and the communication means so much to me. When I check my email in the morning if the inbox is blank I feel a little abandoned, it’s wild, on the outside not getting emails was a welcomed event, here it’s the opposite. The switch that prison has created has certainly made me realize how important friends and family are and communicating with them is so essential.
Hope you’re doing well
I look forward to your posts and follow your updates
I hope time is moving as quickly as possible for you.. Yankees look like the wild card.. In my opinion girardi has to go
I’m sure your aware Boehner resigned.. Only negative is that it wasn’t years ago
All of the debates and interviews will be better to watch on Saturday night live
There are some fabulous characters like Rand Paul. Ted Cruz. Etc
A plethora of lunatics
As you know fall is here Sadly it will be dark at 4-4.30 soon so you aren’t missing much
I hope this does find you as I never have any idea
Keep up the faith.. I am going to try and arrange a rabbi from chabad to visit you.. I think it will be a huge inspiration and help time go by with more of a meaning
Be well
Keep the faith
Keep updates coming