by Justin Paperny | May 2, 2009 | Blog
Saturday, May 2, 2009 Seventeen Days Until My Release From Taft Federal Prison Camp As I move into my final two full weeks of confinement, I’ve been thinking about my goal of building a speaking career. As I described in my book, Lessons From Prison, I aspire...
by Justin Paperny | May 1, 2009 | Blog
Friday, May 1, 2009 Eighteen Days Until My Release From Taft Federal Prison Camp It’s a new month and the last month I’ll begin as a prisoner. There were times during this sentence when I felt so far away from the month of May. My work carried me...
by Justin Paperny | Apr 30, 2009 | Blog
Thursday, April 30, 2009 Nineteen Days Until My Release From Taft Federal Prison Camp Today I read an article from a business magazine that described the infamous fraud triangle. That concept has been discussed widely in business circles. I wrote about the fraud...
by Justin Paperny | Apr 29, 2009 | Blog
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Twenty days until my release from prison, and, oh, what a release it will be! I’m not referring to walking out of prison. That will certainly come. I’m talking about the release of all that has been building up within me...
by Justin Paperny | Apr 28, 2009 | Blog
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Twenty-One Days Until My Release From Taft Federal Prison Camp One year ago today, at this very moment, I was shivering with anxiety in a cold cell after self-surrendering to Taft Camp. I was fat, bloated, miserable, angry and scared. I was...
by Justin Paperny | Apr 27, 2009 | Blog
Monday, April 27, 2009 Twenty-Two Days Until My Release From Taft Federal Prison Camp One year ago today I was playing golf with a few close friends, lamenting over the unfairness of my imminent self-surrender to prison. Those were difficult hours, knowing that the...
by Justin Paperny | Apr 26, 2009 | Blog
Sunday, April 26, 2009 Twenty-Three Days Until My Release From Taft Federal Prison Camp Today I spoke with a young man who is in a place that I once knew. His name is Brian and he recently self-surrendered to Taft Camp. Brian is serving a sentence that will keep him...
by Justin Paperny | Apr 24, 2009 | Blog
Friday, April 24, 2009 Twenty-Five Days Until My Release From Taft Federal Prison Camp I’m really enthusiastic about my upcoming release, but the enthusiasm sometimes manifests itself with a condition my friend Michael Santos calls short-term-itis, or STI. It...
by Justin Paperny | Apr 23, 2009 | Blog
Thursday, April 23, 2009 Twenty-Six Days Until My Release From Taft Federal Prison Camp I want to spend the rest of my life helping as many people as possible reach their highest potential. In my book, Lessons From Prison, I describe the poor decisions that led to my...
by Justin Paperny | Apr 22, 2009 | Blog
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Twenty-Seven Days Until My Release From Taft Federal Prison Camp Every morning I wake and I know that I’m another day closer to home. I’ve always known this, of course, but realizing that four weeks from today will bring my first...