by Steven Dybvad | Nov 24, 2014 | Steven Dybvad
November 24, 2014 After talking with several different inmates in here on cell isolation it sounds like I still have a good chance of getting released to a halfway house six months early. Many different problems and concerns came with this undeserved punishment of...
by Steven Dybvad | Nov 23, 2014 | Steven Dybvad
November 23, 2014 Growing up, I’ve never been a big fan of eating peanut butter. Every once in a blue moon I would have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, usually only if I was really hungry and if it was the only thing available. Here at Madison, it...
by Steven Dybvad | Nov 22, 2014 | Steven Dybvad
November 22, 104 Lately I’ve been struggling to deal with living day to day with my new, temporary cell mate. Surprisingly I’m able to handle it better than with my past cell mates, maybe it’s because I know our stay together will end soon, maybe...
by Kenneth Flaska | Nov 22, 2014 | Blog, Kenneth Flaska
November 22, 2014 Are you safe in federal prison? I talked to a close friend of mine today. It was great to hear his voice. He filled me in on a recent “guys trip” He took to the Fort Lauderdale boat show. He also described the things going on in his life...
by Steven Dybvad | Nov 21, 2014 | Steven Dybvad
November 21, 2014 A part of the punishment that the prison officials handed down to me was taking away the good days I earned from being in horticulture. Good days are not at all the reason for me taking horticulture, I only qualify to earn one good day a month,...
by Steven Dybvad | Nov 20, 2014 | Steven Dybvad
November 20, 2014 Ever since the snow and the freezing cold temperatures blew through town, we inmates on cell isolation have been suffering tremendously. When the juveniles destroyed this unit before they left, they didn’t just create problems for the prison as...
by Justin Paperny | Nov 19, 2014 | Blog
November 19, 2014 You Are Full Of Happy Talk It is not uncommon for people to reach out to me several times before they hire me. I know the drill. You’re chilling at home, enjoying a glass of wine, then suddenly you feel the urge to start googling information on...
by Steven Dybvad | Nov 19, 2014 | Steven Dybvad
November 19, 2014 Yesterday in horticulture class we switched subjects again. Now we’re studying landscape and design. We started by moving around all the desks in the classroom, giving every student enough room to set a large wooden board, with T-squares for...
by Steven Dybvad | Nov 18, 2014 | Steven Dybvad
November 18, 2014 The guards here in the isolation unit shake our cells down every single day, usually while we’re at the chow hall so they can search through many of the cells quickly and efficiently. Due to the overwhelming number of isolation inmates...
by Kenneth Flaska | Nov 18, 2014 | Blog, Kenneth Flaska
November 18, 2014 Bathroom Logic From Federal Prison Using the Bathroom facilities in prison can create issues you never really considered in the real world. In my unit, we have 127 people competing for use of our facilities which were originally designed for 44...
