by Steven Dybvad | Oct 18, 2014 | Steven Dybvad
October 18, 2014 It’s been very hard to talk to my parents about this because they keep assuming that I’m making my own assumptions, jumping to conclusions, believing too many rumors being passed around by other inmates, when that couldn’t be any further...
by Steven Dybvad | Oct 17, 2014 | Steven Dybvad
October 17, 2014 So here I sit, on cell isolations punishment, a three months’ sentence for a urine screen that supposedly tested positive for T.H.C… This wouldn’t be such a hard pill for me to swallow if I had actually smoked pot recently, I...
by Steven Dybvad | Oct 16, 2014 | Steven Dybvad
October 16, 2014 More unwanted consequences. One thing I learned just last year was that I qualify for T.C. which stands for Transition Control. T.C. enables an inmate in the state of Ohio to be released up to six months early, spending the duration of one’s...
by Justin Paperny | Oct 16, 2014 | Blog
October 16, 2014 Mathew & Rosemary Martoma I read an article this morning about Mathew & Rosemary Martoma. For a quick summary, Mr. Martoma was sentenced to nine years in prison and was ordered to pay back more than $9 million dollars he stole while working at...
by Steven Dybvad | Oct 15, 2014 | Steven Dybvad
October 15, 2014 One of my biggest concerns that I forgot to mention in my last blog entry, next to losing trust from my family was losing my horticulture class. My teacher said that he wouldn’t accept inmates on cell isolation as students; he said that unlike...
by Steven Dybvad | Oct 15, 2014 | Steven Dybvad
October 15,2014 To: Warden for my appeal: Before I left the county jail more than three years ago I made a personal commitment to changing my life and future, starting from inside prison. In that time I had to clear my mind of all substances, understanding that the...
by Brian Jorgenson | Oct 15, 2014 | Blog, Brian Jorgenson
October 15, 2014 The Trial Penalty There’s a recent (or soon-to-be-published) article in a Forbes magazine regarding the “trial penalty” that I wanted to write about. We can define the trial penalty as harsher sentences for those who fight federal...
by Kenneth Flaska | Oct 15, 2014 | Blog, Kenneth Flaska
October 15, 2014 Traveling to Jessup Federal Prison Camp, The Last Train To Jessup I have to report to Federal Prison Camp tomorrow by 12:00. I did not want my family or friends to experience that traumatic moment when you say good bye and walk into the doors of a...
by Steven Dybvad | Oct 14, 2014 | Steven Dybvad
October 14, 2014 On Saturday, two days after being accused of drug abuse, I had another conversation with our regular morning shift guard who has a habit of telling inmates more information than we’re supposed to know, or just sooner than we’re...
by Steven Dybvad | Oct 13, 2014 | Steven Dybvad
October 13, 2014 I spoke with my parents a few more times on the phone, expressing the importance of fighting this until I’m completely exonerated of all alleged accusations of drug abuse. As I said before, the punishment I’m currently serving is...
