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February 24, 2025

You know, it is tough to find good music. When was the last time you were serenaded by a professional artist? Yesterday, my beautiful...

February 21, 2025

There is no doubt, when you look around the room of trainers and trainees that this is a perfectly symbiotic relationship of the incarcerated...

February 14, 2025

The inmate trainers at CTF explained to me that dogs in the TAILS program are immediately crate trained when they arrive in the facility...

February 12, 2025

I often tell people how difficult it can be to put 1,000 words together every week with the expectation those words will somehow make...

February 10, 2025

You have to admit, I haven’t glorified the actions of those that would like to see us at the bottom of the ocean. However,...

February 7, 2025

Driving into the Correctional Training Facility at Soledad and you are reminded of how a secure institution can be. Acres of barren land, no...

February 5, 2025

No matter how I may wish to deny I am old, at two years and seven decades it is nonetheless a fact and, having...

February 3, 2025

They say that the “Good Die Young.” I don’t know about all of the young, but I do know that there is one young man...

January 31, 2025

We should go, shouldn’t we? Shouldn’t we go? Life happens when you are busy making other plans. And isn’t that always the way. My...

January 29, 2025

I have for many years been a reader of biographies, a habit I got into way back in the early 1960s after my parents...

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