I totally agree. I’ve been to jail a lot in my past due to addiction, but the last time I was in for a year. I spent the first couple months drying out, then playing spades for hours on end and eating myself to sleep on commissary every night. Then, I started to read more. I called my family instead of old friends. I started meditating and doing yoga a few times a day. I wouldn’t completely isolate and I would try to do a couple drawings a week for other inmates of their family and such. I stopped ordering crap on commissary...and something changes in me. I started dreaming of the person I wanted to be. I made myself a schedule and I journaled and wrote letters. I lost weight and felt flexible, strong, and comfortable in my body. Once a month I would buy a bunch of coffee and make coffee shots for everyone in the pod and play charades...it was the first time in my life that I was self-motivated, in shape, positive, driven, and I was able to think about other people instead of just myself. Doing time is what you make it. You can try to fit in, which always creates drama and keeps you in that mindset...OR you can create yourself a peaceful place inside the chaos and use your time to become a better person than when you went in and create some healthy habits that you can take with you when you go. Thanks for this...I started watching this and thought it was gonna be BS and was ready to disprove you lol BUT this is factual and encouraging and something I wish people would be told when going in. Also, many people locked up feel forgotten and separate from the world...so, if you know anyone inside, write them a letter!! Y’all have no idea how much a simple letter can brighten an inmates day and renew their spirit, to know people still care. ❤️❤️❤️
I am very grateful you took the time to leave this message. It will help everyone who reads it. I applaud you for changing the direction of your life from the inside. It is not easy in that hopeless environment. Your story proves that people can emerge from this experience stronger and better than when they entered. Again, welcome home and congratulations on your success.
Well done, I hope your life on the outside is proving to suit you I did a month in jail and it was an Experience to say the least I did 5 days in solitary for observation to make sure I didn't try to commit suicide even though I had been in a mental hospital for two weeks prior . After 2 weeks in General population I was allowed outside, I cannot tell you how marvelous it was to be outside and feel the sun on my face ,a slight breeze of fresh air, little things that are taken for granted . I wrote about the experience as we had no books to read . Well some people should stay in prison, they actually prefer to and some when they get out have a hard time . Well good luck to you all.
Thank you. If you email his name and registration number, I’ll send him my book. Please send to Support@WhiteCollarAdvice.com. My best to you and your family.
I have spoken to many people who have let us say strayed from the straight and narrow and it's just like you say no one just woke up and said today I'm gonna steal and cheet .it was a gradual thing a little bit here a little bit there and they woke up one day in a world of hurt .very interesting and helpful .
Your outlook, your insights and your advice is valuable not just to white-collar convicts, but to all of us struggling in life. If we don’t like the situation we’re in, if we believe we deserve better, we can can first OWN where we are and work from there. As someone once said to me, “We can never leave a place we’ve never been” which first means to stop being in denial.
Justin, when you spoke about being in bed at 8pm and up at 4am, did this schedule effect any one and did other guys get upset that you were waking that early or was it just understood that in a situation where you can’t control much your sleep schedule is something that could be?
You need to know that you are speaking to more than just people heading to the slam. I hope I live my life conscious of the need to make right by the people I've hurt and try to live with purpose and honesty.
I went to prison in 1988. It was probably the worst time of my life but a friend of mine told me one day. You're gonna laugh about this and I could tell you it took 40 years but you know what looking back on it? It was the probably the best learning experience I ever experienced I was in there with guys from Harvard. Yeah places things. I never even experienced and I use that to my advantage and I came out and I was much better than i'm when I went in
I have never been to jail or prison. I got sentenced to 6.5 years. I gotta self report to a federal facility in 2-4 weeks. I have a degree. I got a aiding and abetting charge for fentanyl. I was basically giving a guy rides and we got pulled over when he had a large quantity of drugs on him. Then his partner had no place to live so I let him rent my back room at my house for 2 weeks. He was told to not be selling drugs at my house. I thought he was doing well, but he was just being extra sneaky. I had 10 guns that I have owned for years and years. When he got caught selling drugs they searched my house and charged me with having guns and drugs together as well. I know I was dumb for allowing this, but fentanyl addiction is very tough and quitting is harder than anything I have done to date. But 6.5 years or 78 months is a very big sentence for a first offense I thought. I have a 14 year old boy and a 12 year old girl. That's the worst part is I'm gonna miss their high school years. I have been clean and sober for 249 days straight as of today. This is the first time I have been sober like this since maybe 2006. I had got sober before but never made it this long. I cam attribute my sobriety to my probation officer. I feel so horrible for doing this to my kids and parents. Is there anything you can suggest to help prepare me for this? I don't really know what to expect. I do plan on writing a book. I have lived a pretty wild life so far. Also, I'm not claiming to be innocent, I was wrong for helping a person who sells drugs. I'm just looking for maybe a little guidance about what's about to happen to me? Maybe there are some good videos about my situation and what to expect? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.
The good people get the good reward..... glad you're back on the rails.... family is the only thing of value on this planet....we are in this world.. not of this world... good vid kid.... keep your powder dry and good luck hombres!
Thank u for explaining federal prison i may end up there soon i have recently made a horrible mistake at 21 and may end up with 5 yrs do to threats of terrorism stupidity i did i dont think before i speak
Always made my own trouble....did alright in spite of myself.... they can't catch everyone... more of us than there is of them..... The old man's down the road.....
Interesting concept for a channel. I''m curious why you never just say prison. The difference is obviously meaningful to you, but I don't think there is any common knowledge of why that would be. Can you explain why it is important we know you were in FEDERAL prison and what the differences are other than they have a reputation for being like a country club. I doubt that is true, but even you said it was like a college campus and you have lots of autonomy and free time to get in shape or work on your memoir. I do not believe this is true in a any regular prison, but I could be wrong. /certainly some states are harsher than others. Thanks for sharing.
Federal prisons r much bet than state prisons u bet know some people in jail if u get incarcerated u bet stay with your own race and have a daily routine
I had the same experience in the halfway house in 2009. One day my bunkie went out and never came back. He had been in prison more than 35 years. I later heard he engaged in petty theft to ensure he could go back.
What a moronic statement. People have to go through things to get their morality right and apparently all you care about is money. Good luck with that when you're dead. See then what money will do for ya.
You wouldn't last in a regular prison, lol. Lol.. Believe me. Your actions would get you beat down. You don't even have a clue what it's like in a Real prison. Candy
