There's no one to impress but yourself. There's no "not showering because you're depressed." Someone will fight you. Or, at least, excoriate you mercilessly. You're bullied into good hygiene. You're not allowed to publicly wallow. You have to brush your teeth or be ostracized. In my unit, there are a few guys with shitty breath … Continue reading “Looks aren’t everything, but they’re a lot”
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“The Importance of Changing Pants”
Ive never owned a pair of True Religion or similarly expensive jeans. I was always a Levi's man. but I've just invested the prison equivalent on some state-issued blue scrubs. Originally, they were cardboard starchy and way too big, like the huge parachute pants you'd see teens wear in Hot Topic. In the yard's best … Continue reading “The Importance of Changing Pants”
“A Convicts Guidelines to Meditation ”
I've already touted my practice of meditation; it's only recently that I've properly understood how to do it. In the past I thought of like the Buddhist equivalent to prayer or conflated it with contemplation, which is much different process. I started to practice meditation as part of a period of self-reflection that every inmate … Continue reading “A Convicts Guidelines to Meditation ”
jPay Message #245
it wasn't too long into my prison bit before I became intensely self conscious of the size of my chest. i lacked anything close to pectorals. except for a brief period in my teens, I'd never made a habit of working out, and as a result of that neglect, I had flat-ass chest. lol ive … Continue reading jPay Message #245
“The skinny on skinheads”
I thought fersure I was gonna get along with Nazis or any other white supremacist group. we already had an environmental affinity for and natural predisposition to one another; that is, we were both white guys in prison. despite being hotbeds of racism, few avowed white supremacists, neo-nazis, or Aryan brotherhood types stomp around the … Continue reading “The skinny on skinheads”
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