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Vincent Gamboa, Author at Live from Lockdown
Prison blogs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Examples of prison blogs[edit]
New Zealand
Tim Selwyn in Mount Eden Prison, New Zealand, ca.2006[2]
Thailand
Thai Prison Life a collection of blogs and articles relating the experience of life in Thailand's many overcrowded prisons.
United Kingdom
Ben's Prison Blog written by Ben Gunn, imprisoned in Sudbury (HM Prison), Derbyshire, England, 2009–2012. Since his release, Ben has continued his blog.[3]
Anarch*ish* written by Jonathan May-Bowles, serving 6-week sentence for throwing a pie in Rupert Murdoch's face, 2011[4]
Tommy Sheridan, in Barlinnie prison, Glasgow[5][6]
Adam Mac: blogging behind bars written by Adam Mac, imprisoned in Wakefield (HM Prison). A recent blogger (2013) who still had to fight for the right to blog, years after other prisoners had won this right.
Prison UK: an Insider's View written by Alex Cavendish, an ex-prisoner who was released in March 2014. The blog was launched in July 2014.
United States
"On the Inside" by Paul Modrowski, an autistic man serving life without parole at Stateville prison in Illinois.
Leigh Sprague's Diary of a Wimpy Con written by Leigh Sprague, currently serving a sentence in a federal prison camp in California for a non-violent white-collar crime. The posts document his journey through the criminal justice system, from initial charges to indictment to sentencing as well as his experiences in prison and his outspoken views in regard to the prison-industrial complex and mass incarceration
Behind Prison Walls written by William D. Hastings, serving a 19-year sentence for a violent crime.
Jon's Jail Journal written by Shaun Attwood[7]
Between the Bars (blog), a blog platform for prisoners in the U.S.A. without internet access
The Mind of Maurice Clarett, written by Maurice Clarett while in prison in Ohio, 2008-2010[8]
Running in Place written by Charlie Engle, serving 21-month sentence in Beaver, West Virginia, for mortgage fraud, 2011–present[9]
Justin's Blog, written by Justin Paperny while in the privately managed Taft Federal Prison Camp, California, 2008-2009[10]
Live From Lockdown, blog written by various inmates in the Federal prison system, including highly influential gang-leaders and those held in solitary confinement, Current
Stories from Inside, written by current and former ADHD Corrections Project participants, 2012-present
New Zealand
Tim Selwyn in Mount Eden Prison, New Zealand, ca.2006[2]
Thailand
Thai Prison Life a collection of blogs and articles relating the experience of life in Thailand's many overcrowded prisons.
United Kingdom
Ben's Prison Blog written by Ben Gunn, imprisoned in Sudbury (HM Prison), Derbyshire, England, 2009–2012. Since his release, Ben has continued his blog.[3]
Anarch*ish* written by Jonathan May-Bowles, serving 6-week sentence for throwing a pie in Rupert Murdoch's face, 2011[4]
Tommy Sheridan, in Barlinnie prison, Glasgow[5][6]
Adam Mac: blogging behind bars written by Adam Mac, imprisoned in Wakefield (HM Prison). A recent blogger (2013) who still had to fight for the right to blog, years after other prisoners had won this right.
Prison UK: an Insider's View written by Alex Cavendish, an ex-prisoner who was released in March 2014. The blog was launched in July 2014.
United States
"On the Inside" by Paul Modrowski, an autistic man serving life without parole at Stateville prison in Illinois.
Leigh Sprague's Diary of a Wimpy Con written by Leigh Sprague, currently serving a sentence in a federal prison camp in California for a non-violent white-collar crime. The posts document his journey through the criminal justice system, from initial charges to indictment to sentencing as well as his experiences in prison and his outspoken views in regard to the prison-industrial complex and mass incarceration
Behind Prison Walls written by William D. Hastings, serving a 19-year sentence for a violent crime.
Jon's Jail Journal written by Shaun Attwood[7]
Between the Bars (blog), a blog platform for prisoners in the U.S.A. without internet access
The Mind of Maurice Clarett, written by Maurice Clarett while in prison in Ohio, 2008-2010[8]
Running in Place written by Charlie Engle, serving 21-month sentence in Beaver, West Virginia, for mortgage fraud, 2011–present[9]
Justin's Blog, written by Justin Paperny while in the privately managed Taft Federal Prison Camp, California, 2008-2009[10]
Live From Lockdown, blog written by various inmates in the Federal prison system, including highly influential gang-leaders and those held in solitary confinement, Current
Stories from Inside, written by current and former ADHD Corrections Project participants, 2012-present
Live From Lockdown, blog written by various inmates in the Federal prison system, including highly influential gang-leaders and those held in solitary confinement, Current
Vincent Gamboa, Author at Live from Lockdown
My Plan
February 16, 2015 was my twenty-second year in prison for 96.6 grams of crack-cocaine. On January 22, 1993, I had just celebrated my twenty-fifth birthday. I just commemorated my forty-seventh birthday.
My plan wasn’t to make selling drugs a lifetime career. My plan was to buy a car, some clothes and stack a bank. I even planned to gain custody of my six-year-old daughter so that I could be a physical presence in her upbringing. I got the money. I got the clothes. I got the car. But I never gained custody of my daughter, for that, I now thank God. Somewhere during the execution of my plan I lost focus. I now realize that I lost focus when I put my plan together. My plan to sell drugs was a lose-lose plan from the beginning. My daughter lost her dad, and I lost precious days, months and years of my daughter’s growth. It pains me to think about how I hurt my babygirl.
In elementary school she cried on Parents’ Day when her classmates’ mothers and fathers came to her class. In junior high she cried when her dad could not defend her when the boys in her class taunted her, calling her nigger and black girl because she was one of six blacks in a mostly Hispanic school. And it crushed her when she graduated from high school and her dad was not able to be there to welcome her into adulthood. I didn’t see the pain that my plan would cause my daughter. I have three girls now. And they all have similar pains.
When you make a plan to get money make sure you analyze that plan from all angles. I am living proof that all money ain’t good money.
February 16, 2015 was my twenty-second year in prison for 96.6 grams of crack-cocaine. On January 22, 1993, I had just celebrated my twenty-fifth birthday. I just commemorated my forty-seventh birthday.
My plan wasn’t to make selling drugs a lifetime career. My plan was to buy a car, some clothes and stack a bank. I even planned to gain custody of my six-year-old daughter so that I could be a physical presence in her upbringing. I got the money. I got the clothes. I got the car. But I never gained custody of my daughter, for that, I now thank God. Somewhere during the execution of my plan I lost focus. I now realize that I lost focus when I put my plan together. My plan to sell drugs was a lose-lose plan from the beginning. My daughter lost her dad, and I lost precious days, months and years of my daughter’s growth. It pains me to think about how I hurt my babygirl.
In elementary school she cried on Parents’ Day when her classmates’ mothers and fathers came to her class. In junior high she cried when her dad could not defend her when the boys in her class taunted her, calling her nigger and black girl because she was one of six blacks in a mostly Hispanic school. And it crushed her when she graduated from high school and her dad was not able to be there to welcome her into adulthood. I didn’t see the pain that my plan would cause my daughter. I have three girls now. And they all have similar pains.
When you make a plan to get money make sure you analyze that plan from all angles. I am living proof that all money ain’t good money.