We Will Do All of Your Thinking by Jay Goodman In my last few chapters, I’ve talked a lot about prisoners and they’re in ability to think. I pray that the prisoners who read this really contemplate what I had written. Because I am a firm believer that anyone can be rehabilitated. But of course, […]
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Change Is Only a Thought Away by Jay Goodman As I look around at my fellow prisoners, I feel many different emotions. There are some I feel sorry for, others I look at as friends, and have shared my life story with them. And I have learned not to use the word hate, but there
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Fear by Jay Goodman Has anyone ever thought about sitting down and taking a long look at yourself, and taking inventory of all your strengths and weaknesses? Not just some half ass list, but really going over your life. Looking at your accomplishments and your failures. Most people have a tendency to only look at
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Responsibility By Jay Goodman Throughout my years in prison, I have heard prisoners use the statement I’m in prison, or we’re in prison when referring to why they are doing something they shouldn’t be doing. Like being in prison makes it all right to be an idiot. I have never understood this statement because what’s
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Untitled By Jay Goodman Prison life can be hectic without a doubt. The stress of being here year after year does tax a man mentally, some physically. Before anyone says what did you expect prison to be? Well not a place where people would leave worse than they came in. Of course, that has to
Clichés By Jay Goodman Has anyone ever thought about the old clichés that our parents and grandparents used to tell us? I am sure most of us remember birds of a feather flock together. Patience is a virtue. The early bird gets the worm. These are just a few of the old sayings I used
Untitled By Jay Goodman I just finished another chapter called Clichés, and it really holds a lot of truth to life and how to read the people around us. But if a man was to use these clichés to read himself, he could quickly see the direction his life is heading. Why it seems to
Plan By Jay Goodman Has everyone ever thought about the importance of a plan? Everything we do throughout our lives consist of plans. When we were children our parents plan was to teach us to be self-efficient. We had to learn to take a bath, get dressed, brush our teeth, and take care of our
A Look at the Last Four Decades by Jay Goodman In my last few chapters, I have talked about what has taken place in America over the last thirty to forty years. I have asked myself many times what has happened that’s changed people so much since I was young. When you look at history
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Lock Down by Jay Goodman Right now, I am sitting in my cell because all of the Federal Prisons are on lock down across the United States. It’s been a week today and we are hearing it is going to be another month before we will be allowed back out. We heard on the news
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